WMO

WW-OSC 2014

Michel Béland, President CAS

WMO; CAS, EC-65

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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

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Co-Chair Dr. Michel Béland President of CASEnvironment Canada

Co-Chair Dr. Alan Thorpe Director General of ECMWF

President-elect of ICSU Dr. Gordon McBean Institute for Catastrophic Loss ReductionThe University of West Ontario

Secretary General of IAMAS

Prof. Hans Volkert Secretary-General of IAMASIAMAS

WMO Officials Dr. Deon Terblanche Director, Atmospheric Research DepartmentWMO

From Canada Dr Véronique Bouchet Environment CanadaFrom USA: Dr William Lapenta NOAA/NCEP

From USA: Dr James Hurrell UCAR

From : Dr. Julia Slingo Chief ScientistMetOffice

From Asia Dr Meiyan Jiao Deputy Administrator of CMAFrom Africa: Dr. Albert van Jaarsveld President, National Research Foundation of

South AfricaFrom South America Dr. Pedro Leite da Silva Dias Director of LNSC (National Laboratory for

Scientific Computation)Brazil

From Australia: Dr Jon Gill Manager, International AffairsBureau of Meteorology

From NSF Dr. Roger Wakimoto Assistant Director for the Geosciences National Science Foundation (NSF)

International Organizing Committee

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WMO representativesExecutive IOC SecretaryCo-chairs of WSPC

Co-chairs of USSPC

Chair of Local Organizing CommitteeChair of Sponsorship CommitteeCommunicationsCanadian National Research Council

Dr. Tetsuo Nakazawa Mme Sophie Cousineau Dr. Gilbert BrunetDr. Sarah Jones Dr. David RogersDr. Brian MillsMr Jean Langlais Mr Jim AbrahamMme Sylvie Castonguay (WMO) Mr Laurier ForgetMme Sylvie Couture

Ex-officio members

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1. Provide overall leadership for the organization of the OSC

2. Provide oversight on the scientific and user and social sciences program structures

3. Help Identify and or approve invited or keynote speakers

4. Provide oversight and contribute, as necessary to the financial , communications, sponsorships and technical planning

5. Make final decisions on matters related to the OSC overall

budget, financial support to participants and sponsorships

TERMS OF REFERENCE OF IOC

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6. Establish a Scientific Program Committee (SPC) and a User Program Committee (UPC): their mandates will be to define the format of the OSC, including the selection of conveners and of the abstracts for presentation at the OSC

7. Provide oversight to the Local Organizing Committee

8. Provide oversight to the venue (Palais des Congrès) on all logistical arrangements

9. Ensure that the OSC is conducted in line with Canadian and WMO policies /procedures

TERMS OF REFERENCE OF IOC (Cont.)

WEATHER SCIENCE PROGRAM

The overarching theme of the OSC is Seamless Prediction of the Earth System: from nowcasting through medium-range to seasonal forecasts. The science presented at the conference will range from basic research that extends our knowledge of processes and methods to the applied research required to put the prediction system together and assess the impacts of weather and climate events. The scientific program will be organized around five science themes:

Data Assimilation and Observations; Predictability and Dynamical/Physical/Chemical Processes; Interactions between sub-systems; Prediction of the Earth system: putting it all together; Impacts of weather and climate events (joint session with UPC) A

particular focus will be given also to major cross cutting themes, such as ensemble prediction.

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The overall theme of the OSC is Seamless Prediction of the Earth System: from nowcasting through medium-range to seasonal forecasts. With improved and seamless prediction capability as the scientific programme backdrop, the User, Application and Social Science Programme provides an open forum where the experiences and perspectives of a wide variety of information providers and users will be combined with the latest applications and methodological advances in social science to:

•Demonstrate and document recent progress, highlighting and sharing lessons from both successful and ‘less successful’ projects and applications;

•Identify and deliberate areas of practice, social science research methods, and training and education requiring new or continued attention;

•Expand and connect the interdisciplinary weather and society community; and

•Develop conference positions and recommendations regarding the state and advancement of knowledge and practice.

User, Application and Social Science Program

USER AND SOCIAL SCIENCE COMMITTEE

Bill Hooke--AMS Bill Mahoney--NCAR Hassan Virji--START Claire Martin--CBC/International Association of

Broadcast Meteorologists Rowan Douglas--Willis (insurance) Haleh Kootval—WMO Michel Jancloes (HCF,

formerly WHO) Eve Gruntfest (University of Colorado)

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