1. S. Noël SCIAMACHY Quality Working Group
SQWG-3 KO Telecon 22 July 2014
S. Noël
SCIAMACHY Quality Working Group

2. Project Status RfQ begin of Dec 2013
Proposal submitted begin of Feb 2014
ESA response begin of May 2014 (request for clarification):
No technical issues
Main contractual / financial issues:
DLR liability clauses
VAT for subcontractors
Main issues seem to be clarified; draft contract available, has been commented by Univ. Bremen legal department

3. Project Structure

4. General Schedule
Project duration is 30 months (probably starting July 2014)
Assumption (for the planning):
The next L1/L2 versions will be the last ones
1st half of project:
Preparation of new baseline (main focus on L1) -> All activities related to changes in processing need to be finished after about 1 year, incl. first verification
MTR after 15 month:
Decide if work on baseline is finished or not (taking into account funding situation at that time)
Decide if some scientific products can be made operational
2nd half of project (from current view):
Verification, reprocessing (& validation by Sciavalig -> funding?)
Preparation of ‘final’ product version incl. documentation, long-term recommendations, etc.
Finalisation of scientific products (full reprocessing, documentation)
National funding (IUP) currently ends 2015
May affect generation of scientific products & documentation

5. Schedule of WPs

6. Workplan (first months) – to be discussed (1)
‘Leftovers’ from SQWG-2:
Finalisation of baseline: Main open issue from verification: CO quality (DLR) -> Suggestion: if not resolved, remove from L2V6 product list
Tropospheric NO2 (DLR/IUP) -> Status, availability?
Reprocessed/extended L1V8, L2V6 data sets (ESA/DLR) -> available when?
General: Verification/validation activities required based on extended data sets (all)
Especially: O3 total column verification/trend check based on extended/reprocessed data set (BIRA)
Update of Product Handbook L1V8, L2V6 (IUP/all)

7. Workplan (first months) – to be discussed (2)
Polarisation studies:
SRON to provide new key data
IUP/SRON to perform consistency checks (incl. solar spectrum)
Aim: Decide need / usefulness for further polarisation studies
Lower priority for first months:
Non-linearity ch. 2 report (SRON/all)
Mirror model/degradation correction to be improved for better consistency between different residual m-factors (SRON/IUP)

8. Updated Schedule (assuming KO in July 2014)
Project milestones
Location
Timeframe
Rel. to KO
Kick-Off (KO)
Teleconference
July 2014 KO
QWG Meeting 1
IUP
October 2014
KO+3
QWG Meeting 2
SRON
January 2015
KO+6
QWG Meeting 3
May 2015
KO+10
QWG Meeting 4
DLR Bonn
August 2015
KO+13
MTR (end of Phase 1)
ESRIN
October 2015
KO+15
QWG Meeting 5
January 2016
KO+18
QWG Meeting 6
DLR Wessling
May 2016
KO+22
QWG Meeting 7
September 2016
KO+26
Final Presentation
December/January 2016
KO+29/30
(actual dates & locations tbc)
Next meeting: PM1:
At IUP Bremen in autumn; suggestion: combine with SSAG at 21 Oct 2014
Topics:
Status/results of activities shown on previous slide
Planning until PM2