CCl Background

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CCl Background

• Thomas C. Peterson
• Chair, CCl Open Programme Area Group on
  Monitoring and Analysis of Climate Variability
  and Change

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WMO Commission for Climatology

• CCl (cap C, cap C, small L)
• Full commission meeting every 4 years
• Last one Nov. 2005, Beijing attended by 90
  Member States
• Formal meeting
• E.g., Canada recommends . . .
• Agreed on OPAG structure
• Open Programme Area Groups
• Open means new tasks and teams can be added

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WMO COMMISSION FOR CLIMATOLOGY (CCl)
President Pierre Bessemoulin (France)
Vice-president Wang, Shourong (China)
Regional Representatives RA III Luis Molion
(Brazil) RA V Michael Coughlan (Australia)
World Data Centres Aleksandr Sterin (Russian
Federation)
MANAGEMENT GROUP (MG)


OPAG 3 Climate Information and Prediction
Services (CLIPS)
OPAG 4 Climate Applications and Services
Chair Abdalah Mokssit (Morocco) Co-chair José
Luis Santos (Ecuador)
Chair Dong, Wenjie (China) Co-chair Mohammed
Kadi (Algeria)
3.1 ET on Research Needs for Intraseasonal,
Seasonal Interannual Prediction Jean-Pierre
Ceron (France)
4.1 ET on Climate and Health Glenn McGregor (UK)
4.2 ET on Climate and Energy David Wratt (New
Zealand)
3.2 ET on CLIPS Operations, Verification and
Application ServicesOperations Philbert
Tibaijuka (Tanzania) Verification Simon Mason
(USA) User Liaison Jaakko Helminen (Finland)
4.3 ET on Climate and Tourism Daniel Scott
(Canada)
3.3 ET on El Niño and La Niña Luc Maitrepierre
(New Caledonia)
4.4 ET on Urban and Building Climatology Sue
Grimmond (UK)
Reporting to the President or Management
Group 5.1 Rapporteur on Climaterelated Hazards
(Luis Molion, Brazil) 5.2 ET on the Guide to
Climatological Practices (Ned Guttman, USA) 5.3
Gender Focal Point (Juliana Ukeje, Nigeria) 5.4
Rapporteur on GEOSS (Stephan Roesner, Germany) 7.
Implementation/Coordination Team (ICT) CCl VP
Co-Chairs of OPAGs 1, 2, 3, 4 Chairpersons of
the Working Groups on Climate-related Matters
for RAs I, II, III, IV, V and VI.
3.4 Rapporteur on Climate And Water Nakaegawa
Tosiyuki (Japan)
Reporting to the OPAG Chairs 6. CCl Experts
serving on teams of other Technical Commissions
3.5 Rapporteur on Climate and Agrometeorology
Roger Stone (Australia)
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10 AM Beijing time Thursday November 10, 2005

• Two hours before the Commission meeting ended,
  Craig Donlon asked to be recognized and said
• The United Kingdom requests that ET 2.2, which is
  joint with CLIVAR, also be joint with JCOMM
• I agreed as
• More ocean involvement made sense
• The CLIVAR SSG had, in the past, urged the team
  to work on ocean indices
• But CLIVAR wasnt thrilled that this decision was
  made without consultation

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ET 2.2 on Climate Monitoring

• Monitoring now a separate team
• It was part of the ETCCDMI the last time around
• Craig Donlon also urged ET 2.2 to change title to
  explicitly include and marine data
• I only agreed if he agreed to serve on the team