The 15th Session of the CliC Scientific Steering Group will be held from December 14 to 15, 2019, in San Francisco, USA, in conjunction with the AGU Fall Meeting and the 40th Anniversary of WCRP.
The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Centric Fisherman's Wharf hotel, 555 North Point St, San Francisco, CA 94133, United States.
Agenda
Saturday, December 14, 2019
08:00 – 08:30
Welcoming and coffee
08:30 – 10:10 Introduction and Background
08:30 - 8:40
Opening and Welcome by CliC and Grand Challenge on Melting Ice & Global Consequences Co-Chairs, including presentation of the agenda – James Renwick, Fiamma Straneo, Tim Naish
8:40 - 8:55
Round of Introductions – All participants
8:55 - 9:25
Introductory Overview of WCRP, including initial presentation of the new WCRP Strategic and Implementation Plans (IP) - Mike Sparrow
9:25 - 9:55
Introduction to CliC and its Action Plan as background for discussions - James Renwick
9:55 - 10:10 WCRP GEWEX Presentation - Jan Polcher (part of the Interactions section)
10:10 - 10:35 Coffee Break
10:35 – 12:30 Status of CliC
Brief summary of current CliC and Melting Ice GC activities – 5 min each
- Each activity to provide 2 slides showing (1) Main Achievements over last year and (2) Potential Future Activities.
10:35 – 11:15
1. Melting Ice Grand Challenge and the MIPs (30 mins)
- Earth System Model-Snow Model Intercomparison Project (ESM-SnowMIP) - Gerhard Krinner (remotely)
- Sea Ice Model Intercomparision Project (SIMIP) - Dirk Notz (remotely)
- Glacier Model Intercomparison Project (GlacierMIP) - Ben Marzeion (remotely)
- Marine Ice Sheet-Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (MISOMIP) - Helene Seroussi
- Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) - Helene Seroussi
Questions and Discussion: 15 mins
11:15 – 12:30
2. CliC Core Activities (45 mins)
- SOLAS/CliC/IASC/SCAR Biogeochemical Exchanges at Sea Ice Interfaces (BEPSII) - Martin Vancoppenolle (remotely tbc)
- Arctic Sea Ice Working Group (ASIWG) - Don Perovich (remotely)
- Polar Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment - Arctic and Antarctic Domains (CORDEX) - Ruth Mottram (remotely)
- CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region Panel (NORP) - Ruth Mottram (remotely)
- CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Regiona Panel (SORP) - Elisabeth Sikes
- CliC/SCAR Antarctic Sea Ice Processes & Climate (ASPeCt) - Marilyn Raphael
- WCRP/CliC/SPARC Polar Climate Predictability Initiative (PCPI) - Marilyn Raphael
- SCAR/IASC/CliC Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS) - Ed Hanna
- Permafrost Carbon Network (PCN) (SEARCH/NSF/CliC/IPA/ US Dep. Of Energy/ IASC/ USGS) - Ted Schuur (5 min)
Questions and Discussion: 30 mins
12:30 – 12:45 The Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and CliC
Brief overview by Ted Schuur, lead author, and discussion on where can CliC make a difference in the gaps identified in the SROCC?
12:45-14:15 No-host lunch
14:15 – 18:00 Interactions with other agencies – Potential Future Interactions
14:15 - 15:30 Presentations from other organizations (15 min each)
- Arctic Natural Sciences, Office of Polar Programs, NSF, Xujing Jia Davis (remotely)
- Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) / Adaptation Actions For A Changing Arctic (AACA) – Jason Box
- Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) - Brendan Kelly
- NASA Cryospheric Science Program – Thorsten Markus
Questions (15 minutes)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Presentations from other organizations (15 min each)
- WCRP CLIVAR-Climate and Ocean-Variability, Predictability, and Change - Wenju Cai
- US CLIVAR - Mike Patterson
- International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) – Allen Pope
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) – Tim Naish
17:00–18:00 Questions and Discussion for future interactions and potential new joint activities
19:00 No-host Group Dinner
The Pub (http://www.thepubsf.com/), 51 BEACH (between Polk & Larkin) at Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco. There will be a pre-set menu.
