Objective of the Science Summit
The world we are living in is changing. Fundamental changes in the environment, an ever-growing global population, and rapid changes in technologies create new challenges and opportunities. High-impact weather, climate, water and environment events undermine the resilience of people and the infrastructures they are relying on.
A coordinated research effort and new investments are required to build science for services through seamless prediction systems, benefiting from future infrastructures while nurturing scientific talents. A clear benefit to countries and all citizens emerges through the WMO research activities on facilitating the exchange of scientific and technical knowledge, to make the latest research advances more accessible and usable, especially for developing countries.
The aim of the Science Summit is:
- To provide an opportunity for a forward-looking debate on some of the solutions related to the primary scientific and research challenges that WMO Members are facing
- To foster a common understanding between operations and research community and other international research initiatives on a new model of co-design to optimize research and innovation as well as operations interplay in the interest of users
- To build a strong unified vision on those research topics central to dramatic advances in predictive skill across time scales for weather, climate, water and related environmental issues
- To give clear recommendations to WMO Members through the Executive Council and Congress on research and innovation priorities, how these will benefit the world and how best these should be resourced
→ The ideas and suggestions that will be developed during the Science Summit will directly feed into CAS-17 and will guide the decisions and recommendations made by the Commission
Topics of the Science Summit
The discussions at the Science Summit will revolve around the topics covered in the CAS-17 documents and are structured in five thematic sessions. For each of these sessions, a set of key questions has been developed, which will help to steer and target the discussions.
The five thematic sessions of the Science Summit are:
Seamless prediction in 2023
Improving predictive capacity across weather, climate, water and environment.
Future infrastructures
Planning and investing in future infrastructures (computing, data-handling, observations).
Science for services
Developing and implementing a new interactive model for integrating research and operations.
Nurturing scientific talents
Guaranteeing the sustainable development of science; breaking through geographical, gender and age barriers; ensuring institutional continuity and transfer of knowledge.
Innovation and resources
Catalyzing innovation and mobilizing resources in weather, climate, water and environment research globally and locally.
→ The key questions that will steer the discussion at the Science Summit are available here as PDF
Structure of the Science Summit
The Science Summit will follow a different approach as the Technical Conferences that preceded previous CAS sessions.
There are three major components of the Science Summit, and each of which is equally important to achieve the targeted outcome:
Keynote Presentations
Renowned scientists from different fields of atmospheric and related sciences and a broad range of institutions have been invited as key-note speakers. In 30 min presentations (20 min presentation + 10 min questions) they will outline their perspective on the key questions, guided by thinking about what would be some experiments or approaches that could revolutionize predictive capabilities in the near future. There will be two keynote presentations per session.
Round Table Discussions
The points that have been raised during the keynote presentations will directly feed into a round table discussion. In each session, 4-5 panelists will briefly comment on the points raised by the keynote speakers and add their perspective on the session specific discussion topics. This will be followed by an interactive discussion among the panelists and all participants.
Group Dialogues
Another important contribution to the assessment of atmospheric sciences and its future will be delivered by interactive group dialogues among all participants of the Science Summit. This lively exchange on the session topics will be key to derive concrete outcomes, identify roadblocks, and define priorities, guided by the broad and manifold expertise that can be provided by all of the participants.
The keynote speakers and panelists have been identified by the Organizing Committee, taking into account their expertise and background, to achieve a good coverage across the different fields of atmospheric sciences, across regions and across NMHSs and academia.
→ In addition to these presentations and discussions, a poster session will allow for further scientific exchange among the participants. If you would like to present your research activities, novel methods and tools, data sets or other aspects of your work, please inform us by sending a title for your poster to Julia Keller (jkeller@wmo.int), not later than 18th of October. Please note that space for posters is limited and that posters are accepted on a "first-come, first-served" basis.
