ADVANCED ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT

Workshop for T-PARC and Collaborating Experiments

Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii

4-6 December 2007

This international workshop will focus on planning for the upcoming 2008 THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC) and its relationship with collaborating experiments. The primary motivation for T-PARC[1] is to mitigate natural disasters through collaboration between activities that span the four research areas of THORPEX[2]. The goals of T-PARC include:

i) Advancing knowledge and improving the short-range prediction of high-impact weather over eastern Asia and the western Pacific with a focus on tropical cyclones and heavy rainfall;

ii) Advancing knowledge and improving prediction of those high-impact weather events over the Pacific Basin, North America, Europe and the Arctic that are, in part, driven by conditions and processes over East Asia and the Western Pacific.

This workshop will address the details needed to implement a field campaign that will leverage the various national efforts to meet these two overarching T-PARC goals by concentrating on defining observational strategies to meet the specific science objectives of the investigators. The observational strategies discussed will include flight tracks, aircraft and vessel basing, driftsonde and sounding deployments, and scanning modes for remote sensing including airborne, ground-based and the use of rapid scan space-based systems. Strategies for an operation center(s), requirements for operational and research model support, and data management topics (e.g., the contents of a field data catalog, real-time data access, data archive) will also be discussed. The context for this workshop is the development of an operation plan for the tropical cyclone, extra-tropical transition and winter components of T-PARC. An important aspect of the meeting will be clearly defining mutually beneficial relationship between T-PARC and the collaborative programs such as TCS-08 and the national efforts of the Asian countries.

The meeting will be held at the Princeville Resort on Kauai, Hawaii. The web site for the resort is http://www.princeville.com. The US THORPEX Project Office has negotiated a room rate of $185 per night, which is well below advertised rates and less than the government rate. Please make your reservations directly with the resort and mention the National Center for Atmospheric Research to get the special rate. Breakfast will be provided with this rate for registered participants and a Workshop banquet will take place on the 4^th of December. You may wish to book your airfares as soon as possible as some of the major carriers and established travel web sites currently are offering sales on certain routes. For further information, advice on airfares, and to register please contact: Ms Pam Johnson, US THORPEX Project Office, NCAR, Boulder, CO: Phone: (1)-303-497-8197; Email: johnsonp@ucar.edu.