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
    • Stevens
    • Wood, Yuter, Bretherton
    • Albrecht, Fairall, Hare
    • Kollias et al.
  • Microphysical Studies
    • Blyth
    • Anderson,  Twohy
    • Lasher-Trapp
    • Hudson
    • Jensen, Stith
    • Brenguier (Part 1), Brenguier (Part 2)
    • Gerber
    • Feingold
    • Chuang
    • Baker
    • Vali
    • Krueger
    • Geerts
    • Kogan
    • Cotton
    • Heikes, O'Sullivan
    • Thornton
  • Related Studies
    • PRACS (Mayol-Bracero)
• 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