RICO Workshop

NCAR-Foothills Lab, January 18-21, 2006

PDFs of selected talks available

The purpose of the January 2006 Rico Data workshop is two-fold: (i) to identify and attempt to resolve outstanding issues in the RICO data set; (ii) to foster the development of integrative data sets and collaborative science. Towards this end most of the workshop will be reserved for actually working, with only the first day devoted to formal presentations, and part of the last day devoted to a discussion of the future, and an update on issues identified as outstanding during the first day. The bulk of the presentations on the first day will consist of Investigator Reports. The objectives of these reports is to identify for the broader RICO community what you are doing, what (if any) collaborative interests you have, and issues/findings you have with respect to the data. Ideally these presentations will be very brief (with 7-10 minutes allocated per person) and will consist of a small number of slides. The hope is that through these presentations any issues that need to be addressed as a community will be identified, and collaborative opportunities which can be explored in subsequent days will be identified. Issues that are identified in these session may be tasked to ad hoc groups to explore further during the workshop and report back on the final day. The order suggested below is provisional and can be re-arranged by the session moderator. The Discussion Session following each series of reports can be used to explore integrative aspects of the presentations, review issues raised in individual presentations, or absorb the impact of presentations that exceed their allocated time.

A subsidiary aspect which follows from the workshop organization is that it will serve as a means for distributing and sharing RICO primary and derived data. A data server will be available at the workshop, and those who bring adequate media (hard drives) can directly download data to bring back to their home institutions, which for very large data sets (i.e., the radar data, which is a couple of tera-bytes) should prove useful.

Several breakout rooms, with internet connectivity, and printer services will be provided for people to work in during the workshop, and we will try to observe common breaks and lunch times so as to foster discussion outside of particular groups. The hope is to create an operation center like atmosphere, although security issues with NCAR networks make this more difficult than originally anticipated. Further details will be provided on the first day. General questions about the workshop can be directed to Bjorn Stevens, for logistical questions contact Greg Stossmeister, for questions regarding Radar data an processing tools, contact Bob Rilling.

Final Agenda

Wednesday 1/18
0815 Welcome Wakimoto
0820 Goals and Logistics Rauber/Stevens
0830 JOSS Status/Logistics Dirks
0845 Radar Status Rilling/Ellis
0920 Doppler Lidar Brewer
0925 Data Status/Issues Forum Stevens/Rauber (discussion leaders)
1000 Break
1020 Investigator Reports - I Kollias, Vali, Brown/Able, Stevens, vanZanten, Zhao/Snodgrass, Krueger
1120 Discussion Lenschow (moderator)
1200 Lunch
1300 Investigator Reports -II Knight, Goeke, Blyth/Lowenstein, Peter, Lasher-Trapp, Stith, Brenguier, Gerber
1420 Discussion Stevens (moderator)
1500 Break
1530 Investigator Reports - III Baker, Chuang, Hudson, Colon-Robles, Anderson, Mayol-Bracero, Thornton, Jensen, Rogers
1650 Discussion Rauber (moderator)
1730 Adjourn for day
Thursday 1/19 no formal presentations planned (Breaks at 10:15 and 15:00, lunch at 12:00)
Friday 1/20 no formal presentations planned (Breaks at 10:15 and 15:00, lunch at 12:00)
Saturday 1/20
1000 Reports (based on identification of issues on first day)
1100 Future Meetings Rauber/Stevens
1700 Workshop Adjourns

Meeting Room Information: The presentations will be given in the FL2 auditorium (FL2 1022). For Thursday through Saturday we have four break out rooms

  1. FL1/EOL Atrium: This seats 40 with a large round table, seating around the table, and extra chairs around the wall. Here hard wire connections to the data servers will hopefully be provided.
  2. FL1/2133: This seats 30 with a 6x12 table.
  3. FL2/1002: This seats 18 around an oval table.
  4. FL2/1003 Seats 35 with 4-8 tables arranged in open square; 20 chairs around table, extra chairs next to walls.
I anticipate that small groups can share a room without interfering with each other too much. I also suggest that work areas be taken on a first come first serve basis, but that we try to have a sign in list in FL2/1003, so that we can find one another during the course of the meeting. Observing common break times in the EOL atrium will also faciliate this.

Attendees with links to PDFs of Talks: Steve Abel (Met Office), Bruce Albrecht (Miami), Jim Anderson (Arizona State), Brad Baker (Spec), Shauna Bargus (Miami), Jen Bewley (Purdue), Alan Blyth (Leeds), Jean-Louis Brenguier (CNRM), Alan Brewer (NOAA/ETL), Phil Brown (Met Office), Frederic Brunet (CNRM), Marlie Colon-Robles (U of I), Patrick Chuang (Santa Cruz), Jennifer Davidson (U of I), Larry Di Girolamo (U of I), Scott Ellis (NCAR), Chris Fairall (NOAA/ETL), Graham Feingold (NOAA/ETL), Bart Geerts (Wyoming), Hermann Gerber (Gerber), Sabine Goeke (UofI), Colleen Henry (Purdue), Jim Hudson (DRI), Ieng Jo (Miami), Jorgen Jensen (NCAR), Charlie Knight (NCAR), Pavlos Kollias (Brookhaven), Steven Krueger (Utah), Sonia Lasher-Trapp (Purdue), Donald Lenschow (NCAR), Jason Lowenstein (Leeds), Olga Mayol-Bracero (Puerto Rico), Louise Nuijens (Wageningen/UCLA), Dennis O'Donnell (Wyoming), Nino Pavlenishvili (Wyoming), Justin Peters (Leeds), Dave Rogers (NCAR), Bob Rauber (U of I), Bob Rilling (NCAR), Pier Siebesma (KNMI), Jen Small (Santa Cruz), Eric Snodgrass (U of I), Bjorn Stevens (UCLA), Jeff Stith (NCAR), Donal Thornton (Drexel), Panu Trivej (UCLA) , Gabor Vali (Wyoming), Margreet van Zanten (KNMI), Steve Williams (NCAR), Guanyu Zhao (Uof I)