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La Plata Basin U.S. Planning Meeting |
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Agenda |
2. Identify specific NCAR observing facilities that could be used, and how they can serve to address the science questions.
3. Develop an Experiment Design Overview document and a request for instruments (to NSF)
Thursday 24 April 2008
8:30 Karyn Sawyer (Asst Dir, EOL) Welcome
8:40 Hugo Berbery - Introduction, guidelines, goals of the meeting and expected outcome
8:45
Hugo Berbery - The La Plata Basin (LPB) Regional Hydroclimate Project
9:15 M. Assunção Silva Dias (via teleconference):
9:30
Dave Fitzjarrald: Observational approaches to understand land use change impact on surface climate
9:45
Osvaldo Moraes: Flux Towers in southern Brazil
10:00 Socorro Medina: Role of terrain and land cover in triggering deep convection
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Thomas Ackerman: ARM Mobile Facility
10:45 Paulo Artaxo: La Plata Basin- Aerosols, CCN, Clouds and Radiation
11:00 Omar Torres: The seasonal and spatial variability of aerosols over LPB
11:15 Andrew J. Newman, Richard H. Johnson, Paul E. Ciesielski: CSU Participation in the PLATEX Sounding Network
11:30 Dan Cecil: Severe Thunderstorms in the LPB Region as Compared To Other Active Regions
11:45 Steve Rutledge
12:00 Ed Zipser: The significance of
Mesoscale Convective Systems for LPB Precipitation: Evidence from
the 10-year TRMM Database
12:15-12:30 Short discussion and planning of the afternoon activities
12:30-13:45: Lunch
13:45 Tammy Weckwerth: Overview of the S-Pol Radar
14:00 Tom Horst: Overview of the Integrated Surface Flux Facility (ISFF)
14:15 Bill Brown: Overview of the Integrated Sounding System Facility (ISS)
14:30 José Meitín / Steve Williams: EOL support of Field Campaigns
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-18:00 Ed Zipser, Tom Ackerman, Steve Rutledge, Dave Fitzjarrald
Discussion of network and field project (design, how
to go about building a field experiment, come up with a strawman to
request facilities, etc).
(Ed Zipser, Dick Johnson, Steve Rutledge, Tom Ackerman, Dave Fitzjarrald, Bob Houze)