Participants:

Ken Bowman (recorder)
Laura Pan
Elliot Atlas
Morris Weisman
Bill Hall
Eric Ray
Fuqing Zhang
Meng Zhang
Simone Tilmes

Forecasting operations
	The forecasting and mission operations center will be at JeffCo
	A secondary site will be available at Foothills and connected by the Access Grid
	EOL is working on providing an AWIPS workstation at JeffCo for forecasting use

	Tentative forecasting & operations schedule
		Day preceding possible flight operations
			13:00 - forecast discussion and flight planning meeting
			14:00 - tentative go/no-go decision
		Standard flight operation day
			06:00 - final forecast meeting and flight planning session.
				Final go/no-go decision.
			08:00: nominal take-off time
			16:00 - 17:00:  landing
			18:00 - debriefing
		Convective flight operation day
			10:00 - final forecast meeting and flight planning session.
				Final go/no-go decision.
			12:00: nominal take-off time
			19:00 - 20:00:  landing
			21:00 - debriefing

Field catalog
	We are working with EOL to develop a request to NSF to fund a field catalog for the mission.
	Send specific requests ASAP to Ken Bowman (k-bowman@tamu.edu) for products to be included in the FC.

Data sources
	Operational products
		NCEP
			GFS (1 deg x 1 deg)
			GFS (0.5 deg x 0.5 deg) - Hall and Bowman will investigate availability
			NAM
			NEXRAD mosaics
			GOES imagery
	Experimental products
		WRF (NCAR - Weisman)
			once daily (00Z) 36-hour forecast with 3 km horizontal resolution
			available by 06:00 - 08:00 each day
			most useful for final flight planning for convective flights
			evaluating possibility of larger domain and increased vertical resolution
		WRF or MM5 (TAMU - Zhang)
			once daily (12Z) 48-hour forecast
			lower resolution but larger domain
			important for planning gravity-wave flights

Action items

1.  Pan:  discuss timing of forecast discussion and flight planning meetings with RAF.
2.  Pan: check with EOL on status of AWIPS workstation for JeffCo.
3.  PIs:  prepare mission priority/flight planning document.
4.  Bowman:  schedule next Forecast Team meeting.