Opening Reception: Evening 31st March
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16:00
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Meet at Reception for Registration |
17:00
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Opening address - Rob Zacharin (UK Consul in Queensland)
followed by 'Sunset Experience' and BBQ
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Day 1 - 1st April
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ACRE
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| 09:00 |
Introduction - Dr Lynne Turner (QCCCE)
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| 09:15 |
Overview of ACRE - Dr Rob Allan (Met Office Hadley Centre)
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| 09:35 |
The climate science questions ACRE can address - Dr Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre)
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10:30
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Morning Tea |
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Historical Reanalyses
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| 11:00 |
The release of the 20th Century Reanalysis Project - Dr Gil Compo (NOAA ESRL/CIRES)
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| 11:30 |
Testing and evaluating reanalyses - Dr Phil Arkin (CICS, University of Maryland)
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12:00
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GCOS SST intercomparison project - Ms Tess Brandon (NODC)
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| 12:30 |
Discussion |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
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The data and data processing underlying the historical reanalyses and downscaling
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14:30
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Data, images, digitising and CDMP - Dr Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre)
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| 15:00 |
ICOADS and RECLAIM - Mr Scott Woodruff (NOAA ESRL)
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| 15:30 |
NCDC and the ISPD - Dr Russ Vose (NCDC)
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| 16:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
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Downscaling the historical reanalyses - Dr Antonio Cofino (University of Cantabria)
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| 17:00 |
Discussion |
Day 2: 2nd April
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Climate and climate applications projects using the historical reanalyses
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09:00
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Insuring for resilience in extreme conditions using climate modes and reanalysis products - Dr Peter Best (USQ) |
09:30
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ACRE and Change for Africa project - Dr Holger Meinke (Wageningen University)
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10:00
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The Southeast Australian Project - Dr Joelle Gergis (University of Melbourne)
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| 10:30 |
Morning Tea |
11:00
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South-east Australia Climate Initiative (SECI) - Dr Ian Smith (CMAR)
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| 11:30 |
NH extra-tropical cyclone activity in the 20th century reanalysis data - Dr Xiaolan Wang (Environment Canada)
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| 12:00 |
QCCCE and ACRE - Dr Josef Syktus (QCCCE)
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| 12:30 |
Discussion
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| 13:00 |
Lunch |
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Data storage, access and visualisation of ACRE-facilitated products
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| 15:00 |
ACRE, OldWeather and Google - Dr Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre)
(This presentation was a demonstration of a Google Earth visualisation and a Google Maps and AppEngine web application.)
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| 15:30 |
The GLOBE program and ACRE - Dr Ed Geary (GLOBE)
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| 16:00 |
Afternoon Tea |
16:30
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GIS and reanalyses - Mr Neil Kaye (Met Office Hadley Centre)
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| 17:00 |
Discussion |
Day 3: 3rd April
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Projects that link or could link to ACRE
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08:30
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Use of historical reanalyses by insurance companies - Dr Olena Sosenko (Scor reinsurance)
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| 09:00 |
Questions on extreme events from wine grape growers and wheat farmers in Southern Australia - Dr Peter Hayman (PIRSA-SARDI)
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| 09:30 |
International Climate Change Adaptation Initiative - Dr David Jones (BoM)
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10:00
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Morning Tea |
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The South Pacific Rainfall Atlas project and its application for understanding impacts of the SPCZ - Dr Andrew Lorrey (NIWA)
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| 11:00 |
Joint Dutch-Indonesian initiative to rescue, digitize and exploit historical climate data from Indonesia - Theo Brandsma (KNMI)
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| 12:00 |
The road map for ACRE - Open Discussion |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
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Queensland Coastal Processes - Dr Rodger Tomlinson (Griffith University)
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| 13:30 |
The MO experience and risk research - Ms Inika Taylor (Met Office Hadley Centre)
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| 14:00 |
Is Australian agriculture the first casualty of global climate change? - Steve Crimp (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)
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14:30
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Discussion
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15:00
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Afternoon tea
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Australian climatic variability and change in the historical reanalyses
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15:30
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Developing a program to assess Australian climatic variability and change using ACRE-facilitated historical reanalyses - Open Discussion
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| 16:00 |
End of Workshop
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