Sender: schwab@zeus.glerl.noaa.gov Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:04:33 -0500 From: "David J. Schwab" Organization: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Mime-Version: 1.0 To: eegle-mod@wings.glerl.noaa.gov Subject: EEGLE Modeling Group Meeting Hi gang! I had a chance to chat with Changsheng Chen at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego a couple of weeks ago about the EEGLE modeling projects. He expressed an interest in spending a week here at GLERL sometime during the month of May to work on coordination between the biological and physical modeling efforts. I was wondering if that would be a good opportunity for the whole EEGLE modeling group to get together for a day or so to discuss our progress and coordinate our plans. Some possible areas of discussion could be: - Which surface variables do we all need from Paul Roebber's MM5 runs? - What's the best way to handle vertical segmentation and bottom friction parameterization in the 3-d circulation model to accommodate ice dynamics, particle dynamics, and biology? - How are we going to characterize initial conditions and source function for the particle dynamics model? I think this will be relavent to the wave and ice modeling efforts. - What grain size classes will be included in sediment and biological models? How will they interact with each other and with biology? Another question that came up at the CoOP SSC meeting was whether we wanted to combine the EEGLE and KITES modeling groups for planning and coordination purposes. Since Chen, Paul Roebber, and Joe Niebauer are already working on KITES, I think Larry Sanford from Horn Point Laboratory and maybe Elise Ralph would be the only additions. Please let me know what time in May you think would be a good time to get together, or if you have another suggestion. I suggest we meet here in Ann Arbor this time, but maybe somewhere else next time. Also, what do you think about combining the EEGLE and KITES modeling groups? Sincerely, ... Dave Schwab P.S. I'd like to commend Paul Roebber for providing the real-time "heads up" forecasts for conditions conducive to Lake Michigan resuspension events. These have been extremely useful in experimental planning. -- Dr. David J. Schwab NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory 2205 Commonwealth Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-741-2120 734-741-2055 (FAX)