Sunday, December 15, 2019
08:30 – 09:00 Welcoming and coffee
9:00 - 12:00 Future of CliC
Revisiting the future of CliC in light of the WCRP New Strategy / IP and the priorities identified in the IPCC SROCC and the CliC Action Plan
09:00 – 09:30
Summary of Saturday’s discussions - CliC Co-Chairs
09:30 - 10:00
WCRP JSC Chair (including future cross activities) – Detlef Stammer (remotely)
10:00– 10:30
Review of CliC Action plan, including discussion on what should the near-term and long-term goals of CliC be and if CliC should be more focused on fewer activities (Part 1).
10: 30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30
Review of CliC Action plan, including discussion on what should the near-term and long-term goals of CliC be and if CliC should be more focused on fewer activities (Part 2).
11:30 – 12:00
CliC SSG engagement: How best to engage new SSG members?
12:00 – 13:30 No-host lunch
13:30 - 16:00 SSG Closed Session - CliC SSG, GC Chair, and IPO Only
Review of CliC Activities
Discussion on new Activities
Budget discussion
Decisions from the SSG
SSG membership
Future of CliC office
Meeting wrap-up
Online Meeting Participation Information
For online participation for the CliC 15th Scientific Steering Group Meeting, we use the GoToMeeting Platform (www.gotomeeting.com).
Please send an email to Gwen Hamon if you would like to participate remotely.
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Participants
Tentative List of Participants as of November 2019
| Name | Affiliation, Country |
| Balino, Beatriz | WCRP Coordination Office for Regional Activities (CORA), Norway |
| Box, Jason | [CliC SSG member (new)] Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark |
| Bradley, Raymond (Dec 14) | University of Massachussets, USA |
| Cai, Wenju (Dec 14) | [CLIVAR Co-Chair] Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia |
| Hamon, Gwen | [CliC IPO] World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland |
| Hanna, Edward | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Hudson, Stephen | [CliC SSG Member (outgoing)] Norwegian Polar Institute, Norway |
| Kelly, Brendan (Dec 14) | Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), USA |
| Lovecraft, Amy | [CliC SSG member (new)] University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA |
| Markus, Thorsten (Dec 14) | NASA Cryospheric Science Program, USA |
| Naish, Timothy | [Grand Challenge Chair] Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Niwano, Masashi | Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan |
| Patterson, Mike | US CLIVAR |
| Polcher, Jan (Dec 14) | [GEWEX Co-Chair] Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France |
| Pope, Allen |
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), Iceland |
| Raphael, Marilyn (Dec 14) | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Renwick, James | [CliC Co-Chair] Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Santos, Jose (Dec 15) | International CLIVAR Project Office, China |
| Schuur, Ted | Northern Arizona University, USA |
| Seroussi, Helene | [CliC SSG Member] NASA JPL, USA |
| Sikes, Elisabeth | Rutgers University, USA |
| Smedsrud, Lars | [CliC SSG Member] University of Bergen, Norway |
| Sparrow, Mike (Dec 14) | [WCRP Officer In Charge] World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland |
| Straneo, Fiamma | [CliC Co-Chair] University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Sugiyama, Shin | [CliC SSG member (new)] Hokkaido University, Japan |
| Zhang, Tingjun | [CliC SSG member (new)] Lanzhou University, China |
Participating Remotely
| Name | Affiliation, Country |
| Davis, Xujing Jia | Arctic Natural Sciences, Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, USA |
| De Conto, Rob | University of Massachussets, USA |
| Krinner, Gerhard | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France |
| Marzeion, Ben | University of Bremen, Germany |
| Mottram, Ruth | Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark |
| Notz, Dirk | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany |
| Perovich, Don | Dartmouth University, USA |
| Stammer, Detlef | [WCRP Joint Scientifc Committee Chair] University of Hamburg, Germany |
| Vancoppenolle, Martin | [CliC SSG Member] LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France |
