Wednesday, 21 January 2015, Morning
1. Opening Remarks (Houze)
GPM and GV Objectives (Skofronick-Jackson)
RADEX objectives (Mace)
Agenda for this meeting (Houze)
Timing of soundings and aircraft missions
Personnel
Aircraft tracks
Radar scanning and location
Extra dual rain gauge locations
OLYMPEX Facilities Update (Houze)
Ops Center
Surface sites and trailer
Sounding units
Radars
Aircraft
Regional modeling
2. Overview of expected weather during OLYMPEX (McMurdie)
Overview of large-scale flow regines
Storm sectors
Prefrontal
Frontal
Postfrontal
Geographical regions
Ocean to the west
Windward side of Olmpic Mts. (Quinalt Valley)
High terrain of Olympics (snowfield)
Leesideof the Olympics (Hurricane Ridge, Strait of Juan de Fuca)
Low terrain south of Olympics (Chehalis River basin)
3. Specific GV objectives to e accomplished in OLYMPEX (McMurdie/Houze)
Precipitation and microphysics as function of storm sector and terrain
Melting level character and variability
Hydrological responses
Snowpack build up and melt off during the full winter season
4. Ground instrumentation deployment (McMurdie)
Quinault River area (Zagrodnik)
Along Quinault River
Near Quinault River
Trailer tests being carried out at Snoqualmie Pass this year
Enchanted Valley deployment
Lunch
Wednesday, 21 January 2015, Afternoon
5. Ground instrument deployment continued (McMurdie)
High terrain & leesie
Tests of snow cameras and Laser Flights (Lundquist)
Hurricane Ridge deployment (Zagrodnik)
SNOTEL and Snow Courses (Pattee)
Chehalis River area
Rain gauge network (Nijssen)
Additional considerations (McMurdie)
Extra dual gauges
Maintenance
Data recording and transmission
Personnel
6. Rawinsonde Plan - Quinault area and Vancouver Island (Houze)
Timing
Location
Personnel
Evening, Group Dinner (Ivar's Salmon House)
Thursday, 22 January 2015, Morning
7. Radar Plan (Houze)
NPOL and D3R - (Petersen)
Site and Installation
Scanning strategy (Brodzik)
Dual Pol in NW environment (Dolan)
MRRs (Petersen)
Where should the 4th be deployed?
Canadian x-band (Hudak)
Installation
Scanning strategies
DOW (Houze/Wurman)
Location
Personnel -- DOW/NPOL(Houze)
Thursday, 23 January 2015, Afternoon
8. Aircraft operations (Houze)
Aircraft staging, locations and operational factors
DC8 and ER2 (Jennison)
Citation (Poellet)
Aircraft instrumentation (Houze)
Aircraft flight strategies (Houze/Mace)
OLYMPEX flight objective
RADEX flight objective
GPM underflights
Surface emission
Coordination of aircraft
Friday, 23 January 2015, Morning
9. Field operations (Houze)
Basic infrastructure
Ops center layout (McMurdie or Houze)
Communications infrastructure (Brodzik, UW IT staff)
Project personnel
Lead mission coordinator at ops center
Lead scientists for aircraft, radars, and ground observations
Other personnel needs and sources
Daily meeting and decision making
Flights
Radar operations
Sounding launches
Ground site status
Weather briefing and forecasting
Daily assesment of progress toward objectives
Daily reports
Daily Science Summary
Individual platform reports
Real-time and near real-time data availability at ops center
Web portals (UW and NASA)
Data uplinks from radar and other sites
Manual data downloading
Data storage and archiving (Brodzik, Petersen)