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3rd COPS & GOP Workshop
10-11 April 2006, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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Working groups

     COPS Ground-based Instrumentation
         Distribution and operation of instruments, Supersite coordination, logistical requirements, missions

     COPS Airborne Instrumentation
         Missions, aircraft coordination

     Modelling Activities, Data Archive Structure, Data Format Issues, Quality Control (COPS & GOP)

Presentations

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Monday, 10 April

Welcome

10:00  Inaugural Greetings, Heinz Breer, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universität Hohenheim

10:05  Welcome, Volker Wulfmeyer, Universität Hohenheim

1st Session: Status-quo of COPS and GOP preparation (Chair: Hans Volkert)

10:15  COPS, Andreas Behrendt, Universität Hohenheim
              Presentation (ppt, 25.5 MB)
              Presentation (pdf, 8.8 MB)

10:55  GOP, Susanne Crewell, Universität Köln
              Presentation (ppt, 3.5 MB)

11:15  DWD, LMK, Michael Baldauf, DWD
              Presentation (ppt, 4.1 MB)

11:45  Discussion

2nd Session: International coordination (Chair: Hartmut Gra?l)

13:00  MAP D-PHASE, Mathias Rotach, Meteo Swiss
              Presentation (ppt, 2.3 MB)

13:15  ETReC07, George Craig, DLR
              Presentation (ppt, 1.6 MB)

13:30  ARM Mobile Facility (AMF), Dave Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
              Presentation (ppt, 2.7 MB)

13:45  CATICT and CSIP results, Alan Blyth, University of Leeds
              Presentation (pdf, 5.0 MB)

14:00  French Proposal and instrumentation, Evelyne Richard, Cyrill Flamant, Joel van Baelen
              Presentation (ppt, 0.3 MB)

14:15  TRACKS and its instruments, Christoph Kottmeier, Frank Holland, Mark Lawrence
              Presentation Christoph Kottmeier (ppt, 7.9 MB)
              Presentation Frank Holland (ppt, 3.7 MB)
              Presentation Mark Lawrence (ppt, 1.1 MB)

14:30  EUMETSAT, Marianne K?nig, EUMETSAT
              Presentation (ppt, 7.6 MB)

14:45  Discussion

3rd Session: Instrumentation within COPS and GOP (Chair: Cyrille Flamant)

15:30-18:10  
FZK-IMK
 Do-128, Dropsondes, Wind-Tracer: Ulrich Corsmeier
 WTR: Siegfried Vogt
 Sodar, energy balance, turbulence tower, radiosondes: Norbert Kalthoff
 Soil moisture network: Christian Hauck
              Presentation (ppt, 15.6 MB)
 C-Band and cloud radar: Jan Handwerker
              Presentation (pdf, 1.4 MB)
 Zugspitze WV DIAL, Thomas Trickl
              Presentation (ppt, 3.4 MB)

IPM
  Water Vapor DIAL: Volker Wulfmeyer
              Presentation (pdf, 3.2 MB)
  Rotations Raman Lidar: Andreas Behrendt
              Presentation (ppt, 0.5 MB)
  X-Band Radar: Thorsten Schaberl
              Presentation (ppt, 8.6 MB)

IfT
  MWL and WiLi: Ronny Engelmann
              Presentation (ppt, 17.5 MB)

LMU & UBonn
  HATPRO & Miccy: Susanne Crewell
  Mesonet: Roger Smith
              Presentation Susanne Crewell (ppt, 9.2 MB)

DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
  Falcon, Water Vapor DIAL, Doppler lidar, Dropsondes: Gerhard Ehret
              Presentation (pdf, 1.9 MB)
  Poldirad: Martin Hagen
              Presentation (ppt, 0.8 MB)

UHamburg
  Cloud radar and micro rain radars: Gerhard Peters
              Presentation (ppt, 4.1 MB)

GFZ
  GPS network: Jens Wickert
              Presentation (ppt, 7.9 MB)

UBayreuth
  Sodar RASS, mast, radiance turbulence cluster: Thomas Foken
              Presentation (ppt, 5.9 MB)

UFreiburg
  Flat-array sodar, Hartheim and Tuttlingen sites: Jutta Rost, Thomas Holst
              Presentation (ppt, 10.2 MB)

Italian instrumentation
  UNIBAS lidar: Paolo Di Girolamo
              Presentation (ppt, 8.4 MB)

  CNR-IMAA instruments: Aldo Amodeo
              Presentation (pps, 11.0 MB)

Austrian instrumentation
  UVienna instrumentation: Manfred Dorninger
              Presentation (ppt, 0.9 MB)

Dutch instrumentation
  Cabauw radar TARA: Herman Russchenberg

Swiss instrumentation
  TROWARA and ASMUWARA: Emmanuel Brocard
              Presentation (pdf, 0.7 MB)

US instrumentation
  SPol and DOWs: Sabine Goeke
              Presentation (ppt, 13.1 MB)

Tuesday, 11 April

4th Session: Towards Operations Plan (Chair: Andreas Behrendt)

9:00-12:30  Working Groups (WGs):

 COPS Ground-based Instrumentation
     Distribution and operation of instruments, Supersite coordination, logistical requirements, missions

 COPS Airborne Instrumentation
     Missions, aircraft coordination

 Modelling Activities, Data Archive Structure, Data Format Issues, Quality Control (COPS & GOP)

13:30 ? 15:00   Results of WGs, plenary discussion (Chair: Mathias Rotach)

     Additional General Topics:
     - Missions
     - Operations center
     - Structures for Decision Finding
     - Verification, data quality control
     - Real-time data assimilation
     - Data management

5th session: Towards Operations Plan, wrap up & action items (Chair: Volker Wulfmeyer)

15:15 ? 16:00   

     - Coordination of Operations Plan
     - EUFAR proposals
     - International coordination

16:00 ? 17:00 Meeting of the COPS International Science Steering Committee

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