CLIMAR-III: Workshop Structure and Outcomes

Third JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology (CLIMAR-III)

Programme (pdf distributed at workshop) and Presentations

Tuesday, 6 May

Status

Workshop Introduction: Speakers Chair: Miroslaw Mietus

Dr Mieczyslaw Ostojski, Gen. Director IMGW

Etienne Charpentier, WMO and JCOMM

Prof. Jerzy Bielinski Vice Rector, Univ. of Gdansk

Prof Marcin Plinski, Pres. National Committee of Sea Research in Poland

Dr Wojciech Szczurek, Mayor of Gdynia

Scott Woodruff, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, NOAA

Miroslaw Mietus, IMGW (local logistics)

S1 Session 1: Characteristics of Observational Data (Note: S1O5 and S1P5 withdrawn) Chair: Nick Rayner

No. Title
[Note: abstract titles with noteworthy differences are also indicated in brackets] Authors (presenting bold)
[Note: any abstract authorship differences are not indicated]

S1O1
(invited) Assessment of the Marine Observing System (ASMOS) [Assessment of the Surface Marine Meteorological Observing System] Elizabeth Kent and David Berry

Coffee/tea

S1O2 A bias corrected SST analysis from 1900 to the present John Kennedy, Nick Rayner and David Parker

S1O3 A Study of Bias and Inhomogeneity in Wind Speeds from Moored Buoys B.R. Thomas and V.R. Swail

S1O4 Using ship tracking methods to assist in bias adjusting marine observations Julian Hill, Simon Maskell and Mathew Cole

S1O6 Impact of systematic errors in hydrographic data on estimates of ocean warming Viktor Gouretski

S1P1
(poster) Uncertainties in SST measurements [...: are we overestimating the reliability of SST data?] John Kennedy

S1P2 Humidity Biases in VOS Observations David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

S1P3 Estimating Random Errors in Marine Air Temperatures David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

S1P4 Improved Characterisation and Bias Adjustment of Ship Winds in ICOADS David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

S1P6 Characteristics of the hydro-meteorological observation data in the North-Western Black Sea Dumitru Sarafu and Mirela-Milena Nita Not submitted for publication

S1P7 Wave Spectra Construction in the Caribbean Sea Using Satellite Measurements after Buoy Data Analysis Rafael Ricardo Torres Parra

Lunch

S2 Session 2: Data Management Chair: Alexey Kaplan

S2O1 [Overview of JCOMM Data Management and Advances in Best Practices] Bob Keeley

S2O2 ICOADS: Update Status and Data Distribution Steven J. Worley, Scott D. Woodruff, Sandra J. Lubker, Zaihua Ji, and J. Eric Freeman

S2O3 ICOADS: Data Characteristics and Future Directions Scott D. Woodruff, Elizabeth C. Kent, Philip Brohan, Richard W. Reynolds, Sandra J. Lubker, Shawn R. Smith and Zaihua Ji

S2O4 The present and future satellite era sea surface temperature climate data record Craig Donlon, Kenneth S. Casey and John Stark

S2O5 Merging marine historical ecology and climatology [Interface between marine historical ecology and climate research] Catherine Marzin and Stefan Claesson

Coffee/tea

S2O6 SEPRISE - Pan-European Operational Oceanographic Real Time Data Exchange [SEPRISE - First step towards a pan-European oceanographic real time data exchange] Patrick Gorringe

S2O7 The use of Data Buoy, Ship and Argo Float Observations - data flows and processing Hester Viola

S2O8 META-T Water Temperature Metadata Pilot Project [The JCOMM water temperature metadata pilot project (META-T PP)] Elanor Gowland and Bill Burnett

S2O9 Modernisation of the Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme Nicky Scott

S2P1 NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program: Preserving Marine History J. Eric Freeman

S2P2 RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data: (RECLAIM) [Project] Clive Wilkinson, Scott Woodruff, Eric Freeman, Philip Brohan, Frits B. Koek, and Dennis Wheeler Revised version 20/7/2010 (i.e. UK Logbooks Temporal Range diagram changed)

