Minutes of the IJW Atmospheres meeting at the 2000 DPS meeting
24 October 2000, Pasadena, CA





Attendance:

Carrie Anderson-Munford, carrande@nmsu.edu
Reta Beebe, rbeebe@nmsu.edu
Nancy Chanover, nchanove@nmsu.edu
Joe Harrington, jh@oobleck.tn.cornell.edu
Lyle Huber, lhuber@nmsu.edu
Ricardo Hueso, wuahualr@bi.ehu.es
Donald Jenning, Donald.E.Jennings.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
Glenn Orton, go@orton.jpl.nasa.gov
Pedro Sada, psada@ix.netcom.com
Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, wupsalaa@bi.ehu.es
Takehiko Satoh, tsatoh@rs.noda.sut.ac.jp
Amy Simon-Miller, simon@rain.tn.cornell.edu
Takafumi Temma, temma@nmsu.edu
Alan Tokunaga, tokunaga@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
Mark Vincent, mvincent@nmsu.edu
Padma Yanamandra-Fisher, padma@durga.jpl.nasa.gov

Did not have the full names, or misspelled...
  Marian Galanda
  Two or three names were not recorded.



Topics Discussed:

Reta Beebe , Atmospheres Discipline Chair, started the meeting stating
that its primary emphasis would be the Cassini Jupiter flyby.

A discussion of the Galileo and Cassini timelines was led by Amy
Simon-Miller. The Galileo and Cassini observations schedules are posted
at IJW Atmospheres Observing Schedule. The best spatial resolution for 
the Imaging Science System will be 60 km. Cassini will be observing 
Jupiter almost continuously, except to download data once a day.

There is a request for ground-based imaging of Jupiter in support of
the Cassini lightning monitoring observations that occur just after
closest approach. These observations will allow the identification of
the cloud features that generate lightning. Please contact Amy Simon-
Miller, simon@rain.tn.cornell.edu, for further details. Amateur 
astronomers can provide their data to the IJW Atmospheres Discipline 
for further distribution.

Funding (as usual) is of great concern. Currently no funding exists
for reduction and analysis of the Cassini flyby data. Archiving of the
Cassini flyby data is not planned until one year after the Saturn
orbital insertion, or 2005.

Glenn Orton has time on IRTF to support the CIRS (Composite Infrared
Spectrometer) North-South scan with half-nights on 4 & 5 October and
29 & 30 December. Glenn is also planning on providing near-realtime
reduced images from the IRTF Galileo Monitoring Program. These images 
should be posted at IJW Current Images sometime in the near future.

Drake Deming and Joe Harrington have 6 nights on the IRTF to provide
ground-based support for the long-wavelength channel of CIRS. They will
be using MIRLIN on the telescope on Dec 13, 14, 19, 20, and Jan 3, 4.
These times are co-incident with or near the CIRS mapping sequences.
The main program goal is to study planetary waves.

Nancy Chanover has 2 half-nights at the Apache Point Observatory 3.5 m
for NIR imaging of Jupiter using GRIM. The dates are 30 & 31 December.

Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, would like observations of the interactions of
white oval BA with other features. A series of HST images of the White
Ovals has been posted at the IJW Current Images website. Please contact
Sanchez, wupsalaa@bi.ehu.es, if you have good images of the interactions.

Future observations are listed at IJW Atmospheres Observing Schedule.

Joe Harrington finished the meeting with a discussion about a
replacement for now outdated Arizona Press Jupiter book by Gehrels. He
stated that the book(s) should represent "the wisdom of the community,
not individual results." The suggestion was made that three smaller
books covering the atmosphere, magnetosphere and satellites would be
more popular, and affordable to students than one large, expensive
book.






Please check the IJW Atmospheres Discipline website for further details. 

If you are planning observations of Jupiter, or have updates to 
this or any other IJW Atmosphers Discipline page, please contact 
Mark Vincent, ijw@nsmu.edu. IJW  welcomes your input.