WMO GCW home

CryoNet Team Meeting Agenda

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

__________________

 

GLOBAL CRYOSPHERE WATCH (GCW)

CryoNet Team

Fifth Session

 

Graz, Austria

20-22 September 2016

 

 

          GCW-CNT-5/Doc.1.2.1 ______

 

Date: 4.7.2016

 

AGENDA ITEM: 1.2

 

Original:  ENGLISH

 

 

 

 

 

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

 

 

VENUE: University of Graz, Department of Geography and Regional Science, Heinrichstrasse 36

DATE/TIME: 20 September 2016 09.00 to 22 September 2016 18.00

 

Tuesday, 20 September 2016

 

09:00-10:30

1. ORGANIZATION OF THE MEETING (Chair W. Schöner)

                1.1 Welcome and Opening of the meeting (W. Schöner & C/OSD)

                1.2 Adoption of the Agenda (W. Schöner)           

                1.3 Working Arrangements (W. Schöner)

                1.4 Introductions of participants (participants)

 

2. DEVELOPMENT OF CRYONET

                2.1 Review of Actions from previous meetings and relevant news from WMO (GCW-PO)

                2.2 Review of the CryoNet Team Work Plan (W. Schöner)

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break and group photo

 

11:00-12:30

                2.3 Report on the CryoNet South America activities (G. Casassa)

                2.4 Report on the CryoNet Asia, including 3rd Pole activities (V. Smolyanitsky & C. Xiao)

                2.5 Status of CryoNet (W. Schöner)

2.5.1    Pre-operational testing (W. Schöner)

2.5.2    Review of Station/Site Questionnaire (J. Key, W. Schöner)

2.5.3    List of stations/sites proposed for CryoNet and contributing stations (W. Schöner/GCW-PO)

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00-15:30

2.5.4    Review of the Process for assessment of stations/sites (W. Schöner  & S. Starkweather)

2.5.5    Review of minimum program for CryoNet stations/sites (W. Schöner with help from Ch. Fierz, M. Citterio, CH. Genthon, V. Smolyanitsky, J. Boike)

 

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee

 

2.5.6   Short introduction to breakout groups for minimum program for CryoNet stations/sites

 

Breakout-groups for minimum program for CryoNet stations/sites (3-4 groups for cryospheric components e.g., glaciers, permafrost, snow, sea-ice)

 

18:00 End of the Day

 

 

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

 

09:00-10:30

Wrap-up from breakout groups on minimum program for CryoNet stations/sites and next steps (rapporteurs of break-out groups)

 

2.5.7    Selection of newly proposed stations/sites for CryoNet and contributing stations (in-session, chaired by W. Schöner)

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break and group photo

 

11:00-12:30

2.5.7con’t  Selection of newly proposed stations/sites for CryoNet and contributing stations (in-session, chaired by W. Schöner)

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

 

2.5.8    Identification of data for real-, near-, and non-real time international exchange (W. Schöner with help from Ch. Fierz, M. Citterio and V. Smolyanitsky)

2.5.9    GCW/CryoNet Data Policy (Þ. Þorsteinsson)

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee

 

2.5.10  Interfacing CryoNet stations/sites metadata/data with the GCW Data Portal - status and next steps, (Ø. Godøy)

2.5.11  Preliminary discussion on procedures for data exchange, including data formats and a need to update BUFR (V. Smolyanitsky, Þ. Þorsteinsson & GCW-PO)

 

18:00 End of the Day

 

GROUP DINNER (own expense, place to be determined)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 22 September 2016

 

09:00-10:30

2.5.12 General discussion on CryoNet: What could be achieved so far, what got lost, where should be invested in the future (in-session, chaired by W. Schöner)

2.5.13 Update of the CryoNet team members (W. Schöner)

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-12:30

                  2.6 Draft list of CryoNet stations and sites for consideration by GSG, EC-PHORS-7 and  EC-69 (GCW-PO)

                2.7 GCW/CryoNet basic documents – status and way forward (W. Schöner, GCW-PO)

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

 

3. FUTURE ACTIVITIES

                  3.1 Next meetings and/or workshops (W. Schöner/V. Smolyanitsky/ C. Xiao/GCW-PO)

                  3.2 The AHECO Project and involvement of GCW (GCW-PO)

                  3.3 Future cooperation with partners (W. Schöner/GCW)

                  3.4 Action Sheets from this meeting (W. Schöner/GCW-PO)

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee

 

4. REPORT TO GCW STEERING GROUP

4.1 Report to GSG (W. Schöner/GCW-PO)

4.2 Draft Resolution to EC-69 on CryoNet (GCW-PO)

 

5. ANY OTHER BUSINESS (W. Schöner)

                                 

6. CLOSURE OF MEETING (17h45) (W. Schöner/WMO Secretariat)

 

18:00 End of the Meeting