Technical Conference on Changing Climate and Demands

for Climate Services for Sustainable Development

Antalya, Turkey, 16-18 February 2010

with a Special Joint Session with the

Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) for the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

World MeteorologicalOrganization

World ClimateResearch Programme

Turkish StateMeteorological Service

PROGRAMME

MONDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2010

ArrivalofParticipantsinAntalya

16:00-18:00 hrs Registration – Susesi Hotel

TUESDAY, 16 FEBRUARY 2010

08:00-08:30 hrs Registration (contd.)

SESSiON i: OPENiNG OF THE TECHNiCAl CONFERENCE 08:30 hrs Welcome MehmetCaglar TurkishStateMeteorologicalService,Ankara,Turkey

08:35 hrs Address PierreBessemoulin President,CommissionforClimatology(CCl)ofWMO

08:40 hrs Address AntonioBusalacci Chairman,JointSteeringCommittee WorldClimateResearchProgramme

08:45 hrs Address AvinashTyagi WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

08:50 hrs Conference Opening Address xxxx UnderSecretaryoftheMinistryofEnvironmentand Forestry,GovernmentofTurkey

09:05 hrs GroupphotoandTea/CoffeeBreak

SESSiON ii: SOCiETAl DEMANDS FOR CliMATE SERviCES FORADAPTATiON AND RiSk MANAGEMENTCHAiRMAN: MEHMET kARACA RAPPORTEUR: R.k. kOlli

09:30 hrs Integratingsocietalneedsintothedevelopmentof climateservices EileenShea NationalClimaticDataCenter(NCDC),NOAA,USA

10:00 hrs ClimateInformationforDisasterRiskReduction G.Love/M.Golnaraghi WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

10:30 hrs ClimateInformationforAdaptationandRisk ManagementwithinLocalCommunities G.Srinivasan AsianDisasterPreparednessCentre(ADPC),Thaïland

11:00 hrs ClimateRiskManagementforAgriculture: theAustralianExperience RogerStone UniversityofSouthernQueensland,Australia

11:30 hrs ClimateInformationforHydrologicalOutlooks DavidWratt NationalInstituteforWaterandAtmosphericResearch (NIWA),NewZealand

12:00 hrs ClimateChangeImpactsonAgricultureandWater ResourcesinandAroundTurkey SerhatSensoy TurkishStateMeteorologicalService,Turkey

12:30 hrs Discussion

13:00 hrs Lunch

SESSiON iii: CAPABiliTiES FOR DATA MANAGEMENT, MONiTORiNGAND ASSESSMENTCHAiRMAN: l. OGAllO RAPPORTEUR: O. BADDOUR

14:00 hrs ClimateDataManagementincludingClimate MetadataDevelopmentandtheCapabilitiesof GlobalClimateDataArchivingCentres RainoHeino FinnishMeteorologicalInstitute(FMI),Finland

14:30 hrs ClimateDataManagementSystems:TheStatus ofImplementationinDevelopingCountriesand theNewFeaturesofCDMS AlbertMhanda Zimbabwe DenisStuber Meteo-France,France

15:00 hrs WMOClimateDataManagementCoordination includingRegionalLevelAspects HamaKontongomde WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

15:30 hrs CoffeeBreak

16:00 hrs WMOClimateMonitoringCapabilitiesandStrategyfor Development TomPeterson NationalClimateDataCenter(NCDC),USA OmarBaddour WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

16:30 hrs ClimateAssessmentandEmergingDataRescue Initiatives ManolaBrunet UniversityRoviraIVirgiliofTarragona,Spain PhilJones ClimateResearchUnit,UniversityofEastAnglia,UK

17:00 hrs Discussion

17:30 hrs Adjournment

WEDNESDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2010

SESSiON iv: CAPABiliTiES FOR CliMATE PREDiCTiON AND PROJECTiONCHAiRMAN: T. PETERSON RAPPORTEUR: P. HECHlER

08:30 hrs BuildingupSustainableRegionalClimateInformation RodneyMartinez CentroInternacionaldeInvestigacióndelFenómeno deElNiño(CIIFEN),Ecuador

09:00 hrs ClimateToolbox:PracticalMethodsandToolsfor ClimatePredictionandProjection Mokssit DirectiondelaMétéorologienationale,Morocco

09:30 hrs NewPerspectivesforGPCs:Contributiontoa “WorldClimateWatch” RichardGraham UKMetOffice(UKMO),UK

10:00 hrs ProfessionalDevelopmentforClimatePredictionand Projection PeterLamb UniversityofOklahoma,USA

10:30 hrs CoffeeBreak

11:00 hrs RegionalClimateChangeProjectionsforTurkey GönülKiliçandIsmailDemir TurkishStateMeteorologicalService,Turkey

