16th Session of the WGSIP

10-12 March 2014, UK MetOffice, Exeter (UK).

A joint session with the ET-OPSLS is planned on Monday 10 March.

For the report of the 16th session of the WGSIP, click here

Agenda

For the tentative agenda (.pdf) of the 16th session of the WGSIP, click here (as of March 5, 2014)

Presentations

1. Introduction
- Overview: WMO ET-OPSLS – R. Graham/C. Coelho
- Overview: WGSIP - A. Scaife/F. Doblas.Reyes
- GFCS implementation – R. Kolli/M. Rixen
- Discussion and actions on requirements, synergies, and transitioning research to operations

2. Activities update
- GPC Beijing – P. Zhang
- GPC CPTEC – C. Coelho
- GPC ECMWF - L. Ferranti
- Environment Canada - W. Merryfield
- Update on NMME – B. Kirtman
- IC3 – F. Doblas-Reyes
- ICTP – A. Tompkins
- INM RAS – M. Tolstykh
- IRI - A. Robertson
- JMA/MRI (GPC Tokyo) - T. Yasuda and Y. Takaya
- JAMSTEC - S. Behara
- GPC Melbourne – David Jones
- GPC Toulouse - J.P. Céron
- Climate Prediction acitivities at Meteo France - H. Douville
- GPC Montreal – B. Denis
- NCEP (GPC Washington) - A. Kumar
- NILU - Y. Orsolini
- GPC Pretoria – A. Beraki
- GPC Seoul – S. Park
- SNWS (ANACIM) - O. Ndiaye
- UKMO (GPC Exeter) - A. Scaife
- CNU/Korea – J.-H. Jeong
- APCC - J.-H. Jeong
- Review of actions

Venue

UK MetOffice
Exeter, UK

Local Contact
Prof. Adam A. Scaife

Attendees of the joint WGSIP/ET-OPSLS session

Attendees of the WGSIP session

3. WGSIP session introduction
- Introduction - A. Scaife
- Introduction to new members (Jee-Hoon Jeong, Mikhail, Tolstykh, Tamaki Yasuda)
- Adoption of agenda
- Review of WGSIP15 actions, JSC34 and conference call
- WCRP and WMAC Update – M. Rixen
- WGSIP Update – A. Scaife/F. Doblas-Reyes

4. Decadal predictions and beyond
- Decadal forecast exchange for real time forecasts – D. Smith
- The Decadal Prediction Project – G. Boer
- WGCM CMIP6 brief – C. Senior

5. CHFP database

- CHFP analyses and draft paper – B. Kirtman
- CHFP database – C. Saulo
- Data formats, ESGF, obs4MIPs – F. Doblas-Reyes
- CHFP MIROC - T. Yasuda

6. CHFP Sub-projects
- Ice Historical Forecast Project – D. Peterson
- Land surface impacts on seasonal forecasts - H. Douville
- Stratosphere Historical Forecast Project - A. Scaife/A. Butler
- Update on the predictability of NAO - A. Scaife
- Possible initiatives on 1) tropics-extratropics teleconnections and 2) model drift/initial shock and verification of first month – F. Doblas-Reyes

7. Related initiatives
- Polar Prediction Project (PPP) – F. Doblas-Reyes
- Subseasonal-to-interannual Predictions (S2S) project – A. Robertson
- CLIVAR update, Climate Dynamics Panel – A. Pirani
- Africa Climate Conference – O. Ndiaye
- 2nd WCRP-ICTP Summer School – A. Pirani
- Update on the EU SPECS project - F.Doblas-Reyes
- EUROPIAS project - F.Doblas-Reyes
- The GSOP/GODAE Ocean Reanalysis Intercomparison Project - M. Palmer