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VAMOS PROGRAMS PROJECT OFFICE
C. B. Emmanuel, Director cbe_at_ucar.edu José
Meitín, Deputy Director meitin_at_ucar.edu http//
www.joss.ucar.edu/vamos/
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for Atmospheric Research
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VAMOS Programs Project Office Joint Office for
Science Support (JOSS / UCAR) P. O. Box
3000 Boulder, Colorado 80307 3000 U. S.
A. Physical Location 3300 Mitchell Lane
Foothills Lab 4 Boulder, CO 80301 voice
303 497-8987 fax [phone]
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VAMOS Programs Project Office

• The Office provides scientific, technical and
  administrative support services to the VAMOS
  programs for the purpose of organizing,
  coordinating and managing the implementation of
  the VAMOS field campaigns. The field campaigns
  are
• EPIC (Eastern Pacific Investigations of Climate)
• SALLJEX (South American Low Level Jet Experiment)
• NAME (North American Monsoon Experiment)
• MESA (Monsoon Experiment South America)
• VOCALS (VEPIC Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Systems)

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NAME Project Office

• Receives guidance and direction from the NAME SWG
• Receives fiscal guidance from Agency Program
  Managers
• Reports to the NAME SWG and Agency Program
  Managers

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NAME Project Office Activities

• Research Permit
• SRE (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico)
• Frequency Allocation Permits
• Logistics
• Agencies / Universities
• Aircraft
• Ships
• NAME Field Operations Centers
• Tucson , Mexico City
• Mazatlán

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NAME Project Office Activities

• Site Surveys
• Aircraft
• Profiler network
• Radiosonde network
• S-Pol Radar
• Flux SuperSite
• Ship status
• Altair BI-03 (SEMAR)
• Francisco de Ulloa (CICESE)
• El Puma (UNAM)

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NOAA Aircraft Operations Center WP-3D
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Research Vessel Altair (SEMAR)
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Research Vessel Francisco de Ulloa (CICESE)
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Daily Timeline for Operations
Daily Operations Summary Posted to Catalog
POD Finalized (next day)
Daily Planning Meeting
Final aircraft Go/No Go fuel decision
Update for present-day IOP (if needed)
Aircraft Debrief
Forecast Team Preparation
Time 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
T0-3 T0-1 T0 T09 (LT)
Aircraft take-off
Facilities update
Aircraft return
Flight planning Crew Brief
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Tucson Operations Center
Structure NAME SWG Project Office Investigators
Responsibilities Operational Decisions Forecast
Services (FOC) Data Comms
Input Forecasts / Outlooks Met model
products Discussion Facilities Status Personnel
Status Science Objectives Debrief Reports Data
Comms
Participants SWG members Ops Director/
staff Investigators Visitors
Daily Operations Meeting
Operational Decision Mission Scientist Aircraft
Mission Land-systems Data Communications
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Daily Timeline for Aircraft Operations
Crew leaves for airport
All crew back at hotel
Final aircraft Go/No Go fuel decision
Time 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 (LT) T-3
T-1 T0
T9
Flight planning Crew Brief
Aircraft return
Aircraft take-off
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7th VAMOS Panel Meeting
NAME 2004 Field Operations and Procedures
Field Operations Center Concept Define
requirements for, and conduct the day-to-day
operations, to satisfy the data collection
objectives of NAME Functions, Organization,
Staff and Responsibilities

Catalog Data Mgt
Forecast Services (Tucson/ Mexico City)
Aircraft Ship Operations
Land-based Systems Coordination
Field Comms
Logistics/ Fiscal
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NAME Operations Plan

• A summary of the scientific objectives to be met
  during the field phase
• Describes the Operations Center venue
• Describes, in detail, the day-to-day operational
  procedures
• Describes, in detail, the decision making process
  
• Specifies the forecast services available and
  other met/model products required

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NAME Operations Plan

• Describe the research platforms and research
  systems available
• Specifies and describes the communications and
  support systems required
• Specifies the data/data catalog availability at
  the Operations Center
• Specifies the necessary logistics (Clearances,
  Immigration/Customs, etc.)

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NAME Field Program Timeline
Experiment Design
SWG PIs Mission Selection
SWG-6 Review Ops Data Plan
Science Planning Meeting
Data Analysis Workshop
Nov 03
Apr 04
Jul 04
Sep 04
6 weeks
-1yr
1 yr
-2 yr
2 yr
FIELD CAMPAIGN
Data Processing Quality Control
Operations Meeting. Finalize Ops Data
Plan Field Phase Logistics
Facility Request Approval
Funding Proposal Submissions
Routine Archive/ Access
Facility Coordination Meeting.

• Establish
• Project Office
• Prepare Ops Data Plans
• Site Survey(s)
• Logistics

Daily Briefings Onsite Data Mgmt. Operational
Data Collection Facility Coordination Support
Functions In-field Catalog
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NWS Las Vegas
NWS Amarillo
NWS Flagstaff
NWS Albuquerque
NWS Tucson
NWS El Paso
NWS San Diego
NWS Midland
NCAR ISS
NWS Del Rio
NCAR ISS
SMN Chihuahua
SMN Guaymas
M. Douglas RAOB
SMN Torreon
NCAR GLASS
NCAR ISS
SMN Monterrey
SMN La Paz
NOAA ETL/AL
SMN Zacatecas
SMN Mazatlan
EOP Ship RAOB
SMN Guadalajara
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3 NCAR ISSs (GPS sounding, UHF profiler, RASS,
sfc station) 1 GLASS
Puerto Peñasco
ISS sounding network designed to determine
initiation mechanisms, structure, and propagation
of surges mechanisms for diurnal cycle of
convection air-sea exchanges, upper-ocean
changes atmospheric budgets, latent heating
profiles over land and ocean

Kino Bay
SMN soundings




Los Mochis
Loreto

ETL flux


S-POL


fluxes, upper-ocean