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 | ||||
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VOCALS Status | PDF file |
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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 |
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Albrecht | ||
Ships | Weller | |||
Soundings |
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Brown/Lim | ||
Land Site | Gallardo | |||
Satellite |
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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 |
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Weller | ||
Coastal Meteorology | Albrecht | |||
Air-Sea Interactions Including Chemistry | Fairall | |||
11:10 | Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation | |||
Chemistry/Aerosol |
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Howell | ||
Precipitation Mesoscale Structure |
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Leon | ||
Cross-platform sampling plans and discussion | Wood/Mechoso | |||
12:30 | Lunch | |||
VOCALS Collaborative Modeling Projects and their interface to REx |
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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 |