1NOTES FROM THE FIRST FORMAL COORDINATED ENERGY AND WATER-CYCLE OBSERVATIONSPROJECT (CEOP) TELECONFERENCE ON ASIA-PACIFIC-AUSTRALIA REGIONAL HYDROCLIMATEPROJECTS AND REFERENCE SITE ISSUES HELD ON
12 MARCH 2009First DRAFT, 21 April 20091.

INTRODUCTION

The 2nd Asia-Pacific-Australia RHP and Reference Sites Teleconference related to the Coordinated Energy
and Water-Cycle Observations Project (CEOP) took place on Thursday 12 March 2009 at 05:00 UTC.
The issues that were discussed on the subject conference call included:(i)

Special Announcements: (a) Calendar of upcoming calls, (b) Outcome of CEOP Report at the
GEWEX SSG meeting 19-23 January 2009: Reference document provided for this discussion:(Rapporteurs Report on CEOP doc), (c) Plans for Third Annual meeting (19 – 21 August 2009) and(d) GEWEX/iLEAPS Science Conference (24-29 August 2009) both at Melbourne, Australia,:
Benedict/Koike(ii)

On-going Requests to Reference Site managers: (a) Reference Site satellite scene center (250km
x 250km square area around the site) (b) Elevation of the MOLTS points (site stations) – pleasereconfirm/provide the information of elevation of the sites/stations – (needed by the Model group):
Steve
Williams(Reference
document
providedfor
this
discussion:“CEOP_AmRS_elev_satcenter.xls”.)(iii)

Individual Reference Site Documentation Review: Documentation for all Reference sites must be
discussed and reviewed.

(iv)

Status and Update of the CEOP Reference Site data archive: Reference document provided forthis discussion: “CEOP Americas Region Reference Site Data Status Report.doc and Americas Ref
Site Update doc” (Steve Williams, Scot Loehrer)(v)

RHP/Reference Site data providers/managers reports – update on past activities and perspectives
with respect to CEOP

Participants
1. Toshio Koike (Japan, CEOP Co-Chair)
2. Sam Benedict (Japan, CEOP International Coordination Function)
3. Petra Koudelova (Japan, CEOP International Coordination Function)
4. Katsunori Tamagawa (Japan, CEOP Asia Reference Site Data Manager)
5. Tetsu Ohta (Japan, CEOP Asia Reference Site Data Manager)
6. Steve Williams (USA, Data WG Co-Chair)
7. Jason Evans (Australia, MDB Site Representative)
8. Dawen Yang (China, Downstream of the Yellow River site representative)
9. Gianni Tartari (Italy, Himalayas, Karakorum and Northern Apennines site representative)
10. Elisa Vuillermoz (Italy, Himalayas, Karakorum and Northern Apennines site representative)
11. Jianping Huang (China, Lanzhou site representative)
12. Jinsen Shi (China, Lanzhou site representative - data)
13. Hironori Yabuki (Japan, Eastern Siberian Tundra, Eastern Siberian Taiga, Mongol Arvayheer,
Mongol Nalaikh sites representative)
14. Kenichi Ueno (Japan, Tsukuba site representative)
15. Jun-Ichi Hamada (Japan, Western Maritime Continent, Central Maritime Continent, Eastern
Maritime Continent, Northern Maritime Continent, Southern Maritime Continent sites representative)
16. Mingguo Ma and Rui Jin (China, Heihe River Basin site representatives on behalf of Xin Li)
17. Hideyuki Kamimera (Japan, Central Vietnam site and Western Maritime Continent sites
representative)
18. Hirohiko Ishikawa (Japan, Tibet site representative)