S2P3 HISTOR: Digitisation of German Historical Marine Meteorological Data and Metadata Reinhard Zöllner Not submitted for publication

S2P4 The CLIWOC project: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans: 1750 to 1850 [The CLIWOC Project: overview and reflection on the utility of old ship's logbooks for climatic studies] Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Phil Jones, Frits Koek, Gunther Konnen, Clive Wilkinson, María del Rosario Prieto and Dennis Wheeler

S2P5 The Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System [(SAMOS)] Initiative Shawn R Smith, Jeremy Rolph, and Mark A. Bourassa and

S2P6 Climate information system and sea state through Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in Guinea-Bissau Cherno Luis Mendes Not submitted for publication

Poster Introductions To be presented by designated Chair

Poster Viewing (all Sessions) All poster presenters

Icebreaker Reception In exhibition room on ground floor of conference building, hosted by the City Hall of Gdynia

Programme (pdf distributed at workshop) and Presentations
	*Tuesday, 6 May*		Status
	Workshop Introduction: Speakers	Chair: Miroslaw Mietus
	Dr Mieczyslaw Ostojski, Gen. Director IMGW Etienne Charpentier, WMO and JCOMM Prof. Jerzy Bielinski Vice Rector, Univ. of Gdansk Prof Marcin Plinski, Pres. National Committee of Sea Research in Poland Dr Wojciech Szczurek, Mayor of Gdynia Scott Woodruff, Chairman of the Organizing Committee, NOAA Miroslaw Mietus, IMGW (local logistics)
S1	Session 1: Characteristics of Observational Data (Note: S1O5 and S1P5 withdrawn)	Chair: Nick Rayner
No.	Title [Note: abstract titles with noteworthy differences are also indicated in brackets]	Authors (presenting bold) [Note: any abstract authorship differences are not indicated]
S1O1 (invited)	Assessment of the Marine Observing System (ASMOS) [Assessment of the Surface Marine Meteorological Observing System]	Elizabeth Kent and David Berry
	Coffee/tea
S1O2	A bias corrected SST analysis from 1900 to the present	John Kennedy, Nick Rayner and David Parker
S1O3	A Study of Bias and Inhomogeneity in Wind Speeds from Moored Buoys	B.R. Thomas and V.R. Swail
S1O4	Using ship tracking methods to assist in bias adjusting marine observations	Julian Hill, Simon Maskell and Mathew Cole
S1O6	Impact of systematic errors in hydrographic data on estimates of ocean warming	Viktor Gouretski
S1P1 (poster)	Uncertainties in SST measurements [...: are we overestimating the reliability of SST data?]	John Kennedy
S1P2	Humidity Biases in VOS Observations	David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent
S1P3	Estimating Random Errors in Marine Air Temperatures	David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent
S1P4	Improved Characterisation and Bias Adjustment of Ship Winds in ICOADS	David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent
S1P6	Characteristics of the hydro-meteorological observation data in the North-Western Black Sea	Dumitru Sarafu and Mirela-Milena Nita	Not submitted for publication
S1P7	Wave Spectra Construction in the Caribbean Sea Using Satellite Measurements after Buoy Data Analysis	Rafael Ricardo Torres Parra
	Lunch
S2	Session 2: Data Management	Chair: Alexey Kaplan
S2O1	[Overview of JCOMM Data Management and Advances in Best Practices]	Bob Keeley
S2O2	ICOADS: Update Status and Data Distribution	Steven J. Worley, Scott D. Woodruff, Sandra J. Lubker, Zaihua Ji, and J. Eric Freeman
S2O3	ICOADS: Data Characteristics and Future Directions	Scott D. Woodruff, Elizabeth C. Kent, Philip Brohan, Richard W. Reynolds, Sandra J. Lubker, Shawn R. Smith and Zaihua Ji
S2O4	The present and future satellite era sea surface temperature climate data record	Craig Donlon, Kenneth S. Casey and John Stark
S2O5	Merging marine historical ecology and climatology [Interface between marine historical ecology and climate research]	Catherine Marzin and Stefan Claesson
	Coffee/tea
S2O6	SEPRISE - Pan-European Operational Oceanographic Real Time Data Exchange [SEPRISE - First step towards a pan-European oceanographic real time data exchange]	Patrick Gorringe
S2O7	The use of Data Buoy, Ship and Argo Float Observations - data flows and processing	Hester Viola
S2O8	META-T Water Temperature Metadata Pilot Project [The JCOMM water temperature metadata pilot project (META-T PP)]	Elanor Gowland and Bill Burnett
S2O9	Modernisation of the Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme	Nicky Scott
S2P1	NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program: Preserving Marine History	J. Eric Freeman
S2P2	RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data: (RECLAIM) [Project]	Clive Wilkinson, Scott Woodruff, Eric Freeman, Philip Brohan, Frits B. Koek, and Dennis Wheeler	Revised version 20/7/2010 (i.e. UK Logbooks Temporal Range diagram changed)
S2P3	HISTOR: Digitisation of German Historical Marine Meteorological Data and Metadata	Reinhard Zöllner	Not submitted for publication
S2P4	The CLIWOC project: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans: 1750 to 1850 [The CLIWOC Project: overview and reflection on the utility of old ship's logbooks for climatic studies]	Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Phil Jones, Frits Koek, Gunther Konnen, Clive Wilkinson, María del Rosario Prieto and Dennis Wheeler
S2P5	The Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System [(SAMOS)] Initiative	Shawn R Smith, Jeremy Rolph, and Mark A. Bourassa and
S2P6	Climate information system and sea state through Capacity Building for Sustainable Development in Guinea-Bissau	Cherno Luis Mendes	Not submitted for publication
	Poster Introductions	To be presented by designated Chair
	Poster Viewing (all Sessions)	All poster presenters
	Icebreaker Reception	In exhibition room on ground floor of conference building, hosted by the City Hall of Gdynia

