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WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

COMMISSION FOR ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES (CAS)
3rd Joint Science Committee of the World Weather Research Programme
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California (9-11 September 2009) / CAS/WWRP-JSC/DOC1.2
(V2.1 --- 18- August 2009)
Item: 1.2

ANNOTATED AGENDA

This meeting of the JSC will be held just prior to the 3rd THORPEX International Science Symposium in Monterey, California at the Portola Hotel.

1.  ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING

1.1  Opening of the meeting (10 am, 9 September 2009)

1.2  Adoption of the agenda

1.3  Working arrangements for the meeting

2.  MANAGEMENT REPORTS

2.1  Report of the Chair of the WWRP JSC including a review of past action items from the 2nd JSC – Gilbert Brunet

2.2  Report of the Manager of the THORPEX International Project Office – David Burridge

2.3  Outcomes of WMO/Executive Committee’s Task Team on Research and review of relevant items from the 61st WMO Executive Committee meeting – David Parsons

3.  WWRP: STATUS AND FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

3.1  Report on the status of the WWRP Strategic Plan – Gilbert Brunet with Pierre Pierre Dubreuil on conference call

3.2  FINAL REPORTS OF RECENT WWRP FORECAST DEMONSTATION PROJECTS (FDPs) AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS (RDPs)

3.2.1  Final report on the MAP D-PHASE FDP – Mathias Rotach

3.2.2  Final report on the Beijing 08 FDP – Jianjie Wang

3.2.3  Final report on the Beijing 08 RDP – Jiandong Gong

3.3  NOWCASTING

3.3.1  Report of the Working Group (WG) on Nowcasting Research – Tom Keenan

3.3.2  Presentation and decision of endorsement of the proposed Vancouver 2010 SNOW FDP/RDP – George Isaac

3.3.3  Presentation on a possible Forecast Demonstration Project during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and discussion -- Dmitry Kiktev and Zaimskikh Galina

3.4  REGIONAL MODELING

3.4.1  Report of the WG on Mesoscale Forecasting Research – Jeanette Onvlee

3.4.2  Informational items on Status of COPS Research and on the Proposal on the Predictability of High Impact Weather Events – Jeanette Onvlee

3.4.3  Status of the WWRP-GAW Joint Project on Sand and Dust Storm Warning, Advisory and Assessment System – David Parsons

3.4.4  Update on TIGGE-LAM (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble for Limited Area Modelling) Project – Tiziana Paccagnella

3.5  ASSESSING AND REDUCING FORECAST ERRORS

3.5.1  Report of the Joint WG on Verification Research – Barbara Brown

3.5.2  Report of the WCRP-CAS Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) – David Parsons and David Burridge

3.6  THORPEX PROGRAMME

3.6.1  Summary report on THORPEX activities with an emphasis on scientific highlights and future directions – David Burridge

3.6.2  Review and recommendations to the THORPEX ICSC on T-NAWDEX – Pat Harr

3.6.3  Report on recent activities in India intending to contribute to the International THORPEX effort (e.g, FDP-Cyclone, FDP-FOG, PROWNOM, CAIPEEX. STORM and the Continental Tropical Convergence Zone (CTCZ) and recommendations to the THORPEX ICSC -- Om Prakash Singh

3.7  TROPICS

3.7.1  Report of the WG on Tropical Meteorological Research – Lianshou Chen

3.7.2  Report of the WWRP Panel on Tropical Cyclones – Russ Elsberry

3.7.3  Early results from T-PARC and TCS-08 – Pat Harr, Tetsuo Nakazawa and Russ Elsberry

3.7.4  Possible collaborative projects (ITOP 2010 and SWICE) – Russ Elsberry

3.7.5  FDP on Tropical Cyclones during the Shanghai MHEWS Project including the use of GIFS-TIGGE – Jiandong Gong

3.7.6  Status of the Year of Tropical Convection (THORPEX-WCRP) – Mitch Moncrieff

3.7.7  Report of the WWRP Panel on Monsoon Research – C.P. Chang

3.7.8  Presentation and decision of endorsement on three proposed monsoon data centres – C.P. Chang

3.7.8.1  Center for Monitoring and Assessment of Extreme Weather and Climate Events in Asia

3.7.8.2  Monsoon Radar Meteorology Data Information Center

3.7.8.3  Center for Monsoon Field Campaign Legacy Data Sets

3.7.9  General discussion on WWRP tropical activities: Creating synergisms and avoiding redundancies

3.8  Report of the WG on Societal and Economic Research and Applications (SERA) and its establishment of a partnership with the ICSU/ISSC/ISDR Programme on Integrated Research on Disaster Risk – Brian Mills

4.  VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE

4.1  Links to hydrology

4.1.1  Overview of AMARYTH concept – Tiziana Paccagnella

4.1.2  Proposal for establishing links between HEPEX and WWRP/WWRP- THORPEX – David Parsons

4.1.3  Proposal for establishing links between HYMEX and WWRP-THORPEX – David Parsons

4.2  CAS Vision Papers – David Parsons, Gilbert Brunet and David Burridge

4.2.1  The next generation of regional prediction systems for weather, water and environmental applications

4.2.2  Advancing weather, ice and environmental prediction in the polar regions: An IPY Legacy

4.2.3  Ocean modelling issues related to weather and climate

5.  CAS XV (18-25 November 2009) and the Pre-CAS Technical Conference to be held in Incheon City, Korea – David Parsons

6.  MEETING SCHEDULE FOR 2010 AND 2011 – ALL non-THORPEX WG chairs are to provide list of past meetings and proposed meetings to WMO Secretariat in advance with as much information as possible (e.g., dates, location, persons attending and some estimate of your budget request).

6.1  Report on 2009 meetings

6.2  Planned 2010 and 2011 training efforts

6.3  Planned 2010 and 2011 scientific meetings

7.  Any other business

8.  REVIEW OF DECISIONS AND ACTIONS

9.  DATE AND PLACE OF NEXT MEETING

10.  CLOSURE OF THE MEETING – 3 pm on 11 September 2009