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Drs Jun Asanuma (Japan, Northern Mongolia site representative)
Liu Huizhi (China, Tongyu site representative)
Lei Huimin (China, Downstream of the Yellow River site representative)
Ichirow Kaihotsu (Japan, Mongolia site representative)
Masatoshi Aoki (Japan, Chao-Phraya River, North-East Thailand sites representative)
Shigenori Haginoya (Japan, Tibet site representatives)
Wu Zhang (China, Lanzhou site representative)
Tetsuo Ohata (Japan, Eastern Siberian Tundra, Eastern Siberian Taiga, Mongol Arvayheer,
Mongol Nalaikh sites representative)
9. Hisayuki Kubota (Japan, Western Pacific Ocean site representative)
10. Jun Matsumoto (Japan, Northeast Bangladesh site and Central Vietnam site representative)
11. Manabu D. Yamanaka (Japan, Western Maritime Continent, Central Maritime Continent, Eastern
Maritime Continent, Northern Maritime Continent, Southern Maritime Continent sites representative)
12. Feng Jianwu (China, Tongyu site – on behalf of Liu Huizhi)
13. Ming-Cheng Yen (Taiwan, Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site representative)
14. Fadli Syamsudin (Indonesia, Western Maritime Continent, Central Maritime Continent, Eastern
Maritime Continent, Northern Maritime Continent, Southern Maritime Continent sites representative)
15. Gombo Davaa (Mongolia, Northern Mongolia site and Mongolia site representative)
16. Ryuichi Shirooka (Japan, Western Pacific Ocean site representative)
17. Tsing-Chang (Mike) Chen (Iowa, Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site representative)
18. Prof. Terao (Japan, Northeast Bangladesh site)
19. Xin Li (China, Heihe River Basin site representative)
2.

NEXT CONFERENCE CALL

The next, 3rd CEOP Asia-Pacific-Australia RHP and Reference Sites Teleconference is
proposed to take place on Tuesday, 23 June 2009, at 05:00 UTC. Benedict has the action (A1) to informthe group of the details of the next call nearer to the time of the call and to coordinate the origination of the
call.
3.

CEOP AND CEOP DATA GROUP GENERAL ISSUES

3.1 Opening(3.1a) Benedict welcomed everyone on the call and introduced the agenda, reference material that wascirculated prior to the call. All participants were reminded that the latest version of the CEOP Strategic
Implementation Plan (SIP) was available through the CEOP Home Page at:
http://monsoon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ceop2/implementationplan.html. It was pointed out that the current version
was an updated one dated on 1 December 2008 that reflected and responded to the comments fromGEWEX SSG earlier this year.
In this context, Koike asked everyone to review the Rapporteurs Report on CEOP that came from thereview of CEOP by the GEWEX SSG at the 19-23 January 2009 meeting at Irvine California, USA. The
main points of importance to CEOP that the GEWEX SSG highlighted in their report were summariezed forthe group by Koike. These included the following items:(i) CEOP has become very large and it is now very important that the Regional Hydroclimate Projects(RHP) in each region must cooperate more closely at the Regional Scales with the main CEOP and
GEWEX crosscutting science teams (Extremes, WEBS, Aerosols and Isotopes) and the four CEOP and
GEWEX Climate Foci Teams (Monsoons, High Elevations, Cold-Regions and Semi-arid Studies); In
particular every member and group in CEOP must (Action A2) focus on adhering to the CEOP Strategic
Implementation Plan (SIP) to achieve visible results as a contribution to CEOP goals and objectives.
(ii) the RHP’s and the reference site operators and managers must work together on improving knowledgeof their regional water and energy budget cycles and compare and unify their findings in a manner that
contributes to the overall objectives of GEWEX and WCRP to better understand water and energy cycles on
a global scale;(iii) the RHPs must utilize their regional cooperative contacts with the operational hydrological services andrelated stakeholders in their regions to apply science results to regional hydroclimate issues.

