October 29 - November 1, 2012
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USAHeld at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the October 2012 Aquarius Science Calibration/Validation workshop focused on reviewing the post-launch Calibration/Validation plan, and making decisions on the path toward Version 2.0 processing.Agenda

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Piepmeier, J. [31-Oct-12]. A briefing by the Antenna Temperature Calibration Working Group (TA-WG), including the findings investigating geophysical model errors, instrument errors and dynamic range. Neumann, G., Yueh, S., Fore, A., Freedman, A., Hayashi, A. and Tang, W. [31-Oct-12]. Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center. Fore, A. [31-Oct-12]. The results of radiometer calibration over the Amazon. Over land, significant ascending/descending bias was observed. Over the ocean, the data is not consistent with land estimates, and scaling is recommended. Fore, A., Yueh, S. and Tang, W. [31-Oct-12]. Wind speed was retrieved using scatterometer only and then with the Combined Active Passive (CAP) method. CAP was found to perform best, most significantly so at higher wind speeds. Neumann, G., Yueh, S., Fore, A., Freedman, A., Hayashi, A. and Tang, W. [31-Oct-12]. An analysis of scatterometer stability. A slight increase in Sigma0 over the mission was observed using double-difference. Most of the increas was in the first two to three months of the mission. The instrument may have contributed to this, and requires further investigation. Melnichenko, O., Hacker, P., Maximenko, N. and Potemra, J. [31-Oct-12]. This presentation discusses the differences in the ascending and descending swaths of Aquarius data, as well as potential sources for the differences. Lagerloef, G. [31-Oct-12]. A review of Aquarius-retrieved salnity as compared to salnity from Argo buoys, from August 2011-October 2012. Kao, H-Y. [31-Oct-12]. Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center. Lagerloef, G. [31-Oct-12]. Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center. Meissner, T. and Wentz, F. [31-Oct-12]. Presented at the 2012 Aquarius Calibration/Validation Workshop at Goddard Space Flight Center.