From dcarlson@atd.ucar.edu  Fri Oct 22 13:33:13 1999
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:34:09 -0600
From: David Carlson <dcarlson@atd.ucar.edu>
Organization: NCAR / ATD
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Sorry for delay, used a bad address on first transmission.

Jay:

OFAP faces a nearly-impossible task at this point - to fit much good
science into few deployment fund dollars.  Even delaying or rejecting
more than half of the present list of requests leaves budget problems.

The OFAP also wants to find ways to support STEPS.  In particular, the
panel agrees with the STEPS science goals and overall experimental
design, including the proposed use of two multiparameter radars and of
the T-28.  The panel also recognizes that STEPS has already reduced
costs by shrinking its observation time from 12 weeks to 8 weeks. 
However, the panel still faces a substantial mismatch between the number
of good science projects and the availability of deployment funds.  

Therefore, the FAC asks that STEPS give very serious consideration to an
option discussed by the panel: re-location of the experiment resources
in a manner that would not move CHILL.  The FAC asks the STEP PIs to
consider deployment combinations of S-POL at a location of their choice
with CHILL at Greeley, taking into consideration perhaps Pawnee and
other front-range radars (e.g., Denver or Cheyenne NexRad), compared to
the estimated and climatological occurrences of LP and other storms and
to the science goals of STEPS.  Specifically, could STEPS accomplish its
goals of multiple Doppler radar measurements co-located with lightning
and electrical field measurements and also accomplish intercomparisons
of polarization data from different viewing angles using a deployment
strategy that did not move CHILL?

I would appreciate a response from STEPS in the next 7 to 10 days.

Thank you very much for your help.

Dave C.