Research Announcement on SMILES

 JAXA releases Research Announcement (RA) in regard to Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder attached to Japanese Experimental Module (JEM/SMILES) which will be launched in this September. This RA considers calibration and validation of the SMILES data, as well as algorithm development, data application, and scientific use. The details of the RA are provided in the following RA documents. For more details about SMILES, please go to the Documents page. We expect active applications from atmospheric chemistry researchers.

  (Please note that the notation of "NICT" (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) has been corrected on page 5 of RA document; July 27, 2009)

The selection result of the Research Announcement on SMILES

Principal Investigator (Research Organization)	Research theme
Yvan Orsolini (NILU, Norway)	Analyses and model comparison of JEM/SMILES observations of key minor constituents involved in stratospheric ozone chemistry
William Read (JPL, USA)	JEM/SMILES Cloud/Humidity Products
Arno de Lange (SRON, Netherlands)	JEM/SMILES validation by the balloon instruments TELIS and MIPAS-B
Ian Boyd (NIWA, NZ)	Validation of JEM/SMILES Ozone Measurements by Ground Based Microwave Ozone Radiometers and Other Instruments at Two NDACC Sites
Robert A. Stachnik (JPL, USA)	JEM/SMILES Validation using atmospheric observations by the JPL balloon-borne remote sensor suite
Masatomo Fujiwara (Hokkaido Univ.)	Validation of ozone measured with the Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder(SMILES) by ozonesonde measurements
Joachim Urban (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)	Collaborative research based on atmospheric observations from SMILES and Odin
Kaley Walker (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)	Validation of JEM-SMILES Measurements Using Infrared Fourier Transform Spectrometer Data Sets
Yasuko Kasai (NICT)	JEM/SMILES L2 Research Processing, Validation and Science
Masato Shiotani (Kyoto Univ. RISH)	Comparing the SMILES data with those from the Microwave Limb Sounder aboard the EOS Aura
Tomoo Nagahama (Nagoya Univ. STE)	Monitoring of Mesospheric Composition Change associated with Solar-Terrestrial Environment Changes
Toshihisa Kuwahara (Nagoya Univ. STE)	Investigation of diurnal and seasonal variations of stratospheric ClO based on ground-based millimeter-wave observations validated by the comparison with JEM/SMILES data
Koji Imai (TOME R&D Inc./JAXA)	Stratospheric methyl cyanide (CH3CN) from JEM/SMILES
Makoto Suzuki (JAXA-ISAS)	Method of diurnal analysis for sun-nonsynchronous observation system using SMILES data
Jana Mendrok (NICT)	Tropospheric ice cloud measurements from SMILES ? Retrieval, validation, and science
Satoshi Ochiai (NICT)	SMILES Level 1 Calibration (SMILES Level 1 Calibration)
Satoshi Ochiai (NICT)	Ozone and ClO validation by millimeter-wave radiometer at Alaska
Takafumi Sugita (NIES)	Quantitative evaluations of inorganic chlorine chemistry in the stratosphere using a photochemical model
Kiyotaka shibata (NIES)	Study of zonally asymmetric distribution of ozone and related chemical species: Comparison between the SMILES data and the MRI chemistry-climate model data
Hideaki Nagajima (NIES)	Validation of JEM/SMILES O3, O3-isotope, HCl, and HNO3 profiles with ground-based FTIR spectrometers in Rikubetsu and Tsukuba
Makoto suzuki (JAXA-ISAS)	Stratospheric SO2 observation from JEM/SMILES
Mitsuteru Sato (Hokkaido Univ.)	Detection of the chemical effects caused by solar and TLE activities at the middle atmosphere from the SMILES observation
Lawrence E. Flynn (NOAA/NESDIS)	Comparisons of ozone profiles and assimilation products from SMILES with those from SBUV/2	Late Proposal
Francois Hendrick (Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)	Validation of JEM/SMILES BrO, HCl, and HNO3 measurements using ground-based instrument observations	Late Proposal
Alexei Rozanov (Univ. of Bremen)	Cross- validation and quality improvement of vertical distributions of O3 and BrO number density retrieved from SMILES and SCIAMACHY measurements	Late Proposal
Ding-Yi Wang (Univ. of New Brunswick)	Study of Stratospheric Dynamical Processes and Ozone Variations by Space-Based Multi-Sensor Datasets	Late Proposal
Naoko Saitoh (Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University)	Combined use of JEM/SMILES and GOSAT products for cross-validation of stratospheric minor species and study on stratospheric ozone chemistry in the Arctic	Late Proposal
Shingo Watanabe (Research Institute for Global Change/JAMSTEC)	Cross-validations of SMILES level 2 products against results of chemistry climate models	Late Proposal