CLIPC: Constructing Europe's Climate Information Portal

General Assembly, June 2015

The CLIPC 2015 General Assembly was held in Dortmund, Germany, on the 2^nd and 3^rd June 2015.
The meeting ran from 9.30 am on Tuesday June 2^nd to 4.30 pm on Wednesday June 3^rd. The agenda can be found here (and is copied below to provide links to the presentations - the presentations will be uploaded shortly)

Tuesday 2^nd June

Session 1.01
Welcome, outline of meeting objectives, review of the programme of work.
Introduction to venue
Introduction to meeting and project

• Outline of meeting
• Project status overview: Project administrative issues; Feedback etc from REA; User requirements;Scientific lead; Dissemination; Links to other Copernicus ClimateClimate
  Climate in a narrow sense is usually defined as the average weather, or more rigorously, as the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years. The classical period for averaging these variables is 30 years, as defined by the World Meteorological Organization. The relevant quantities are most often surface variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind. Climate in a wider sense is the state, including a statistical description, of the climate system. Service projectsand C3S.

Work Package Highlights - Scientific and technical programme of work

• The portal, visualisation, and service integration (WP3,WP4) 
• Access to science data (WP5,WP6)
• Impacts toolkit (WP7,8)

Session 1.02
Presentations:

1. Deliverables and Milestones (status report) – a review of what we are working on across the project
2. User requirements 
3. Architecture

Discussion on the above three. Note that implementation will be discussed in session 2.02: the focus in this discussion will be identifying areas of concern.
Aims of afternoon breakout groups.

Session 1.03
Breakout: Parallel sessions on WP5&6  and WP7&8 

Session 1.04
Breakout: Collaborating on common issues.

These 2 breakout sessions discussed the work of 2 working groups within the project:

1. Dealing with uncertainty and data limitations (including validation methods and data structures);  Presentation: WP8 Uncertainty assessment tool
2. The impact tool-kit themes: ensuring information is transferred smoothly and visualisation. 

Wednesday 3^rd June

Session 2.01

• Review of day 1; Introduction to day 2; 
• Feedback from breakout sessions
• Discussion: Links to Copernicus Climate ChangeClimate Change
  Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions and persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use. Note that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: 'a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods'. The UNFCCC thus makes a distinction between climate change attributable to human activities altering the atmospheric composition, and climate variability attributa Service and ….
• Reports on related projects: ESA Climate Change Initiative Portal  CHARMe annotation  Climate4impacts in IS-ENES2  

Session 2.02
Meeting the users requirements; deliverables and milestones; linkage between work packages.

Session 2.03

• Dissemination  and reporting
• Actions