2nd Session JSC OPAG-EPAC

Geneva, Switzerland

27-29 April, 2011

Meeting draft agenda (as pdf) and supporting materials

Start at 11.00 Wednesday, 27 April

End at 15.00 Friday 29 April

Agenda item	Introduced / presented by	Supporting materials
1. Opening of the session 1.1 Welcome 1.2 Adaptation of agenda and approval of the report of previous OPAG-EPAC meeting 1.3 Overview of CAS-XV, Executive Council Research Task Team (EC RTT) and other important initiatives in light of GAW	Ghassem Asrar/ Øystein Hov	OPAG-EPAC report CAS report EC RTT report
2. GAW Strategic Plan (for guidance the length of reports and reviews should be 10-15 min, followed by discussion)		GAW Strategic Plan 2008-2015
2.1. Review the status of the work of SAGs and ETs and the future direction of their work	SAG-Aerosol SAG-GHG SAG-Ozone SAG-RG SAG-UV SAG-GURME ET-WDC	ET-WDC report ET-WDC additional input
2.2. QA/QC in GAW
2.2.1 Activities of Central Facilities General overview Representatives from Japan, Germany, Switzerland, and USA will give a review of activities	O. Tarasova Germany: Wolfgang Fricke Switzerland:Jörg Klausen Japan:Hiroshi Koide USA:Ed Dlugokencky	list of the GAW Central Facilities report of the GAW Central Facilities
2.2.2 Rolling Review of Requirements	O. Tarasova	RRR web page RRR process current Statements of Guidance in Atmospheric Chemistry
2.2.3 Training activities	Karin Woudsma	GAWTEC web
2.3 GAW station classification and the procedures for acceptance of stations	O. Tarasova	application from stations procedures stations classification
2.4 Products and Services	L. Jalkanen
2.5 Review of the Addendum of the GAW Strategic Plan	G. Muller/J. Klausen	GAW SP Addendum (v1) GAW SP Addendum (v2)
3. Congress preparations	L. Jalkanen	Cg-16 web page GAW document for Congress Progress report
4. Discussion items: (Introductory 5-10 min presentations to be made for each item followed by discussion)
4.1 Black carbon and ozone as short lived climate forcers (with consideration of other components such as OC, SO4)	L. Jalkanen	UNEP/WMO assessment
4.2 Technical chemicals that replace halocarbons, relationship to GAW	Stuart Penkett
4.3 Water vapour	Øystein Hov	GRUAN The ISSI/NDACC water vapour project
4.4 Sand and dust storm warning advisory and assessment system	Xiao-Ye Zhang	SDS web
4.5 Volcanic ash forecasting	Herbert Puempel	VOLCANIC ASH FORECASTING
4.6 Setting up the Satellite Task Team (limited in time, for the task of updating satellite requirements in GAW)	John Burrows	SATELLITE OBSERVATION NEEDS FOR GAW
4.7. Data flow and WIS (including INSPIRE)	Geir Braathen	WIS
4.8 Contribution to environmental conventions and intergovernmental assessments	tbd	Ozone assessment Global Environmental Outlook (GEO)
4.9 Relationship with other programmes, especially GCOS. GMES and GEOSS are other examples	John Ogren	GCOS GMES GMES atmospheric service
5. Matters arising
6. Review of recommendations and action items	Øystein Hov
7. Closure of meeting