GCOS/WCRP Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate (AOPC), XVIth Session

(Last update: 9 March 2011)

Notes by Chair and Secretariat (29 July 2010)

List of documents

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All presentations as zip file (73.5 MB) (Status: 9 March 2011)

Agenda Item	Document No.	Description	Presentation	Date Posted/ Updated
1.2	1	Provisional Agenda (Secretariat)		4-Feb-11
2	2	Report from the AOPC Chair (Simmons)		25-Jan-11
2	2a	Review of Actions from AOPC-XV (Simmons, Bojinski)		28-Jan-11
3	3	Report from the GCOS Director (Richter)	3	21-Feb-11
4	4	WCRP Perspective (Asrar)	4	21-Feb-11
5.1	5.1a	GSN Monitoring Centre and CBS LC Report (DWD) (Rudolf)	5.1a	21-Feb-11
5.1	5.1b	GSN Monitoring Centre and CBS LC Report (JMA) (Ohkawara)	5.1b	21-Feb-11
5.1	5.1c	Report from NCDC Lead/Analysis/Archive Centre (Menne)	5.1c	21-Feb-11
5.2	5.2	Report from the Advisory Group on GSN and GUAN (Thigpen)		20-Jan-11
5.3	5.3	Report of the GCOS Implementation Project Manager (Thigpen)	5.3	15-Feb-11
5.5	5.5	Report on Availability of Sunshine, Water Vapour Data in CLIMAT messages (Rudolf)	5.5	21-Feb-11
5.6	5.6	CBS Lead Centres Status Report (Shanklin)	5.6	14-Feb-11
5.6	5.6a	2009 Meeting of the CBS Lead Centres for GCOS		8-Apr-10
6.1	6.1	GRUAN Lead Centre Report (Vömel)	6.1	21-Feb-11
6.2	6.2	Report from WG-ARO: Implementation of GRUAN (Thorne)	6.2	21-Feb-11
6.3	6.3	Implementation and Use of Automatic Weather Stations (Heino)	6.3	15-Feb-11
6.4	6.4	WMO Commission for Climatology Issues (Heino)	6.4	15-Feb-11
6.4	6.4a	Global Surface Temperature Dataset Initiative (Thorne)	6.4a	21-Feb-11
6.5	6.5	BSRN: Science and Operations Update (Wild)	6.5	23-Feb-11
6.6	6.6	Progress in Improving Data Exchange over the GTS (Thigpen)		8-Apr-10
6.7	6.7	Progress in Implementing WIS (Thomas)	6.7	21-Feb-11
6.8	6.8	Progress in Implementation of WIGOS (Zahumensky)	6.8	15-Feb-11
6.8	6.8a	Review of the draft Implementation Plan for the Evolution of the Global Observing System (EGOS)		20-Jan-11
7.1	7.1	Status of Ozone Baseline Networks (Braathen)	7.1	14-Feb-11
7.2	7.2	Status and Designation of CO2-CH4 Comprehensive Networks (Butler)	7.2	14-Feb-11
7.3	7.3	Status of Global Observing Network for Aerosols (Nickovic)	7.3	21-Feb-11
7.4	7.4	Data Exchange in GAW and non-GAW Networks (Braathen)		8-Feb-11
7.5	7.5	Activities of the World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (Ohkawara)	7.5	21-Feb-11
8.0	8.0	Updated GCOS Satellite Requirements (Simmons, Secretariat)	8.0	15-Feb-11
8.1	8.1	Progress in CEOS Reponse to GCOS IP-10 (Goldberg)	8.1	21-Feb-11
8.2	8.2	NOAA Activities Related to Climate Monitoring (Goldberg)	8.2	09-Mar-11
8.3	8.3a	Validation Activities at the UK MetOffice - The Use of Satellite Data for Climate Modelling (Saunders)	8.3a	14-Feb-11
8.3	8.3b	Validation Activities within the ESA CCI/CMUG (Saunders)	8.3b	14-Feb-11
8.4	8.4	Report from CGMS-XXXVIII ( Schmetz)	8.4	14-Feb-11
8.5	8.5	EUMETSAT Activities Related to Climate Monitoring (Schmetz)		2-Feb-11
8.6	8.6	Development of the SCOPE-CM Initiative (Ryan)	8.6	14-Feb-11
8.8	8.8	Satellite Activities for Climate at JMA (Ohkawara)	8.8	21-Feb-11
8.9	8.9	Recognition Mechanisms for Satellite (and in-situ) Climate Datasets (Simmons, Secretariat)	8.9	15-Feb-11
9.1	9.1	Report from OOPC (Lindstrom)	9.1	21-Feb-11
9.3	9.3	Report from the Surface Pressure Working Group (Parker)	9.3	14-Apr-10
10.1	10.1	Report from TOPC (Dolman)	10.1	21-Feb-11
10.2	10.2	Report of Workshop on Estimation of Net Primary Production (Verstraete)	10.2	14-Feb-11
11.1	11.1	Global Cryosphere Watch; WMO EC PORS (Goodison)	11.1	21-Feb-11
12.1	12.1	High-Resolution Precipitation Dataset (Rudolf, Becker)	12.1	21-Feb-11
12.2	12.2	JMA Reanalysis Issues (Ohkawara)	12.2	21-Feb-11
12.3	12.3a	US Reanalysis Efforts I (Bosilovich)	12.3a	21-Feb-11
12.3	12.3b	US Reanalysis Efforts II (Goldberg)	12.3b	21-Feb-11
12.4	12.4	ECMWF Reanalysis Update (Simmons)	12.4	15-Feb-11
12.5	12.5	European Regional Reanalyses (Klein-Tank)	12.5	15-Feb-11
13.1	13.1	Climate and Cities (Grimmond)	13.1	21-Feb-11
13.2	13.2	Climate Impacts in the US (Peterson)		7-Jun-10
13.3	13.3	AOPC/OOPC Climate indices (Menne)		7-Jun-10
13.4	13.4	WCDMP Update (Baddour)	13.4	14-Feb-11
13.5	13.5	Update on CLARIS in South America (Rusticucci)	13.5	21-Feb-11
13.6	13.6	Update on World Bank Project and ClimDev Africa (Westermeyer)		1-Jun-10
14.1	14.1	Report on Development of the Global Framework for Climate Services (Love)	14.1	23-Feb-11
14.2	14.2	WMO-BIPM Conference on Measurements to Detect Climate Change (Butler)	14.2	15-Feb-11
14.3	14.3	Status of GEO-IPCC Workshop on Data for Climate Impact Studies (Williams)
15.1	15.1	WCRP SPARC Perspectives (Hegglin, Tegtmeier)	15.1	15-Feb-11
15.2	15.2	Urbanization influences on surface temperature (Jones)	15.2	14-Feb-11
16.2	16.2	Revision of AOPC Requirements in WMO/CEOS Database		14-Apr-10
1.1	INF.1	Provisional List of Participants		4-Feb-11
13, 15.2	INF.2	Status of Meteorological Network Spacing Requirements in WMO and GCOS Guidance Material		14-Apr-10
2	INF.3	Revised AOPC Terms of Reference		13-Jan-11

Background documents

Report from AOPC-XV, including Conclusions and Recommendations
2010 Update of the Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (GCOS-138)
Satellite Supplement to the GCOS Implementation Plan (GCOS-107)

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