Pacific Implementation Panel

Day 0: Wednesday 28th November 2007

17:30 - 18:30

meeting in the lobby of Ramada Pearl Hotel with luggage

arranged transportation to Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel and check in

Day 1: Thursday 29th November 2007

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)

Venue: Chang Jiang Conference Room, Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 9th Floor)

8:30 - 8:40

Welcoming and local arrangements (A. Timmermann and D. Wang)

8:40 - 9:40

Issues and Recommendations from the workshop:

- Chinese activities (D. Wang)
- Chinese Observational Programs (D. Hu)
- PACSWIN initiative (J. You)
- International Coordination (G. Wu, T. Suga and M. McPhaden)
- Discussion: how CLIVAR can help? (all)

9:40 - 10:30

SPICE Science and Implementation plans:

- CLIVAR endorsement (A. Ganachaud)
- Climate relevance of SPICE (A. Ganachaud)
- Discussion: role of national funding agencies (all)

10:30 - 11:00

Tea Break

11:00 - 11:45

SPICE-COARE: what is the SPCZ? :

- Western and eastern Pacific control on SPCZ (R. Mechoso)
- The role of the SPCZ on the south Pacific climate (S. Power)
- Representation of the SPCZ in state-of-the-art CGCMs (S. Power)
- Discussion: role of the Pacific Panel (all)

11:45 - 12:30

Proposal for joint international experimentation and review paper on WWB-ENSO interactions :

- WWB-ENSO interactions: observations (M. McPhaden)
- WWB-ENSO interactions: concepts (E. Tziperman)
- WWB-ENSO interactions: CGCM results (M. Lengaigne)
- WWB-ENSO interactions: effects on seasonal predictability (F.-F. Jin)
- Proposal on Review Paper (A. Timmermann)
- AAMP-PP interactions (H. Hendon, all)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)

14:00 - 14:45

Proposal for joint international experimentation and review paper on WWB-ENSO interactions.... continue

14:45 - 15:30

Lessons from KESS and VOCALS:

- KESS science highlights (B. Qiu)
- VOCALS: improving our understanding for the eastern tropical Pacific (R. Mechoso)
- Discussion and recommendations for SPICE (all)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 17:30

Proposal for an assessment of decadal Pacific climate change projected by AR4 for the next decade:

- Decadal Sea Level / thermocline predictions (B. Qiu and W. Cai)
- SST, hydrological changes, ocean current changes (S. Power and W. Cai)
- Applications for decadal predictions (R. Martinez and B. Crawford)

17:30

Adjourn

18:00 - 20:00

Dinner at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)

Day 2: Friday 30th November 2007

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)

Venue: Chang Jiang Conference Room, Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 9th Floor)

8:30 - 9:15

Improving seasonal and decadal predictions:

- Initialization: how much ocean do we need? (T. Suga)
- Verification, seamless predictions and lesson from DEMETER (M. Balmaseda)
- How seasonal predictions are used (R. Martinez)

9:15 - 10:00

Proposal for joint international OGCM experimentation as part of CORE-II. Ocean model biases in the Pacific:

- State-of-the-art modeling in the Pacific (C. Boening)
- Ocean model intercomparison for the Pacific: what are the key model deficiencies (M. Balmaseda)

10:00 - 10:30

Tea Break

10:30 - 11:15

CLIVAR roadmap: modes of climate variability (A. Timmermann):

- The role of the PP to move the roadmap ahead
- Pacific Panel task forces and legacy managers
- ENSO expert prediction web-site
- Contribution to Decadal prediction cross-cutting theme
- Discussion

11:15 - 12:15

Pacific ocean metrics project:

- ENSO (E. Guilyardi)
- Decadal time-scale (A. Timmermann)
- Improving AR5 models (M. Balmaseda)
- Discussion: Proposal of a white paper (all)

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)

13:45 - 14:30

OceanObs09 (M. Balmaseda and T. Suga) :

- Pacific issues at OceanObs09
- Report from the GODAE workshop on Observing System Experiments: inputs to OceanObs09

14:30 - 15:00

Reports from PICES and from Arctic decadal climate research (B. Crawford)

15:00 - 15:30

Follow up South Pacific workshop recommendations and actions (W. Cai and A. Ganachaud)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 17:30

Panel Business:

- Future Pacific Panel operations: budget considerations (R. Boscolo and S. Power)
- Report from SSG-15 (R. Boscolo and S. Power)
- ENSO summer camp (A. Timmermann)
- Pacific Observations Network webpage (R. Boscolo and R. Martinez)
- Panel membership
- Next meeting

17:30

End of the Meeting

18:00 - 20:00

Dinner at Junhui Building (Guangzhou Sanyu Hotel 2nd Floor)