We are in the process of creating a strategic plan for HFIP over the next 5 years. We have circulated a preliminary plan and we would like to use this meeting to agree on a final plan using the HFIP teams. I propose we focus the program for the meeting in seeking answers to:

1. What areas of focus/themes are most important for HFIP to meet its goals over the next 5 years? Is it initialization? Is it cloud physics? Is it boundary layer processes? New data sources? Ensembles?, ...?

2. We also need to establish priorities for the focus areas established in 1.

At the meeting we will use the strategic teams to help us establish the major themes and priorities for the rest of the HFIP Project. We will have initial discussion of results from last summer followed by a group discussion of the major areas for focus. Then we would like the teams to discuss those themes arrived at in the general discussion to help HFIP set out agenda to be expressed in the strategic plan and to set priorities of and within those focus areas. We scheduled enough time for the teams to reach some specific conclusions related to the two questions above. Consequently after a presentation of the preliminary plans and discussion the strategic teams will convene to discuss these questions and determine their team's recommendations for the theme areas relevant to the scope of their team. These recommendations will be presented in a round of team reports followed by a plenary session where we will set the priorities for the program for the next several years.