Advancing the Science of Both Coastal Ocean Biophysics and Atmospheric Pollution Chemistry: A White Paper Report to the NASA Earth Science Division by the GEO-CAPE Team (September 2015)

The 2007 Decadal Survey (DS) included the recommendation for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) mission to launch in 2013–2016 to advance the science of both coastal ocean biophysics and atmospheric-pollution chemistry. In 2009 the NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) initiated study activities for GEO-CAPE and 8 other near-to medium-term missions to help determine the readiness of these conceptual missions to begin the formulation phase. For FY15 the GEO-CAPE mission study team was directed to complete this white paper summarizing the results of the pre-formulation work accomplished to date.