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3rd DYNAMO Workshop

Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

July 6-8, 2010

Hosts: Ren-Chieh Lien and Socorro Medina

Issues to be Discussed

Day 1 (Tuesday, July 6)

8:00 am Registration and Coffee

8:30 am Welcome and logistics remarks (Lien/Medina)

8:45 am DYNAMO/CINDY2011 update (Zhang/Katsumata)

9:30 am Site (Gan and Diego Garcia) assessment update (Moore)

10:00 am ONR DRI (Harper)

10:15 am Break

10:45 am Summary of LOIs

12:30 pm Lunch break

1:30 pm Discussion: gaps, redundancy, new LOIs, issues 1 and 5

(1) Water vapor measurement:

S-Polka S/Ka-band (Ellis)
COSMIC products (Kuo - call in)
Raman lidar (Demoz - call in)
Sondes, Microwave radiometers, GPS (Johnson)

(5) Modification of the experimental design in the event of

(i) no access to Diego Garcia
ii) less ship time than requested

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm Breakout discussion I: Intra-group coordination

- Radar (issue 4)

(4) Synergy among radars in terms of operations and data analysis (deployment, scanning strategies for all radars; coordination of radars at the supersite; linkage between Gan and ship radars, synthesis of all radar data to be used by non-radar PIs)- See (3ia)

- Ship (issues 12, 13)

(12)

Ship schedules (location and time for TOGA radar installation and test, port calls for mooring loading/unloading, and staff swap)

(13) Adequacy of oceanic measurement for upper-ocean heat budget estimate (horizontal advection)

- Aircraft (issues 6)

(6) Aircraft issues (base selection, flight pattern coordination between air-sea and convection missions, instrumentations, real time forecast support, etc.)

- Modeling (issues 2 and 3)

(2) Upscaling from DYNAMO measurement to the large scales, especially upstream (through connections between field observations, satellite data, reanalysis data, and model simulations)

(3) Strengthening the modeling-observation connection:

(i) using field observations in research models
a. Derive products from radar data that can be compared directly to model (GCMs, mesoscale regional models, CRM, SCM) variables;
b. Use field data in ocean models to quantify processes (large surface fluxes, thin mixed layer, upwelling, entrainment) leading to large intraseasonal perturbations of SST in the Indian Ocean
c. strategy of synthesize air-sea interaction data with models to address the SST feedback mechanisms
(ii) participation and activities of modeling centers

5:30 pm Plenary session: Brief report from breakout discussion I: Issues that need to be addressed

6:15 pm Adjourn

7:00 pm Group dinner at Ivar's Salmon House

Day 2 (Wednesday, July 7)

8:00 am Coffee

8:30 am Update of Aircraft request (McFadden/Fairall/Wang/Khelif/Jorgensen/Chen)

9:00 am Plenary discussion:

Operations Support and Data Management

(7) Support needs from a Project Office (functions, staff support)

(8) The need and location of an Operations Center

(9) Real time data (from the field observations, satellites, and operational centers) availability, display, and archive
- forecast from NCEP (Vintzileos)
- potential support from ECMWF (Zhang)

(10) Supporting documents (operations plan and data management plan)

(11) In-field Communication among site scientists, PIs, and the Ops Center

10:30 am Break

11:00 am Plenary discussion (continue)

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Breakout discussion II: Inter-group coordination

- Radar - modeling (issue 3ia)

(3) Strengthening the modeling-observation connection:
(i) using field observations in research models
a. Derive products from radar observations that can be used directly in modeling activities (GCMs, mesoscale regional models, CRM, SCM);

- air-sea flux/ocean - modeling (issues 3ia and c)

(3) Strengthening the modeling-observation connection:
(i) using field observations in research models
c. strategy of synthesize air-sea interaction data with models to address the SST feedback mechanisms

- aircraft-radar (airborne and ground radar coordination, air-sea/radar flight coordination)

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm Plenary discussion: Report of breakout discussion II - Progress and remaining issues

5:30 Adjourn

Day 3 (Thursday, July 8)

8:00 am Coffee

8:30 am Updated full project timeline (including proposal submission, facility requests and deployment, meetings for operations and data management, etc.), remaining issues
(15) Students helpers, their travel and pre-field training arrangement

10:30 am Break

11:00 am Summary, action items.

12:30 pm End

2:00 pm Discussion on NCAR facility requests (only for those whose NSF proposals will include NCAR facilities)

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