36th Session of WCRP Joint Scientific Committee

8-10 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

JSC-36 Agenda Outline for Meeting Sessions, a more detailed agenda can be downloaded here.

The draft version of the Action Items can be downloaded here.

  Wednesday 8 April Thursday 9 April Friday 10 April
9h00-10h30

WCRP Welcome, Introductions, Chair's vision and charges, business and financial report, communication and outreach strategy

 

Presentations:

WCRP Vision

(G. Brasseur)

Introduction

(D. Carlson)

WCRP CO Strategy

(R. Boscolo)

WCRP Core Project Reports 
(short crisp reports)

 

Parallel Working Sessions: Science

 

  1. Decadal across WCRP (summary)
  2. Climate Information (summary)

 

  Coffee / tea break
11h00-12h30

Sponsors & Partners Reports:

 

  • WMO (J. Lengoasa)
  • IOC (V. Ryabinin)
  • ICSU (H. Hackmann)
  • IGBP (S. Seitzinger)
  • GCOS (C. Richter)
  • GEO (B. Ryan)

WGs Reports + Affiliates
(short crisp reports)

 

 Planary wrap-up session

 

  

  Lunch break
14h00-15h30

Grand Challenges Reports
(short crisp reports on progress and issues)

 

Presentations:

Clouds & Circulation (B. Stevens)

Water Availability (P. vOeveland)

Extreme Events (X. Zhang)

Sea Level (D. Stammer)

Melting Ice (G. Flato)

Regional Info (C. Goodess)

Parallel Working Sessions: Science

 

  1. Urban Issues (summary)
  2. Planet Data Initiative (summary)

 

 

 

WMAC parallel (Salle 7 Jura)

 

 

JSC Session

 

 

  Coffee / tea break
16h00-17h30

Connections / Integrations
(focusing on Grand Challenges)

Parallel Working Sessions: Science

 

  1.  Funding and Structure (summary)
  2. Capacity Building (summary)

 

 

 

WMAC parallel (Salle 7 Jura)