1. Analysis of WGs and Projects
next 2-year plan
Partner Feedback on
WWRP IP – 2023

2. WWRP Implementation Plan 2016-2023
Booklet 1: Introduction and broader vision – eight years plan
Booklet 2: Concrete actions proposed by WGs and projects for each selected activity – 2 year rolling basis
Societal Challenges
HIGH IMPACT WEATHER
WATER
URBANIZATION
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Action Areas
Address Limitations
Uncertainty
Fully Coupled
Applications
Verification
Attribution
Integrated Water Cycle
New Observations
Precipitation Processes
Hydrological Uncertainty
Understand Needs
Observations & Processes
Urban Prediction
Advanced Methods
Support Facilities
Tools
New Observations
Future GOS
Selected Activities
For each Action Area the WWRP Working Groups and Projects proposed Selected Activities, which also offer points for collaborations

3. Next 2 year concrete actions
Booklet 2 provides activities that are planned by Projects and Working Groups to help achieving the overall WWRP programmatic goals for each of the four Themes and 18 Action Areas, based on last year’s round of contributions
Working groups and projects were now asked to update this information by listing concrete activities along with a time frame

4. Preliminary evaluation of WG /Project Feedback
Feedback received from all WGs and Projects, despite: ETWM, SDS-WAS and SERA. Few info only from DAOS
Feedback overall quite comprehensive, covering most of the topics to a good extent
Only few suggestions for concrete activities so far in the following action areas: (activities listed in current version of IP 2 versus new feedback provided by the WGs/Projects, not counting missing feedback)
AA 7: Water – Integrated water
AA 10: Water – Hydrological Uncertainty
AA 12: Urbanization – Observations & Processes (chemical aspects)
Feedback files from all WG / Projects, as well as compilation of all in one file are available at

5. Preliminary evaluation of WG /Project Feedback
Suggested activities cover
Contributions to many ongoing or approaching initiaitives, e.g. NAWDEX, MesoVICT, HIGHWAY, ICE-POP, UPDRAFT
Suggestions for workshops on particular topics, or symposia along with major conferences 2017 (Cape Town, EMS, …)
Several workshops already held successfully
Members attending relevant conferences, are members or contribute to panels etc.
Facilitation of data sets and their usage
Feedback partly vague, how concrete can/should it be?
Some activities “only” covered by workshops. OK for workshop activities, but enough for others? More concrete actions needed?

6. Feedback from partners and donors
Many aspects of the challenges are also faced by other international programmes
Working in partnership, combining efforts and exchanging knowledge will be of advantage for all parties involved and will eventually be beneficial for society, the economy and the environment
Feedback from partners helps to make proposed WWRP activities relevant for them
Important for WWRP IP to also meet interest of donors
URBANIZATION
HIGH IMPACT WEATHER
WATER
NEW TECHNOLOGIES

7. How was it organized?
An Interaction Toolkit was developed and shared with key partners, which provided
An introduction into the WWRP IP and the four challenges
Some background information
A matrix with all the action areas and some questions to guide the feedback
For each of the 18 Action Areas,
they were asked to
Provide General Comments
Point to missing aspects
Suggest points for collaborations
Suggest actvities for upcoming 2 years
Indicate potential overlap with other initatives

8. Who was approached?
Consultation with CHy, CBS, WCRP, GAW to identify points of contact
Toolkit was send to these points of contact (either directly or through Secretariat)
Key Partners:
CHy Data Operations and Management
CHy Quality Management Framework – Hydrology
CHy Hydrological Forecasting and Prediction
CHy Water, Climate and Risk Management
Intl. Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre
UNESCO – Division of Water Sciences, IOC
IRDR
WCRP Chairs, Directors, Grand Challenges Leaders
CBS Vice President
CBS Data Processing and Forecasting
GAW Aerosols
GAW Applications
GAW Precipitation Chemistry
GAW GURME
GAW Reactive Gases ?
Donors: ?
NSF
European Commission
Belmont Forum

9. Preliminary evaluation of External Feedback
Overall, perception of WWRP IP was good, as indicated by positive comments on the proposed activities
Common interests were identified e.g. in
uncertainty and communication about it
transition research to operations and implementation
joint activities in developing countries, e.g. observations
coupled modelling, link to socio-economic models
understanding and improving cloud processes and cloud-aerosol interactions
data exchange and traceability, new and unconventional observations
development of observations, WIGOS 2040
Some identified missing aspects
representation of Teleconnections and model fidelity
role climate change - anthropogenic influence (e.g. on clouds)
data management when it comes to development of future OS
Ground water monitoring

10. Thank you
Merci