Paris, France, 6-8 July 2015

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Provisional Agenda

Day 1: Monday 6 July 2015
Morning Welcome and Agenda by Co-chairs
Introduction (Albert Klein Tank)
Perspectives from 4 sponsors (total 45 minutes), not detailed and long and standard presentation
ETCCDI, past success and future expectations (Xuebin Zhang), co-chairs, brief highlights of ETCCDI contribution to science (data and IPCC assessment) and service and capacity building, new contributions from GEWEX (runoff, remote sensing) and JCOMM and CLIVAR (storm and waves, extreme sea level etc.)
The way we operate, draft work plan, co-chairs, working group involving members and non-members, no regular meetings, hands-on work, indices development/harmonization/standardization, data collection and analyses, workshops Linkage and (desired) overlap with various groups, data rescue and homogenization, surface temperature initiative (ISTI), sectorial indices, climate for service, Extreme GC, IDAG, any other?
Afternoon Ocean and Sea Level Indices Development
Extreme Water Level Indices and Extreme Wave Indices (Xiaolan Wang)
Extreme Sea Level, (Kevin and Cathy?)
Any other, (Scott?)
Ocean Temperature (Lisa?)
Discussion: what we can do, what we can deliver, connection/contribution to Sea Level GC? Action items.
Day 2: Tuesday 7 July 2015
Morning Runoff
Availability of runoff data, proposed indices and work plan (Lukas Gudmundsson)
Discussion, action items
Remote sensing
Remote sensed data at daily time scale? Validation satellite data with in-situ based indices, (Ali)
Discussion, action items
Afternoon Capacity Building
Capacity Building in Mesoamerica (Jorge L. Vazquez)
Gaps on global map targeting AR6, (Lisa) Where we have data to when, how we update
Expansion of ECA-type platform to other regions, progress and challenges (Albert Klein Tank)
Discussion: routine update of indices data, who can/will contribute, identify regions that can be updated with additional workshops only, opportunities for future workshops
Software/Indices Standardization, (Xuebin), coordination of within ETCCDI, among different groups, (Albert)
Discussion, action items
Day 3: Wednesday 8 July 2015
Morning Action items
Contribution to IPCC AR6, timeline, strategy, data updates, workshops.
Finalizing work plan, review action item