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| ## *Global Organization           |                                   |
|  for Earth System Science Portal* |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| **6^th^ GO-ESSP community         |                                   |
| workshop**                        |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| **11-13 June 2007**               |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| **Jussieu, Paris, France**        |                                   |
|                                   |                                   |
| > This workshop is intended to    |                                   |
| > promote the goals and           |                                   |
| > objectives of GO-ESSP.          |                                   |
| > Participants will share their   |                                   |
| > progress in developing software |                                   |
| > infrastructures that facilitate |                                   |
| > discovery, acquisition and      |                                   |
| > analysis of climate data with,  |                                   |
| > for this meeting, a special     |                                   |
| > emphasis on model-generated     |                                   |
| > data. They will seek to         |                                   |
| > identify and foster integrated  |                                   |
| > efforts that lead to global     |                                   |
| > interoperability of their       |                                   |
| > independently developed         |                                   |
| > systems. Responding to the      |                                   |
| > near-term software              |                                   |
| > infrastructure requirements of  |                                   |
| > both modeling centers and       |                                   |
| > observational programs, a       |                                   |
| > particular aim will be to       |                                   |
| > promote and integrate           |                                   |
| > activities that facilitate      |                                   |
| > community analysis of widely    |                                   |
| > distributed climate data        |                                   |
| > archives.                       |                                   |
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| The Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute was created in the early 1990s     |
| with the aim of sharing the skills of several laboratories in the     |
| Paris area that are involved in terrestrial and planetary sciences.   |
| It is composed of 5 laboratories and approximately 750 people (280    |
| researchers, 240 engineers, technicians and administrative staff, and |
| 230 Ph.D./(Masters?) students and post-docs). This represents more    |
| than one third of the national research potential in the fields of    |
| oceanic and atmospheric science. The IPSL is financially supported by |
| the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the          |
| Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the Université de Versailles     |
| Saint-Quentin en Yvelines. The institute is also supported by the     |
| Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), the Institut de Recherche et |
| Développement (IRD), the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), the École    |
| Polytechnique and the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).      |
|                                                                       |
| The laboratories that together form the IPSL are :                    |
|                                                                       |
| -   the Centre d'étude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires    |
|     (CETP),                                                           |
|                                                                       |
| -   the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD)                   |
|                                                                       |
| -   the Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentation et |
|     Approches Numériques (LOCEAN)                                     |
|                                                                       |
| -   the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement      |
|     (LSCE)                                                            |
|                                                                       |
| -   the Service d'Aéronomie (SA)                                      |
|                                                                       |
| The main objectives of the IPSL are :                                 |
|                                                                       |
| -   to understand the dynamic, chemical and biological processes      |
|     within the oceans and the atmosphere and to understand how the    |
|     atmosphere, oceans and biosphere exchange matter and energy       |
|                                                                       |
| -   to understand the natural climate variability on regional and     |
|     global scales, and to understand past and future trends in the    |
|     climate of our planet                                             |
|                                                                       |
| -   to understand the impacts of human activities on the climate and  |
|     to predict the climate at seasonal and inter-annual time scales   |
|     (monsoon, ENSO, NAO)                                              |
|                                                                       |
| -   to understand the physics of the Sun-Earth interactions in the    |
|     close and distant terrestrial environment, and to use the skills  |
|     developed in the study of our terrestrial environment to study    |
|     the environments of other planets                                 |
|                                                                       |
| To achieve these objectives, the institute develops experimental      |
| techniques (lidar, radars, radiometers, spectrometers, imagers,       |
| magnetometers) intended to probe our environment either from the      |
| ground, or from various platforms (planes, balloons, ships,           |
| satellites) during short campaigns or on a regular basis. The         |
| collected data are stored in the data centre of the IPSL. The         |
| institute is also developing a climate model that couples the         |
| atmosphere, the oceans, sea ice, and continental surfaces. This model |
| relies on studies of physical processes undertaken in the             |
| laboratories of the IPSL.                                             |
|                                                                       |
| The institute also takes part in the teaching of basic and            |
| specialized physics in the universities to which it is attached       |
| (Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université Versailles           |
| Saint-Quentin en Yvelines) and it is strongly involved in working out |
| the new programs related to the harmonization of European training.   |
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**GO-ESSP 2007 Participants**

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        **Name**            **Affiliation**             **Email**

  1     **Aubert,           ECMWF                       guillaume.aubert@ecmwf.int
        Guillaume**                                     

