SPECS fifth General Assembly

Meeting agenda

Monday 3 October, PM

Conference 1 room

  • 14:00-14:30 Registration
  • 14:30-14:45 Welcome by Met Office representative (TBC)
  • 14:45-15:00 Introduction to the agenda (F.J. Doblas-Reyes, BSC)
  • 15:00-15:30 WCRP Grand Challenge on Near-Term Climate Prediction (Adam Scaife, Met Office)
  • 15:30-16:00 Coffee break
  • 16:00-16:15 Scientific talk: A new characterization in the spatial verification framework for average distance false alarms and misses (Eric Gilleland, UCAR)
  • 16:15-18:00 WPs meetings: preparation of the WP summary presentations, pending deliverables and milestones, and organisation of the contributions to the periodic report (The WPs have been grouped following a series of themes; the final grouping is left to the WP leaders)
    • Conference Room 1: Predictability and processes WP2.2, WP4.2, WP4.3, WP5.1
    • Conference Room 2: Prediction, initialisation, stochastic processes and resolution WP3.1, WP3.2, WP4.1, WP4.4
    • Conference Room 3/4: Verification, climate information and climate services WP2.1, WP5.2, WP5.3, WP6.1, WP6.2

Tuesday 4 October

Conference 1 room

  • 9:30-15:30 Presentations for each WP (20 mins per WP including questions):
    • 9:30-9:50 David Stephenson (Univ. Exeter): WP2.1 summary
    • 9:50-10:10 Eric Guilyardi (CNRS): WP2.2 summary
    • 10:10-10:30 Michel Dequé (Météo-France): WP3.1 summary
    • 10:30-10:50 Johanna Baehr (Univ. Hamburg): WP3.2 summary
    • 10:50-11:10 Klaus Wyser (SMHI): WP4.1 summary
    • 11:10-11:40 Coffee break
    • 11:40-12:00 Franco Catalano (ENEA):WP4.2 summary
    • 12:00-12:20 Tim Stockdale (ECMWF): WP4.3 summary
    • 12:20-12:40 Antje Weisheimer (Univ. Oxford): WP4.4 summary
    • 12:40-13:30 Lunch
    • 13:30-13:50 Emma Suckling (Univ. Reading): WP5.1 summary
    • 13:50-14:10 José Manuel Gutiérrez (CSIC): WP5.2 summary
    • 14:10-14:30 Caio Augusto dos Santos(INPE): WP5.3 summary
    • 14:30-14:50 Matteo de Felice (ENEA): WP6.1 summary
    • 14:50-15:10 Adam Scaife (Met Office): WP6.2 summary
  • 15:10-15:30 Coffee break
  • 15:30-16:30 Data repositories, final report and introduction to the ECOMS international conference
    • 15:30-15:50 Data repositories (Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière)
    • 15:50-16:10 Final report and project issues (Mar Rodríguez)
    • 16:10-16:20 Introduction to the ECOMS international conference (Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes)
    • 16:20-16:40 Questions and wrap up