VORTEX2 Planning Meeting 23 and 24 February 2009 National Center for Atmospheric Research Foothills Lab, Building 1, Room 2198 ("EOL Atrium") Boulder, Colorado

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8:30 am Welcome, meeting objectives, and project overview
              presenters: Dowell, Rasmussen

Meeting Goals
1. Overview various platform objectives and deployment issues
2. Formulate the operational coordination and decision plan
3. Provide information about VORTEX2 dates, logistics, communications, etc.

Project dates, size, and scope
Paradigm for VORTEX2 (including differences from VORTEX1)
Outline of a typical operations day

9:00 am Communication and coordination
              presenters: Rasmussen and Wicker
              contributor: Kennedy

Lightning Talks

Before the meeting, presenters and contributors should work together to prepare slides. The presenter is responsible for giving the "lightning talk". Presentations should be limited to 5-6 slides total, roughly as follows:

Presentation (10 minutes)

• Instrument description (1 slide)
• Science objectives (1 slide)
• Deployment strategies (2 slides) (If applicable, consider describing possible strategies for both slow- and fast-moving storm scenarios.)
• Additional information (information flow needed among teams and field coordinator, unusual aspects of the team's mission, unresolved issues, and/or items that need group feedback) (1-2 slides)
Questions and answers (5 minutes)

Meeting participants are generally familiar with the instruments and science objectives. Therefore, the majority of the time should be spent on deployment strategies and unique aspects of the team's mission. Also, at least 5 minutes of the allocated time should be reserved for questions at the end of the presentation.

9:30 am Storm-scale and polarimetric radar overview
              presenter: Biggerstaff
              contributors: Burgess, Ziegler, Bluestein

9:45 am Mesocyclone-scale radar overview
              presenter: Wurman

10:00 am Tornado-scale radar overview
                presenter: Bluestein and Frasier
                contributor: Weiss

10:15 am Break

10:30 am Tornado photogrammetry and damage surveys
                presenters: Atkins and Wakimoto

10:45 am Mobile mesonet overview
               presenter: Richardson and Markowski

11:00 am StickNet overview
               presenter: Weiss

11:15 am Particle probe overview
               presenters: Romine, Friedrich, and Straka

11:30 pm Unmanned aerial system (UAS) overview
               presenters: Rasmussen, Argrow, and Houston

11:45 pm Sounding overview
                presenter: Parker

noon Lunch at NCAR cafeteria

1:00 pm Discussion


3:00 pm Break


3:15 pm Discussion


3:45 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner hosted by Center for Severe Weather Research
1945 Vassar Circle, Boulder

Tuesday, 24 February
Foothills Lab, Building 1, Room 2198 ("EOL Atrium")

8:30 am VORTEX2 forecasting and support
              presenters: Wicker and Coniglio
              contributors: Weisman, Weygandt, Xue

9:00 am Additional discussion of items from yesterday

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Data management (Dowell), Data management (Williams)
               presenters: Dowell, Williams

Data policies, research workshops
Field catalog, data archive

10:45 am Project logistics
               discussion leaders: Dowell, Wicker, and Wurman

Coordination with fixed-site Oklahoma instruments
Access to National Weather Center
Media relations
Crew schedules and training
Other logistical support (garage space, shipping, emergencies, etc.)
Hotel reservations

11:30 am Summary of unfinished business and "action items"
               discussion leaders: Dowell and Rasmussen
               contributors: all

noon Adjourn

Acknowledgments: The NCAR Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) division is sponsoring refreshments for the meeting. Sudie Kelly, Bonnie Slagel, and Kathy Morgan provided helpful assistance with planning the meeting.