Wednesday, 7 May

S3 Session 3: Product Development Chair: Ken Casey

S3O1 Microwave sea surface temperatures and climatologies Chelle Gentemann

S3O2 Diurnal variability in the upper ocean Chelle L. Gentemann and Peter J. Minnett

S3O3 Modeling observational error of bin-averaged in situ climate data [Use of satellite records and power spectra to model an observational error of bin-averaged in situ climate data] Alexey Kaplan

Coffee/tea

S3O4 Estimating Uncertainty of Historical SST Analyses by a Cross Validation Technique Yoshikazu Fukuda, Masayoshi Ishii and Shoji Hirahara

S3O5 Fast data fusion and its role in developing climate quality sea surface temperature data sets from multiple data sources Julian Hill, Martin Juckes and Paul Fieguth

S3O6 The Influences of Differing Temperature and Moisture Roughness Length Parameterizations on Height Adjustment and Turbulent Surface Fluxes Mark Bourassa, L. Bucci, C.A. Clayson, C. Forgue, M. Onderlinde, and B. Roberts

S3P1 Testing the HadISST2 Analysis in an Ideal World [Testing the robustness of the proposed HadISST analysis using pseudo-world methods] Nick A Rayner, Jen Hardwick, John Kennedy and Simon Tett

S3P2 The extreme storm in the south-western Baltic Sea in November 1872 - a reanalysis of the wind fields for coastal protection purposes Gudrun Rosenhagen

S3P3 Initial estimates of sampling uncertainty in fixed-depth and fixed-isotherm analyses of ocean warming [Estimates of ocean heat uptake and their uncertainty] Matt Palmer and Philip Brohan

S3P4 Optimal Estimation for Retrieving Sea Surface Temperature C J Merchant (presented by Elizabeth C. Kent)

Lunch

S4 Session 4: New Climate Products and Intercomparisons (Note: S4O1 withdrawn) Chair: Klaus Wolter

S4O2 Uncertainties in SST and Sea Ice Analyses Nick Rayner, Tess Brandon, Ken Casey, Craig Donlon, Alexey Kaplan and Liz Kent

