This short course will cover topics including estimating fluxes in the carbon cycle, observing meteorology across scales, challenges in using atmospheric CO2 observations, and reflections from studying the terrestrial carbon cycle.
The overall goal of this KISS study on “Forging Community Consensus for an Integrated GHG and Winds Mission” is to bring together expertise in wind observations and trace gas observation and attribution. Our work here will inform the design of a new satellite mission that will observe greenhouse gases and winds simultaneously.
This KISS study program aims to define and develop the ability to simulate a proposed mission concept synthetically ahead of time, where the simulation includes the fundamental physical processes of interest, the characteristics of proposed observations (both intrinsic to any given instrument and how the measurement technique interacts with the physical environment), and finally the ConOps for the mission (e.g., acquisition strategy, orbital parameters, viewing geometry, mission duration, etc.).
The principal objective of this workshop will be to assess the potential for lunar astronomical interferometry in the context of current flight opportunities and mission funding lines. A sober, wide-ranging assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of future lunar observatories will be an important focus of this workshop.