Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: Elements of a Strategy to Recover Measurement Capabilities Lost in Program Restructuring

摘要

In June 2007, the National Research Council (NRC) held a 3-day workshop, Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft, in Washington, D.C., to discuss options to recover measurement capabilities, especially those related to climate research, that were lost following a congressionally mandated review completed in June 2006 (Nunn-McCurdy certification ) of the NPOESS program and the September 2006 cancellation of the HES sensor on GOES-R. Some 100 scientists and engineers from academia, government, and industry attended the workshop, which gave participants a chance to consider and comment on a mitigation plan developed by NASA-NOAA as well as to explore options that were not included in the NASA-NOAA study. An NRC report on the workshop proceedings was released in prepublication form in September 2007. By design, that report did not present findings or recommendations.