Workshop Agenda

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Monday 27 May
Introduction, historical perspective and recent developments
9:00-9:30 Marvin Geller Welcome and logistics. Motivation for this workshop
9:30-10:00 Robert Vincent Historical perspective on archival and research uses of HVRRD
10:00-10:30 Ling Wang Progress in gravity wave research using HVRRD
10:30-11:00 Carol Clayson Turbulence parameters from HVRRD
11:00-11:30 All Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Nikolai Gavrilov Analysis of gravity wave and turbulence parameters from balloon, radar and satellite data.
12:00-12:45 All Poster Session
Jie Gong Gravity Wave and Turbulence Impacts on In-situ Thin Cirrus Formation Using AIRSV6 Cloud Products and US 1‐second High-vertical-resolution Radiosonde Measurements
Graeme Marlton Comparison of weather-balloon observations of in-cloud and clear-air turbulence with model predictions
Richard Wilson Turbulence detection methods and the direct comparison of balloon-radar measurements
Peter Love Turbulence associated with gravity wave instability
12:45-13:45 All Lunch
Future research potential, technical considerations, standards and procedures
13:45-14:45 All Discussion of poster session
14:45-15:15 Dian Seidel Planetary boundary layer studies
15:15-15:45 Michael Gerding Research using LITOS ultra-high-resolution radiosondes
15:45-16:15 All Coffee break
16:15-16:45 Holger Vömel GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN)
16:45-17:45 All Discussion
17:45-18:15 All Wine and Cheese Reception
Tuesday 28 May
Improving access to high resolution radiosonde data
9:00-10:00 Marvin Geller (Bob Vincent) SPARC and HVRRD – proposal for SPARC HVRRD activity
10:00-10:30 Holger Vömel Distribution of HVRRD through GTS
10:30-11:00 All Discussion
11:00-11:30 All Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 All Poster session
Yehui Zhang A case study of Tropopause Inversion Layer (TIL) at a mid-latitude US station
Junhong Wang High res data from field campaigns and validation of satellite data
Juan Carlos Antuna Morerro Water vapor variability and radiative transfer in the tropical atmosphere
Wei Yuan The QBO and ENSO cold point tropopause temperatures
Shu Meir Wang Controls on the extratropical tropopause
12:30-13:30 All Lunch
Tropopause, inversions, deep convection
13:30-14:30 All Discussion of poster session
14:30-15:00 Thomas Birner Structure of the tropopause region from HVRRD observations
15:00-15:30 Kusuma Rao Lower stratospheric warming during organized deep convection of the Indian summer monsoon
15:30-16:00 All Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 All Discussion
Wednesday 29 May
9:00-10:00 All Summary/discussion of previous days
10:00-10:30 All Break out groups (Turbulence and HVRSD Archive/Project)
10:30-11:00 All Coffee Break
11:00-1200 All Break out groups (cont’d)
12:00-13:00 All Lunch
Outcomes
13:00-14:30 All Reports from breakout groups and discussion
14:30-15:30 All Discussion of meeting report and outcomes
15:30-16:00 All Coffee break
16:00-17:00 All Discussion of meeting report, outcomes and possible follow-up activities