The First Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA) PIs Meeting
was held 14-16 August 2006
at the Hilton El Conquistador Resort in Tucson, AZ

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Paticipant Listing
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Monday, 14 August 2006
  Program Overview (Chair: R. Leung)
08:30 CPPA Program Review (J. Huang)
08:50 GEWEX (S. Sorooshian)
09:10 CLIVAR (D. Legler)
09:30 NIDIS (M. Brusberg)
09:50 CPPA Science and Implementation Plan (R. Leung)
10:20 Break
  Science Overviews: Land and Ocean Process and Modelling Studies (Chair E. Wood)
10:40 Overview of land predictability and modeling (P. Houser)
11:10 GAPP Core Project (NCEP portion) (K. Mitchell)
11:40 Research findings using the North American Regional Reanalysis (H. Berbery)
12:10 Lunch
  Science Overviews: Land and Ocean Process and Modelling Studies (Chair M. Chronin)
13:30 Overview of air-sea interactions (C. Fairall)
13:50 Highlights from EPIC (C. Bretherton)
14:20 VOCALS (R. Mechoso)
14:40 Break
  Poster Oral Presentations (Monday Group) (Chair Y. Xue)
15:00 Poster Oral Presentations (Various)
17:00 Icebreak and Poster Viewing (Monday Group)
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
  Data Management (Chair B. Liebmann)
08:30 CPPA Data Management (S. Williams)
  Poster Oral Presentations (Tuesday Group) (Chair B. Liebmann)
09:00 Poster Oral Presentations (Various)
11:00 Poster Viewing (Tuesday Group)
  Breakout Session (1)
01:30 Land-Atmosphere Interaction (Chair: P. Houser / Rapporteur: C. Castro)
    Chapter in draft CPPA Science & Implementation Plan (Houser)
  Air-Sea Interaction (Chair: R. Johnson / Rapporteur: S-P Xie)
    Breakout Group Introduction (Johnson)
    Chapter in draft CPPA Science & Implementation Plan (Fairall)
    Critical Areas for Research: East Pacific Warm Pool Convection (Maloney)
    NCEP CFS Model Bias ssociated with the Marine Stratus Clouds over SE Pacific (Xie)
    Regional coupled modeling to improve climate prediction for the Americas (de Szoeke)
    US CLIVAR Process Study & Model Improvement Panel (PSMIP) (Cronin)
    Intra-America Sea (Enfield)
    Ship Observations (Unknown)
  Breakout Session Reports and Open Discussion (1)
04:00 Land-Atmosphere Interaction
  Air-Sea Interaction
05:00 Adjourn
06:00 CPPA Science Panel Meeting
Wednesday, 16 August 2006
  Science Overview: Climate predictability studies at intraseasonal to interannual time scales (Chair D. Gochis)
08:30 Overview of climate predictability at SI time scales (S. Schubert)
09:00 Drought research and products (D. Gutzler)
09:20 Highlights from NAME (W. Higgins)
09:40 Highlights from MESA (C. Saulo)
10:00 Intra-America Sea (D. Enfield)
10:20 Break
  Science Overview: Hydrologic Applications (Chair J. Shuttleworth)
10:40 Overview of hydrologic and water resource application (J. Schaake)
11:10 GAPP Core Project (OHD portion) (P. Restrepo)
11:40 West-wide and East-wide Seasonal Hydrologic Prediction System (A. Wood)
12:10 Lunch
  Breakout Session (2)
01:30 Climate predictability (Chair: J. Roads / Rapporteur: S. Nigam)
    Breakout Introduction (Roads)
    Chapter in draft CPPA Science & Implementation Plan (Berbery)
    Operational Climate prediction (Mitchell)
    Operational Streamflow (Wood)
    NA Droughts and SST Links (Nigam)
  Hydrologic application (Chair: M. Clark / Rapporteur: P. Restrepo)
    Chapter in draft CPPA Science & Implementation Plan (Clark)
  Breakout Session Reports and Open Discussion (1)
04:00 Land-Atmosphere Interaction
  Climate predictability
  Hydrologic Application
05:00 Adjourn