The OTREC Science Planning Meeting will take place on March 4-5 in Boulder, Colorado. The location is Center Green 1, room 3131.

The tentative agenda is:

Monday

9 - 9:15 Vanda Grubisic: Introduction/Opening word

9:15 - 10 Zeljka Fuchs, Dave Raymond: Update on logistics and organization (Costa Rica and Colombia)

10 - 10:15 Jonathan Zawislak: NOAA aircraft operations 

10:15 -10:45 Stipo Sentic: Dry run and Field Catalog

10:45 - 11:15 Discussion and coffee

11:15 - 12:15 Larissa Back: Preliminary results, discussion

12:15 - 13:15 Lunch (not provided, NCAR cafeteria is located on the first floor of CG1)

13:15 - 14:15 Eric Maloney and Justin Whitaker: Easterly waves, discussion

14:15 - 14:45 Yolande Sierra, Zeljka Fuchs, Rebecca Hacker, Lorena Medina Luna: Outreach

14:45 - 17 Coffee and Discussion

Tuesday: Discussions:

8:30 Zeljka, Dave R - Pavel: recap and status of the project

9:00-9:45 Yolande, John, Dave R., Zeljka - Greg S.: Discussion on radiosondes formatting

9:45-10:00 break

10:00 Dave R, Zeljka - Pilots: Discussion of flight patterns

11:00-12:00 Dave R, Zeljka, Pei, Vivek - Radar operating requirements

12:00 Zeljka, Yolande - Rebecca, Lorena - Outreach recap 15 min if needed; decide on the need on Monday before closing

12:15 Adjorn