Organizing Committee
Øystein Hov (President of Commission for Atmospheric Sciences)
Sarah Jones (Head Research and Development, DWD, Germany)
Greg Carmichael (Professor, University of Iowa, USA)
Deon Terblanche (WMO)
Oksana Tarasova (WMO)
Paolo M. Ruti (WMO)
Preliminary programme of the Science Summit
A PDF Version of the programme is available here
Thursday, 19 October 2017
16:00 – 18:00 Registration
Friday, 20 October 2017
08:00 – 18:00 Registration
08:15 – 08:45 Meeting of Key Note Speakers and Panelists of Sessions on Seamless Prediction and Future
Infrastructures
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome by Chair: Øystein Hov
Elena Manaenkova
WMO DSG
09:10 – 09:30 Welcome and Logistics by
Deon Terblanche, Paolo Ruti and Oksana Tarasova
WMO Secretariat
09:30 – 10:00 Introduction by Chair: Elena Manaenkova
Øystein Hov
CAS President, Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Presentation Øystein Hov
"Seamless prediction in 2023" Key questions and biographies of speakers and panelists
Key note talks Chair: Øystein Hov
10:00 – 10:30 Improved weather forecasts and warnings through
enhancing partnerships across the science, policy, and practice communities
David Johnston
Massey University and GNS Science, New Zealand
Presentation David Johnston
10:30 – 11:00 Seamless Prediction of Water Across Scales – Getting It Right Where It Matters, When It Matters,
How It Matters
Ana Barros
Duke University, USA
Presentation Ana Barros
11:00 – 11:20 Briefing of World Cafe Moderators
(only participants who have been assigned as moderators)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 – 12:30 Round Table Chair: Sarah Jones
Kevin Gurney (Arizona State University, USA)
Gilbert Brunet (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada)
Peter Li (Hong Kong Observatory, China)
Amanda Lynch (Brown University, USA), WCRP co-chair
Xudong Liang (China Meteorological Administration, China)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
" Future Infrastructures" Key questions and biographies of speakers and panelists
Key note talks Chair: Øystein Hov
13:30 – 14:00 A (c)loud revolution in weather and climate research and forecasting
Wilco Hazeleger
eScience Center, The Netherlands
Presentation Wilco Hazeleger
14:00 – 14:30 Radical shifts in environmental sensing – tapping the sensor revolution
Steven Hamburg
Environmental Defense Fund, USA
Presentation Steven Hamburg
14:30 – 15:30 Round Table Chair: Oksana Tarasova
Peter Bauer (ECMWF)
Alastair Lewis (NCAS, University of York, UK)
Moeka Yamaji (JAXA, Japan)
15:30 – 15:40 Introduction to World Cafe by Deon Terblanche and Julia Keller
15:40 – 15:50 Group Photo
15:50 – 16:15 Coffee/Tea Break
16:15 – 18:15 World Cafe
Seamless prediction in 2023 & Future Infrastructures
All participants involved
18:30 – 19:30 Meeting of World Cafe moderators (wrap-up)
Saturday, 21 October 2017
08:00 – 18:00 Registration
08:15 – 08:45 Meeting of Key Note Speakers and Panelists of Sessions on Science for Services and Nurturing
Scientific Talents
"Science for Services" Key questions and biographies of speakers and panelists
Key note talks Chair: Øystein Hov
09:00 – 09:30 Future Seamless Data-Processing and Forecasting System: Improving Nations Readiness through
Continuous Global Science and Technology Advancements
Michel Jean
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada, Director General, President WMO CBS
Presentation Michel Jean
09:30 – 10:00 Science for serving a smart energy sector: How weather dependent renewable energies challenge
traditional weather forecasts
Andrea Steiner
German Meteorological Service, Germany
Presentation Andrea Steiner
10:00 – 11:00 Round Table Chair: Greg Carmichael
Veronique Bouchet (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada)
Celeste Saulo (Argentinian Meteorological Service, Argentina)
Christopher Gan (Association of Southeast Asian Nations Specialised Meteorological Centre,
Singapore)
Phil de Cola (Sigma Space Corporation, USA)
Nadia Pinardi (JCOMM, Italy)
11:00 – 12:30 Posters (with Coffee/Tea)
11:00 – 11:30 Meeting of GAW and WWRP Donors – Salle B
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
"Nurturing Scientific Talents" Key questions and biographies of speakers and panelists
Key note talks Chair: Øystein Hov
13:30 – 14:00 Nurturing Scientific Talents
Elizabeth Ritchie
University of New South Wales, Australia
Presentation Elizabeth Ritchie
14:00 – 14:30 Some thoughts about nurturing scientific talents
Mariane Diop-Kane
ANACIM, Senegal
Presentation Mariane Diop Kane
14:30 – 15:30 Round Table Chair: Paolo Ruti
Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading, UK)
Victor Dike (Chinese Academy for Sciences, China)
Guy Brasseur (MPI Hamburg, Germany), Chair WCRP JSC
Julia Keller (YESS representative, WMO Secretariat)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 – 18:00 World Cafe
"Science for Services & Nurturing scientific talents"
18:15 – 19:30 Meeting of World Cafe moderators (wrap-up )
Sunday, 22 October 2017
08:00 – 14:30 Registration
08:15 – 08:45 Meeting of Key Note Speakers and Panelists of Sessions on Innovation and resources
"Innovation and Resources" Key questions and biographies of speakers and panelists
Key note talks Chair: Øystein Hov
09:00 – 09:30 The Era of Science in Transition: How can we make disruptive innovation?
Satoru Ohtake
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
Presentation Satoru Ohtake
09:30 – 10:00 Building bridges between environmental science and business operations
Amith Singhee
IBM Research, India
Presentation Amith Singhee
10:00 – 11:00 Round Table Chair: Deon Terblanche
Alan Thorpe (University of Reading, UK)
Nam Jae-Cheol (Korea Meteorological Association, Republic of Korea)
Vladimir Ryabinin (IOC - UNESCO)
Elena Manaenkova (WMO – Deputy Secretary General)
Jan Polcher (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 – 12:30 Breakout Groups
"Innovation and Resources"
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 What do we bring from the Science Summit to CAS-17?
Chair: Øystein Hov
Summary presentation
