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SC-XIXGCOS Steering Committee, XIXth session
The 19th session of the GCOS Steering Committee will be held 20 - 23 September 2011 at ECMWF in Reading, UK.
(Last update: 16 September 2011)
All documents as zip file (6.7 MB) (Status: 16 September)
List of documents
Agenda Item
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Doc. No.
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Description
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Date Posted/ Updated |
| Draft Agenda | 16 September |
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1 |
1.4 | Arrangements for the Session -- Secretariat | 23 August |
2 |
2.1 | Report of the Chairman -- Simmons | 30 August |
2 |
2.2 | Report of the Director -- Richter | 6 September |
3 |
3 | UNFCCC: From Cancun to Durban -- Lichte | 14 September |
4 |
4.1 | An Overview of GCOS Regional Activities -- Westermeyer | 26 August
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4 |
4.2 | The GCOS Cooperation Mechanism and System Improvement Activities -- Thigpen | 12 September |
4 |
4.3 | The Climate for Development in Africa Programme -- Bekele Awulachew | 16 September |
4 |
4.4 | Update on National Activities in Switzerland (Seiz) | |
5.1 |
5.1.1 | Global Framework for Climate Services -- Lengoasa | |
5.1 |
5.1.2 | The Commission for Climatology and the World Climate Programme -- Peterson | |
5.1 |
5.1.3 | The Commission for Basic Systems and WIGOS -- Barrell and Zhang | 14 September |
5.1 |
5.1.4 | WMO Views on the Role of GCOS -- Lengoasa | |
5.2 |
5.2 | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Views on the Role of GCOS -- Watson-Wright | |
5.3 |
5.3 | United Nations Environment Programme Views on the Role of GCOS --Singh | |
5.4 |
5.4 | International Council for Science Views on the Role of GCOS -- Glaser | 12 September
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5.5 |
5.5 | Global Terrestrial Observing System / Food and Agriculture Organization -- Bombelli | |
6 |
6.1 | The Satellite Supplement -- Simmons | |
6 |
6.2 | The WMO Space Programme and Space Architecture -- Zhang | |
6 |
6.3 | GCOS Programme Cooperation on Space Issues -- Richter | 12 September |
6 |
6.4 | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites -- Belward | |
7 |
7.1 | Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate -- Simmons | 5 September
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7 |
7.1a | GCOS-GAW Agreement CO2 & CH4 networks | 2 September
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7 |
7.1b | GCOS-GAW_Agreement_N2O_network | 2 September
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7 |
7.2 | Ocean Observations Panel for Climate -- Lindstrom | |
7 |
7.3 | Terrestrial Observations Panel for Climate -- Dolman | 16 September |
8 |
8.1 | World Climate Research Programme Data Council-- Manton | 14 September |
8 |
8.2 | WCRP Conferences--Manton | 15 September |
8 |
8.3 | Workshop on Evaluation of Satellite-Related Global Climate Datasets -- Manton | 15 September |
8 |
8.4 | Reanalysis Task Group--Manton | 15 September |
9 |
9 | Group on Earth Observations: Review of Work Plan -- Baek | |
10 |
10 | Issues in the Designation of Essential Climate Variables -- Simmons | 30 August
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11 |
11.1.1 | The GCOS Role in Adaptation -- Street | |
11 |
11.1.2 | The GCOS Role in Adaptation -- Pulwarty | |
11 |
11.1.3 | The GCOS Role in Adaptation -- Harrison | |
12 |
12 | Progress of the Surface Temperature Initiative -- Willett | 12 September |
13 |
13.1 | Cryosphere -- On Integrating Cryospheric Observations into GCOS -- Goodison | 14 September |
13 |
13.2 | Fluxes -- Manton | 14 September |
13 |
13.3 | Ecosystem Observations and Reference Sites -- Bombelli | |
14 |
14.1 | Updating the GCOS Plan | 3 August
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| INF1 | List of Participants | 14 September |
Background documents
- Progress Report on the Implementation of the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC 2004-2008
- Synthesis of National Reports on Systematic Observation (GCOS-130)
- UNFCCC/SBSTA draft conclusions based on the findings of the 2004-2008 Progress Report published at the 30th session of SBSTA in June 2009
- UNFCCC/SBSTA draft conclusions on Research & Systematic Observation, Cancun 2010
- SBSTA decision on Systematic Observation for Climate, for consideration by COP 15 in Copenhagen
- Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Observing Systems for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (GCOS-82)
- 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)
- Summary Report of the Eighteenth Session of the GCOS Steering Committee (GCOS-145)
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