PROVISIONAL AGENDA AND EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM FOR THE INITIAL INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLANNING MEETING FOR THE COORDINATED ENHANCED OBSERVING PERIOD (CEOP), A COMPONENT OF THE WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME (WCRP), GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT (GEWEX) ENDORSED BY THE COMMITTEE ON EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES (CEOS), INTEGRATED GLOBAL OBSERVERVING STRATEGY PARTNERS (IGOS-P) NASDA/EORC, TOKYO, JAPAN, 6-8 MARCH 2002 (REV-2b, 6 March 2002)
------------------------------------- Wednesday, 6 March 2002: ------------------------------------- 9.00 - 9.30 REGISTRATION 9.30 1.OPENING OF SESSION AND OVERVIEW OF CEOP INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK (Remarks in this section should be held to 10-15 minutes) 1.1 Welcome from NASDA/EORC Hosting Organization Representative (Y. Furuhama) 1.2 Welcome from the JMA/NWP Department Representative (N. Sato) 1.3 Assessment/Perspective of CEOP as part of WCRP/GEWEX (S. Sorooshian, R.Stewart) 1.4 CEOP Associations with Other Elements of WCRP (Goodison, Mechoso) 1.5 CEOP as a contribution to the CEOS/IGOS-P Water Initiative (R. Lawford) ----------------------------------- 11.15 BREAK ----------------------------------- 11.30 2.CEOP INTRODUCTION/SCIENCE OVERVIEW BY CEOP LEAD SCIENTIST (T. KOIKE) The CEOP Science Strategy and how it will be addressed at the meeting will be introduced. Satellite and in situ data Integration and assimilation topics will be introduced with model related issues. CEOP is seeking to achieve a database of common measurements from both in situ and satellite remote sensing measurements, as well as matching model output that includes Model Output Location Time Series (MOLTS) data along with four-dimensional data analyses (4DDA; including global and regional reanalyses) for a specified period. In this context, carefully selected reference stations are linked closely with the existing network of observing sites involved in the GEWEX Continental Scale Experiments (CSEs), which are distributed around the world. 12.15 3.CEOP IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY SUMMARY (S. Benedict) A key aspect of CEOP is to coordinate the regional observations by the different GEWEX Continental Scale Experiments (CSEs) that have been established within the framework of the GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel (GHP) to facilitate global and transferability studies. The enhanced observations of sub-surface (soil), surface (radiation and precipitation), near surface (flux tower), atmospheric soundings (raob and profiler), and 3D (radar and aircraft) made at the CSE CEOP reference sites will provide CEOP with the basic resources necessary to achieve its main scientific objectives. The CEOP science objectives take into account the requirements of GEWEX, CLIVAR, and other WCRP core projects as well as the climate research community at large and the CEOP coordinated database will also serve numerical modeling and analysis needs. ----------------------------------- 12.30 LUNCH ----------------------------------- 13.30 4.CEOP DATA MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP STRATEGY OVERVIEW/UPDATE (S. Williams / H-J Isemer) A great deal of information has recently been made available concerning the characteristics of the CEOP reference sites. This information has been placed in the CEOP Reference Site Table at: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/ghp/ceopdm/rsite.html. Sufficient information has also now been obtained to allow a first draft version of a CEOP data access policy to accommodate the particular CEOP circumstances for collection, formatting, quality checking, and timely distribution of specific coordinated data products. Work is also underway to take all the available information associated with the current Reference Site database and to describe the characteristics of a CEOP data set for the period July through September 2001. This exercise should provide CEOP with the nature and quality of a strawman data set that might be able to be assembled from data that is available or which is expected to become available from, at least a subset of, the current set of reference sites, and that could be released, in due course, within the guidelines of a CEOP data accessibility policy. 