ICTSW-2

Commission for Basic Systems / Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology
Inter-programme Coordination Team on Space Weather 
Second Meeting (ICTSW-2)
Date and time: Friday 2 December 2011  13:15-15:30  (Following closure of ESWW8)
Venue: Room Grumiaux (To be confirmed), Palais des Congrès, Namur, Belgium
Directions and Hotel information
Final Report: Will be published here : Final meeting reports (after the meeting, as soon as available )

Agenda Item Related Working Documents and Background Information

1

OPENING OF THE MEETING
Introduction and Agenda  
List of participants

2

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INITIAL OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY
2.1 Criteria for IOC product selection (Terry Onsager)
2.2 Guidance on harmonized metadata  (WMO)
2.3 Candidate products  (T. Onsager)
    2.4 Web portal implementation aspects:
          link to draft product portal (under construction)
          link to draft demonstration page (under construction)
   2.5 Way forward for an IOC
   2.6 Open issues and next steps

3

SPACE WEATHER OBSERVATION CAPABILITIES
3. Main tasks to integrate Space Weather observations  (Xiaoxin Zhang)
3.1 Draft Typology of space- and surface-based instruments (WMO)
3.2 Inventory of space-based observing capabilities  (WMO)
Extract from the GOS Dossier (September 2011 issue)
   3.3 Inventory and evaluation of observing capabilities, by theme
     Ground Magnetometer Gap Analysis  (M. Freeman)
3.4 Way forward towards an initial Statement of Guidance (Terry Onsager)
   3.5 Open issues and next steps

4

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

5

CONCLUSION

General Background Information
  List of ICTSW Members  (Nov. 2011)
  ICTSW work plan (Aug. 2011)
  Observation requirements Database
  Dossier on the Space–based Global Observing System(Sept. 2011 issue)  
  Final Report of the first ICTSW meeting(Boulder, April 2011)
  WMO activities relating to the ISWI (Report to COPUOS STSC-49)
  ICTSW Report to CGMS-39