Meetings
1st ACRE Workshop: Reanalyses Data,
Historical Reanalyses & Climate Applications
The
aim
of
the
workshop
was
to
mirror
the
ACRE
initiative,
by
bringing
together
researchers
who
recover,
image,
digitise
and
archive
historical
data
for
reanalyses,
together
with
developers
of
various
reanalyses
and
those
from
the
climate
applications
and
impacts
communities
who
have
an
interest
in
using
reanalysis
products.
It
was
hoped
that
in
such
an
assembly,
participants
would
be
able
to
gain
a
better
appreciation
of
each
others’
efforts
and
needs
so
that
a
firmer
basis
for
collaboration
and
cooperation
could
be
forged,
with
users
being
primed
in
terms
of
their
expectations
of,
and
feedback
on,
the
range
of
products
that
will
flow
from
the
first
release
of
the
full
20th
Century
Reanalysis Project (1892-2008) early in 2009.
This
is
planned
to
be
the
first
of
several
major
workshops
bringing
together
those
involved
in
the
full
range
of
activities
under
the
ACRE
initiative.
As
a
result
of
this
first
workshop,
and
the
creation
of
four
working
groups
(detailed
in
the
body
of
the
text)
within
ACRE,
there
will
now
be
scope
for
more
specific working group meetings.
Report
Agenda and Presentations
Sponsors
Federal
Department
of
Home
Affairs FDHA
Federal
Office
of
Meteorology
and Climatology MeteoSwiss
FFOUL/IDL, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal, 18-20 September 2013
5th ACRE Workshop: Forging Stronger Linkages
This
workshop
reviewed
the
global
activities
of
ACRE
projects,
exposing
ACRE
partners
to
the
global
reach
of
its
activities.
It
brought
together
international
climate
scientists
(from
the
UK,
France,
Russia,
Netherlands,
Portugal,
Germany,
New
Zealand
and
China),
experts
in
the
humanities
and
social
sciences,
and
the
UK
and
US
archival
and
library
communities.
The
workshop
also
showcased
ACRE’s
ongoing
developments
in
the
areas
of
citizen science, massive-scale data handling and web-based open platform capabilities.
Especially
important
was
the
discussion
of
state-of-the-art
high-resolution
visualizations
of
data,
metadata,
data
images
and
reanalyses
products.
The
successful
development
of
this
technology
is
crucial
to
making
the
full
impact
of
the
output
and
outreach
from
the
international
ACRE
initiative
as
user friendly, tailored and shaped as possible.
Presentations
covered
ACRE
activities
in
Chile,
the
South
Pacific,
India,
the
Arctic,
China,
SE
Asia,
Australia,
the
Southern
Ocean,
Africa
and
Europe.
Also
covered
were
topics
of
managing
and
analysing big data, with an emphasis on workshops to identify key issues to be resolved.
Report
Agenda and Presentations
Sponsors
Meteo France, Toulouse
European
Reanalysis
of
Global
Climate
Observations
(ERA-CLIM)
Global
Climate
Observing
System (GCOS)