Agenda

41st Session of the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC)

18–20 May 2020, Online

Agenda (PDF) (as at 18 May 2020)

Day 1: 18 May 2020, 13:00–16:00 CEST (Geneva time)
Day 1
Time
Session Overview
13:00–13:30
Session 1: JSC Opening Session
13:30–16:00
Session 2: WCRP Strategy Implementation and Transition 
Report on progress and discussion on way forward
  • Update on the implementation process
  • Discussions on WCRP structure and elements

Break of 20 minutes around 14:30

Day 2: 19 May 2020, 20:00–23:00 CEST (Geneva time)
Day 2
Time
Session Overview
20:00–20:30
Session 3: WCRP Strategy Implementation and Transition (cont.)
  • Summary of main recommendations from Task Teams
  • Recap from the day 1 discussion
20:30–23:00
Session 4: WCRP Business - Activity Reports
  • Climate and Cryosphere (CliC)
  • Grand Challenge (GC) on Melting Ice and Global Consequences
  • Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC)
  • Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR)
  • GC on Regional Sea-level Change and Coastal Impacts
  • WCRP and the UN Ocean Decade
  • Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX)
  • GC Water for the Food Baskets of the World
  • GC Weather and Climate Extremes

Break of 10 minutes around 21:30

Day 3: 20 May 2020, 13:00–16:30 CEST (Geneva time)
Day 3
Time
Session Overview
13:00–15:30
Session 5: WCRP Business - Activity Reports (cont.)
i)
  • Grand Challenge (GC) on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity
  • GC on Carbon Feedbacks in the Climate System
  • Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project
  • Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP)
  • GC on Near-Team Climate Prediction
  • WCRP Data Advisory Council (WDAC)
  • Discussion
ii)
  • Working Group on Regional Climate (WGRC)
  • Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)
  • WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (WMAC)
  • Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), including the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)
  • Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE)
  • Discussion
15:30–16:30
Session 6: Other WCRP Business
  • WCRP Carbon Footprint
  • Partner comments
  • WCRP 2021/22 budget briefing
  • Other topics as proposed by the JSC
  • Wrap-up and close of the open Session of JSC-41

Break of 10 minutes around 14:15

Day 4: 21 May 2020 - Free
Day 5: 22 May 2020, 13:00–16:30 CEST (Geneva time)
Day 5
Time
Session Overview
13:00–13:30
Internal JSC-only
13:30–16:30
WCRP-JSC Business 
  • WCRP Secretariat session
  • Updated co-sponsor agreement
  • JSC membership and leadership renewal
  • Membership process
  • Core-activity memberships
  • CMIP Office and Monsoons Office
  • Other strategic topics for discussion
  • Any other business
  • Closing

Break of 20-30 minutes around 14:30