  2     **Balaji, V.**      Princeton University        v.balaji@noaa.gov

  3     **Blower, John**    University of Reading       jdb@mail.nerc-essc.ac.uk

  4     **Bouton, Katherine NCAS-CMS University of      k.a.bouton@reading.ac.uk
        A.**                Reading                     

  5     **Braswell, Bobby** University of New Hampshire rob.braswell@unh.edu

  6     **Burek, Michael**  NCAR                        mburek@ucar.edu

  7     **Caron, John L.**  Unidata                     caron@unidata.ucar.edu

  8     **Cloché, Sophie**  IPSL                        Sophie.Bouffies-Cloche@ipsl.jussieu.fr

  *9*   ***Crucifix,        *Université catholique de   *michel.crucifix@uclouvain.be*
        Michel***           Louvain*                    

  10    **Denvil,           IPSL                        sebastien.denvil@ipsl.jussieu.fr
        Sébastien**                                     

  11    **Dunlap, Rocky**   Earth System                rocky@cc.gatech.edu
                            Curator/Georgia Tech        

  12    **Forbes,           Unidata                     forbes@unidata.ucar.edu
        Shanna-Shaye**                                  

  13    **Galbraith, Nan**  WHOI and CF                 ngalbraith@whoi.edu

  14    **Gill, David**     NCAR                        gill@ucar.edu

  15    **Gregory,          Walker Institute,           j.m.gregory@reading.ac.uk
        Jonathan**          University of Reading, and  
                            Met Office Hadley Centre,   
                            Exeter                      

  16    **Gross, Tom**      IOC UNESCO                  t.gross@unesco.org

  17    **Guilyardi, Eric** NCAS/Climate and            Eric.Guilyardi@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr
                            IPSL/LOCEAN                 

  18    **Hankin, Steve**   NOAA/PMEL                   steven.c.hankin@noaa.gov

  19    **Hartnett, Ed**    Unidata/UCAR                ed@unidata.ucar.edu

  20    **Henderson, Ian**  University of Reading       I.R.Henderson@reading.ac.uk

  21    **Jagers, Bert**    Delft Hydraulics            bert.jagers@wldelft.nl

  22    **Kerr,             UCAR/GFDL                   chris.kerr@noaa.gov
        Christopher**                                   

  23    **Kindermann,       German Climate Computing    kindermann@dkrz.de
        Stephan**           Center, DKRZ                

  24    **Lautenschlager,   WDC Climate /               michael.lautenschlager@zmaw.de
        Michael**           Max-Planck-Institute for    
                            Meteorology                 

  25    **Lawrence, Bryan** NCAS/BADC                   b.n.lawrence@rl.ac.uk

  26    **Lowry, Roy**      British Oceanographic Data  rkl@bodc.ac.uk
                            Centre                      

  27    **Middleton, Don**  NCAR                        don@ucar.edu

  28    **Nikonov,          GFDL                        Serguei.Nikonov@noaa.gov
        Serguei**                                       

  29    **Niño, Fernando**  Medias-France/IRD           fernando.nino@medias.cnes.fr

  30    **Oh, Jai-Ho**      Pukyong National            jhoh@pknu.ac.kr
                            University, Busan, Korea    

  31    **Pamment, Alison** NCAS/BADC                   j.a.pamment@rl.ac.uk

  32    **Peterschmitt,     IPSL/LSCE                   Jean-Yves.Peterschmitt@lsce.ipsl.fr
        Jean-Yves**                                     

  33    **Raoult,           ECMWF                       baudouin.raoult@ecmwf.int
        Baudouin**                                      

  34    **Rew, Russell K.** UCAR/Unidata                russ@unidata.ucar.edu

  35    **Schloss,          University of New Hampshire annette.schloss@unh.edu
        Annette**                                       

  36    **Schweitzer,       Weathertop Consulting, LLC  roland.schweitzer@noaa.gov
        Roland**                                        

  37    **Steenman-Clark,   NCAS-CMS University of      L.Steenman-Clark@reading.ac.uk
        Lois**              Reading                     

  38    **Tandy, Jeremy**   Met Office                  jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk

  39    **Taylor, Karl**    PCMDI / LLNL                taylor13@llnl.gov

  40    **Textor,           IPSL/LSCE                   christiane.textor@lsce.ipsl.fr
        Christiane**                                    

  41    **Valcke, Sophie**  CERFACS                     sophie.valcke@cerfacs.fr

  42    **Williams, Dean    PCMDI                       williams13@llnl.gov
        N.**                                            
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## Day 1 am - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future

8:00 -- 8:50 **Arrival time** -- Host Jean-Yves Peterschmitt; Tea and
Coffee -- *(50 min)*

