CEOS Development Environment

WGClimate-20

Event Dates: March 26th - 28th, 2024

20th Meeting of Joint CEOS-CGMS Working Group on Climate

26 – 28 March, 2024 

Meeting Agenda

The 20th Meeting of the Joint CEOS-CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate-20) will be hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research’s (UCAR) Center Green Campus in Boulder, Colorado. This will be a hybrid-enabled meeting so offsite members can participate.

Presentations listed in the Agenda will be made available on the CEOS WGClimate meeting web page after the meeting. Presenters are asked to provide their slide decks as soon as possible – and no later than 1 hour prior to their speaking time to WGClimate Secretariat Kyle Wohlwend at (kyle.wohlwend@noaa.gov) for upload and archival purposes. 

This 2.5 day working meeting will convene from 26-28 March 2024, with Day 1 starting at 9:00 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT; GMT-6) and ending by 17:00. Day 3 will be a half day, so we will start at 9:00 and end at Noon.

The entire three-day presentation has been uploaded to the Committe on Earth Observation Satellite’s YouTube page.  The playlist with links to each day can be found here: CEOS YouTube

Agenda

Day 1 – March 26

Time (MDT)

Topic

Speaker

9:00-9:10

Welcome, Tour de Table, and Meeting Goals

Jeff Privette, NOAA

9:10-9:30

Introduction of New Members and Their Priorities

Jeff Privette, NOAA

9:30-10:00

2024 WGClimate Work Plan

Jeff Privette, NOAA

10:00-11:00

GCOS IP Space Agency Response + GCOS (Part 1)

Wenying Su, GCOS; WGCV

11:00-11:15

Coffee

 

11:15-12:15

GCOS IP Space Agency Response + GCOS (Part 2: WGCV)

Wenying Su, GCOS; WGCV

12:15-12:30

Vice Chair Nomination

Jeff Privette, NOAA

12:30-1:30

Lunch

 

2:00-2:20

CDR Lightning Talk 1: Microwave Sounder/Imager FCDR

Christian Kummerow, CSU

2:20-4:00

Merged Gap Analyses & WGClimate Coordinated Action Plan

Jörg Schulz, EUMETSAT

4:00-4:15

Coffee

 

4:15-4:45

Templates for WGClimate presentations

Jeff Privette, NOAA

4:45-5:00

Actions review, Evening homework assignments

Jeff Privette, NOAA

5:00

End of Day 1

Day 2 – March 27

9:00-9:10

Opening Day 2, Recap of Day 1

Jeff Privette, NOAA

9:10-9:40

GEO Member Engagement

Sara Venturini, GEO Secretariat

9:40-10:10

Update on WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch

Gianpaolo Balsamo, WMO

10:10-10:40

GHG TT and WGClimate Communications: Policies, Protocols

Jörg Schulz, EUMETSAT

10:40-11:00

Coffee

 

11:00-11:35

GHG Task Team Update and Activities

Yasjka Meijer, ESA

11:35-12:25

Climate Policy Impact (SIT-39 Session Preview)

Mark Dowell, EC/JRC

Wenying Su, NASA

12:25-1:35

Lunch

 

2:00-2:30

CDR Lightning Talk 2: Earth’s Radiation Budget & Libera

Peter Pilewskie, CU/LASP

2:30-3:15

Analysis Ready CDRs and AI Considerations

Rob Redmon, NOAA

Douglas Rao, NCState/CISESS

3:15-3:30

Coffee

 

3:30-4:00

CDR Lightning Talk 3: Sea Ice Concentration, Extent, & Index

Walt Meier, CU/CIRES/NSIDC

4:00-4:30

Considerations on COP-29 Side Event by WGClimate

Jeff Privette, NOAA

4:30-5:00

Actions review, Evening homework assignments

Jeff Privette, NOAA

5:00

End of Day 2

Day 3 – March 28

9:00-9:10

Opening Day 3, Recap of Day 1

Jeff Privette, NOAA

9:10-9:40

Pillar 4: User Engagement: New SCO Projects and Progress

Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, CNES,

Frederic Bretar, CNES

9:40-10:10

CDR Lightning Talk 4 // open

 

10:10-10:40

Update: CDR Terms and Definitions

Jeff Privette, NOAA

10:40-10:55

Coffee

 

10:55-11:25

Working session: Tie-up Gap Analysis Report, Action Plan

Jeff Privette, NOAA

11:25-12:00

Review of Actions

Jeff Privette, NOAA

 

Close Day 3 and Meeting

Jeff Privette, NOAA

12:00

End of Day 3

 

Virtual Meeting Link

The following Zoom link will be active for all three days of the meeting:

https://ucar-edu.zoom.us/j/96542000608?pwd=NjQ2VzNha0YrYjNvT3d1QWxBb0tGQT09

 

In the event you are prompted for a passcode please use the following: CEO2024#

 

*Those speakers slated to present virtually can also display their slides directly through Zoom via screen sharing.*

 

UCAR Center Green (1) Campus

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Boulder, CO 80301