14.00 5.CSE/CEOP REFERENCE SITES BRIEFLY INTRODUCED (5 minutes is the maximum time allotted to each site introduction presentation) A critical facet of CEOP is its data collection and organization to support advanced climate research. Of the three types of data (in situ, satellite and model output) that are the basis of CEOP, the In situ data gathered from the reference sites and reference hydrological basins from the CSE regions around the world is the most fundamental component of the CEOP strategy. The CEOP reference sites located in the six most comprehensive GEWEX CSEs namely, GAPP (Mississippi River Basin), BALTEX (Baltic Sea region), MAGS (Canadian Mackenzie River Basin), LBA (Amazon region), CAMP (Asian monsoon region) and CATCH (Western African Monsoon Region), are being provided, through Multi-National commitments, to improve the collective contribution of the CSEs to the global requirements of CEOP. Other candidate continental scale basin studies are also being considered from contributions to CEOP. Representatives will briefly introduce the sites in their regions: - BALTEX (Grassl/Isemer/Tammelin/Poikonen/Others) - MAGS (Stewart/Goodison) - GAPP (Lawford / Williams) - LBA (Marengo/Manzi/Horta/Carioca de Araujo) - GAME/CAMP (Ohata/ Davva/ Kaihotsu/ Dong/ Cho/ Kim/ Ueno/ Ni/ Bollasina/ Aoki1/ Aoki2/ Shirooka/ Tien/ Yamanaka/ Fujiyoshi / Chen) - CATCH (TBD) - OTHER CANDIDATE SITES (TBD) ----------------------------------- 15.30 BREAK ----------------------------------- 15.45 5.CSE/CEOP REFERENCE SITES BRIEFLY INTRODUCED - CONTINUED (5 minutes is the maximum time allotted to each site introduction presentation) 17.00 6.CEOP WATER AND ENERGY SIMULATION AND PREDICTION STRATEGY OVERVIEW (J. Marengo, R. Stewart, C. Fortelius, Others) A CEOP Water and Energy Simulation and Prediction (C-WESP) Working Group has been organized. This Group plans to address the accomplishment of one of the main CEOP aims associated with the use of enhanced observations to better document and simulate water and energy fluxes and reservoirs over land on diurnal to annual temporal scales and to better predict these on temporal scales up to seasonal for water resource applications. Specific issues related to these objectives, which are being defined and incorporated into the CEOP scientific strategy will be addressed. -------------------------------------- 18.00 ADJOURN --------------------------------------
-------------------------------------- Thursday, 7 March 2002: -------------------------------------- 9.30 7.CEOP SATELLITE DATA INTEGRATION STRATEGY OVERVIEW (T. Koike/Ochiai, J. Fischer, P. Houser and M. Bosilovich will present by remote telecon/cast, Others) A CEOP Satellite Data Integration (CSDIN) Working Group has been organized and is making progress on the satellite data integration activity under development by NASDA and the University of Tokyo (UT). It has been reconfirmed that a 500 tera-byte data archival system at UT will be available for the CEOP satellite data integration work. NASDA has also proposed that a CEOP CEOS/WGISS Test Facility (CEOP-WTF) be developed to assist with the derivation of CEOP special products from each satellite sensor. Groups are undertaking Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) projects that are developing at both Continental and global (GLDAS) scales. These projects are expected to lead to more accurate reanalysis and forecast simulations by NWP models. 10.30 8.CEOP MONSOON SYSTEMS STRATEGY OVERVIEW (T. Yasunari, W. Lau, R. Mechoso, Others) A CEOP Monsoon Systems (CMONS) Working Group has been organized. - This Group plans to address the accomplishment of one of the main CEOP aims associated with the documenting of the seasonal march of the monsoon systems, assessing the monsoon systems driving mechanisms, and investigating the possible physical connections between such systems. - The specific issues related to these objectives, which are being defined and incorporated into the CEOP scientific strategy will be addressed. Others, ----------------------------------- 11.00 BREAK ----------------------------------- 11.15 8.CEOP MONSOON SYSTEMS STRATEGY OVERVIEW (T. Yasunari, W. Lau, R. Mechoso, Others) - Continued 11.45 9.ORGANIZATION OF CEOP PARALLEL WORKING GROUP SESSIONS ON OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH (All Participants) Parallel working sessions will be set up in Plenary to address specific implementation issues associated with the main CEOP Implementation Working Group topics. Participants can divide between the groups as they wish and may "float" between sessions if their interests are shared across the defined topics. ----------------------------------- 12.15 LUNCH ----------------------------------- 13.15 10.MEETING OF CEOP WORKING GROUPS IN PARALLEL SESSIONS Two sessions are planned: 10.1 CEOP Data Management and Satellite Data Integration Working Groups Session (Williams-Chair, Isemer/Fischer- Correspondents) This session will address the main issues associated with the CEOP Implementation Working Groups on Satellite Data Integration and Data Management. Presentations will be made as necessary and the Chair and Correspondents will organize the group to respond to at least the following topics: (i) Data Collection (CEOP Reference Site Table update process) (ii) Data Quality Assurance/Control (iii) Data Policy (including Data Availability, Data Archive/Flow, etc.) (iv) Composite/Coordinated Dataset Definition (minimum parameter set) (v) Possible additional Satellite Validation Sites (vi) WGISS Test Facility (WTF) Definition/Applicability (vii) Satellite data product requirements associated with reference sites 10.2 CEOP Water and Energy Simulation and Prediction (WESP) and Monsoon Systems Working Groups Session (Yasunari/Lau, Co-Chairs, Mechoso/Fortelius- Correspondents) This session will address the main issues associated with the CEOP Implementation Working Groups on Water and Energy Simulation and Prediction and Monsoon Systems. Presentations will be made as necessary and the Chair and the Correspondents will organize the group to respond to at least the following topics: (i) Temporal scale issues (diurnal through Interannual) (ii) Spacial scale issues (local through Global) (iii) Intercomparison of model products and their application to error analyses (iv) Data (observational) Requirements ----------------------------------- 15.30 BREAK ----------------------------------- 15.45 10.3 Plenary Session (All Participants: E.Ikoma, S.Williams, T.Koike, J.Marengo, W.Lau) The Chairs/Correspondents of each of the Groups will be given 60 minutes to report out on the results of the parallel sessions to all participants including time for open discussion on the outcomes of their deliberations. ---------------------------------------- 18.00 ADJOURN ----------------------------------------
-------------------------------------- Friday, 8 March 2002: -------------------------------------- 9.30 11.PLENARY SESSION TO ADDRESS SPECIAL REPORTS AS REQUIRED This session will provide time for further technical reports at least two reports are anticipated: 11.1 CEOP Model Data Strategy (J. Roads) CEOP should provide a wealth of data to enable extensive testing of atmospheric model parametrizations, and have urged NWP and Climate modeling centers to consider how to take advantage of the opportunities provided. At the same time a request has been made by WCRP of these Centers for their help and participation in CEOP through the provision to the international research community of some of their global and regional analyses and model predictions (if possible) of water and energy cycle processes over the proposed CEOP period. In particular, CEOP has requested high temporal resolution time-series output referred to as Model Output Location Time Series or MOLTS at specified individual sites and gridded output in both three- and two-dimensional forms processed as synoptic snapshots at a minimum of six-hourly intervals. 11.2 A Possible CEOP Contribution to Improvement of Climate Model Parameterizations (M. Fiorino) CEOP will contribute to improvement of climate model parameterizations. By contributing to work that looks at errors between model runs in a forecast mode and the observations this goal may be achieved. The Climate Change Prediction Program (CCPP)/ARM GCM Analysis of Tendency Errors (CAGATE) project is undertaking to extend comparison of climate models with the instantaneous state of the atmosphere to the global scale. This work depends on improvements that have been made in the assimilation of observations by the major NWP centers that could provide the community with an improved analysis that may be an excellent observational data source for most of the Earth. CEOP data products may be useful to evaluate model parameterizations on short time scales. 10.30 12. CONVENING OF CEOP SCIENCE STEERING COMMITTEE (SSC) (H. Grassl) Dr H. Grassl will convene a breakout session of the CEOP SSC to address at least the following issues: (i) Maximizing the Science and Technology Benefits from CEOP (ii) Framework for Oversight of CEOP Science Implementation Plans/Results (iii) Specific recommendations for efficient organization and management of CEOP to achieve the main science objectives (iv) Objectives and Plans for possible CEOP Science Workshop in 2002. (NOTE: Sessions of the two other Working Groups may take place in parallel with the SSC breakout session as required) ----------------------------------- 11.15 BREAK ----------------------------------- 11.45 13. CONTINUATION OF SSC BREAKOUT AND PARALLEL WORKING GROUP SESSIONS AS REQUIRED OR MEET IN PLENARY ----------------------------------- 12.30 LUNCH ----------------------------------- 13.30 14. FINAL PLENARY
Data management:S.Williams1, S.Williams2, H. Grassl1, H. Grassl2 Monsoons:J. Matsumoto WESP:J. Road Satellites:J. Fischer ----------------------------------- 15.30 BREAK ----------------------------------- 16.00 14.FINAL PLENARY (CONTINUED AS REQUIRED) ADJOURN
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