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WELCOME: First VOCALS MeetingSecond Rex Preparatory Workshop

Second Modeling Workshop

17 - 20 March 2008, Boulder, CO

www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/vocals

•Unresolved issues in heat and nutrient budgets

•Important links between clouds and aerosol

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•Influences on and from remote climates

•Better simulation by atmosphere-ocean GCMs

VOCALS Targets

VOCALS Calendar Since 1 September 2006

• Proposal submitted to NSF/NOAA (R. Wood PI; C. Bretherton, B. Huebert, C. R. Mechoso, R. Weller): 1 Sep 06

• NSF/NOAA decides that “VOCALS is GO”: 6 Dec 06• VOCALS Workshop at VAMOS VPM10, Santiago, Chile: 3-4

April 07• First Modeling Workshop at NCAR: 18-29 May 07• First Rex Preparatory Workshop at NCAR: 11-12 June 07 • NCAR EOL Facility Request: 1 Jul 07• NSF deadline for VOCALS proposals: 15 Jul 07• VOCALS-UK Consortium Planning Meeting, Reading,

England: 27 Jul 07• NOAA deadline for VOCALS proposals: 21 Sep 07• Joint NSF/NOAA Panel on VOCALS 15-16 Oct 07• VOCALS-UK Proposal Submitted to NERC: 30 Nov 07• NSF/NOAA funding decisions in late 07; Internacional and

other national agency decisions in early 08.• First VOCALS Meeting at NCAR: 17-20 March 07

Operational Centers

BMRC AustraliaCPTEC Brazil ECMWF Int. JMA Japan NCEP US UKMO UK

Institutions Collaborating in VOCALS

UniversityArizona StateConcepción, ChCSUDrexel U.HawaiiManchester UKMiamiNorth Carolina StateOregon StateReadingU. ArizonaU. ChileUCLAU. ColoradoUCSDU. Leeds UKU. WashingtonU. Wyoming

Research Labs

Brookhaven Nat. COLACNRS/LMD FranceIMARPEIPRCLEGOSNASA GSFCNCARNOAA/CIRES NOAA/GFDLNRLPacific NorthwestWoods Hole

Logistic Support: UCAR JOSS

Funding $25M+

Monitoring Buoys,

Satellites, Cruises

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AIRBORNE NCAR C130 DOE EG-1 CIRPAS Twin

Otter UK146 NERC Dornier 228?

SHIPRV Ron BrownRV Jose Olaya

REX

MODELINGOperational Centers,

Reseach Labs, Universities

WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS appoints the

VOCALS SWG

Goals of First VOCALS Meeting

(1) To conduct preparations for mission-critical tasks in VOCALS-REx;

(2) To coordinate modeling tasks;

(3) To build links between modeling and observational groups and ensure the best use is made of the REx data in model development;

(4) To review preliminary results of PreVOCA.