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CAS-16 and TECO Kindly hosted by the Turkish State Meteorological Service

Deon Terblanche

WMO; RES ARE, WGNE, March 2014

CAS-16 Technical Conference (TECO) (1)

“RESPONDING TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS OF THE 21ST CENTURY”

Monday - Tuesday, 18 - 19 November 2013, Antalya, Turkey

6 Sessions wide ranging topics

Keynote and invited talks, panel discussions

85 participants and 24 posters in poster session aligned to six TECO themes

Webcast arranged by host, media support on site by Clare Nullis (one web news each on TECO and CAS-16, write-up for Meteoworld. 4 items on Facebook reaching about 25,000 people. The weekly Facebook reach was 71,000 (nearly double the previous record), partly on the basis of the TECO activity and a couple of widely shared postings made on new videos and visualizations of IPCC report.

TECO provided valuable input to the CAS-16 session, specifically to Item 9, related to the future direction of the commission

Co-chaired by Gilbert Brunet and Oystein Hov

http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/cas/CAS16-TECO.html

16th Session of CAS (1)

Monday to Tuesday, 20-26 November 2013, Antalya, Turkey

DSG present on Wednesday 20th, Tang Xu for TECO and until Thursday 21st

Side events:

THORPEX TIGGE utilities WIGOS Metadata World Weather Open Science Conference

21% female involvement

16th Session of CAS (2)

Elections Friday morning, 22 Nov – 45 members (48 including proxies), quorum 41

One candidate for president Oystein Hov, Norway.

Three candidates for vice president, each having a 10 minute intervention (two rounds of voting): Jim Butler, (USA) Emilio Cuevas (Spain) Jae-Cheol Nam (Republic of Korea)

Selection of Chairs and CAS MG WWRP Gilbert Brunet (UK) until 31 Dec 2014 thereafter Sarah Jones (Germany

16th Session of CAS (3)

Selection of Chairs and CAS MG WWRP Gilbert Brunet (UK) until 31 Dec 2014 thereafter Sarah Jones

(Germany) EPAC Greg Carmichael

Selection of members CAS Management Group President Oystein Hov (president) Jae-Cheol Nam (vice president) Michel Beland (former president) Gilbert Brunet / Sarah Jones (chair WWRP) Greg Carmichael (chair EPAC) Andy Brown (co-chair WGNE) Duan Yi-hong (invited expert) Mariane Diop-Kane Shiv Dev Attri Alice Grimm Jim Butler Beth Ebert Philippe Bougeault

Document 9: A 10-year future view: Emerging challenges and opportunities.

Integrated GHG information system: Serving society and supporting policy Water: Modelling an predicting the water cycle for improved DRR and resource

management Aerosols: Impacts on air quality, weather and climate High impact weather and its socio-economic effects in the context of global

change Urbanization: Research and services for megacities and large urban complexes Evolving technologies: Impact on science and its use, including geoengineering

Document 10: Working structure of the Commission

Clear ToRs, standardization between WWRP and EPAC Two Scientific Steering Committee with independent experts – strengthening peer

review Redefined OPAGs promoting gender and youth involvement Clear membership and chair selection processes with an emphasis on rotation and

wider involvement Links with WMO Strategic Plan Monitoring and Evaluation Youth and gender focus under leadership of vice president

16th Session of CAS (4)

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