S4O3 Advances in the AVHRR Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Climate Data Record and its Connections with GHRSST Reanalysis Activities Kenneth S. Casey, Tess B. Brandon, Craig Donlon and Nick Rayner

S4O4 Inter-comparison of Historical Sea Surface Temperature Datasets Sayaka Yasunaka and Kimio Hanawa

S4O5 A project to create bias-corrected marine climate observations from ICOADS Shawn R. Smith, Mark A. Bourassa, Scott Woodruff, Steve Worley, Elizabeth Kent, Simon Josey, Nick Rayner, and Richard Reynolds

Coffee/tea

S4O6 Reconstruction of interdecadal variability of air-sea interaction in the Atlantic 1880-2004: links to atmospheric circulation patterns Sergey Gulev, Konstantin Belyaev, Thomas Jung, Eberhard Ruprecht

S4O7 Marine Climatologies from Satellite Remote Sensing [..., as viewed through a Geographic Information System] Martin Rutherford

S4O8 The WMO Commission for Climatology Expert Team on Climate Monitoring including the use of satellite and marine data and products Craig Donlon, M. Brunet, M. Z. Zhang, J. Lawrimore, X. Wang, R. Hollmann, F. Driouech, E. Rebello, and W.A. Wan Hassan

S4P1 A New In Situ Surface Flux Dataset from NOCS [A new NOCS Dataset of Sea Surface Heat Fluxes] David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent

S4P2 The GCOS SST/SI Intercomparison Framework for Global SST Analyses Tess B. Brandon and Kenneth S. Casey

S4P3 Towards an independent time series of sea surface temperature from satellite observations Christopher J Merchant, Owen Embury, David Llewellyn-Jones, Elizabeth C. Kent, Nick A Rayner and Roger Saunders

Plenary Disc. A Marine Data & Data Quality (90 min) Chair: Shawn Smith (Rapporteur: Bridget Thomas)

Conference Dinner Restaurant Harnas in Sopot, hosted by the General Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management

Thursday, 8 May

S5 Session 5: Observation-based Analyses of Climate Variability and Change Chair: Sergey Gulev

S5O1 The use of marine data for attribution of climate change and constraining climate predictions [The use of marine data in detection and attribution and other climate modeling activities] Peter Stott

S5O2 Global Ocean Heat Content 1955-2007 in Light of Recently Revealed Instrumentation Problems [Recalculation of global ocean heat content in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems] Syd Levitus, John Antonov and Tim Boyer

S5O3 Near Surface Ocean Temperature: Trends and Interdecadal Variability Mark Carson and Ed Harrison

S5O4 Isolating the signal of ocean global warming Matt Palmer, Keith Haines, Simon Tett and Tara Ansell

Coffee/tea

S5O5 Monitoring El Niño/Southern Oscillation Behaviour with an Improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) Klaus Wolter and Michael S. Timlin

S5O6 Historical chronologies of El Niño Events and Instrumental ENSO indices Alexey Kaplan

S5O7 Changes of the Thermohaline Circulation of the Nordic Seas and Climate Waldemar Walczowski and Jan Piechura

S5O8 Using Ships' Logbooks to Understand the Little Ice Age (1685 to 1750): developing a new source of climatic data Dennis Wheeler

S5O9 The Characterisation of Marine Climate Using Indices Val Swail, Scott Woodruff, Elizabeth Kent, David Parker, and Chris Folland

S5P1 Accuracy and Variability of the Turbulent Surface Fluxes over the North Atlantic from VOS Observations David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent Not submitted for publication

S5P2 Winds at the Hvar Meteorological Station with Particular Emphasis on Strong and Gale Force Winds and Safety of Boats and Ships [Wind At The Island Hvar On The Middle Adriatic Sea] Milan Hodzic

S5P3 Observations of new western Mediterranean deep water formation using Argo floats 2004-2006 Robert O. Smith, H.L. Bryden and K. Stansfield

S5P4 Long-term Trends of SST in the Seas adjacent to Japan Takafumi Umeda

S5P5 The Antarctic Sea Ice spatial variability for the period and its relationship with atmospheric circulation S. Barreira and R. Compagnucci

