Joint Workshop of the TOGA COARE Flux and Oceans Working Groups
and the GEWEX Cloud System Study Working Group 4
National Center for Atmospheric Research
14-16 May 1997
Frank Bradley, Mitchell Moncrieff and Robert Weller (editors)
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
III. Workshop Agenda
IV. Mesoscale Modeling Strategies
Modeling of TOGA COARE Cloud Systems and Environmental Effects
V. Soundings and Atmospheric Budgets
1. COARE Soundings Working Group
The soundings humidity problem
Recommendations
Timetable for corrections
2. GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) Working Group on Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems: TOGA COARE Studies
CASE 1: Squall line study
CASE 2: Multi-day Simulations in Evolving Forcing
CASE 2: Sensitivity studies
Discussion
VII. Mapping reports
1. Flux mapping
2. Sea surface temperature (SST) and sea surface salinity (SSS)
3. Surface currents
4. Radiation and cloud fields
5. Aircraft flux maps
6. Rainfall fields
VIII. Flux Data Reports
1. Aircraft correction set
2. Turbulence flux data sets
3. Data archives
4. COARE flux bulk algorithm
Discussion
Applications of TOGA COARE bulk algorithm
IX. Ocean Models
X. Current and Future Activities related to COARE
1. Coupled Boundary-Layer Working Group
2. CLIVAR-GOALS
3. Future observational programs
4. Cloud-resolving Modeling
5. Global modeling
Discussion
6. Interfaces and links
XI. COARE98
1. Rationale and objectives
2. Discussion
XII. Continuing COARE Science Issues and Timeline
XIII. References
Appendix. List of Participants
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