7th Session of the Global Synthesis and Observations Panel
CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel meeting
July 14-15, 2014
The Hague, Netherlands
Agenda and Presentations
July 14 (Monday)
Joint GSOP-OMDP Session
8:30hr - Welcome new members (Masa Kamachi), member introductions, and overview of agenda (adjust if necessary) (Tony Lee)
8:45hr - Overview of activities since the last GSOP meeting (Keith Haines)
9:00hr - Review of ongoing effort of ocean reanalysis intercomparison ORA-IP (Magdalena Balmaseda, Matt Palmer, Keith Haines)
10:00hr – Near realtime ocean /climate monitoring using ensemble operational ocean analysis products (Yan Xue)
10:30hr – Coffee Break
11:00hr – Coordination of forward model – ocean reanalysis intercomaprison
A preliminary Intercomparison for AMOC and MLD (Gokhan Danabasoglu)
How to move forward with forward model-ocean reanalysis Intercomparison? (All)
12:00hr - Discussion/recap of topics in the morning
12:30hr – Lunch
Joint PP-GSOP session
13:30hr - CLIVAR ENSO Research Focus (Eric Guilyardi)
14:00hr – The Universality of Combination Modes (Axel Timmermann)
14.30hr – ENSO and GW: coordinated experiment for CMIP6 on ENSO teleconnections (Mat Collins)
15.00hr – Coffee Break
15:30hr - TPOS (Billy, Ken, Tony Lee, Magdalena Balmaseda, Masa Kamachi)
16:00hr - Current status of the Pacific and ENSO forecasts; Rapid international response strategies to climate events (Mike McPhaden, Axel Timmermann)
16:30hr - Intercomparison and observing system assessment and design for the Pacific sector (Keith Haines, Magdalena Balmaseda, Tony Lee)
17:00hr - The role of the Pacific in the hiatus: open discussion (Wenju Cai, Matt Collins, Magdalena Balmaseda)
17.30hr – End of day
July 15 (Tuesday)
8:30hr - CLIVAR Planetary Heat Budget and Ocean Heat Content Task Team and ESA funded International Research Institute working group on the subject (Karina von Schuckmann and Pierre-Philippe Mathieu)
9:00hr - Update on surface fluxes activities (including issues related to TPOS) (Sergey Gulev)
9:30hr – GSOP coordination of international effort on QC of global subsurface ocean data (IQuOD project) (Catia Domingues, Matt Palmer)
10:00hr – Updates on the interaction with OOPC/GCOS defining requirements for Ocean Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) (Tony Lee, Catia Domingues, others?)
10:30hr – Coffee Break
11:00hr – Observing system updates: satellites (recent and upcoming missions for various ocean parameters)
11:30hr – Observing system updates: in-situ
- Tropical mooring arrays (Ken Ando)
- OceanSites (Uwe Send)
12:30hr – Lunch
13:30hr - Ocean Climate Indicators Task Team (Tony Lee)
13:45hr – Discussion of future GSOP activities/priorities
Future priorities: e.g., TPOS2020, deep ocean observations, ocean climate indicators & near realtime monitoring, coupled synthesis.
GSOP participations in future meetings.
14:45hr – Action items and membership
15.00hr – Coffee Break (End of meeting)