S5P6 Ice winter severity in the Western Baltic Sea in the Period 1301-1500 Natalija Schmelzer and Gerhard Koslowski Not submitted for publication

S5P7 Mean Sea Level (1817-2007) At The Swinoujscie Tide Gauge Marzenna M. Sztobryn and Waldemar Stepko Not submitted for publication

S5P8 Spectral Slopes and Interannual-to-Subannual Variability Ratios Daniel Amrhein and Alexey Kaplan

S5P9 The wave climate of the Baltic Sea Ewa Jakusik

S5P10 Far North Atlantic Climate 1760-1799: Evidence from logbooks of the Hudson's Bay Company Catharine Ward (presented by Dennis Wheeler) Not submitted for publication

Lunch

Plenary Disc. B Marine Metadata & Data Management (60 min) Chair: Bob Keeley (Rapporteur: Eric Freeman)

Coffee/tea

Poster viewing (all Sessions) All poster presenters

Friday, 9 May

S6 Session 6: New Initiatives Chair: Craig Donlon

S6O1 Marine climate data and research priorities for the IPCC 5th Assessment David Parker

S6O2 Storm Surge Climatology: JCOMM Scientific and Technical Symposium on Storm Surges Val R. Swail and Boram Lee

S6O3 Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth: The 20th Century Reanalysis Project, and longer historical reanalyses Rob Allan, Gilbert P Compo, Jeffrey S Whitaker and Prashant D Sardeshmukh

Coffee/tea

S6O4 ENSO forecasts with an intermediate coupled model initialized and verified by historical climate datasets Dake Chen, Alicia Karspeck, Alexey Kaplan, Mark Cane, and Richard Seager

S6O5 Exploration of Antarctic weather: recovering observations from the early 20th century (link to additional information; note: leaving CLIMAR3 website) Philip Brohan and Robert J Allan Not submitted for publication

S6O6 BACC: BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin - Process and Results [...- Summary and Outlook] Hans von Storch

S6P1 Regional Comparison of Surface Turbulent Flux Products Paul J. Hughes, Shawn R. Smith and Mark A. Bourassa

S6P2 coastDat at IfK of GKSS, I: Detailed description and assessment of coastal climate change since 1958 in N Europe [The CoastDat project at GKSS - assessing ongoing change and projecting possible future changes in marine weather - winds, surges, waves and currents] Hans von Storch, Ralf Weisse, Frauke Feser, Jörg Winterfeldt, Andreas Plüss and Lidia Gaslikova

Lunch

Plenary Disc. C Marine Indices & Products (90 min) Chair: Val Swail (Rapporteur: John Kennedy)

Plenary Disc. D Workshop Outcomes (30 min) Chair: Scott Woodruff (Rapporteur: Elizabeth Kent)

