DeMaria, Molenar, Grasso, Fryer

The 2002-2004 RAMMT Infrastructure Support Group hardware and personnel requirements has been completed and presented to the team.  Efforts are underway to revise the documents after team input and to being implementation.

A letter of intent was submitted to the NOAA CLIVAR- PAC, a NOAA Office of Global Programs research initiative.  Proposed work will include the examination of 5 years of satellite climatologies to study inter-annual variability of cloudiness and rainfall in Central America, as well as the intra-seasonal propagation of  larger scale features evident in the water vapor imagery related to tropical cyclone genesis in the Atlantic.