3(3.1b) Everyone was reminded that all of the presentation material provided by the participants at the 2nd
CEOP Annual Meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland 15-17 September 2008 along with the meeting report,
was available on the Internet through the CEOP Home Page at: http://monsoon.t.utokyo.ac.jp/ceop2/meetings.html.
Everyone was also reminded that the next, 3rd CEOP Annual Meeting would be held in Melbourne,
Australia, 19 – 21 August 2009, i.e. the event will precede the GEWEX and iLEAPS science conferences.
The venue for the CEOP meeting will be the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). Further details and the meetingwebsite will be released in due course. The participants on the call were asked to consider their
participation in this important event and also possible contribution to the ensuing GEWEX/iLEAPS
conferences that will take place in Melbourne, Australia, 24 – 28 August 2009. The conference website isavailable at: http://www.gewex.org/2009gewex_ileaps_conf.html. Abstracts for all sessions are currently
being accepted and can be submitted on-line through the meeting website. The deadline for abstract
submission has been extended to 31 March 2009.
3.2 On-going Actions for Reference Site Managers and RHP Representatives: Review/Update of Reference
Site Meta-data on the CEOP Data Management Web Page.
The Reference site Mangers and RHP Representatives were asked to under take action A2, namely,
to put themselves in the place of users of the CEOP data archive and to go on line to review all the
documentation for their Reference sites that is available through the following web site:
http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/ceop/dm/insitu/sites/ and to verify that it is complete and accurate.
In specific, Williams noted that all of the reference site documentation web pages for Asia including all of
the new sites and information that had been provided earlier by Tamagawa were put on a new web site for
the CEOP Asia sites: http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/ceop/dm/insitu/sites/mahasri/. However, there wereactions (A2a) that must be taken by participants on the call to fill out missing information. The needed
details include:(i) information from 2 new Asian Reference Sites (Vietnam and Bangladesh),(ii) missing information from several sites that has been indicated on the web pages as "no information"
In addition, it was specified that the Reference site Mangers and RHP Representatives were asked tounder take action A2b, namely, to reconfirm the latitude and longitude center locations for their sites andto provide this information for any new sites for Phase 2. The satellite data available in the CEOP Satellite
data archive and the scene center coordinates during Phase1 for 35 Reference Sites are available at thefollowingwebsites
respectively:
http://monsoon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ceop/data/eop-1/satellite/doc/;
http://monsoon.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ceop/data/eop-1/satellite/doc/ref_site_info_r03.txt.
In this context, the group agreed to a naming convention for data from the entire group of Asia-PacificAustralia RHP and Reference Sites. It was confirmed, that the designation “CEOP-AP” will be made in
the CEOP database for the group of sites from this region, which are contributing data within the CEOP
framework.
Two other issues were discussed, in this context, that resulted in specific actions:(a) Williams accepted the action (A2c), to prepare a list of the reference sites that make up the CEOP_AP
data group in the CEOP in-situ database at NCAR/EOL. This list is to suggest new names for specific sitesthat up to now were too long for the database naming scheme or which were otherwise not descriptive of
their location within the CEOP_AP site geographic region or did not appropriately recognize their affiliationor other attributes. Subsequently such a list was provided by Williams and is provided here for review by
the CEOP_AP site key persons. Action A2d is for all participants to review the proposed naming
convention and to comment as appropriate. If no objections are raised to this list with the new naming
convention then this list will be adopted as presented in Table 1, below:
Table 1: CEOP_AP REFERENCE SITES PROPOSED NAMING CONVENTION
Current Name

Proposed New NameCentral Maritime ContinentCentral Vietnam
Chao Phraya River
Downstream of the Yellow River

Central Indonesia
Central Vietnam
Chao Phraya River
Lower Yellow River

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Eastern Maritime Continent
Heihe River Basin
Himalayas
Korean Haenam
Korean Peninsula
Lanzhou
Mongol Arvayheer
Mongol Nalaikh
Mongolia
Northeast Bangladesh
Northeast Thailand
Northern Mongolia
Northern Maritime Continent
Northern South China Sea –Southern Japan (NSCSSJ)
Pakistan
Eastern Siberian Taiga
Eastern Siberian Tundra
Southern Maritime Continent
Tibet
TongyuTsukuba
Western Maritime Continent (formerly
Equatorial Island)Western Pacific Ocean

Eastern Indonesia
Heihe River Basin
Himalayas
Korean Haenam
Korean Peninsula
Lanzhou
Mongolia Arvayheer
Mongolia Nalaikh
Mongolia
Northeast Bangladesh
Northeast Thailand
Northern Mongolia
Northern Indonesia
Northern South China Sea –Southern Japan (NSCSSJ)
Pakistan Karakorum
Eastern Siberian Taiga
Eastern Siberian Tundra
Southern Indonesia
Tibet
TongyuTsukubaEquatorial Island
Western Pacific Ocean(b) Prof T. Koike accepted the action (A2e) to report the outcome of efforts to standardize meta-data
and descriptive documentation utilized in CEOP. Efforts have been underway in CEOP and related
initiatives to attempt to review standard protocols such as ISO-90115 to determine their suitability for
application in CEOP or to introduce modifications to such protocols to provide for a standard to be used in
CEOP for all the documentation and meta-data provided in conjunction with the data sets themselves. A
final decision on this effort is due at least by the end of June. The participants will be advised of theoutcome as soon as it is known.
4.

