Task Team on National Climate Monitoring Products

Terms of Reference:

1. Consider the existing national climate monitoring products and determine which of these products are most important from a scientific perspective as well as which products generate the most interest among the general public within those countries;
2. Consider the existing capabilities within developing countries to potentially produce the climate monitoring products documented in (1) above
3. Develop a list of from two to six national climate monitoring products that the team recommends Members produce;
4. Precisely document the construction of this priority list of national climate monitoring products in a publication intended to be an addition to the WCDMP publications;
5. Determine if it would be helpful to develop software to calculate these products and, if so, what language would be appropriate for the software;
6. Should software be deemed appropriate, either create the software or recommend that such software be created;
7. Report to OPACE-2 co-chairs; and
8. Task team lead to inform the OPACE co-chairs that the task is finished and that the team can be dissolved.

Members

1. John Kennedy (Chair) - UK
2. Ladislaus B. Chang'a(Co-Chair) - Tanzania
3. Andrew Watkins - Australia
4. Dereck Arndt - USA
5. Olga Bulygina - Russia
6. Mesut Demircan - Turkey
7. Raj Booneeday - Mauritius
8. Mohamed Semawi - Jordan