Science Meetings
2017 Science Team Meeting
January 17-19, 2017Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida USA
The third meeting of the PACE Science Team (ST) was held during mid-January 2017 at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Florida, USA. The meeting consisted of a virtual, self-paced segment in which science team members prepared and viewed narrated versions of their presentations in preparation for the meeting, followed by an in-person meeting. Science Team members formed break-out groups to discuss the status of major project areas, including the retrieval of inherent optical properties (IOP) and atmospheric corrections (AC). Field campaign results and potential applications for PACE measurements were reviewed.
AgendaDocuments (27)
PACE Applications to Case II Waters: Lessons Learned from a Turbid, Pacific Coast Estuary
Ackleson, S. and Moses, W. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Collecting and Processing Underway In-line Optical Data
Boss, E., Balch, B., Bowler, B., Dall'Olmo, G., Freeman, S., Neary, W., Nelson, N., Novak, M., Proctor, C., Slade, W., and Westberry, T. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Atmospheric Correction for Retrieval of Ocean Spectra from Space (ACROSS)
Chowdhary, J., Cairns, B., Knobelspiesse, K., Xu, F., Zhai, P., Frouin, R., Stamnes, S., Liu, L., Cetinić, I., Slade, W., and Mishchenko, M. (17-Jan-17). Topics: 1) RT benchmark results, 2) ACROSS-II hydrosol model, 3) plankton particle scattering 4) UV sensitivity studies, and
5) information content analyses.
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PACE Science Team: Atmospheric Correction over Bright Water Targets with Non-negligible Radiances in the Near Infrared
Dierssen, H., Randolph, K., Garaba, S., Zhai, P., and Gao, B-C. (17-Jan-17) 
PACE Atmospheric Correction Focusing on Adaptation of NASA’s Heritage Algorithm
Franz, B., Ibrahim, A., Ahmad, Z., Healy, R., and Gao, B-C. (17-Jan-17) 
Ocean Color Remote Sensing Using Polarization Properties of Reflected Sunlight
Frouin, R., Gross-Colzy, L., and Ramon, D. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Land and Ocean Versions of ATREM Codes for Processing AVIRIS-Simulated PACE Proxy Data
Gao, B-C. and Li, R-R. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Will OCI’s O2 A-band Channels Contain the Information Needed to Infer the Height & Thickness of an Optically Thin Layer of Absorbing Aerosols? If Not, Can a MAP Help?
Davis, A.B. and Kalashnikova, O.V. (17-Jan-17) 
Development of Datasets and Algorithms for Hyperspectral IOP Products from the PACE Ocean Color Measurements
Lee, Z., Ondrusek, M., and Tufillaro, N. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Toward a Hyperspectral Ocean Color Model for PACE
Maritorena, S. (17-Jan-17) 
Improved Satellite Ocean Color Retrievals of Ocean Inherent Optical Properties and Biogeochemical Properties Utilizing the Capabilities of PACE
Mitchell, B.G., Kahru, M., and Vasilkov, A. (17-Jan-17) 
PACE: How Can We Do Our Science in a Way that Will Maximize its Utility
Tzortziou, M., Omar, A., and Turner, W. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
PACE Cloud Team Proposal
Platnick, S., Meyer, K., Ackerman, S., Frey, R, Heidinger, A, Walther, A., Coddington, O., Pilewskie, P., Schmidt, S., Zhang, Z., Werner, F., and Miller, D. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Aerosol Absorption Retrievals from Base-line OCI Observations
Remer, L., Mattoo, S., Levy, R., Torres, O., Ahmad, Z., Vanderlei, M., and Gupta, P. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Quantifying Uncertainties in Phytoplankton Absorption Coefficients for Accurate Validation of the PACE Ocean Color Sensor: Moving Towards Satellite Retrieved Phytoplankton Functional Types (PFTs)
Roesler, C. (17-Jan-17) 
Phytoplankton Composition Algorithms for PACE
Rousseaux, C. and Gregg, W. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Quantifying the Spectral Absorption Coefficients of Phytoplankton and Non-Phytoplankton Components of Seawater from in Situ and Remote-Sensing Measurements
Stramski, D. and Reynolds, R.A. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Improving IOP Measurement Uncertainties for PACE Ocean Color Remote Sensing Applications
Sullivan, J., Twardowski, M., Moore, T., McKee, D., Röttgers, R., and Stockley, N. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Improving Retrieval of IOPs from Ocean Color Remote Sensing Through Explicit Consideration of the Volume Scattering Function
Twardowski, M., Sullivan, J., Tonizzo, A., Stockley, N., Freeman, S., and Slivkoff, M. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Science Team Update on the PACE Mission
Werdell, J. (17-Jan-17) 
Understanding Natural Variability of VSFs and its Impact on Biogeochemical Retrieval from Ocean Color
Zhang, X., Gray, D., and Slade, W. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Derivation of Inherent Optical Properties from Satellite Top of Atmosphere Measurements in Optically Complex Waters
Craig, S., Lee, W., and Miller, D. (17-Jan-17). Click here to view this presentation with audio. 
Subgroup Report: Proxy Datasets
Knobelspiesse, K., Franz, B., and Ibrahim, A. (17-Jan-17) 
Subgroup Report: Database Status
Rousseaux, C. and Casey, K. (17-Jan-17) 
Absorption Closure Cruise for PACE
Twardowski, M. (17-Jan-17) 
Applications for Societal Benefits from Atmospheric PACE Products
Omar, A. (17-Jan-17) 
PACE for the Human Race : Ideas for White Papers
Tzortziou, M. (17-Jan-17)