1. WELCOME: First VOCALS Meeting
Second Rex Preparatory Workshop
Second Modeling Workshop
March 2008, Boulder, CO

2. VOCALS Targets Unresolved issues in heat and nutrient budgets
Important links between clouds and aerosol
Influences on and from remote climates
Better simulation by atmosphere-ocean GCMs

3. VOCALS Calendar Since 1 September 2006
Proposal submitted to NSF/NOAA (R. Wood PI; C. Bretherton, B. Huebert, C. R. Mechoso, R. Weller): 1 Sep 06
NSF/NOAA decides that “VOCALS is GO”: 6 Dec 06
VOCALS Workshop at VAMOS VPM10, Santiago, Chile: 3-4 April 07
First Modeling Workshop at NCAR: May 07
First Rex Preparatory Workshop at NCAR: June 07
NCAR EOL Facility Request: 1 Jul 07
NSF deadline for VOCALS proposals: 15 Jul 07
VOCALS-UK Consortium Planning Meeting, Reading, England: 27 Jul 07
NOAA deadline for VOCALS proposals: 21 Sep 07
Joint NSF/NOAA Panel on VOCALS Oct 07
VOCALS-UK Proposal Submitted to NERC: 30 Nov 07
NSF/NOAA funding decisions in late 07; Internacional and other national agency decisions in early 08.
First VOCALS Meeting at NCAR: March 07

4. Institutions Collaborating in VOCALS
University
Arizona State
Concepción, Ch
CSU
Drexel U.
Hawaii
Manchester UK
Miami
North Carolina State
Oregon State
Reading
U. Arizona
U. Chile
UCLA
U. Colorado
UCSD
U. Leeds UK
U. Washington
U. Wyoming
Research Labs
Brookhaven Nat. COLA
CNRS/LMD France
IMARPE
IPRC
LEGOS
NASA GSFC
NCAR
NOAA/CIRES
NOAA/GFDL
NRL
Pacific Northwest
Woods Hole
Operational Centers BMRC Australia CPTEC Brazil ECMWF Int. JMA Japan NCEP US UKMO UK
Funding $25M+
Logistic Support: UCAR JOSS

5. WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS appoints the VOCALS SWG
MODELING
Operational Centers, Reseach Labs, Universities
WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS appoints the VOCALS SWG
AIRBORNE NCAR C DOE EG CIRPAS Twin Otter UK NERC Dornier 228?
SHIP
RV Ron Brown
RV Jose Olaya
REX
Monitoring Buoys, Satellites, Cruises

6. Goals of First VOCALS Meeting
To conduct preparations for mission-critical tasks in VOCALS-REx;
To coordinate modeling tasks;
To build links between modeling and observational groups and ensure the best use is made of the REx data in model development;
To review preliminary results of PreVOCA.