# Presentation: 022764

## Briefing to NOAA Science Advisory Board	

**July 16, 2003**
**Agenda item: Council on Long-Term Climate Monitoring (Tom Karl, Working Group Chair)**

## Briefing Topics

- Current Membership
- Recommendations Made at the January, 2003 CLTCM Meeting
- Actions Proposed for SAB Approval at This Time
- Plans for Next Climate Monitoring Working Group Meeting

## Council Membership

- Mark Abbott - Oregon State U. - remote sensing, ocean observations
- Tony Busalacchi - U. Maryland - S/I forecasting, oceanography
- Judy Curry - Georgia Tech - remote sensing, climate of the polar regions
- Rainer Dombrowsky - NOAA/NWS - atmospheric observing systems
- Bruce Douglas - Florida Int’l U. - sea level
- Mike Johnson - NOAA/OGP - ocean observing systems
- Tom Karl - NOAA/NCDC - climate data sets, detection/attribution
- Martha Maiden - NWS/Hq - satellite observations, climate data sets
- Chris Miller - NOAA/OGP - detection/attribution, (WG executive secretary)
- Bob  Murphy - NASA/NPP - remote sensing, NPP project scientist
- Bill Murray - NOAA/OGP - climate data sets, (WG rapporteur)
- Joyce Penner - U. Michigan - aerosols
- Michael Prather - U. Cal/Irvine - atmospheric chemistry
- Rick Rosen - AER - atmospheric dynamics, diagnostics
- Bill Rossow - remote sensing, radiation, global water cycle
- Stan Schneider - NASA/NPOESS/IPO - remote sensing
- Dian Seidel - NOAA/ARL - tropospheric/stratospheric temp profile, water vapor
- Soroosh Sorooshian - U. Arizona - hydrology
- Kevin Trenberth - NCAR - climate variability, hydrological cycle, reanalysis
- Ferris Webster - U. Delaware - oceanography, climate data sets

## Recommendations Made at CLTCM Ninth Meeting (Jan 15/16, 2003)

- Clarify Terms of Reference of CLTCM Relative to Climate & Global Change Working Group
- -	CLTCM to focus on observing system and data 	management
- C&GC Working Group to focus on climate research
- 2) Developing and Implementing an Optimal Observing System
- 	 -	Evaluate new observing systems components and 	improvements in an integrated manner

## Actions Proposed for SAB Approval at This Time

- Rotate Working Group Chairmanship to Mark Abbott
- Change Name from “Council on Long-term Climate Monitoring” to “Climate Monitoring Working Group”
- Approve Revision of Terms of Reference to More Accurately Reflect Complementary Relationship with “Climate & Global Change Working Group”

## Next Climate Monitoring WG Meeting

- Chicago, Illinois, Sept 17 (p.m.), 18, 19 (a.m.)
- Joint Session with C&GC Working Group Sept 17 (p.m.)
- Proposed Agenda Items To Be Discussed in Joint Session
- Scientific Data Stewardship and Comprehensive Large-Array Stewardship System (CLASS)
- Adaptation of Model Data for Use in Assessments
- Sentinel Science Teams

## Next Climate Monitoring WG Meeting (continued)

- _Proposed Agenda Items, Sept 18-19 _
- Rotation of Working Group Chair
- Revisions to Terms of Reference
- Review of Action Items from Ninth Meeting of CLTCM
- Continuation of Discussion of Joint Session Topics (as necessary)
- Pacific Plus Observing System
- Reactive and Indirect Greenhouse Agents (gases and aerosols)
- NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Science Team
- NWS Radiosonde Replacement System
- GOES-R Data Requirements
- Office of Ocean Observations
- Tropospheric-Surface Temperature Reconciliation
- Workshop on Ongoing Analysis of the Climate System
- Recommendations for Consideration by SAB