Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology WORKING GROUP FOR WEATHER INFORMATION FOR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION (WG/WIST) Meeting Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research December 1, 2005

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Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology 7 OPENING REMARKS (10 minutes---8:30 – 8:40 AM) RECORD OF ACTIONS (5 minutes---8:40 - 8:45 AM) MEETING DISCUSSION TOPICS: A. DETERMINE THE FEDERAL R&D NEEDS THAT WOULD BE THE FOCUS OF THE WIST R&D PLAN (Action Item ). (60 minutes-- 8:45 – 9:45 AM) BREAK 15 minutes---9: :00 AM B. USING PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED R&D NEEDS LISTS AS A GUIDE, DETERMINE A PRELIMINARY STRUCTURE FOR THE WG/WIST R&D PLAN TO CLEARLY EXPRESS THE R&D PRIORITIES OF THE WIST COMMUNITY (Action Item ). (60 minutes---10:00 AM - 11:00 AM) C. AGENCY INPUTS, FOLLOW UP ON WIST INITIATIVE PAPER EFFORTS, AND NEW ITEMS. (60 minutes---11:00 AM – 12:00 PM) LUNCH12:00 – 1:15 PM D. DISCUSS HOLDING A SERIES OF WIST-RELATED MINI- WORKSHOPS IN EARLY 2006 (60 MINUTES---1:15 – 2:15 PM) REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS (15 minutes---2:15 - 2:30 PM) NEXT MEETING (15 minutes---2:30 - 2:45 PM) ADJOURN Tentative Agenda

Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology 8 ACTION ITEM : The Executive Secretary will provide a synthesized R&D needs list so that WG members could review them and begin to determine the R&D needs that would the focus of the WIST R&D Plan and start to build a structure for the R&D Plan to clearly express the priorities of the WIST community. July 11th update: The WG/WIST made minor edits to the R&D Needs matrix and the group then decided to accept the matrix as its first structure for arranging the WIST R&D Needs. Additionally, a first draft of the master R&D Needs listing was handed out for review. September 15th update: Part A - Certain WG members provide their sectors’ fatalities, injuries, and property damage figures so they can be consolidated and finalized before beginning work to align surface transportation R&D priorities based on these figures. Part B - Each WG member will provide the Executive Secretary their top 5 items for each row of the matrix by November 21, 2005, so they can be consolidated for the November 30th meeting. Part C - Each WG member will provide the Executive Secretary any additional WIST reference sources by the next meeting. Review of Action Items