RICO Workhop Agenda

UNIDATA Conference Room FL4
NCAR Foothills Laboratory
Boulder, Colorado
25-27 February 2004

• Wednesday February 25
  • 1. Introduction and welcome    1300 - 1315    (Ochs/Rauber)
  • 2. RICO Overview       1315 - 1445  (Ochs/Rauber)
    • Overview of the RICO scientific overview document and the goals of RICO
    • Overview of the scientific choice of location in Antigua and Barbuda
    • Overview of time schedule for operations
    • RICO education goals
    • Status of NSF funding and list of participants
    • Operations plan
    
    
  • Break             (1445-1515)
    
    
  • 3. Science Goals of Investigators
    (Approximately 15 minutes per investigator) 1515-2100 (Investigators)
    
    • Radar and Microphysics
      • Rauber, Ochs, Laird, Di Girolamo
      • Knight
    • Ensemble-scale Studies
      • Stevens
      • Wood, Yuter, Bretherton
      • Albrecht, Fairall, Hare
      • Kollias et al.
    • Microphysical Studies
      • Blyth
      • Anderson, Twohy
      • Lasher-Trapp
      • Hudson
      • Jensen, Stith
      • Brenguier (Part 1)Brenguier (Part 2)
      • Gerber
      • Feingold
      • Chuang
      • Baker
      • Vali
      • Krueger
      • Geerts
      • Kogan
      • Cotton
      • Heikes, O'Sullivan
      • Thornton
    • Related Studies
      • PRACS (Mayol-Bracero)
      
      
      
    • Dinner 1800-1830 (pizza delivered)
    
    
  • Thursday February 26
    • 4. Scientific overview committee    0830-0900  (Ochs/Rauber)
    • 5. Managing the decision process in the field  0900-0930  (Ochs/Rauber)
    • RDCC: Real-time Display and Coordination Center  0930  (Daniels)
      
      
    • 6. Data management issues including data policy  0930-1000  (Williams)
      
      
    • Break 1000-1030
      
      
    • 7. Operations coordination, operation center requirements and communications 1030-1200 (Dirks/Moore)
      • JOSS Portable Satellite Receiving Station (Stossmeister)
      
      
      
    • Lunch: 1200-1300
      
      
    • 8. Operational issues regarding RICO facilities   1300-1500
      • C-130: Possible equipment layout and issues (Jensen)
      • BAE-146   (Blyth)
      • Wyoming King Air (Geerts/Rodi)
      • Radar: K band and S band, others (Knight/Vivekanandan/Chamberlain)
      • Soundings/PAM (Bjorn Stevens)
      • Ship(Chris Fairall)
      • Satellite(Di Girolamo)
      
      
    • Break (1500-1530)

    • 9. Flight plans: 1530-1730 (Ochs/Rauber)
      
  • Friday February 27
    • 10. Radar-only period and development of radar scanning strategies 0830-0930   (Knight/Ochs/Rauber)
    • 11. Ship and sounding deployments 0930-1030   (Fairall/Ochs/Rauber)
      
      
    • Break 1030-1100
      
      
    • 12. Educational activities 1100-1200 (Ochs/Rauber)
      • Research experiences for undergraduates
      • Site visits by schools
      • Grad Student Seminar Series
      • Flight designed by graduate students
    • 13. Wrap up: Time lines, future meetings, 
      • Operations plan 1200-1230 (Moore)
    • 14. Action items   1230-1300 (Ochs/Rauber)
      
      
    • Lunch 1300-1400
      
      
    • 15. Time for individual investigators to coordinate with ATD/RAF 1400-1700