Day One

Time

Speaker/Activity

Chair

8:30

Registration, Coffee & Tea

9:00

Introduction from the Bureau of Meteorology

Michael Coughlan, Superintendent, National Climate Centre (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Geoff Love, Director (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Amir Delju, Acting Chief (World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme, WMO)

Bruce Stewart, Assistant Director (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Jeff Wilson, Superintendent, Training Centre (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Michael Coughlan

Room 1

9:45

Administration and Housekeeping

10:00

Morning Tea

10:30

11:00

Climate Data Management: The role of WMO and developments since CliCom
Michael Coughlan, Superintendent, National Climate Centre (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Neil Plummer (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)

Discussion

Rod Hutchinson

Room 1

11:15

RA V Presentations (10 mins per country representative)

Current state of climate databases and key data management issues

Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia.

12:30

Lunch

13:30

RA V Presentations (10 mins per country representative)

Current state of climate databases and key data management issues

New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.

Glenn Prank

Room 2

15:30

Afternoon Tea

16:00

16:45

The Desirable Properties of a Climate Data Base System
John Shortridge (Australian Bureau of Meteorology )

Discussion

Terry Johnson

Room 2

17:00

End of day One

Reception Evening – Ibis Hotel 6:00PM to 8:00PM