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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

One GAUS sounding system was deployed by the Atmospheric Profiling Group at EOL for the MASCRAD project near Greerly CO.

• Raw quick-look data plots (sounding Skew-T and time series surface met)
• Interactive plotting tool for surface data
• CSU MASCRAD website

QC'ed sounding plots

Date	Plots
14 Dec 2014	20141214_155632_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20141214_193120_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
26 Dec 2014	20141225_235305_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
4 Feb 2015	20150204_115439_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150204_161035_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150204_180836_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150204_210059_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
16 Feb 2015	20150216_051057_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150216_090448_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150216_130155_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
20 Feb 2015	20150220_230745_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
21 Feb 2015	20150221_170908_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150221_200040_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150221_230009_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
22 Feb 2015	20150222_015931_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150222_060004_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150222_085457_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150222_140243_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
25 Feb 2015	20150225_185710_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
3 Mar 2015	20150303_161626_P.1.PresCorrQC.png 20150303_195922_P.1.PresCorrQC.png
2 Apr 2015	20150402_123151_P.1.PresCorrQC.png

Plots generated by Matt Paulus and data QC carried out by Kate Young.  

Please contact Bill Brown for questions wbrown at ucar.edu

EOL is actively involved in the overall project planning and implementation activities for the ORCAS field campaign to the deployment in Punta Arenas. EOL will provide project management support, as well as bilingual support, a field catalog, data management and education and outreach support leading up to and through the field campaign.

RICO Planning Meeting (25-27 Feb 2004)

RICO Planning Workshop (1-2 Sep 2004)

RICO In-Field Seminars (Dec 2004 - Jan 2005)

RICO Data Workshop (27-28 Jun 2005)

RICO Workshop (18-21 Jan 2006)