Data Silences In Memory of Yoram Kaufman

Dear Colleagues,

As you know, a Memorial for Yoram Kaufman is being held this Sunday 1-4 PM in Goddard's blg 8 auditorium. During this time to honor Yoram, there will be a brief ceasing of "business as usual," with environmental data silence of MODIS, MISR, CERES, AERONET and certain websites on Sunday during part of the memorial. Websites being hosted on climate.gsfc.nasa.gov in Yoram's home Goddard branch will be temporarily redirected to a memorial page during that brief time on Sunday: http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/YoramKaufman/

Several of us will visit with the family during the following week. Later there will be other opportunities to honor Yoram's memory. Thank you for being especially understanding while we grieve for our loss of a family member, close friend and honored colleague, Yoram Kaufman.

Best regards,
Dr. Robert F. Cahalan (Bob)
Head, Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA/GSFC

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In respect and commemoration for Yoram and his contributions to the success of our missions, the Terra spacecraft will observe a moment of silence on Sunday June 4th, 2006.

Instruments onboard the spacecraft will stop observations during this period - Lat 40.86 / Long -79.26 while passing directly over Goddard Space Flight Center. This moment of silence will occur at 155/16:08:52z to 16:09:52z (12:08:52 pm eastern time).

With Respect,
The EOS Flight Operations Team

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Yoram was key to the inception, development and success of AERONET. He was our greatest cheerleader through his innovative use of the data. In honor of Yoram, I have asked Ilya Slutsker to create a permanent two hour 'data silence' in our world wide data base from 1600 to 1800 UTC on Sunday 4 June, 2006. This coincides with our Memorial Celebration and a data silence from Terra and Aqua as they overpass Goddard on Sunday.

Brent Holben
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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It is a deep regret to know about the death of such outstanding scientists as Yoram Kaufman. We present our condolences to his relatives, friends and colleagues with respect to this bereavement.
AEROSIBNET will perform two hour 'data silence' in our world wide data base from 1600 to 1800 UTC on Sunday 4 June, 2006 in memory of our colleague.

On behalf of scientists of Institute of Atmospheric Optics and all participants of the network AEROSIBNET: Panchenko, Sakerin, Kabanov, Zhuravleva, Turchinovich, Belov, Afonin, Shchelkanov, Terpugova, Kornienko, Nikolashkin, Tashchilin, Mikhalev,
Beresnev, Gorda, Poddubn

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Yoram's colleagues at Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France have arranged for the POLDER instrument on the PARASOL satellite to observe a momentary data silence on Sunday June 4th, 2006, to coincide with the data silences on Terra and Aqua.

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The data silence will also be observed by the SKYNET observation network, which includes 12 sites in Eastern Asia from Mongolia to Thailand, as well as in Japan. Two sites of special mention:

• The SKYNET site operated by the Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, JAPAN
  
• The SKYNET Hefei instruments, operated by Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics), Chinese Academy of Sciences