Status and Update of the CEOP Reference Site Data Archive: RHP and Reference Site
Reports

4.1 Summary status of the reference site archive at NCAR/EOL

Williams and Loehrer provided a CEOP Asia and Australia Region Reference Site Data Update Reportthat was current through 10 March 2009. The details included:
MDB Murrumbidgee SFC data submitted through November 30, 2007. Data have been checked and arein the queue for loading into our CEOP database.
MDB Murrumbidgee STM data submitted through May 31, 2008. Data have been checked and are in thequeue for loading into our CEOP database.
MDB Tumbarumba FLX submitted through December 31, 2008. Data are in the queue for checking.
MDB Tumbarumba STM and SFC data sets are expected to be submitted within the next month.
Other ARM TWP SFC data through December 31, 2007 have been converted and checked. Data are now
available from our CEOP database.
Other ARM TWP SONDE data through 20081231 are in house and are in the queue for loading into our
CEOP database.
4.2 Updates to summary status of reference site archive
Updates to the status summary of the sites were provided at the time of the call. They included:

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Himalayas:
Data from the Himalayas sites that had been discussed at the time of the last call was being processed at
NCAR/EOL and that by this process the previous action related to acknowledging receipt of this data andbeginning evaluation of its completeness had been undertaken as described in the notes of the previous
call.
In this context, Benedict accepted responsibility for following up on an earlier action to provide aformal letter acknowledging that the “Italian Alps and Apennines” sites are formally requested and accepted
to be part of CEOP.
Tartari/Vullermoz noted that data from these sites for 2005-2006 are available for download from their site
and that the 2007 data should be ready before the time of the CEOP 3rd Annual Meeting at Melbourne
Australia. Tartari/Vullermoz accepted action to send (action A3) an example of data (1 File) to Williams
from their atmospheric site, which contains specialized ancillary information that is not formatted into thestandard CEOP format. The data file will be used to determine how to place it into the CEOP database.
Tsukuba:
Any issue of the status of data from 2007 from the Tsukuba site, including data from 7 stations, as
discussed at the time of the last call was clarified and the action A3 from the notes of that call was
closed by Williams/Loehrer who downloaded the data from the Tsukuba site and began its evaluation.
None-the-less, Uneo accepted the Action (A4) to review the documentation at the NCAR/EOL site and to
update it as necessary and, in addition, to review the remaining flags on the Tsukuba site data.
Subsequently, Uneo contacted Williams as requested and clarified the remaining issues with the Tsukuba
data and related documentation.
4.3 Written Site Reports
The Following written reports were sent in by persons who were not able to participate directly in the call.
These submittals are greatly appreciated and in fact provide an excellent and accurate means ofcommunicating and reporting on site status. Benedict has accepted action A5 to communicate with thesite representatives at the time of the planning for the next call to ask all participants to submit brief
written status reports prior to or just after the conference call itself. This will allow for a more efficientorganization and implementation of the call itself. All members of this Group of Conference Callparticipants list who are responsible for site management/operations should be prepared near thetime of the next call to undertake action A5a to submit brief WRITTEN status reports.
(4.3a) Mongolia site: Ichirow Kaihotsu:
We are continuing the ground-based monitoring of water cycle by three AWS and eleven ASSH (Automatic
Station for Soil Hydrology). They were working well as of last December. We replaced all old AWS and
ASSH with new ones in 2008 and are trying to compare some old sensors with new ones (air temperature,soil temperature sensors, soil moisture probes etc.).
(4.3b) Tibet (West) site: Shigenori Haginoya:
Site Report Tibet (West)
The site name: Western Tibet is Gaize - Gaize station is installed in the field of meteorological observatoryfor easy maintenance and safety. The staff of Gaize observatory collects the data every month and sends toJapan through CAMS (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing) about several month delay.
According to the agreement between Japan and China, the Japanese renewed the Gaize station in June2007 to continue the observation normally and maintain the data quality. After the renewal, the Gaize
station has been put in the framework of another project named JICA Project.
The observations are continuing. The latest data have been collected until 25 November 2008. The
available data after CEOP phase-1 are from January 2005 to November 2005, June 2006 and from
November 2006 to December 2006. We plan to provide these data for CEOP. The collected data in CEOP
phase 2 are as follows: January 2007 - June 2007: old observation system and June 2007 - November
2008: new observation system.

6(4.3c). Western Pacific Ocean site: Hisayuki Kubota:
We went to Palau on January 2009 and collected observation data. Action was taken to partly upload the2007 station data to the CEOP website and work is still continuing on this process. We found some errors inour dataset, so action is being taken to upload the data again following an error check effort.

