News from Science Director (0800UTC June 24, 2008)

IOP9 is started to operate on 06Z June 23, 2008 and will continue until 12Z June 26, 2008.
The new date for the Science Team Meeting is scheduled to be held on 00UTC June 27, 2008 at OCC of SoWMEX/TiMREX.

The tentative agenda for the meeting is as follow:

1. Program overview: Ben Jou and WC Lee
2. Facility Operation/Observation/Data Quality Summary
   1. Paul Chiou/Kathy Lin: Operation summary and forecast
   2. Chris Davis/Po-Hsiung Lin: Rawinsonde and Dropsonde
   3. Dick Johnson/Paul Ciesielski/Ching-Hwang Liu: Rawindsonde inter-comparison
   4. Ben Jou/Jian-Liang Wong: Ship observations
   5. Wen-Chau Lee/Gordon Farquharson: SPOL
   6. Yu-Chieng Liou/Tai-Chi Chen Wang: TEAM-r
   7. Gyuwon Lee/Pay-Liam Lin: Supersite, ISS, and 2D-VD
   8. Hiroshi Uyeda/Taro Shinoda/Feng Lei: Japan radar
   9. TT Terng/T M Liou/Jim Bresch: NWP/QPF
   10. Paul Chiou/Chia-Rong Chen: LAPS-WRF/QPF
   11. Fang-Jing Chien/Chun-Chieh Wang: mesoscale modeling
3. Open discussion and Concluding remarks