SALLJEX Data Workshop Program

Hotel Regente, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 10-12 December 2003.

(Updated Mar 5, 2004) 

 

Wednesday, 10 December

 

08:00

 

08:30

 

08:45

 

 

Registration

 

Introduction to SALLJEX / Overview of the meeting
C. Vera (UBA)/ C.B. Emmanuel (UCAR/JOSS)

 

SALLJEX database at UCAR/JOSS. J. Meitín (NOAA/OGP)/S Williams (JOSS)

 

 

 

 

 

09:00

 

09:15

 

09:30

 

09:45

THEME 1: SALLJ MAIN FEATURES

(Chair: J. Paegle, Rapporteur: M. Nicolini)

 

Flight-level P-3 data from SALLJEX missions. M. Douglas (NOAA/NSSL)

 

Status of SALLJEX data in Paraguay. J. Báez (DINAC)

 

Status of SALLJEX upper-air data M. Douglas (NOAA/NSSL)

 

Structure and variability of the SALLJ on meso and synoptic scales (objective I.a) M. Douglas (NSSL)

 

 

10:15

 

Coffee break

 

 

10:45

 

11:15

 

 

11:35

 

Diurnal Cycle of the SALLJ (objective I.b) Matilde Nicolini (UBA)

 

Description of the Chaco heat low characteristics and its relationship with SALLJ events (objective I.c) M. Seluchi (CPTEC)

 

Plenary discussion about THEME 1

 

 

12:30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

14:00

 

14:20

 

 

14:40

 

 

15:00

 

THEME 2: SALLJ AND RAINFALL EVENTS

(Chair: J. Nogues-Paegle, Rapporteur: B. Liebmann)

 

SALLJEX rainfall data processing. O. Penalba (UBA)

 

Description of radar P-3 data from SALLJEX missions.   Animation Jan22-23 Ed Zipser (U.of Utah)

 

Determination of the accuracy of satellite-rainfall estimates over the SALLJEX region. (objective II.e) E. Zipser (U. of Utah)

 

Wet and dry periods during SALLJEX and their relationship with SALLJ events. (objective II.a) B. Liebmann (CDC)

 

 

15:30

 

Coffee break

 

 

16:00

 

 

 

16:30

 

 

17:00

 

MCS activity during SALLJEX and the relationship with SALLJ events. (objective II.b) E. Zipser (U. of Utah)

 

 

Moisture and rainfall variability over the Altiplano (objective II.d) R. Garreaud (U. of Chile)

 

Plenary discussion about THEME 2

 

 

18:00

 

End of Sessions

 

Thursday, 11 December

 

 

 

 

08:30

 

09:00

 

 

09:30

 

THEME 3: NUMERICAL MODELING IN SALLJEX

(Chair: T. Ambrizzi, Rapporteur: I. Cavalcanti)

 

SALLJEX Modeling experiment. C. Saulo (UBA)

 

Validation and sensitivity studies of SALLJ numerical simulations (objective III.b) J. Paegle (U. of Utah)

 

Data assimilation experiments in SALLJEX (objective III.d) I. Cavalcanti (CPTEC)
Variability of the Low Level Jet and Meteorological Systems over South America During the SALLJEX January 2003" I. Cavalcanti (CPTEC)

 

 

10:00

 

Coffee break

 

10:30

 

 

First plenary discussion about THEME 3

12:30

 

Lunch

 

 

 

14:30

 

15:00

 

15:25

 

THEME 3: NUMERICAL MODELING IN SALLJEX (cont.)

(Chair: M. A. Silva Dias, Rapporteur: C. Saulo)

 

Model improvement in the region (objective III.e) P. Silva Dias (USP)

 

About new parameterization ideas. B. Mapes (CDC)

 

South American Low-Level Jet and Precipitation in GFDL AM2.

L. Donner (GFDL/NOAA)

 

15:45

 

Coffee break

 

 

16:00

 

 

Second plenary discussion about THEME 3.

 

17:45

 

End of Sessions

 

 

18:00

 

 

Mesa Redonda en celebración de los 50 años de la Carrera de Meteorología en la Argentina, organizada por el Centro Argentino de Meteorólogos (CAM)

 

 

19:30

 

 

Ice-breaker co-organized by SALLJEX Workshop and CAM

Friday, 12 December

 

 

 

 

08:30

 

 

 

 

09:00

THEME IV: ADDITIONAL SALLJ RELATED TOPICS

(Chair: H. Berbery. Rapporteur: J. Marengo)

 

Additional SALLJ Related Topics. H. Berbery (U. of Maryland)

 

Compilation of SALLJ related topics. J. Marengo (CPTEC)

 

 

Plenary discussion about THEME 4

 

 

10:00

 

Coffee break

 

 

10:30

 

Final Plenary discussion about: "where do we go from here?"

(Chair: C. Vera, Rapporteur:R. Garreaud)

 

 

12:30

 

 

End of the Workshop