EPIC2001 Planning Meeting

Meeting Announcement

Agenda

• 8:30-8:50 (Weller, Raymond, Esbenson) Welcome, Purpose, Agenda,
• 8:50-9:20 Currently funded EPIC enhanced monitoring. (5 minutes each)
  • Weller/Anderson: 18S, 85W IMET Oct 2000 - 2003
  • Cronin/McPhaden: 10 TAO flux moorings along 95W from 8S to 12N
  • Nystuen: Acoustic rain gauges on TAO moorings
  • Bond: Soundings on TAO 95W tender
  • Fairall/Frisch: fluxes on TAO 95W tender
  • Gage/Douglas: Galapagos profilers
• 9:20-12:00 5-minute what/where/when/key science question for each group
• 9:20-10:10 ABL and stratocumulus along 95W & to 18S 85W bundle (S. Esbensen)
  • S. Esbensen: Aerosondes from Galapagos
  • N. Bond: dropsonde from P3 - cross-equatorial and ITCZ ABL structure
  • K. Gage/M. Douglas: Galapagos profiler & Soundings
  • Fairall/Hazen/Frisch: flux/PBL/cloud radar/microwaveradiometer/ceilometer
  • J. Intrieri: Lidars
  • T. Uttal: Doppler cloud radar (35 GHz)
  • B. Houze: C-band Doppler radar on Brown - stratocumulus cloud properties
  • B. Albrecht: Soundings from the Brown
  • P. Quinn: Determining CCN concentrations
  • C. Bretherton: 3-D LES modeling
• 10:10-10:20 Break
• 10:20-11:00 ITCZ bundle for ship and aircraft work in ITCZ (D. Raymond)
  • D. Raymond/A. Blyth: NCAR Electra with Eldora radar
  • J. Zehnder/J. Molinari: Electra/Eldora
  • C. Zhang: P-3
  • T. Uttal/Fairall/Orr: Flux/PBL/cloud radar/microwave radiometer on Brown
  • J. Intrieri: Lidars
  • S. Rutledge et al: Ron Brown C-band radar and soundings
  • C. Gautier/C. Jones: fluxes from satellite data sets
• 11:00-11:45 Ocean boundary layer bundle (M. Gregg)
  • M. Gregg/Miller: microstructure profiling from Brown 10N&5N/95W
  • C. Ohlmann/D. Siegel: Optical profiling from Brown
  • R. Pinkel: profilers tethered to Brown
  • C. Paulson/H. Wijeskera/D. Rudnick: 2nd ship butterfly pattern with CTD/optical/Seasoar/ADCP/SST&SSS/fluxes/possibly soundings
  • N. Shay/C. Zhang/N. Bond: Air-dropped XBTs, XCTDs, & XCPs
  • C. Erikson: CTDs from array of gliders
• 11:45-12:00 Other work not to be included in bundles
  • A. Trasvina/V. Magana: sfc drifters/AVHRR imagery/soundings from Altair - horizontal heat advection in Mexican Warm Pool & forcing mechanisms in climate prediction models
  • P. Niiler/S. Kennan: sfc drifters & surveys in ITCZ region - wind driven vorticity dynamics & heat/salt convergences
• 12:00-12:30 Discussion. Complementary? Holes? Logistic issues.
• 12:30-1:30 Lunch
• 1:30-3:15 Bundle Breakout Discussion in 3 separate rooms
• 3:15-3:30 Break
• 3:30-4:15 Reconvene. Lead PI from each bundle summarize bundle
• 4:15-5:15 Discussion. Logistics of field work.
• 5:30 End Meeting