Dear All,

    This is an early warning of the next GCSS BL clouds group meeting.
With many thanks to Phil Austin for offering to host us, this will be at
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 

            8th - 12th June 2009

It will primarily be a joint meeting with CFMIP (the Cloud Feedback
Model Intercomparison Project), so at least two days will focus on
progress with the low cloud feedback model intercomparison case(s) and
related work.  The rest of the week will give us time to discuss our
other on-going activities, etc.  
   So, to summarise the list of topics we currently have to discuss at
this meeting:

1) progress with the low cloud feedback model intercomparison case(s):
Minghua has a draft case description that should be released soon

2) progress on further RICO work

3) progress on a possible stratocumulus to cumulus transition case

4) a summary of recent field experiments (VOCALS and POST spring to my
mind)

5) a discussion (at the request of US CLIVAR) of whether the model
development community could more effectively integrate the knowledge
from recent boundary layer cloud field experiments into global/regional
and LES models and parameterizations

6) an update on progress with the GPCI 

Plus, I would also hope we'd have time for some individual research
presentations, as usual.

More details will be released nearer the time.
   All the best for now,
       Adrian