WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION

COMMISSION FOR CLIMATOLOGY
OPEN PROGRAMME AREA GROUP
ON CLIMATE DATA AND DATA MANAGEMENT

EXPERT TEAM ON OBSERVING REQUIREMENTs AND STANDARDS FOR CLIMATE (ET-ORSC)

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 28-30 MARCH 2007

CCl/OPAG1
ET- ORSC/INF.1

(22.III.2007)
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Original:  ENGLISH

Last Update :  22 MARCH  2007

I.                   GENERAL INFORMATION - Important !-  

i)                    Participants in WMO meetings in Geneva are encouraged to read the information provided through http://www.wmo.int/web/www/Geneva-info.html . 

ii)                  WMO official letters have been sent on 21st February to Permanent Representatives (PR) to WMO of countries where  participants come from.

iii)                Direct official Invitations have been sent by the WMO secretariat to all participants after receiving the concurrence from the PRs. Mrs Josefa Potter-Branco (Pepi) email at:  JPotter-Branco@wmo.int    is the official contact person on travel arrangements.                          

II. DOCUMENTATION PLAN OF THE MEETING

Agenda Item

Title

Doc. N°.

Prepared by

Expected/

Done

1

Provisional Agenda

1.1

Secretariat

Done

1

Explanatory Memorandum

1.2

Secretariat

Done

n/a

Provisional list of participants

INF. 2

Secretariat

Done

n/a

Work Plan of the meeting

n/a

Secretariat

Done

2    Reports and T.o.Rs

2

Report of the  OPAG1 Chair

2.1

Dr  Raino HEINO

Done

2

Report of  the  ET-ORSC leader

2.2

Dr William WRIGHT

Done

2

Terms of Reference (T.o.Rs) of  the ET-ORSC

2.3

 Secretariat

Done

3    Implication of IPCC WG1 Report

3

IPCC WG1 report

3.1

Dr  Raino HEINO

Done

4    Links to other WMO and International Programs

4

JCOMM

 

 

?

4

CIMO

 

 

?

4

CBS (ET-EGOS)

4.3

Dr  Raino HEINO

Done

4

GCOS,   GCOS (AOPC XII conclusions)

4.4

Dr  Raino HEINO

Done

4

GCOS, Regional Action Plan

n/a

Mr William Westermeyer

(GCOS secretariat)

 

4

GEOSS, WMO contribution to GEO

n/a

Mr Donald Hinsman

?

4

Report of the CCl Rapporteur on GEO (pdf)

n/a

CCl Rapporteur submitted through CCl President

Done

               5 Current knowledge on selected topics

 

 

 

5

Reports from the participants

5.1

Experts

(assembled by the secretariat into one document)

Ongoing

5

AWS Standards  for  Climate purposes(pdf)

n/a

 

 

Prepared by Ernest Rudel and submitted for the meeting by

Dr William WRIGHT

Done

5

Final report of the CBS Expert Team  on  requirements  for Data from AWS

n/a

secretariat

Done

5

Guidelines- Management of Changing Observation Programs(doc)

n/a

CCl OPAG.1 suggested for the meeting by Dr William WRIGHT

Done

5

Guidelines on Climate Observation Networks (pdf)

n/a

CCl OPAG.1 suggested for the meeting by Dr William WRIGHT

Done

5

Guidelines  on  QA/QC of  surface meteorological Data 

n/a

Dr  Raino HEINO

E

5

Guidelines for observational standards  in developing countries

n/a

 

E

6    .    Framing  Work-Task

6

Proposed Tasks

6.1

Dr William WRIGHT

Done

7. Recommendations and Work-plan

7

Recommendations

 

 

E

7

Work-plan

 

 

E