RICO Planning Meeting, February 2004
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
- Microphysical Studies
- Related Studies
- Radar and Microphysics
- 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
RICO Publications
Data Access
Field Catalog
RICO Data Documentation
Data Policy
Data Set Documentation Guidelines
Data Submission Instructions
RICO Documents
Scientific Overview Document (PDF)
Operations Plan (PDF)
Kathy Caesar's Weather Summary (PDF)
RICO Meetings and Presentations
RICO Web Pages
Participant Web Pages
UCLA
UCSC
University of Miami:
Overview | Instrumentation
University of Wyoming
Facility Web Pages
Facilities at RICO
Facilities & Instruments