(4.3d) Chao-Phraya River, North-East Thailand sites: Masatoshi Aoki:(i) In February - March 2009, a visit was made to the sites to do maintenance works and data collections.
some sensors were out of order or not in good condition, because of 7-8 years in operation. Efforts areunderway to replace the bad sensors and supply new equipment. But it will become more difficult year by
year, because budget reductions.
(ii) In 2009, cooperative professors obtained a certain support budget amount from Kasetsart University,
Thailand, so in the year of 2009 some funds for the site are available. The budget in the year of 2010 is notconfirmed.
(iii) Kubota will visit the site again from 14th -18th March, 2009, to supply sensors.
(iv) In 2009 from April onward Kubota will visit the sites about 3-4 times.

(4.3e) Northeast Bangladesh: Toru Tearo:
More than 20 raingauges and three AWSs are in the Bangladesh area. However, it is difficult to get the dataconsistently/continuously for many of the sites, because they are in remote areas. The data can beobtained only once or twice in a year.
Only AWS data in Dhaka and Matlab are accessible from the internet. Technically, we can supply data ofthese 2 points within 6 months. These sites are now maintained under a joint project with a international
research organization, ICDDR,B. So, some discussion is needed before exposing data to the CEOP
project. We will discuss this issue during our stay in Bangladesh from 14 to 22 March.
(4.3f) Northern South China Sea - Southern Japan site: Mike Chen:The EAMEX field experiment includes two components:1) Late Spring-Early Summer Rainstrom Field
Experiment, and 2) Winter Rainfall Field Experiment. The former covered the area stretching from northern
Indochina, across Taiwan, to southern Japan and was conducted during 16 May 2008-30 June 2008. This
field experiment was successfully finished. The genesis mechanism of rainstorm was diclosed. The latterfield experiment consists of two components: The first component covers the central Vietnam to explore thecause of heavy rainfall events in central Vietnam during 10/1-11/30 of 2008. It turned out that there was avery unsual severe flood event occurred in Haoni on 10/30. This event was caused by a northwestward
propagating storm channeled by a anomalous 700-mb anticyclone over the SCS-western tropic Pacificregion. This component of the Winter Rainfall Field Experiment was successfully completed. The second
component of the Winter Rainfall Field Experiment covers the area between southern Japan and Taiwan to
explore the rainfall produced by Taiwan lows. This field experiment should be conducted during 1 Decenber
2008-28 Feburary 2009. Because the impact of La Nina, the weather was very mild in East Asia during thistime period. Therefore, a plan change has been adopted that this Winter Rainfall Field Experiment will be
conducted again during the same time period of the 2009/10 winter. By then, the future climate condition
may hopefully return to a normal one from the current aging La Nina.
The radiosonde observations conducted the Summer Rainstorm Field Experiment and the first componentof the Winter Rainfall Experiment were compiled and available. The assimilation data of these two field
experiments are stillprocessing under the direction of Dr. Jordan Alpert of NCEP and hope they will beavailable in the near future.
4.4 Oral Site Status Reports
The Following reports were provided by persons who were able to participate directly in the call. The
accounts for each site listed in this section are based on notes taken by Benedict during the oral
discussions. They must therefore be considered a very rough draft of the exact information provided byeach site representative during the call. The information presented by the participants is greatly

