NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
PACJET 2001: PACIFIC LANDFALLING JETS EXPERIMENT
U.S West Coast Phase I: January - February 2001
Phase II: January - February 2002
Agenda (Updated: 13 July 2000)

Hello all,

Please find enclosed the agenda for our upcoming Workshop. In trying to plan the workshop, we thought that organizing discussions into relatively small working groups would be a useful exercise. The four groups and their workshop coordinators are (not necessarily in order of importance)

  1. Physical processes (Dave Kingsmill: davidk@sage.dri.edu)
  2. Modeling (J.-W. Bao: Jian-Wen.Bao@noaa.gov)
  3. Operational interactions (Warren Blier: Warren.Blier@noaa.gov)
  4. Observing systems (Marty Ralph: Marty.Ralph@noaa.gov)
The idea is to get a head start on some discussion within each of these groups prior to the meeting. Then at the meeting, each of the working groups will convene separately for a short time to refine ideas. Finally, a summary of discussion from each working group will be presented to all meeting attendees in plenary to allow for integration of ideas and concepts and then to figure out how to design and execute the experiment. This information will all be used to produce a scientific overview and operations plan for PACJET.

Although presentations are not emphasized at the workshop, it would be prudent to bring along a few transparencies to help illustrate key points you want to raise within the working group you choose to join. While many of us have interest and expertise in more that one working group topic, we all will be able to discuss all issues in the plenary sessions. It would be useful to submit to the appropriate working group coordinator by 30 June ideas and key issues you feel need to be addressed by that group.

Also, please consider bringing electronic copies of key figures you have that you think could be included in the operations plan.

We look forward to seeing you in Boulder!

Sincerely,

Marty Ralph and Dave Kingsmill


Scientific and Technical Planning Workshop for the PACJET Experiment
9:00 AM Thursday July 13th to 3:30 PM Friday July 14th, 2000
Boulder, Colorado
Room 2A305

Goals:
  1. Explore recent technological developments.
  2. Refine scientific and operational goals.
  3. Develop focused observering modeling strategies (coordinate with other projects).
  4. Decide upon the next steps.
Outcome: A list of key technologies and concepts that could be tested during PACJET, and the beginnings of an operations plan.

AGENDA

Thursday, July 13th
Room 2A305
9:00 - 9:30 AM Introduction: Experiment status, and goals of the workshop.
Marty Ralph
9:30 - 9:45 AM Overview of NWS' QPF Team report.
Dave Reynolds
9:45 - 10:00 AM Review of NWS/Weather Forecast Office operations: Forecast products, timing, and watch/warning products and procedures.
Warren Blier
10:00 - 10:15 AM Organization and tasking of working groups focused on:
  1. physical process studies,
  2. observing systems,
  3. modeling and data assimilation,
  4. operational interactions.

Dave Kingsmill
10:15 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - Noon Working groups meet:
  1. Physical Process Studies (Kingsmill, Room 1B-402)
  2. Observing Systems (Ralph, Room 1D-403)
  3. Modeling and Data Assimilation (Bao, Room 2A-305-A)
  4. Operational Interactions (Blier, Room 2A-305-B)
Noon-1:30 PM Lunch (nearby restaurants include Chinese, Indian, Pizza, etc...)
1:30-3:00 PM Continue meeting in working groups:
  1. Physical Process Studies (Kingsmill, Room 1B-402)
  2. Observing Systems (Ralph, Room 1D-403)
  3. Modeling and Data Assimilation (Bao, Room 2A-305-A)
  4. Operational Interactions (Blier, Room 2A-305-B)
3:00-3:30 PM Break
3:30 - 5:30 PM Working groups reconvene in Room 2A-305 in plenary session to present short (15-minute) reports to the full workshop highlighting goals and priorities for their topic. This allows a total of 60 minutes for discussion focused on the details of each topic.
Friday, July 14th
Room 2A305
8:00 - 8:10 USWRP update (Gall)
8:00 - 8:20 Seasonal forecast for PACJET (Whitaker)
8:20 - 9:40 AM Discussion on overall priorities, coordination, and how to meet our goals.
9:40 - 10:00 AM Break
10:00 AM - Noon Resolution of key issues concerning the experimental operations plan.
Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 3:30 PM Summary and action items.

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