2nd PECAN Planning Meeting Presentations, March 2-3, 2015
PECAN Planning Meeting
Location: FL2 1022, NCAR Foothills Lab, on Mitchell Lane in Boulder, CO.
NOTE: The presentations are password protected for PECAN Investigators only. For access, please contact the Principal Investigators listed in the PECAN Contacts Section below.
Light refreshments, coffee for purchase from FL2 cafeteria
08:00 - 09:30
Breakout sessions (Each group should appoint a note-taker to assist the facilitator in preparing a list of action items and a report to the plenary group)
Group 1
Aircraft operations (lead: French, Geerts, Jorgensen). Issues: timeline for flight proposals, procedures for delay; UWKA pre-deployment; flight plans; what-if scenarios; communication between aircraft before and during flights. Location: FL1 2198
Group 2
Coordination of the mobile radars, soundings, mesonet (lead: Parker, Wurman, Ziegler). Issues: communication amongst mobile units; site selection; scanning strategies, pre-deployment procedures; what-if scenarios. Location: FL2 1001
Group 3
Thermodynamic profiling (M-PISA and F-PISA) (lead: Turner). Issues: calibration, retrieval consistency, uncertainty characterization, and intercomparisons. Location: FL2 1003
Data assimilation and other numerical experiments (lead: X. Wang). Issues: input data requirements (uncertainties), radiosonde launch frequency, FP operations, EOL data archive requirements, etc. Location: FL0 2512