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7th COSMOS General Assembly
COSMOS Board Meeting - Minutes -
Martin Claussen, Reinhard Budich KlimaCampus,
Univ. Hamburg Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
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Agenda

• Welcome
• Election of new board members and chairs
• Discussion on COSMOS strategy
• Discussion on COSMOS software package
• Discussion of COSMOS activities / initiatives
• Discussion on feedbacks from projects with
  COSMOS involvement
• Input for Network Plan 2009/10
• Miscellaneous

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Elections

• Board membersC. Sturm (Stockholm) is welcomed
  as new member.
• Athens, Zürich and Kassel will be approachedto
  nominate board members.(Decision at next COSMOS
  Board telco)
• Chairs Current chairs volunteer to serve again,
  no other candidates, new/old chairs are elected
  with univocal vote,no abstentions apart from the
  chairs.

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Strategy (1)

• The idea of COSMOS being a network has been
  endorsed. (More emphasis on partnership, model
  systems)
• COSMOS vision continues (see flyer, network plan
  ...)COSMOS is driven by a joint interest of
  itspartners in Earth system modelling
  (including data, impact)

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Strategy (2)

• Do we need to be more international? (Flyer
  European based international network )Excellent
  work will attract new centres and people.

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Strategy (3)

• How does a model enter the COSMOS Software
  package?
• Scientific projects and enterprise are guard
  rails.
• Models enter via scientific or structural
  activities, supported by strong groups,
• COSMOS models are Earth system modelsand
  components thereof.

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Strategy (4)

• Funding of COSMOS activities should mainly come
  via projects initiated by COSMOS partners.New
  possibilities are being explored.

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Activities

• RB to organize workshop of programmers and
  developers. Topics
• Environment
• Version control
• Coupling (OASIS 3 4)
• help-desk / bug tracking
• documentation
• networking

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Feedbacks from successful projects

• Feedbacks from successful projects One way is to
  establish the Repositories. Repositories contain
  all information about activities
• Software package used
• Model setup and configuration
• Data
• Papers
• Other information
• Discuss again at next Telco, invite Marco and Mark

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Network Plan 2009/10

• New design of Network Plan 2008 available, will
  be made available on the COSMOS site
• Network plan needs to be reconsidered for 2009
  version, including the changes we came up with
  here.
• Board members will be asked for input again,
  delivery until 1 month before next Telco.

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Miscellaneous (1)

• The following project opportunities have been
  discussed
• MIKLIP (a BMBF initiative)
• EU climate chemistry interactions
• No formal decision made

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Miscellaneous (2)

• Next COSMOS General Assembly (already decided in
  Helsinki)
• 2010 in Sweden (to be organized by SMHI and
  COSMOS office)
• 2011 in Germany(to be organized by DLR and
  COSMOS office)

Thank you very much for your attention!