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The 2008 First VOCALS Meeting was held 17-19 March 2008 at NCAR in Boulder, CO.
The meeting consisted of:
The 2nd VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) Preparatory Workshop
The 2nd VOCALS Modeling Workshop.

Participant List
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Monday, 17 March 2008

VOCALS Status PDF
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13:00 Welcome and Meeting Goals                
Mechoso/Wood
13:10 VOCALS Modeling Status (PDF) Mechoso
13:40 VOCALS Regional Experiment Status   Wood
14:05 Agency Perspectives
Robinson/Huang/Dunlea
14:30 Break



Scientific Goals of the Investigators


15:00 Status of REx Funding and List of Participants Wood
16:00 Status of VOCALS-Mod and List of Participants (PDF) Mechoso

Educational/Outreach Activities


17:00 Educational Goals/Ideas Wood
17:20 Windows on the Universe Johnson
18:00 End of Day


Tuesday, 18 March 2008
08:30 VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) Status on Facilities

C-130
Jensen

C-130 Software Tools

Jensen

BAe-146 and NERC Do-228

Coe

G-1 Daum

Twin Otter

Albrecht

Ships
Weller

Soundings

Brown/Lim

Land Site

Gallardo

Satellite

Stossmeister
08:30 Modeling Caucuses Discussions



Large Eddy Simulation/Process Models

Feingold

Regional Modeling

Large/Fast

Global Modeling

Bacmeister
10:00 Break



VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx) Sampling Strategy


10:30 REx Sampling Strategy Overview

10:50 Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Theme

Oceanography

Weller

Coastal Meteorology
Albrecht

Air-Sea Interactions Including Chemistry
Fairall
11:10 Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation

Chemistry/Aerosol

Howell

Precipitation Mesoscale Structure

Leon

Cross-platform sampling plans and discussion
Wood/Mechoso
12:30 Lunch



VOCALS Collaborative Modeling
Projects and their interface to REx



13:30 PreVOCA
Mechoso
14:00 Real-Time Forecasts

Pan/Mechoso
14:30 Emissions Inventories for Chemical Models
Fast/Gallardo
15:00 Ocean Data Assimilation
Miller
15:30 Break


16:00 VOCALS Project Office



Project Office Support and Activities
Baeuerle

Shipping, Lodging and other logistics
Whitmire
16:45 VOCALS Data Services



Field Catalog

Stossmeister

Data Management Issues
Williams
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
08:30 VOCALS-REx Logistics



Operations Center
Meitín

Daily Operations Meetings and Flight Planning
Wood

Communications and Real-time Data Transfer/Display/Satellite
Meitín/Bradford

Ship and Soundings Coordination

Weller

Operations Plan

Salazar
10:30 Break


11:00 COSMIC and VOCALS
Kuo
11:00 Action Items/General Discussion

Wood
12:00 General Meeting Closes



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