Scoping Workshop on the Establishment of the Third Pole Climate Forum
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Background: Setting the scene
- Workshop goals and objectives, Jochen Luther
- Climate Services Information System (CSIS) concept and functions, the concept and status of CSIS enabling elements, Rupa Kumar Kolli
- WMO RCCs and RCOFs, Rupa Kumar Kolli
Data requirements and availability
- Data requirements for RCOFs/RCCs based on the experience of Arctic Climate Forum, Vasily Smolyanitsky and Marko Marcovich
- WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) activities focusing on sub-seasonal to seasonal and climate reanalysis, Eunha Lim
- Cryosphere datasets and products within WMO system, Rodica Nitu and Vasily Smolyanitsk
- Examples of satellite derived cryospheric data and products with an emphasis on the Third Pole region, Rodica Nitu
Examples of good practices in the neighbouring RCOFs
- FOCRAII and the role of RCC-Beijing, Peiqun Zhang
- SASCOF and the role of RCC-Pune, Sreejith Op
- ASEANCOF and the role of Southeast Asia RCC-Network, Wee Lee Tan
- Arctic Climate Forum - A flagship activity of the Arctic RCC-Network, Helge Tangen
Opportunities for collaboration and contributions of regional and global partners
Brief overview by the regional and global partners on the potential collaboration and the opportunities of contribution with the focus on cryosphere related activities and research projects relevant to the Third Pole RCC region:
- Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (GEWEX), Peter van Oeleven
- Progress towards for better understanding of the sources of global S2S precipitation prediction using land temperatures anomaly over high mountains: A brief overview from the GEWEX/LS4P initiative, Peter Van Oeleven
- Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Maria Shahgedanova
- Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences (CAIAG), Bolot Moldobekov
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Mandira Shrestha
- National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Bhanu Pratap
- Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES), Tshencho Dorji
- Third Pole Environment (TPE), Weica Wang
The Third Pole regional and national context
- Overview of the regional climate features, including climate variability and change over the Third Pole region, Mandira Shrestha
- Third Pole RCC-Network background, concept and uniqueness, Lijuan Ma
- Third Pole RCC-Network provisional products and services:
- Northern Node (climate monitoring products), Pengling Wang
- Western Node (long-range forecast products), Shahzad Sultan
- Southern Node (South-Himalayan) (climate data), Vijay Soni
- National presentations:
- Bangladesh, Shameem Hassan Bhuiyan
- China, Pengling Wang
- India, Dushmanta Ranjan Pattanaik
- Kazakhstan, Galiya Turumova
- Mongolia, Purevdagna Khalzan
- Nepal, Bibhuti Pokharel
- Pakistan, Asif Hussain
UN organisations and regional partners perspective
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Soomi Hong
- World Food Programme (WFP), Ana Aguilar
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Erkin Isaev and Pashupati Chaudhary
- The perspectives of the RA II Working Group on Services (RA II WG S) on the role of regional subsidiary bodies in the RCOF/RCC activities, Qingliang Zhou