Offenbach, Germany, 28-30 October 2015

Programme:

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Day 1: Wednesday 28 October 2015
9:00-9:30 Plenary Welcome (Julia & workshop organizing team)
9:30-10:30 Plenary (3x20 min) WCRP (Dave Carlson) / WWRP (Paolo Ruti) / GAW (Christian Plaß­Dülmer)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Workshop Program Presentation and Discussion (30 min)
  • Who is at this workshop? - short round of introduction
  • What do we want to achieve (short-term/long-term)?
  • Brief outline of white paper, etc…
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
The remainder of the workshop will be mostly dedicated to breakout group discussions, focused on science/structural discussion topics; all groups discuss the same topic at the same time.
Breakout groups (BG), always work in two or more rooms on the same topic
  • BG I Seamless earth system prediction / representation of scale interactions
  • BG II Communication of uncertainty and sustainability of user-driven science
  • BG III Earth System Science Frontiers /interdisciplinarity
  • BG IV ECS structures
  • BG V Implementation
14:00-15:15 BG I Seamless earth system prediction / representation of scale interactions (two rooms)
15:15-15:45 Plenary Synthesis (big room)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:30 BG II Communication of uncertainty and sustainability of user-driven science (two rooms)
17:30-18:15 Plenary Synthesis (big room)
18:30 - Open End Social Event
Day 2: Thursday 29 October 2015
9:00-10:00 Plenary Synthesis from Day 1, white paper science content
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:45 BG III Earth System Science Frontiers / Interdisciplinarity (two rooms)
11:45-12:15 Plenary Synthesis
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 BG IV ECS structures (general), two rooms
14:30-15:00 Plenary Synthesis
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30-18:00 Plenary ECS structures (general)
Day 3: Friday 30 October 2015
9:00-10:00 Plenary Next steps for all things that are open after days 1 & 2
10:30-12:30 BG V Implementation issues
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Plenary Synthesis
14:30-15:00 Final discussion
15:00 - 15:15 Closing