9:00 **Welcome** -- logistics, and expectations for the meeting Dean
Williams -- *(5 min)*

9:05 **Day-1 Introduction** -- Karl Taylor and Bryan Lawrence:
"Introduction to CF issues to be addressed " -- *(10 min)*

9:15 **CF Governance** *(1 hr 15 min)*

-   CF website -- Dean Williams: "Status and remaining issues for
    website" -- *(5+5 min)*

-   Standard Name Committee -- Alison Pamment: "Status, improvements
    needed, and issues for discussion" -- *(15+15 min)*

-   Conventions Committee -- Karl Taylor: "Support and governance
    issues" -- *(10+25 min)*

10:30 **BREAK** (*20 min)*

10:50 **Convention changes & technical discussion** *(1 hr 20 min)*

-   GridSpecs -- V. Balaji: "Sub-grids & curvilinear Cartesian
    coordinates" -- *(45+20 min)*

-   Wording changes -- Alison Pamment: "Ros Hatcher\'s wording change"
    -- *(5 min)*

-   Variable identification -- Russ Rew: "Coordinate variable
    identification with the axis attribute" -- (5+5 min)

12:10 **LUNCH** *(1 hr 5 min)*

## Day 1 pm - CF Standards; Governance, Support, and Future

1:15 **CF technical discussion continued** *(1 hr 15 min )*

-   CLIVAR WG -- Anna Pirani: "Requirements of the seasonal prediction
    community" -- *(10+5 min)*

-   Issues concerning underlying principles of CF (e.g., differing needs
    of obs. vs. models; how much intelligence required of applications;
    advisability of \"pointers\" to information external to the netCDF
    file; standard names vs. other controlled vocabulary; aggregation
    and discovery files) -- *(1 hr)*

2:30 **BREAK** *(20 min)*

2:50 **Miscellaneous technical issues** (e.g., forecast (valid) time and
original (run) time; ensembles; subgrid variation; time & calendar for
paleoclimate simulations) -- *(1 hr)*

3:50 **Software in support of conventions** *(1 hr)*

-   LibCF -- Ed Harnett and Russ Rew: "The new NetCDF CF library and
    status" -- *(20+5 min)*

-   NetCDF-4 -- Russ Rew: "Experiences with NetCDF-4 and implications
    for the new CF conventions" -- *(15+5 min)*

-   CMOR -- Karl Taylor: "The future of CMOR" -- (*10+5 min)*

4:50 **Completion of any discussions postponed from earlier in the day**
*(20 min)*

5:10 **Day wrap-up discussion** *(20 min)* -- Outstanding issues;
synthesis of discussion; and action items; promotion of CF; What can we
do to make the system work better?

5:30 **Adjourn**

*6:00 **Champagne and Food aggregation experiment (60 mn + 30 seconds**
**)***

## Day 2 am - AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData

9:00 **Day-1 Introduction** -- Karl Taylor: "Introduction to AR5 and its
Timelines" -- *(10 min)*

9:10 **Focus on AR5**. Session Chair TBD

-   V. Balaji, Princeton University, "AR5 use cases" - *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Michael Lautenschlager, WDC Climate/Max-Planck-Institute for
    Meteorology, "IPCC WG II+III Requirements for AR5 Data Management" -
    *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Bryan Lawrence, NCAS/BADC "Technical and social requirements for a
    putative AR5 distributed database of simulation and other data" -
    *(20 + 5 min)*

10:25 **BREAK** *(20 min + 5 min)*

-   Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL -- "A proposed architecture for AR5
    distributed model analysis and comparison" - *(20 + 5 min)*

10:50 **AR5 Panel Discussion** *(1 hr 20 min )*. Panel Moderator TBD

12:10 **LUNCH** *(1 hr 15 mins )*

## Day 2 pm - AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData

1:25 **Semantic Content of Metadata**. Session Chair TBD

-   Jon Blower, University of Reading -- "DEWS: Delivering CF-NetCDF
    marine data through OGC Map and Coverage Services" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Lois Steenman-Clark, University of Reading - "NMM - a draft standard
    semantic metadata" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Jeremy Tandy, Met Office -- "Moving forward from the RAL Feature
    Workshop\" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Bert Jagers, Delft Hydraulics, Delft -- "Storing data for integrated
    1D, 2D, 3D models of rivers, estuaries, and seas " -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Eric Guilyardi, NCAS/BADC -- "METAFOR, a project for devising a
    Common Information Model for climate modelling data and models\" --
    *(10 + 5 min)*

3:20 **BREAK** *(20 min)*

3:40 **Semantic Aggregation of Metadata**. Session Chair TBD

-   Luca Cinquini, NCAR -- "RDF/OWL triple stores"-- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Rocky Dunlap, Georgia Tech - "Employing Semantics for Multi-Schema

-   Aggregation" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Roy Lowry, British Oceanographic Data Centre - "Vocabulary
    management: a foundation for semantic interoperability through
    ontology development" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

4:55 **Day Wrap-up Round-table Discussion** *(20 min)* -- Outstanding
issues, synthesis of discussion, and action items.

