1. WCRP JPS update WGSIP17, Sept 13-14, 2015 SMHI, Sweden M. Rixen

2. New JPS Staff David Carlson, D/WCRP
Boram Lee, Senior Scientific Officer
Mike Sparrow, Senior Scientific Officer
Josefa Potter, Administrative Assistant
Matthias Tuma, Junior Professional

3. Budget Secure WMO and IOC support Missing ICSU contribution
Decreasing national contributions
Funding pressure on current activities
Some opportunities: GFCS, Future Earth, …
Maybe a new business model in the near future?

4. Grand Challenges
Regional Climate Information: cancelled/on hold until clearer vision
Near Term Prediction: new, being developed

5. WMAC WCRP-WWRP International Model Development Prize
Model Development Summer School – MPI 2015, next?
Transpose CMIP – WGSIP initial shocks/drift project
Joint WGs session in 2017 (“Model Olympics”)?

6. WDAC obs4MIPs, ana4MIPs, open data publication Open data policy
Data set quality assessment
Possible WCRP-GCOS International Data Prize
Earth System Reanalysis, Reanalysis Task Team
Flux Task Team

7. (my personal selection of) Priorities for WGSIP17
Review progress on sub-projects
Explore synergies with WMO commissions and C3S
Cooperation with S2S and PPP
ESGF and CHFP
WGSIP/DCPP structure
Capacity building, training, summer schools

8. Last but not least
WGSIP17 report: thanks for preparing small summaries (1/2 page) of all presentations
Many thanks to SMHI and staff support for hosting the meeting!!!