3rd VOCALS Science Meeting
March 21 - 23, 2011
Newman Alumni Center
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Monday, March 21
Plenary Session – Welcome and VOCALS Status
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Welcome and Summary of VOCALS, meeting goals and organization (Mechoso,Wood) |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | A synthesis of published VOCALS studies on marine boundary layer and cloud structure along 20°S (Bretherton) |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | A overview of published VOCALS studies on gas composition and aerosol along 20S (Coe) |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am |
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Theme 1: PBL and Clouds
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | From LWP to COT: k coefficient (Brenguier) |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Large-Eddy Simulation of the VOCALS RF06 Pocket of Open Cells: Dynamics, Maintenance Timescale for Microphysical Gradients, and Entrainment (Berner) |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Drizzle and mesoscale organization in SEP stratocumulus (Leon) |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Characterization of sub-cloud vertical velocity distributions and precipitation-driven outflow dynamics using a ship-based, scanning Doppler lidar during VOCALS-REx (Brewer) |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Vertical structure of marine stratocumulus clouds: 7 years of ship observations (De Szoeke) |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm | Poster summaries (Bretherton, Zuidema, Leon, Wilcox) |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING |
Theme 1: PBL and Clouds
| 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm | A New Motion-Stablilzed W-band (94-GHz) Cloud Radar for Observations of marine Boundary-Layer Clouds (Fairall) |
| 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Numerical simulation of heavily drizzling cloud regimes in VOCALS (Mechem) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Observations of the diurnal cycle of marine stratocumulus clouds and precipitation (Burleyson) |
| 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Observations of the life cycle of marine startocumulus drizzle cells: Preliminary results [PPS] [Movie] (Yuter) |
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Boundary layer, cloud, and aerosol variability in the southeast Pacific coastal marine statocumulus during VOCALS-REx (Zheng) |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Aerosol Dynamics Over the SEP: Combustion, Entrainment, Nucleation and CCN (Clarke) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Theme 1 Discussion |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | BREAK |
Theme 2: Gases, Aerosols and Cloud Related Processes
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | DMS as an integrator of dynamic, chemical, and biological processes during VOCALS (Huebert) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Chemical, aerosol, and cloud processes in closed and open cells (Kazil) |
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Using WRF-Chem to understand interactions between synoptic and microphysical variability during VOCALS (George) |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Using the WRF-Chem model to investigate the impacts of aerosol on marine stratocumulus observed during VOCALS-REx (Yang) |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Poster Summaries (Matrai, Clarke for Shank, Clarke for Freitag) |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster Summaries (Gadian (1), Terai (1), Terai (2)) |
Tuesday, March 22
Theme 2. Gases, Aerosols and Cloud Related Processes
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | Precipitation as a driver of cloud droplet concentration variability along 20°S (Wood) |
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Investigations of aerosol-cloud-precipitation processes in observations and models at The University of Arizona (Brunke) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Variability of giant sea-salt particles during the VOCALS campaign (Jensen) |
| 9:15 am - 9:30 am | An aircraft-based investigation of the first aerosol indirect effect during VOCALS-REx (Painemal) |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Simulating aerosols, radiative forcing, and impacts on marine stratocumulus during VOCALS REx (Spak) |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Poster Summaries (Huebert for Matrai/Hind, Gadian (1), Gadian (2), Clarke for Shank, Freitag) |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am |
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Theme 2. Gases, Aerosols and Cloud Related Processes
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Theme 2 Discussion |
Theme 3. Upper Ocean Physics and Biology, Eddies, Air-Sea Interaction