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appreciated and everyone feels they benefit from the oral discussion but as noted in item 4.3 above brief
written summaries provided in advance of the call will always be a very good way to assist with andstimulate the oral discussion and will also be an excellent way of ensuring accuracy of the call report andthe actions noted in that report. In the future, therefore, brief written summaries will be asked for inadvance of the call from ALL participants as well as from those who are unable to participate.
As noted above in item 4.3 Benedict has accepted action A5 to communicate with the site representatives
at the time of the planning for the next call to ask all participants to submit brief written status reports
prior to the conference call itself. This will allow for a more efficient organization and implementation of
the call. All members of this Group who are responsible for site management/operations should be
prepared near the time of the next call to undertake action A5a to submit brief WRITTEN status
reports.
(4.4a) MDB by Jason Evans
Evans reported that the evaluations of the data were completed and the data were ready for up
loading to the CEOP database. The details of the data submittals was given in item 4.1 above. Evans wascommended for this very responsive initiative to obtain data, clear it through a preliminary error evaluationand provide the CEOP data management group access for it to be loaded on the CEOP database. In
addition,(4.4b) Himalayas, Karakorum by Gianni Tartari and Elisa Vuillermoz
As reported in item 4.2 above data from the Himalayas sites was being processed at NCAR/EOL Other
actions with respect to these sites were also summarized in 4.2 above.
(4.4c) Tsukuba by Ken’ichi Ueno
Updates and actions with regard to these sites were reported on by Ueno and were summarized initem 4.2 above.
(4.4.d) Tongyu by Feng Jianwu/Huizhi Liu
The status of the data from Tongyu remained consistent with the report provided at the time of the last call.
All data sets from Tongyu had been put into the CEOP NOAA/EOL database that had been completed
through 2004. So far no data has been submitted for any years beyond 2004. Work is continuing on thosedata and progress is expected during the time leading up to the next call on 23 June 2009.
(4.4e) Lanzhou Jianping Huang/Jisen Shi
Huang reported that the Lanzhou site had data ready for uploading for the period 2006-2008.
There are still some operational/technical issues related to the process for upload of the data to the CEOP
database but more importantly there were other policy matters that needed to be addressed before the data
could be put into the CEOP database for sharing with the CEOP and the broader community. The China
Meteorological Administration (CMA) has never formally become part of CEOP in the sense that it has not
fully accepted the sharing of data from sites in China through the CEOP data management system. Koike
agreed to accept the action A6 to meet or to otherwise contact the appropriate CMA leaders to find out
what is necessary for CMA to agree to have data from Lanzhou and other sites in China that are ofgreat importance to the success of CEOP science objectives placed into the CEOP database.
(4.4f) Yellow River by Dawen Yang
Yang reported that data were available from this site for the period March 2005 to the present. All
the instruments have been running well during the entire period and that the only technical issue for getting
the data readied for the CEOP database was having it converted into the CEOP format and quality checked.
This task is planned to be undertaken in the near future in cooperation with the UT team and the UT datasystem. However, as with Lanzhou the Yellow River site data must be approved for distribution through the
CEOP data management system. This step is more related to policy than to issues of a technical nature.
Koike has action A6 as noted above to attempt to obtain an agreement with CMA to have the data
added to the CEOP database.

8(4.4g) Huihe River Basin by Mingguo Ma/Xin Li/Rui Jin
The report noted that the site included 4 stations that were installed in different land cover areas atboth the upper and lower reaches of the basin. Some sites have data only from 2007 on ward but somesites have data extending back to 2005. The collected data continue to be checked for errors and need tobe converted into the CEOP format. It is expected that this work can be accomplished by the time fo thenext call (23 June 2009).
(4.4h) Siberia and Mongol Arvayheer and Nalaikh sites by Hironori Yabuki
Yabuki noted that the data from some of the sites were seasonal and were operational only during
those periods. Otherwise, other sites such as the Siberia Tundra and Taiga sites were continuing
participation in CEOP from Phase 1 up to the current time. That data had already been collected and all thedata are now being processed into the CEOP format and quality checked in cooperation with the UT team.
This work is expected to be done by the time of the next call on 23 June 2009. The Mongol Arvayheer andNalaikh are new sites that would contribute data for the current CEOP Phase. Data up to 2008 have beencollected at these sites and will be processed as the other sites.
(4.4i) Maritime Continent by Jun-ichi Hamada
Hamada advised the group that only the Western Maritime Continent site in Sumatra had
continuous observations since 1 January 2007. Those data are expected to be provided to CEOP in thenear future. Also at the Western site there is AWS data from instruments at the International Airport thathave been collecting data since 2006. That data may also be made available at some time in the future.
The Four other sites Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern were established after the Western site andcan only provide data starting from 1 January 2008. A new AWS site was also installed and began
producing data as of 1 January 2009.
(4.4j) Central Vietnam by Hideyuki Kamimera
Kamimera advised the group that the observations in Central Vietnam were conducted incollaboration of MAHASRI with National Hydro – Meteorological Service of Vietnam and included surface
meteorology data. The AWS was installed in October 2008 and thus the data from this date will be provided
to CEOP. First part of the data will be collected in March 2009 and data processing and submission to
CEOP will follow in due course.
5.

OTHER ISSUES

5.1 Meetings(5.1a) The next 3rd CEOP Annual Meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia, from 19 through 21
August 2009 in conjunction with the GEWEX/iLEAPS science conferences that will take place in Melbourne,
24 – 28 August 2009 (http://www.gewex.org/2009gewex_ileaps_conf.html). Participants were asked toconsider their participation in this important event. Further details of the CEOP meeting will be provided indue course.
(5.1b) The 2nd Lund Regional-scale Climate Modeling Workshop will be held in Lund, Sweden from 4 – 8
May 2009 (see the GEWEX calendar page: http://www.gewex.org/gewex_meetings.html for more
information).
6.

CLOSING

Koike acknowledged the participants for attending the call and providing their valuable contributions,comments and suggestions.