5:15 **Adjourn**

## *Evening: dinner at restaurant* Le Bec Rouge

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##  Day 3 - Interoperability and User Experience

9:00 **A Focus on User Experience**. Session Chair TBD

-   Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire -- Connecting large
    data bases to users through open-source, web-based tools - *(20 + 5
    min)*

-   Michael Burek, NCAR -- "Experiences in using the Community Data
    Portal to support Scientific Data Workflows" - *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Serguei Nikonov, GFDL -- "The LASurator" - *(20 + 5 min)*

10:15 **BREAK** *(20 min)*

10:35 **Interoperable Systems**. Session Chair TBD

-   Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ, German Climate Computing Center --
    "Distributed data access and processing in the Collaborative Climate
    Community Grid (C3-Grid) Project" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Jai-Ho Oh, Pukyong National University -- "Current Progress on the
    Weather/Climate Information System in Korea" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF -- "The EU Funded BRIDGE Project" -- *(20 + 5
    min)*

-   Michael Burek, NCAR -- "Experiences with Metadata Federation using
    OAI and THREDDS" -- *(20 + 5 min)*

-   John Caron, UNIDATA -- "Restricting Access to OPeNDAP, WCS Datasets
    with the THREDS Data Server" - *(20 + 5 min)*

12:40 **Wrapup**. Session Chair TBD *(30 mins)*

1:00 **Main Meeting Adjourns** -- Safe Travels!

*1.00 **Working Lunch** (Steering Committee Team Only, 1 hr)*

*2:00 **Planning Meeting** (Steering Committee Team Only, 2 hrs)* -
LOCEAN meeting room Tour 45-55, 4^th^ floor

*4:00 **Steering Committee Meeting Adjourns** - Safe Travels!*

**Wifi network (CanalIP-UPMC) access, step by step**

Note: Official web site and manual (in French)

http://www.canalip.upmc.fr

-   Ask for a login/password, if you did not get one with this document

-   Check the available networks. You should see at least 2 networks,

    -   \'CanalIP-UPMC\'

    -   And \'CanalIP-UPMC (TTLS)\'

-   Connect to \'CanalIP-UPMC\'

-   Try to access any URL in your browser, and you will be automatically
    redirected to the CanalIP web site

-   Input your wireless (\'sans fil\') login and password (\'mot de
    passe\') in the \'Identifiant annuaire UPMC\' and \'Identifiant
    annuaire UPMC\' fields, then press the \'Connexion\' button

    -   If you get some strange errors and you are sure that you have
        typed your login/password correctly, exit your browser,
        disconnect from the \'CanalIP-UPMC\' network, and start again

    -   If you get a page showing \"Vous êtes à présent connecté sur le
        réseau sans fil de l'UPMC !\", congratulations!

-   Note: if you want more information about CanalIP, you can visit the
    official configuration page:

> http://www.canalip.upmc.fr/ (in French)

**The area around Jussieu**

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**Getting to the restaurant on Tuesday evening**

**Le Bec Rouge** -- Tél 01 42 22 45 54 - http://lebecrouge.ifrance.com/

46bis, boulevard du Montparnasse -- 75015 Paris

Please let us know (preferably on Monday morning) if you will join us
(or not) at the restaurant. There will be a sign-up sheet at the front
of the meeting room. There will be no fixed meeting time in the
restaurant (as long as you get there from 7:30p to 9:00p), so that you
can have some time off in Paris as well.

By métro from Jussieu : line 10 towards Boulogne, and exit at station
Vaneau

By foot: \~45 minutes from Jussieu

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**Thanks!**

**The GO-ESSP committee would like to thank:**

-   **UPMC (and Mrs Catherine Garnier and Mrs Emmanuelle Klar-Allardi)
    for letting us use the Amphi Astier and the Esclangon building for
    the 2007 GO-ESSP workshop**

-   **Mr Marc Bourgeot and Mrs Chantal Lafanechere for providing
    technical support**

-   **IPSL and the ECLIPSE and CHAMPION projects for providing financial
    support**

-   **IPSL and LSCE administrative teams for their help and endless
    patience**