START08 Workshop Agenda
March 4-5, 2009
National Center for Atmospheric Research
3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO 80301
Foothills Laboratory 1, EOL Atrium
Phone: 303-497-8700

Wednesday, March 4

Welcome and Introductions (Chair – Elliot Atlas)

9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome – Bill Randel
9:15 am – 10:15 am Experiment Overview and Introductions – Laura Pan, Ken Bowman, Elliot Atlas, and Steve Wofsy

Data Discussions by Instruments PIs (Co-Chairs – Elliot Atlas and Steve Wofsy)

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10:15 am – 10:25 am AWAS – Elliot Atlas
10:25 am – 10:35 am NOAA O3 – Ru‐Shan Gao
10:35 am – 10:45 am NCAR Fast O3, NO/NOy – Andy Weinheimer
10:45 am – 10:55 am RAF CO and TDL H2O – Teresa Campos
10:55 am – 11:25 am ***** BREAK *****
11:25 am – 11:35 am UCATS – Jim Elkins
11:35 am – 11:45 am PANTHER – Fred Moore
11:45 am – 11:55 am VCSEL – Mark Zondlo
11:55 am – 12:05 am CLH – Linnea Avallone
12:05 am – 12:15 pm MTP – Julie Haggerty
12:15 pm – 12:25 pm RAF data and forward‐looking camera – Pavel Romashkin
12:25 pm – 1:30 pm ***** LUNCH BREAK *****
1:30 pm – 1:40 pm AO2 – Britt Stephens (telecon from New Zealand)
1:40 pm – 1:50 pm QCLS – Steve Wofsy. Includes START08 Comparisons with GEOS‐Chem.
1:50 pm – 2:00 pm CDP and 2DC – Al Cooper
2:00 pm – 2:10 pm SID‐2 – Andy Heymsfield and Aaron Bansemer
2:10 pm ‐ 2:20 pm Ozonesondes – Simone Tilmes
2:20 pm – 2:30 pm Trajectories and GFS data – Ken Bowman
2:30 pm ‐ 3:00 pm Data Management – Steve Williams and Ken Bowman
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm ***** BREAK *****

Data Analysis and Modeling – Dynamics and Transport (Chair – Bill Randel)

3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Characteristics of the Atmospheric Circulation during START08 – Jim Bresch
3:50 pm ‐ 4:10 pm Origin of Tropospheric Air in the Extratropical Lower Stratosphere – Ken Bowman
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm Defining the Tropopause using High‐Resolution Sounding Data – Cameron Homeyer
4:30 pm ‐ 4:50 pm Preliminary Analysis of Gravity Wave Signals in the Airborne Measurements and Numerical Simulations during RF02 of START08 – Fuqing Zhang
4:50 pm – 5:10 pm Storm‐top Processes Related to the Cross‐Tropopause Transport: Potential Applications of START08 Data – Pao Wang
5:10 pm – 5:30 pm SESSION DISCUSSION

Thursday, March 5

Data Analysis and Modeling – Chemical Distributions and Transport (Co-Chairs – Laura Pan and Ken Bowman)

9:00 am – 9:20 am Initial Look at Tracers of Different Lifetimes – Elliot Atlas
9:20 am – 9:40 am START08 Comparisons with GEOS‐Chem – Steve Wofsy. Includes QCLS.
9:40 am – 10:00 am Initial Survey of Chemical Tracers – Jasna Pittman
10:00 am – 10:20 am Equivalent Latitude – Potential Temperature View of the START08 Data – Eric Ray
10:20 am – 10:40 am Initial Studies of AWAS data – Bill Randel and Mijeong Park
10:40 am – 11:00 am ***** BREAK *****
11:00 am – 11:10 am GFS Tropopause Errors in Stratospheric Intrusions – Dalon Stone
11:10 am – 11:30 am Initial Comparison between START08 and WACCM – Simone Tilmes
11:30 am – 11:50 am CLAMS Modeling of Transport Pathways – Baerbel Vogel
11:50 am – 12:10 pm GEM‐AQ Simulations and Comparisons with Observations on RF08 – Jacek Kaminski
12:10 pm – 12:30 pm MLS/START08 Comparisons and Large‐Scale Context for START08 from MLS and ACE‐FTS Satellite Data – Gloria Manney
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm ***** LUNCH BREAK *****
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm Space‐borne and in‐situ Measurements of Chemical Tracers during START08: Comparisons and Applications – Jasna Pittman
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm SESSION DISCUSSION

Data Analysis and Modeling – Cloud Microphysics (Chair – Ken Bowman)

2:10 pm – 2:30 pm Scientific Issues in Relation to Midlatitude Clouds – Eric Jensen
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm Characteristics of Ice Supersaturated Regions during START08 – Mark Zondlo
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm Survey of START08 Cloud Observations – Bill Hall
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm ***** BREAK *****
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm START08 Cloud Classifications – Jim Bresch
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm CALIPSO Observations during START08 – Steve Massie

Discussions and Action Items (Chair – Laura Pan)

4:20 pm – 5:00 pm DISCUSSION