The First VOCALS REx (VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment) Preparatory Workshop was held 11-12 June 2007 at NCAR in Boulder, CO

Participant Listing
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Monday, 11 June 2007
VOCALS Introduction, Status, Motivation, Hypotheses
08:30 Welcome Wood/Bretherton/Mechoso PDF
08:40 VOCALS Atmosphere-Ocean-Land Interaction Theme (PDF) Mechoso PDF
09:00 VOCALS Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Theme Bretherton PDF
09:20 VOCALS Regional Experiment Goals/Hypotheses Wood PDF
10:00 Break
VOCALS Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land
10:30 Oceanographic sampling: Plans and discussion Weller
11:30 Meteorology/air-sea interaction: Plans and discussion (PDF) Rutllant PDF
12:30 Lunch
VOCALS Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation
13:30 Airborne offshore: Plans and discussion Wood PDF
14:20 Ship based: Plans and discussion Fairall PDF
15:10 Synergy between platforms and general discussion
15:30 Break
Breakout Sessions by Science objectives
16:00 Group A: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land
Mesoscale survey Paulson
Ocean turbulence Gregg
Coastal meteorology Rutllant
Group B: Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation
Chemistry/aerosol Huebert PDF
Aerosol particles and sources Clarke PDF
Precipitation structure Leon PDF
Cloud remote sensing Zuidema
18:30 Icebreaker
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Breakout Sessions by Platform
08:30 Group C: Aircraft platforms and land site
C-130 Payload Issues Wood PDF
Twin Otter Albrecht PDF
G-1 Plans Daum PDF
BAe-146 Plans Abel/Coe PDF
Land Site Rutllant
Group D: Ship platforms
Ronald H Brown Ocean/Meteorology Issues Fairall/Weller
Ronald H Brown Aerosol Bates PDF
Second Ship Paulson/Weller
R/V Jose Olaya Plans (PDF) Grados PDF
10:30 Break
11:00 Summary Reports from Breakout Sessions
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Scientific Support for VOCALS
Summary of proposal submission logistics Robinson
Summary of proposal submission logistics Duckenfield PDF
Field Support Meitin PDF
Data Support Williams PDF
15:00 Outreach
Outreach (PDF) Wood PDF
Windows to the Universe Johnson PDF
15:30 Break
16:00 Identification of action items, assignments, and wrap-up Wood PDF