Meeting of the WMO CAS Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee (EPAC SSC) Start date 15 March 2016 End date 17 March 2016 Location WMO Secretariat, Geneva Activity Areas (1) Global Atmosphere Watch Programme (GAW) Meeting of the WMO CAS Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry Scientific Steering Committee (EPAC SSC) WMO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland 15-17 March 2016 Presentations: Carmichael: Global Atmosphere Watch – Atmospheric Composition Matters: To Air Quality, Weather, Climate and More Hov: CAS – overview and priorities Lee: WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME Riishøjgaard: The WIGOS Pre-operational Phase (2016-2019) Richter: GCOS Status Report & New Implementation Plan Stefanski: Collaborations Between CAgM and CAS Ivanov: Aeronautical Meteorology Dilley: Post 2015 international development policy agenda:UNFCCC and SDG 3 Foltescu: UNEP’s Air Quality work Dora: International Cooperation on Health, Air Pollution and Climate Monks: IGAC: Facilitating atmospheric chemistry research toward a sustainable world Duce: GESAMP and its Working Group on the Atmospheric Input of Chemicals to the Ocean Assonov: Stable isotope reference materials at IAEA: addressing the GAW’ Data Quality Objectives, areas for potential collaboration with GAW. Peuch: The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service -European with global reach Peuch: SAG on Modelling Applications DeCola: Integrated Global GHG Information System (IG3IS): Evidence Based Policy Support and Evaluation Ruti: The quiet revolution of numerical weather prediction Klausen: Big data What’s GAW got to do with it … Klausen: GAW station reporting status- Implementation in GAWSIS