Workshop Closure

Coffee/tea

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	*Wednesday, 7 May*
S3	Session 3: Product Development	Chair: Ken Casey
S3O1	Microwave sea surface temperatures and climatologies	Chelle Gentemann
S3O2	Diurnal variability in the upper ocean	Chelle L. Gentemann and Peter J. Minnett
S3O3	Modeling observational error of bin-averaged in situ climate data [Use of satellite records and power spectra to model an observational error of bin-averaged in situ climate data]	Alexey Kaplan
	Coffee/tea
S3O4	Estimating Uncertainty of Historical SST Analyses by a Cross Validation Technique	Yoshikazu Fukuda, Masayoshi Ishii and Shoji Hirahara
S3O5	Fast data fusion and its role in developing climate quality sea surface temperature data sets from multiple data sources	Julian Hill, Martin Juckes and Paul Fieguth
S3O6	The Influences of Differing Temperature and Moisture Roughness Length Parameterizations on Height Adjustment and Turbulent Surface Fluxes	Mark Bourassa, L. Bucci, C.A. Clayson, C. Forgue, M. Onderlinde, and B. Roberts
S3P1	Testing the HadISST2 Analysis in an Ideal World [Testing the robustness of the proposed HadISST analysis using pseudo-world methods]	Nick A Rayner, Jen Hardwick, John Kennedy and Simon Tett
S3P2	The extreme storm in the south-western Baltic Sea in November 1872 - a reanalysis of the wind fields for coastal protection purposes	Gudrun Rosenhagen
S3P3	Initial estimates of sampling uncertainty in fixed-depth and fixed-isotherm analyses of ocean warming [Estimates of ocean heat uptake and their uncertainty]	Matt Palmer and Philip Brohan
S3P4	Optimal Estimation for Retrieving Sea Surface Temperature	C J Merchant (presented by Elizabeth C. Kent)
	Lunch
S4	Session 4: New Climate Products and Intercomparisons (Note: S4O1 withdrawn)	Chair: Klaus Wolter
S4O2	Uncertainties in SST and Sea Ice Analyses	Nick Rayner, Tess Brandon, Ken Casey, Craig Donlon, Alexey Kaplan and Liz Kent
S4O3	Advances in the AVHRR Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Climate Data Record and its Connections with GHRSST Reanalysis Activities	Kenneth S. Casey, Tess B. Brandon, Craig Donlon and Nick Rayner
S4O4	Inter-comparison of Historical Sea Surface Temperature Datasets	Sayaka Yasunaka and Kimio Hanawa
S4O5	A project to create bias-corrected marine climate observations from ICOADS	Shawn R. Smith, Mark A. Bourassa, Scott Woodruff, Steve Worley, Elizabeth Kent, Simon Josey, Nick Rayner, and Richard Reynolds
	Coffee/tea
S4O6	Reconstruction of interdecadal variability of air-sea interaction in the Atlantic 1880-2004: links to atmospheric circulation patterns	Sergey Gulev, Konstantin Belyaev, Thomas Jung, Eberhard Ruprecht
S4O7	Marine Climatologies from Satellite Remote Sensing [..., as viewed through a Geographic Information System]	Martin Rutherford
S4O8	The WMO Commission for Climatology Expert Team on Climate Monitoring including the use of satellite and marine data and products	Craig Donlon, M. Brunet, M. Z. Zhang, J. Lawrimore, X. Wang, R. Hollmann, F. Driouech, E. Rebello, and W.A. Wan Hassan
S4P1	A New In Situ Surface Flux Dataset from NOCS [A new NOCS Dataset of Sea Surface Heat Fluxes]	David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent
S4P2	The GCOS SST/SI Intercomparison Framework for Global SST Analyses	Tess B. Brandon and Kenneth S. Casey
S4P3	Towards an independent time series of sea surface temperature from satellite observations	Christopher J Merchant, Owen Embury, David Llewellyn-Jones, Elizabeth C. Kent, Nick A Rayner and Roger Saunders
Plenary Disc. A	Marine Data & Data Quality (90 min)	Chair: Shawn Smith (Rapporteur: Bridget Thomas)
	Conference Dinner	Restaurant Harnas in Sopot, hosted by the General Director of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management

