Notice

1. Transition at CASES Project Office

   Effective December 16, John Pflaum is working at the NOAA National Weather Service Office of Hydrology on maximum rainfall probabilities.

   Bob Grossman and Peggy LeMone will continue the functions of the office until a more permanent solution is found. Many thanks for your supporting letters which should help us in this effort.

2. CASES Web Page Redesigned

   The home page has been restructured to include funding opportunities, proposal summaries, easier access to real-time data, and GIS reference maps.

3. Updates on CASES-97
   1. CASES-97 Site Selection

      Bob Grossman, Peggy LeMone and Steve Onkley have completed site selection for 10 surface flux stations which include 8 from NCAR/NSF, 1 from NOAA/ARL and 1 from CU Civil Engineering. The Aster base site will be in a winter wheat field to the east of Rock, KS. The Aster satellite site will be in grasslands about 5 miles SE of Rock, KS. The remaining stations will be on half pasture/grassland and half cropland (tilled/winter wheat). Site locations vary from high flat terrain between tributaries to flood plains.

   2. Low-Level Flight Waiver Approved

      NOAA/AOC request for low-level operations in CASES-97 was approved by the FAA. NSF will operate under a gneeral FAA rule for low-level work. Grossman and LeMone visited the Wichita FAA office and provided experiment details to the FAA personnel directly involved.

   3. Operations Plan

      Peggy LeMone and Bob Grossman are currently drafting the operations plan using inputs from CASES-97 PI's. Tentative deadline for the first draft is by the end of March 1997.

Next update will be in February 1997.

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Last Modified: 5 Mar 1997