ACRE Data and Visualisation meeting

Met Office, Exeter, UK, 15th - 17th September, 2009

Report from the meeting (Word document)

Agenda and presentations

Day 1 - 15th September
  ACRE
08:30 Why historical climate and weather observations matter - Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
08:50 What ACRE will do - Rob Allan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
09:05 What are the data needs for ACRE-facilitated historical reanalysis and reconstructions? - Scott Woodruff (NOAA, US) & Gil Compo (NOAA ESRL/CIRES, US)
 09:35 The 20th Century Reanalysis Project - Gil Compo (NOAA ESRL/CIRES, US)
10:05
 What do users want out of ACRE? - Roger Stone (USQ, Australia)
 10:25 Strengthening climate applications in developing countries - Steve Palmer (Met Office, UK)
10:30
Morning Tea

Data
11:00
English East-India Company - Andrew Cook (British Library, UK), Tom Ross (CDMP, US), Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
11:40
Royal Navy data archived at the UKHO - Catharine Ward (Sunderland University, UK)
12:00
Lunch
13:30   
 Early marine scientific expeditions & explorations (English, French, Russian, American etc.) - Rob Allan & Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
13:50
Arctic and Antarctic: Expeditions: Whaling and Sealing records: the ACEIP - Dennis Wheeler (Sunderland University, UK), Catharine Ward (Sunderland University, UK) & Rajmund Pryzbylak (NCU, Poland)
14:30
 Mediterranean and Atlantic logbooks - Ricardo Garcia Herrera (Universidad Complutense, Spain), Dennis Wheeler (Sunderland University, UK)
15:00
 Discussion sesion
 15:30 Afternoon tea
  INDO-PACIFIC, ASIA & AFRICA
16:00
Sources of historical Indo-Pacific surface weather observations - Rob Allan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
16:20
South-Eastern Australia Project - Joelle Gergis (Melbourne University, Australia)
16:40
South Pacific Rainfall Atlas (SPRAT) - Drew Lorrey (NIWA, New Zealand)
Day 2: 16th September
08:30
Missionary and other data from the Kalahari and southern Africa - Georgina Endfield(NU, UK) & David Nash BU, UK)
09:00
KNMI-BMGK 'DiDaH' Project - Gerard van der Schrier (KNMI, Netherlands)
09:20
Chile - Catharine Ward (Sunderland University, UK)
09:40
Asia - Masumi Zaiki 9Seikei University, Japan)
10:00
Discussion session
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
MEDARE (http://www.orm.urv.cat/MEDARE) - Manola Brunet (URV, Spain)
Salva Sinobas (http://salva-sinobas - Ricardo Garcia Herrera (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
Dennis Wheeler (Sunderland University, UK)
Serhat Sensoy (Turkish Meteorological Service, Turkey)
STORMIE - Edward Hanna (Sheffield University, UK)
HIST-EU - Ingeborg Auer (ZAMG, Austria)
12:00
Lunch
   US AND INTERNATIONAL
13:30
Climate Data Modernisation Program - Tom Ross (NOAA CDMP, US)
13:50
International Environmental Data Rescue Organisation (IEDRO) - Rick Crouthamel (IEDRO, US)
14:10
HISTOR & DWD digitisation - Wolfgang Gloeden (DWD, Germany)
14:30
Discussion session
15:00
Afternoon Tea
  FUTURE PLANS - BREAK OUT GROUPS ON:
 15:30a) Eastern Mediterranean terrestrial and Mediterranean marine digitisation project (e.g. MEDARE, MedCLIVAR, RECLAIM, EURO4M, NMHS's) - chair Juerg Luterbacher (University of Giessen, Gerrmany)

b) Indo-Pacific Historical Terrestrial & Marine Digitisation: linking KNMI-BMGK 'DiDaH', Australian BoM/DCC/CAWCR Pacific Climate Change Science Program (PCCSP), NIWA 'SPRAT', ACRE Chile and Asian Projects - chair Drew Lorrey (NIWA, NZ)

c) High Latitude Logbooks 19th Century - including Royal Navy (exploration) Hudson's Bay Company, and whaling vessels plus Antarctic sea-ice proposal - chair Nick Rayner (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)

Day 3: 17th September

DATA STORAGE, ACCESS & VISUALISATION
09:00
Introduction
09:10
Visualisation possibilities and potential - Michael Saunby (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
09:30
Google Earth and Google Maps Visualisations of ACRE data - Philip Brohan (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
09:50
Google Earth in the Met Office - Diogo de gusmao (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK)
10:10
Galaxy Zoo ' distributed Digitisation' - Chris Lintott (Oxford University, UK)
10:30
Morning Tea
11:00
Image storage and access at NCDC: WSSRD/EDADS - Tom Ross (NOAA/CDMP, US)
11:20
Access to and Visualizations of the reanalysis - Gil Compo (NOAA ESRL/CIRES, US)
11:40
Image storage and access at BADC - Martin Jukes (BADC, UK)
12:00
Lunch
13:30
KCL E-content visualisation - Stuart Dunn (King's College London, UK)
14:10
Discussion Session
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