CLIVAR

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY

International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
European Way
Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Phone: +44-2380 596777
Fax: +44-2380 596204
Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk

Global Synthesis and Observations Panel

Third meeting of the Global Synthesis and Observations Panel

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK

13-14 March 2008

Meeting agenda

Draft agenda (upadted on 27 February 2008)

Background documents

Report of the Second GSOP meeting

Report of the U.S. CLIVAR Salinity Science Working Group

SPICE - Scientific Background

SPICE - Implementation Plan

Adoption of a new salinity standard - SCOR/IAPSO Working Group

First Workshop on Ocean Velocity Measurements and their Application

MEETING PRESENTATIONS

	PRESENTATION	SPEAKER
Charge to the meeting		Detlef Stammer
CLIVAR SSG		Howard Cattle
The Future of WCRP		Howard Cattle
Report on OOPC		Ed Harrison
Report on the CLIVAR/GODAE Meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation		Detlef Stammer
Report on the Velocity Workshop		Brian King
Report on GO-SHIP		Bernadette Sloyan
Update on the Observing System - Atlantic Basin		Detlef Stammer
Update on the Observing System - Pacific Basin		Mike McPhaden
Update on the Observing System - Indian Basin		Mike McPhaden
Update on the Observing System - Southern Ocean Basin		Nico Caltabiano
OceanObs'09		Detlef Stammer
RAPID		Torsten Kanzow
THOR		Detlef Stammer
AMOC		David Legler
Decadal Prediction Experiment	Tim Stockdale
Data error covariances in synthesis efforts		Keith Haines
GSOP-Carbon synthesis and pilot project		Toste Tanhua
XBT Fall Rate Workshop		Susan Wijffels
Argo Errors and Estimating heat content		Josh Willis
Met Office Hadley Centre subsurface data set and HadISST		Matt Palmer
OceanSites Timeseries Stations	Uwe Send
CLIVAR DAC’s		David Legler
News on surface fluxes (including AOFlux) and flux uncertainties		Simon Josey