The floats work should not consume more than 24 hours of cruise time. Andersson provided a status report. No problems or delays reported. The policy for using data from other partners in the project was discussed. The secretariat will write a short document with guidelines and circulate to all partners.
All work is on schedule.
The tracer simulation will not be ready until month 18, which is one year after the release. The steering committee unanimously urges the modeling partners to plan their work in order to be ready to present results at the workshop in 97. This is the only way to secure a constructive interaction between modellers and observations, in particular with respect to the tracer modeling. Drange will discuss this with TG 4 partners to secure that the modeling groups will present results at the workshop in September 97. Backhaus can look at tracer convection in the vertical, this will be a local research model.