Day 1: Monday, 29 March 2010

Session 1: Opening of meeting

1.1 Welcome and logistics (Trenberth) (Organize group dinner; Tuesday)
1.2 Opening remarks by local host
1.3 Introduction: “Everyone represents a group”
1.4 Purpose of the meeting and Adoption of the agenda (Trenberth) Main topics to be covered
1.5 Conduct of meeting: Formation of Task groups (see Appendix)

Session 2: WOAP updates

2.1 Review of activities since WOAP-III (Trenberth)
2.2 Report from WCRP JSC: role of WOAP within WCRP (Asrar, Busalacchi)
2.3 Discussion - Reference documents: WOAP whitepaper to JSC*, Report to GCOS*

Session 3: Reports from WCRP Groups (Focus on next 2 years; cf session 12.3 for post 2013):

3.1 WGNE (Gauthier)
3.2 WGCM and modeling issues for WOAP (Taylor)
3.3 Perspectives from WCRP Projects
CLIVAR (Stammer)
CliC (Key)
SPARC (von Savigny)
CEOP (Koike)
GEWEX (Kummerow)
WGSF (Kent)
3.4 Discussion on future directions - Reference papers: reports to JSC

Session 4: Coordination with GCOS and GEO

4.1 Update on GCOS Activities (Richter)
4.2 AOPC (Simmons)
4.3 OOPC (Lindstrom)
4.4 TOPC (Dolman)
4.5 Cryosphere observations (Key)
4.6 WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) (Ryan )
4.7 Report from GEO; GEO tasks (Tanner)
4.8 Discussion (Manton) - see 10.2
Reference papers: GCOS and Panels report to JSC, GCOS progress reports

Session 5: Space matters and relation with space agencies

5.1 CEOS Activities on Climate (Petiteville)
5.2 GCOS (Simmons, Lindstrom, Dolman)
5.3 Intro to SCOPE-CM (Ryan)
5.4 ESA Climate Change Initiative (Mathieu)
5.5 NPOESS developments (Busalacchi)
5.6 JAXA Earth Observation, GCOM, GPM, Earth-CARE, GOSAT (Igarashi)
5.7 Discussion - Reference papers:
http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMUX6NKRGF_index_0.html
http://earth.esa.int/workshops/esa_cci/intro.html
http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/wcrp/documents/NPOESS_Decision_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Session 6:

6.1 German perspective on observations and WOAP (Martin Visbeck)

Day 2: Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Session 7: Reanalyses

7.1 Atmospheric reanalyses: an update (Bosilovich)
7.1.1 JRA55 (Koike)
7.2 Ocean reanalyses (Stammer)
7.3 Cryosphere reanalyses (Key)
7.4 Coupled reanalyses/assimilation of atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, and land surface data, “seamless” predictions (Gauthier)
7.5 Report from Reanalyses WG and discussion of follow-up actions (Vose)
7.6 Planned reanalysis workshops (Bosilovich)
7.7 Next reanalysis conference: org committee (Trenberth)
7.8 Discussion - Reference papers: see update on atmospheric reanalyses

Session 8: Reprocessing

8.1 Report from GEWEX on progress summarizing the status with regard to activities related to reprocessing, including variables suitable for reprocessing (need, readiness), activities definitely planned, and funding and commitments already obtained and required.
(Kummerow)
8.2 GSICS (Ryan)
8.3 Additional comments by project reps
8.4 Actions and recommendations to advance this activity
http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/5.1SCOPE_CM_SEP02_PilotProgress.pdf
http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/5.1SCOPE-CM-PaperGuidelineGCOS_021009.pdf

Session 9: In situ issues

9.1 Working Group on Surface Fluxes (WGSF) (Kent)
9.2 Ocean Obs ‘09 (Stammer, Lindstrom)
9.3 AOPC (Simmons)
9.4 GRUAN (meeting 2-4 March 2010) (Westermeyer, Richter)
9.4 TOPC (Dolman)
9.5 Flux towers (IGBP: Reichstein)
9.6 Discussion, other issues

Session 10 Misc, Review of action items; Host Country (Germany/EU) Activities

10.1 IPCC schedule (Trenberth) http://www.ipcc.ch/activities/activities.htm#1
10.2 Possible actions for WOAP on items and recommendations to WCRP and GCOS: discussion (M. Manton to lead)
10.3 Climate Service Center (Irene Fischer-Bruns)
10.4 Tour of DKRZ new building/computer/climate center (5 min walk)

Day 3: Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Session 11: Data activities

GCOS –SC Action 27. Peer Review of Climate Data Sets. The SC called for further elaboration of the issue of peer review of climate datasets with experts in WCRP, GOOS, and GTOS, noting that the next meeting of the WOAP would be an appropriate forum to consider this subject.

11.1 Report from Task Group on Data Management (Cattle)
11.2 CEOP perspectives (Koike)
11.3 Data for model evaluations (Taylor, Teixeira)
11.4 SPARC Data Initiative (Tegtmeier)
11.5 NOAA NCDC Data initiative, results from March workshop (Vose)
11.6 JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology (Kent)
11.7 WMO Information System (Ryan)
11.8 WCRP Policy statement on Data Management (Cattle)

http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/11.3Datasets4CMIP.pdf
http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/gcos-137.pdf

Session 12: Climate Information

12.1 WCRP open science conference http://www.wcrp-climate.org/conference2011
12.2 WCC-3 repercussions (Asrar) http://www.wmo.int/wcc3/page_en.php
12.3 Transition of WCRP Projects beyond 2013: legacy, issues arising
12.3.1 CLIVAR (Stammer)
12.3.2 GEWEX (Kummerow)
12.3.3 SPARC (von Savigny)
12.3.4 CliC (Key)
12.3.5 WGSF (Kent)
12.3.6 Modeling groups (Taylor)

http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/WCRPobservations09v3.doc

Session 13: Climate information (cont)

13.1 WCRP observations, datasets, and analysis strategy
13.2 Recommendations, actions (Revitalisation of Task Group)
13.3 Future directions
13.4 Discussion

Session 14: Review

14.1 Reports by task groups formed during meeting (write up required)
1/ Data matters: (sessions 8, 9, 11) Manton
2/ Current and future data: (session 5) Key
3/ Reanalyses (session 7) Bosilovich
4/ GEO/GCOS (session 4) Tanner
14.2 Review of action items Westermeyer, Trenberth
14.3 Other Business
- New chair
- Next meeting
- Intra-session activities
- New members