Planning Meeting, March 24-25, 2011

Agenda

March 24-25 (half day), 2011
FL1, Room 2198, EOL Atrium

Meeting Participants


Thursday, March 24, 2011

Presentations were recorded using ReadyTalk. The link below is for all Thursday presentations and approximate times are listed for the respective presentations.

Start TimeReadyTalk Start TimeDiscussion Topic
8:00 AMContinental Breakfast
8:43 AM0:00:00Introductions (Andy Heymsfield)
  • web conferencing, wireless internet access, ICE-T web page
  • meeting goals & agenda (changes?)
  • status of action items from 5-Jan meeting of steering committee
  • ICE-T science objectives and project goals
  • project activities - observations and modeling
  • participants & funding status
  • project overall schedule: meetings, field work, workshops, conferences
Aircraft Payloads & Performance
8:55 AM0:08:35 C-130 (Allen Schanot)
  • layout of cabin instruments, inlets & splitting samples
  • wing pods
  • performance (climb & descent rate, air speed, endurance, range)
9:38 AM 0:50:00SPEC Lear Jet (Paul Lawson)
Overview of Project Management (Steve Williams, Allen Schanot)
10:00 AM 1:12:00St Croix facilities, passports, hotel, ops center, FBO, ground transportation (Allen Schanot)
10:13 AM1:25:30Field catalog, forecasting, internet access, data uploads, data access policy (Steve Williams)
Instrument Investigators & Users - science objectives & methods, key observations, connections to other ICE-T investigators & other studies
10:55 AM1:48:00Ice Nuclei - CFDC (Paul DeMott)
11:10 AM2:03:00PRADACS, Puerto Rico ground observations (Olga Mayol-Bracero)
11:29 AM2:22:45Fast Aerosol Size Distributions with the new HD-DMA system (Suresh Dhaniyala)
11:48 AM2:41:45ATOFMS (Kim Prather)
1:17 PM3:05:00CCN Spectrometers a and b (Jim Hudson)
1:38 PM3:27:20WCR, WCL (Dave Leon)
1:58 PM3:46:20Aerosols (Jeff Snider)
2:12 PM4:03:20Giant nuclei (Jørgen Jensen - presented by Dave Rogers)
2:26 PM4:14:20Counterflow Virtual Impactor (CVI): Prior Results Realted to ICE-T, CVI Measurements in ICE-L (Darin Toohey/Cindy Twohy)
2:37 PM4:36:40CPSD (Darrel Baumgardner)
3:00 PM 4:49:15 St Croix airspace issues and airports (Pilots and Allen Schanot)
3:15 PM5:13:00SPEC Lear Jet Flight Operations, instruments and studies (Paul Lawson)
3:25 PM 5:29:00 Aircraft Operations (discussion) - C-130 flight planning mission types, flight profiles and two-aircraft operations
3:50 PM5:51:00Some photos of cumulus clouds in PREDICT (Darin Toohey)
New science, observations and modeling
4:32 PM6:11:00Aerosol particle composition, morphology, sources (Jim Anderson)
4:48 PM6:27:00Aerosol Indirect Forcing on Congestus and Deep Convective Clouds in the Tropics (Sue van den Heever)
5:03 PM6:44:40Paul Field (presented by Andy Heymsfield)
5:13 PM6:53:15ICE-T Science Objectives, Data Analysis & Numerical Modeling (Sonia Lasher-Trapp)
5:30 PM7:08:30----- ADJOURN -----
----- OPTIONAL GROUP DINNER at Walnut Brewery -----

Friday, March 25, 2011

Presentations were recorded using ReadyTalk. The link below is for all Friday presentations and approximate times are listed for the respective presentations.

Start TimeReadyTalk Start TimeDiscussion Topic
8:00 AMContinental Breakfast
Observations
8:58 AM 0:00:00"Remote Sensing" Ice Generation (Zhien Wang)
9:25 AM0:25:15NCAR/RAF Flight Operations (Allen Schanot)
  • equipment installations & documentation requirements
  • upload schedule, work at RAF, test flights, ferry to St Croix
  • crew duty limits, instrument maintenance days, aircraft safety
9:56 AM0:54:25Outreach Activities (Sonia Lasher-Trapp and others)
Meeting summary
10:35 AM1:34:00Review of action item list and concluding remarks
12:00 PM2:06:00----- END OF ICE-T WORKSHOP -----
2:06:00
to
2:52:00
Informal Seminar, Cloud Physics Across Scales Program:
Progress on Entrainment and its Effects in Small Cumuli,
Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Purdue


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