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | SST-surface fluxes Coupling and Local Impact of mesoscale SST on ABL in the Southeast pacific (Putrasahan) |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Understanding Ocean Processes during VOCALS- A data assimilation framework (Subramanian) |
| Poster Summaries (Wang, Holte) | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING |
Theme 3. Upper Ocean Physics and Biology, Eddies, Air-Sea Interaction
| 1:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Surface fluxes in the VOCALS region (Fairall) |
| 1:15 pm - 1:30 pm | Measurements of Upper-Ocean Turbulence and Air-Sea Interaction during VOCALS-REx (Zappa) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Measurements of upper-ocean turbulence and air-sea interaction during VOCALS REx, part II (Farrar) |
| 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm | Large scale to mesoscale dynamics in the VOCALS region [PPS] (Grados) |
Theme 4. Modeling and Basic Issues
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm | Eastern Pacific surface fluxes observed and simulated by coupled GCMs (De Szoeke) |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | A discussion of the processes that maintain a cool ocean surface under the stratus decks of the Southeast Pacific (Mechoso) |
| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Southeast Pacific stratocumulus in CAM4 and CAM5 - Falling down and breaking up (Medeiros) |
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | The representation of drizzle in the Met Office Unified Model (Abel) |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Poster summaries (Fry(1), Fry(2)) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:30 pm |
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Theme 4. Modeling and Basic Issues
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Boundary layer thermodynamics and decoupling in the South Eastern Pacific along 20° South (Barrett) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Gravity waves as a modulator of clouds in the South East Pacific [PPS] [Movie] (Allen) |
| 4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | The (dynamically-driven) diurnal cycle in the SEP (Garreaud) |
| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | PBL variability in the SEP during VOCALS-REx and its connection to synoptic and planetary scales (Toniazzo) |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm | CUpEx: Chilean Upwelling Experiment (Garreaud) |
| 4:45 pm - 5:00 pm | The VOCALS Assessment VOCA (Wyant, Bretherton) |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Themes 3 and 4 Discussion |
Wednesday, March 23
Plenary Session – Rapporteur Presentations
| 8:30 am - 8:55 am | Theme 1. PBL and Clouds (Bretherton, Zuidema) |
| 8:55 am - 9:20 am | Theme 2. Gases, Aerosols and Cloud Related Processes (Coe, Clarke) |
| 9:20 am - 9:45 am | Theme 3. Upper Ocean Physics and Biology, Eddies, Air-Sea Interaction (Farrar, Grados) |
| 9:45 am - 10:10 am | Theme 4. Modeling and Basic Issues (Garreaud, De Szoeke) |
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am |
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Plenary Session – Wrap-Up
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | VOCALS Support Office and Data Archive (Meitin) |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Agency Representatives (Patterson, US CLIVAR) |
| 11:10 am - 12:00 pm | General Discussion (Wood, Mechoso) |
| 12:00 pm |
MEETING CLOSES |
* NOTE: A PowerPoint viewer can be downloaded from Microsoft.
Session Chairs/Rapporteurs
Theme 1. PBL and Clouds [Zuidema, Bretherton]
Theme 2. Gases, aerosols and Cloud related Processes [Coe, Clarke]
Theme 3. Upper Ocean Physics and Biology. Eddies, Air-Sea Interaction [Farrar, Grados]
Theme 4. Modeling and Basic Issues (deSzoeke, Garreaud)
Poster Session (Posters will be on display on Monday and Tuesday)
Bretherton, C.: Marine boundary layer decoupling in VOCALS-REx.
Freitag, S.: Trajectory Visualizations of In-situ Tracers of Continental Aerosol Sources in Google Earth: Relationships to Aerosol and Clouds over the SEP.
Gadian, A.: Numerical modelling of a stratocumulus over the South-East Pacific with WRF. (1)
Gadian, A.: Numerical modelling and observation of the cloud aerosol interactions. (2)
Goubanova, K.: Modes of covariability between SST and wind stress intraseasonal anomalies in the Humboldt and Benguela upwelling systems.
Holte, J.: Eddy Observations from VOCALS-REx.
Matrai, P.: Title not available.
Shank, L.: Organic carbon and non-refractory aerosol over the remote southeast pacific: oceanic and combustion sources.
Terai, C.: Cold pools and aerosols under stratocumuli. (1)
Terai, C.: Susceptibility of drizzle in stratocumulus to aerosol perturbations. (2)
Wang, Y: Improved representation of boundary layer clouds over the Southeast Pacific in WRF-ARW using a modified Tiedtke cumulus parameterization scheme.
Wilcox, E.: Evaluation of satellite lower-tropospheric humidity retrievals and relationships with boundary layer clouds.
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