ALMA Water Vapour Radiometer Internal Review

Agenda

Audience: Representatives of FE IPT management, Science IPT, Systems Engineering & Integration IPT, JAO representatives

Date: Friday, 2003-06-06

Venue: Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria / Canada

Agenda

13:30 Introduction (Tan, Guilloteau):

-Review objectives

13:35 WVR in the ALMA system (Guilloteau):

-Function of the Water Vapour Radiometer in the ALMA system

Pathlength monitoring

Opacity sensor

Pending issues: anomalous refraction

-Relationship between ALMA Science requirements and WVR requirements (flow down)

-Operational implications

14:00 WVR programmatics (Tan, Guilloteau):

-Schedule

-Related WVR milestones for Science and FE IPTs

-Issues to be resolved: WVR prototype testing at ATF

-Atmospheric modeling

14:15 FE systems engineering (Harman, Rudolf):

-External WVR interfaces

-Internal WVR interfaces

14:30 Break

14:45 WVR status report (Richer, (Hills)):

-Comparison actual progress vs. planned

-Technical results

-Risks

16:15 Wrap up of meeting / action items (Tan, Guilloteau)

16:30 Adjourn

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Agenda ALMA Water Vapour Radiometer Internal Review, 2003-06-06