Side event "Sand and Dust Storm Research"

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• Enric Terradellas, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Spain
• Slobodan Nickovic, WMO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
• Xiaoye Zhang, CMA, China

Side event " Megacities and GURME "

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• Welcome, Chair for side meeting, Deon Terblanche, Director, ARE/RES, WMO
• CAS views on importance of Megacities, including air quality forecasting, Michel Beland, CAS President
• GURME activities addressing megacity issues, Liisa Jalkanen, C/AER
• Research and operational activities addressing megacity climate change and air quality problems, Alexander Baklanov (DMI, GURME SAG member)
• Shanghai GURME project, Tang Xu, Director-General, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (SMB), CMA

Side event " An urgent, emerging challenge for WMO:  Supporting Greenhouse Gas Management Strategies with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis "

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• Dr. James Butler, Director, Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA.  (Member:  WMO Commission on Atmospheric Sciences)
• Mr. Bob Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Earth Networks, Germantown, Maryland, USA
• Dr. David Crisp, Principal Investigator, NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
• Dr. Frédéric Chevallier, Research Scientist, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Paris, France

All presentations together