11:30 hrs Discussion

12:00 hrs Lunch

SESSiON v: PARTNERSHiPS AND COllABORATivE ACTiviTiESCHAiRMAN: S. WANG RAPPORTEUR: A. DElJU

13:30 hrs WorkingTogetherforAdaptation XianfuLu SecretariatoftheUNFrameworkConventionon ClimateChange(UNFCCC),Germany

14:00 hrs TheGlobalClimateChangeAdaptationNetwork, aBasisforWiderClimateServices JianLiu UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme(UNEP),Kenya

14:30 hrs ClimateScienceinSupportofSustainable AgriculturalPractices SelvarajuRamasamy FoodandAgricultureOrganization(FAO),Italy

15:00 hrs CoffeeBreak

15:30 hrs ClimateServicesasaResourceforProtecting HumanHealth DiarmidCampbell-Lendrum WorldHealthOrganization(WHO),Switzerland

16:00 hrs ClimateChangeandFutureProspectsforTourism DanielScott UniversityofWaterloo,Canada LeslieMalone WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

16:30 hrs Discussion

17:00 hrs Adjournment

THURSDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 2010

SPECiAl JOiNT SESSiON WiTH THE JOiNT SCiENTiFiC COMMiTTEE (JSC) FOR THE WORlD CliMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME (WCRP)CHAiRMAN: A. BUSAlACCHi RAPPORTEUR: v. DETEMMERMAN

08:30 hrs ClimateSystemMonitoringandResearchNeeds TomPeterson NationalClimateDataCenter(NCDC),USA

09:00 hrs ImprovingourUnderstandingoftheHydrologicalCycle anditsChanges:ObservationalandModelingNeeds KevinTrenberth NationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch(NCAR),USA

09:30 hrs ClimateChangeDetection,ExtremeEventsand Indices:OverviewandFuturePerspectives FrancisZwiers CanadianCentreforClimateModellingandAnalysis, EnvironmentCanada AlbertKlein-Tank RoyalNetherlandsMeteorologicalInstitute(KNMI), TheNetherlands

10:00 hrs CoffeeBreak

10:30 hrs ResearchNeedsforSeasonaltoInterannual ClimatePrediction Jean-PierreCéron PierreBessemoulin Météo-France,France

11:00 hrs ResearchNeedsforDecadaltoCentennialClimate Prediction:Fromobservationstomodelling JuliaSlingo MetOffice,U.K V.Ramaswamy GeophysicalFluidDynamicsLaboratory(GFDL),USA

11:30 hrs Discussion:ResearchNeedsinObservationsand ModellingatSeasonaltoCentennialTimeScales

12:30 hrs Lunch

SPECiAl JOiNT SESSiON WiTH THE JOiNT SCiENTiFiC COMMiTTEE (JSC) FOR THE WORlD CliMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME (WCRP) (CONTD.)CHAiRMAN: P. BESSEMOUliN RAPPORTEUR: l. MAlONE

14:00hrs ProvidingDownscaledRegionalClimateChange InformationforImpactand AdaptationApplication:TheCORDEXFramework FilippoGiorgi InternationalCentreforTheoreticalPhysics(ICTP), Italy ColinJones SMHI,Sweden

14:30hrs PracticalApplicationsofSeasonaltoInter-annual ClimatePredictionsonRegional andNationalScales LabanOgallo IGADClimatePredictionandApplicationsCentre (ICPAC),Kenya RupaKumarKolli WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

15:00hrs BridgingtheGapbetweenClimateChangeInformation Providers,StakeholdersandPolicy-makers DavidGriggs,MonashUniversity,Australia

15:30hrs CoffeeBreak

16:00hrs EnhancingLinkagesbetweenClimateService ProvidersandUserstoFacilitateClimateAdaptation andClimateRiskManagement SimonMason InternationalResearchInstituteforClimateand Society(IRI),USA

16:30hrs EnhancingClimateChangeResearchandApplicationin DevelopingCountries FredSemazzi NorthCarolinaStateUniversity,USA BruceHewitson UniversityofCapeTown,SouthAfrica

17:00hrs Discussion:ResearchandOperationLinkagesfor EnhancingtheUseofClimateInformationinImpact, AdaptationandMitigationWork

17:45hrs SummaryandRecommendationsoftheConference PeerHechler WorldMeteorologicalOrganization(WMO),Switzerland

18:00hrs Conferencecloses

For more information on this Conference please contact:

Mr Murat AltinyollarCommunicationOfficerExternalRelationsDivisionTurkishStateMeteorologicalServiceTurkeyTel: +903123022797Fax: +903123597568Mobile: +905057475429Email: maltinyollar@dmi.gov.tr

Dr. M.v.k. SivakumarDirectorClimatePredictionandAdaptationBranchWorldMeteorologicalOrganizationSwitzerlandTel: +41227308380Email: msivakumar@wmo.int