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  <span style="color:#337799"><b>From</b> <a href="mailto:arcusincus@earthlink.net">
  Steve Krueger</a></span><br />
  <span style="color:#337799"><b>Date</b> August 2, 2007</span><p></p>
Dear Interactions of Deep and Shallow Convection and Turbulence team member,<p></p>
We will have an MJO break-out session during the CMMAP Team Meeting in<br />
Fort Collins. The session will be be held on Thursday, August 9, for 2<br />
hours, from 10:15 am to 12:15 pm. The agenda is still open and we would<br />
welcome any short presentations related to our theme. Please send the title<br />
and expected length.<p></p>
Attached below is the action items list for the August meeting that was<br />
drafted during the CMMP Team meeting in Hawaii last February. The action<br />
items will be a basis for our discussion during our break-out session. Those<br />
whose names are attached to the action items are encouraged to make a brief<br />
presentation/summary to help us understand where we are in MJO related CMMAP<br />
research path.<p></p>
You are welcome to email any ideas that you feel should be discussed during<br />
the break-out session.<p></p>
The theme and objectives of the Deep and Shallow Convectione group in the<br />
context of CMMAP can be found
<a href="http://kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu/cmmap/themes/interactions.html">
here: kiwi.atmos.colostate.edu/cmmap/themes/interactions.html</a>.<p></p>
Regards,<p></p>
Steve Krueger and Chin-Hoh Moeng<p></p>
Interactions of Deep and Shallow Convection and Turbulence Break-out Group<br />
Co-leaders<p></p>

<b>Action items for Aug 2007</b><br /><ul>
<li> Identify or execute useful benchmark LES simulations:<ul>
	<li> Identify existing small-domain: GCSS cases (all)</li>
	<li> Identify existing large-domain: LBA, RICO, etc (all)</li>
	<li> Obtain forcing datasets from MMF and execute LES: (Tao)</li>
	<li> Execute new idealized large-domain: (Moeng)</li>
	<li> Update and test LES models with improved microphysics (Krueger, Blossey, others)</li></ul></li>
<li> Test and evaluate CRM/NWP/GCM parameterizations against
benchmark simulations and/or observations<ul>
	<li> In SCMs and CRMs (Cheng, Krueger, Lappen, Grabowski )</li></ul></li>
<li> Analyze benchmark simulationsa<ul>
	<li> With goal to improve CSRM simulations (Moeng, others)</li>
	<li> With goal to improve conventional GCM parameterizations (Krueger)</li></ul></li>
<li> Process relevant observational datasets<ul>
	<li> New products (Krueger, others)</li></ul></li>
<li> Collaborate with Low Cloud Feedbacks and MJO focus groups
(Bjorn, Marat, Mitch, Steve)</li></ul>
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