Monday, March 25, 2002

8:00 PMEL Bldg. #3 Main Door unlocked. Guard on duty. Please identify yourself to the guard and get your name tag. This name tag also acts as your NOAA WRC visitor pass.

8:00-8:30 Powerpoint presenters please see Rob Stewart and Doug Jongeward in seminar room for setup. Tea and Coffee in lobby outside seminar room.

8:30-10:00 ITCZ Plenary (Raymond)

John Molinari "Large-scale analysis"
Robert Cifelli "Ron Brown radar"
Darrel Baumgardner "C130 aerosols/cloud physics"
Carlos Lopez "P3 radar"
Dave Raymond "C130/P3 insitu/dropsondes"

10:30-12:00 Cross-equatorial Structure Plenary (Esbensen)

Nick Bond "The range of low-level atmospheric conditions along 95^oW observed by the C130" (15 min)
Simon DeSzoeke and Chris Bretherton "TAO, C130, and LES analysis of the cross equatorial flow" (15 min)
Steve Esbensen, Dean Vickers and Nic Thum "Comparison of NCEP cross equatorial flow analyses with the C130 observations" (10 min)
Michael McGauley and Chidong Zhang "Atmospheric and oceanic profiles along 95^oW from dropsondes and ocean probes" (15 min)
Chris Fairall "Air-sea flux and cloud radar results from the ITCZ and cross-equatorial leg of EPIC." (20 min)
Meghan Cronin "Enhanced TAO monitoring of oceanic-atmospheric interactions in the cold tongue / ITCZ complex" (15 min)

1:00-3:00 Ocean Structure Plenary (Gregg)

Mike Gregg "Observations of upper-ocean shear and mixing from the NOAA ship Ron Brown" (30 min)
Carter Ohlmann "Ocean Radiant Heating during EPIC" (15 min)
Dan Rudnick "Observations from the R/V New Horizon during EPIC 2001." (15 min)
Hemantha Wijesekera "Three-dimensional ocean structure observed from the R/V New Horizon with SeaSoar" (15 min)
Clayton Paulson "Observations of shallow Temperature-Salinity fields from the R/V New Horizon" (15 min)
Nick Shay "AXBT and AXCP observations from the C130 and P3 aircraft during EPIC 2001" (15 min)
Sean Kennan, Janet Sprintall, Peter Niiler "Observations of the NECC in the EPIC region during June-July 2001" (15 min)

3:30-5:00 Stratus Plenary (Bretherton)

Chris Bretherton "PBL structure, drizzle, and the diurnal cycle - a synthetic view from the EPIC stratocumulus cruise"(30 min)
Chris Fairall "Air-flux and cloud radar results from the stratus leg of EPIC" (20 min)
Bob Weller "The first year's record at 20^oS, 85^oW" (15 min)
Darrel Baumgardner "UNAM aerosol characterization" (15 min)

Tuesday, March 26, 2002

8:30-10:00 Data & Instrumentation issues Plenary (Raymond)

Sandra Yuter Ron Brown radar
Allen Schanot C130
Dave Raymond Ophir radiometer on C130
Jeff Nystuen Acoustic Rain Gauges
Jose Meitin and Steve Williams JOSS data sets

10:30-12:00 Breakout groups

Seminar room
Director's Conference Room
OERD Conference Room upstairs Rm 2065
OCRD Conference Room downstairs Rm 1099
OERD Conference Room downstairs Rm 1059

1:30-3:00 Breakout groups

Seminar room
Director's Conference Room
OCRD Conference Room downstairs Rm 1099
OERD Conference Room downstairs Rm 1059

3:30-5:00 Final Plenary

• Timelines
  • Action items
  • Upcoming AOs
  • When are the next meetings?
• Collaborations that might need to be developed
• How to entrain modelers into the experiment?
• Working within the CLIVAR Climate Process Modeling Teams (CPMT) framework
• Cross-programmatic ties with other CLIVAR PanAm experiments (NAME, VEPIC, ...),
• EPIC "legacies"