Seventh Annual Meeting of the

WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Panel (VPM7)

Guayaquil, Ecuador, 22-24 March 2004

8:00am            Registration

Monday, March 22, Morning Session, Plenary

Chair: M.Pilar Cornejo de Grunauer (ESPOL)

8:50am           Opening of VPM7 – M.Pilar Cornejo de Grunauer (Organizing Committee)

9:00                 Welcome

– Ing. Armando Altamirano , Vicerector General Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL)

– Prof. Carlos E. Ereño - CLIVAR-ICPO

– Prof. C. Roberto Mechoso - VAMOS Chair

9:20                 VAMOS Chair’s Report – C. R. Mechoso

10:00               VOCALS Status Report – C. Bretherton

10:30 am        Break

11:00               VAMOS Database – J. Meitín, S. Williams

11:30               US CLIVAR Report – R. Weller

12:00               CLIVAR ICPO – C. Ereño

12:15               VAMOS International Project Office:  Status and current activities in preparation for the NAME  field phase – G. Emmanuel

12:30pm         Break

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Monday, March 22, Afternoon Session – First Part: Plenary

Chair: C. Roberto Mechoso

1:30pm           MESA Status Report – C. Vera

2:00                 NAME Status Report - W. Higgins

2:40                 SALLJEX Modeling Activities – C. Saulo, C. Vera

3:00                 NAME Modeling and Diagnostic Activities: CPT and Forecast Experiments – K. Mo

3:20                 NAME Modeling and Diagnostic Activities: NAMAP – D. Gutzler

3:40                 CLIVAR Modeling – B. Kirtman

4:00                 Charge to the Workshop – C. R. Mechoso

04:20pm         Break

Monday, March 22, Afternoon Session – Second Part: WGs Meetings

04:40               WGs meet: VOCALS, MESA, NAME           

6:00pm           End of session

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Tuesday, March 23, Morning Session – First Part: Plenary

Chair: Wayne Higgins

8:30am           NAME 2004 Enhanced Observations – D. Gochis, M. Douglas

Tuesday, March 23, Morning Session– Second Part, WGs meetings

8:50am         Break – out: WGs meet: VOCALS, MESA, NAME

12:30pm         Break

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Tuesday, March 23, Afternoon Session– First Part, WGs meetings

1:30pm           Break – out: WGs meet: VOCALS, MESA, NAME

4:40pm           Break

Tuesday, March 23, Afternoon Session – Second Part, Plenary

5:00pm            An update on Ecuadorian Research related to VAMOS – M.Pilar Cornejo de Grunauer

5:15                 Seasonal Heat Balance in the Eastern Tropical Pacific – M.Pilar Cornejo de Grunauer

5:40                 Potential ways of cooperation between CIIFEN and VAMOS – Rodney Martínez

6:00pm           End of session

8:00 pm          Cocktail offered by ESPOL

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Wednesday, March 24, Morning Session – First Part, WGs meet

8:30am           Break – out: WGs meet: VOCALS, MESA, NAME

12:30pm         Break

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Wednesday, March 24, Afternoon Session – First Part: Plenary

Chair: Carolina Vera

1:30 pm           VOCALS Strategy Report –

2:00                 MESA Strategy report –       NAME report –

2:30                 General overview and discussion on future directions – C. Vera & W. Higgins

3:00pm           Break

Wednesday, March 24, Afternoon Session – Second Part: Panel Session

3:30pm           VAMOS Executive Session: Panel membership, next meeting.

6:30pm            End of VPM7       

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MESA Working Sessions

Monday, March 22, Afternoon Session

4:40pm           Scientific objectives of MESA tiers 2 and 3

*Ideas for future directions of MESA

*WG plenary discussion

6:00pm           Break

Tuesday, March 23, Morning Session

10:00am         Scientific objectives of MESA tiers 2 and 3 (Continuation)

*WG plenary discussion

12:30pm         Break

Tuesday, March 23, Afternoon Session

1:30pm           MESA Field Campaigns

*WG plenary discussion

3:30pm           Break

Wednesday, March 24, Morning Session

8:30am           MESA modeling activities

* Operational Warm Season Prediction issues (C. Nobre)
*WG plenary discussion

12:30pm         Break

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NAME Working Sessions

Monday, March 22, Afternoon Session – Second Part: WGs Meetings

4:40 pm          NAME 2004: Actions and Outstanding Issues

                        (Chair: Wayne Higgins)

* Status of SWG-5 actions; Outstanding Issues;

* Preparations for Tucson meetings;

* New Action Items

6:00pm           End of session

Tuesday, March 23, Morning Session– Second Part, WGs meetings

9:40am         NAME 2004 Field Operations

(Chair: Gus Emmanuel)

:                     * NAME Project Office activities status (permits; physical facilities; platforms; shipping; logistics; time-line)

                        * Draft Field Operations Plan

* NAME Data Catalog (structure; usage; data archives)

* NAME Forecast Operations Center (structure; functions; procedures;

facilities (Tucson, Mazatlan); communications; operations meetings)

* New Action Items

12:30pm         Break

Tuesday, March 23, Afternoon Session– First Part, WGs meetings

1:30pm           Status of NAME 2004 EOP

                        (Chairs: Dave Gochis and Mike Douglas)

* Instrument Platform Status (facilities status; timing; overview of each instrument platform)

* IOP Measurement Coordination (science objectives;coordinated plans for sounding, radar, aircraft and ship observations; ISOT rotation)

* Aircraft Operations (Mike Douglas)

* New Action items

3:30pm           Break

Wednesday, March 24, Morning Session – First Part, WGs meet

8:30am           NAME Modeling and Data Assimilation Strategy

                        (Chair: Kingtse Mo)

* Overview / Issues (Mo)

* NAMAP2 and CPT ( Gutzler)
* Global Model and Forecast Experiments (Mo)
* Operational Warm Season Prediction Issues: (Robertson).
* Review and Comments

12:30pm         Break