This is the homepage for the EPIC2001 project. EPIC2001 is a process study sponsored by NSF and NOAA under the US CLIVAR program. The purpose of EPIC2001 is to better understand those processes which control the behavior of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system in the eastern tropical Pacific, and in particular the distribution of sea surface temperature, ocean mixed layer depth, and atmospheric deep convection over the seasonal cycle. The field phase of EPIC2001 is scheduled for September and October of 2001 and is based in Huatulco, Mexico and San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Available information is as follows:

• EPIC2001 Overview in html format.
• EPIC2001 Overview in downloadable gzipped postscript format (about 0.7 MB).
• EPIC2001 Overview in downloadable PDF format (about 0.7 MB).
• Announcement for 17 December 1999 meeting in Seattle, Washington.
• Agenda for 17 December 1999 meeting in Seattle, Washington.
• Proposals being submitted to the National Science Foundation.
• Electra request for EPIC2001.
• Revised aircraft request for EPIC2001.
• Overall EPIC program.
• Information on EPIC2001 meeting in Socorro, NM, 13-14 January, 2001.
• Link to the JOSS website for EPIC2001.
• David Vollaro's EPIC2001-related GOES satellite animations for the tropical east Pacific.
• Draft operations plan for EPIC2001 (in pdf).
• Subplan for the ship Ron Brown (in postscript).
• Information on Ron Brown radar operations (in postscript).
• Aerosonde and radiosonde plans for the Galapagos Islands (in postscript).
• Brief report on EPIC data workshop, hosted by NOAA/PMEL in Seattle, 25-26 March, 2002.
• List of publications associated with EPIC2001.
• Joint EPIC/PACS meeting, 15-18 Sept. 2003, NCAR, Boulder, CO. The meeting schedule is here and the abstracts are here.
• Supplement to BAMS paper on EPIC2001.