OMI Validation Needs for the AVE January 2006 Validation Campaign, Costa Rica, San Jose Airport

The January 2005 AVE Campaign will take place from San Jose Airport, Costa Rica, from 17 January -
09 February 2006. The campaign has been named CR-AVE, for Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment. From this location the NASA owned WB-57 aircraft is operated which will carry an impressive amount of instrumentation on 5-6 hour flights up to 18 km altitude over more than 4000 km range. Please visit the dedicated campaign website: http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/ave-costarica2/ for more up to date information. This document serves to present the OMI validation opportunities as identified for the AVE January 2006 airborne validation campaign, aimed to perform validation measurements for the NASA EOS Aura satellite.