	*Thursday, 8 May*
S5	Session 5: Observation-based Analyses of Climate Variability and Change	Chair: Sergey Gulev
S5O1	The use of marine data for attribution of climate change and constraining climate predictions [The use of marine data in detection and attribution and other climate modeling activities]	Peter Stott
S5O2	Global Ocean Heat Content 1955-2007 in Light of Recently Revealed Instrumentation Problems [Recalculation of global ocean heat content in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems]	Syd Levitus, John Antonov and Tim Boyer
S5O3	Near Surface Ocean Temperature: Trends and Interdecadal Variability	Mark Carson and Ed Harrison
S5O4	Isolating the signal of ocean global warming	Matt Palmer, Keith Haines, Simon Tett and Tara Ansell
	Coffee/tea
S5O5	Monitoring El Niño/Southern Oscillation Behaviour with an Improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)	Klaus Wolter and Michael S. Timlin
S5O6	Historical chronologies of El Niño Events and Instrumental ENSO indices	Alexey Kaplan
S5O7	Changes of the Thermohaline Circulation of the Nordic Seas and Climate	Waldemar Walczowski and Jan Piechura
S5O8	Using Ships' Logbooks to Understand the Little Ice Age (1685 to 1750): developing a new source of climatic data	Dennis Wheeler
S5O9	The Characterisation of Marine Climate Using Indices	Val Swail, Scott Woodruff, Elizabeth Kent, David Parker, and Chris Folland
S5P1	Accuracy and Variability of the Turbulent Surface Fluxes over the North Atlantic from VOS Observations	David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent	Not submitted for publication
S5P2	Winds at the Hvar Meteorological Station with Particular Emphasis on Strong and Gale Force Winds and Safety of Boats and Ships [Wind At The Island Hvar On The Middle Adriatic Sea]	Milan Hodzic
S5P3	Observations of new western Mediterranean deep water formation using Argo floats 2004-2006	Robert O. Smith, H.L. Bryden and K. Stansfield
S5P4	Long-term Trends of SST in the Seas adjacent to Japan	Takafumi Umeda
S5P5	The Antarctic Sea Ice spatial variability for the period and its relationship with atmospheric circulation	S. Barreira and R. Compagnucci
S5P6	Ice winter severity in the Western Baltic Sea in the Period 1301-1500	Natalija Schmelzer and Gerhard Koslowski	Not submitted for publication
S5P7	Mean Sea Level (1817-2007) At The Swinoujscie Tide Gauge	Marzenna M. Sztobryn and Waldemar Stepko	Not submitted for publication
S5P8	Spectral Slopes and Interannual-to-Subannual Variability Ratios	Daniel Amrhein and Alexey Kaplan
S5P9	The wave climate of the Baltic Sea	Ewa Jakusik
S5P10	Far North Atlantic Climate 1760-1799: Evidence from logbooks of the Hudson's Bay Company	Catharine Ward (presented by Dennis Wheeler)	Not submitted for publication
	Lunch
Plenary Disc. B	Marine Metadata & Data Management (60 min)	Chair: Bob Keeley (Rapporteur: Eric Freeman)
	Coffee/tea
	Poster viewing (all Sessions)	All poster presenters

	*Friday, 9 May*
S6	Session 6: New Initiatives	Chair: Craig Donlon
S6O1	Marine climate data and research priorities for the IPCC 5th Assessment	David Parker
S6O2	Storm Surge Climatology: JCOMM Scientific and Technical Symposium on Storm Surges	Val R. Swail and Boram Lee
S6O3	Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth: The 20th Century Reanalysis Project, and longer historical reanalyses	Rob Allan, Gilbert P Compo, Jeffrey S Whitaker and Prashant D Sardeshmukh
	Coffee/tea
S6O4	ENSO forecasts with an intermediate coupled model initialized and verified by historical climate datasets	Dake Chen, Alicia Karspeck, Alexey Kaplan, Mark Cane, and Richard Seager
S6O5	Exploration of Antarctic weather: recovering observations from the early 20th century (link to additional information; note: leaving CLIMAR3 website)	Philip Brohan and Robert J Allan	Not submitted for publication
S6O6	BACC: BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin - Process and Results [...- Summary and Outlook]	Hans von Storch
S6P1	Regional Comparison of Surface Turbulent Flux Products	Paul J. Hughes, Shawn R. Smith and Mark A. Bourassa
S6P2	coastDat at IfK of GKSS, I: Detailed description and assessment of coastal climate change since 1958 in N Europe [The CoastDat project at GKSS - assessing ongoing change and projecting possible future changes in marine weather - winds, surges, waves and currents]	Hans von Storch, Ralf Weisse, Frauke Feser, Jörg Winterfeldt, Andreas Plüss and Lidia Gaslikova
	Lunch
Plenary Disc. C	Marine Indices & Products (90 min)	Chair: Val Swail (Rapporteur: John Kennedy)
Plenary Disc. D	Workshop Outcomes (30 min)	Chair: Scott Woodruff (Rapporteur: Elizabeth Kent)
	Workshop Closure
	Coffee/tea