1. AIP-2 Kickoff Workshop Energy SBA Session Ellsworth LeDrew, University of Waterloo, Canada Thierry Ranchin, Mines ParisTech, France GEOSS AIP-2 Kickoff 25-26 September 2008

2. Session Agenda Introduction By Ellsworth LeDrew (5 minutes) Self introductions of persons in the session (10 min) Description of the scenario and objectives (5 min) Presentations by: –Michael J. Brewer (NOAA NCDC): The US Drought Portal: Contributing to Energy Security and Sustainability (on-line demo) –Thierry Ranchin (Mines ParisTech): Answers for the "Mines ParisTech team and Partners Open Discussion (20 min) Develop a work plan for the topic: dates and actions (10 min)

3. Energy Session Community objectives (from Annex B) linked with Task EN-07-03: –Renewable energy sources (RES) for electricity production – The exploitation of these energies requires accurate knowledge of the resources and of their availability (in space and time) as well as accurate forecasts in the different phases of an energy system life cycle.

4. Scenario objectives Support the SBA Energy by developing services providing irradiance data among other parameters Simulating the case of the sitting of a solar power plant.

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6. List of responses Data providers: –Mines ParisTech (Primary Participant) –NOAA NCDC NIDIS (Primary Participant) –ACRF, CIESIN, NASA World Wind, NOAA NCDC GOSIC, NOAA SNAAP (Contributing Participants) Portal, ClearingHouse and Workflow support: –Compusult, ESA, ESRI –Testing facilities – USGS Enterprise Modelling: –INCOSE

7. AIP-2 Master Schedule Milestone Due Date CFP Issued 26 June 2008 Clarification Teleconference 18 July 2008, 1300 UTC Kickoff Response Due Date* 1 September 2008 Kickoff Workshop at NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA 25-26 September 2008 Status and Interim results to GEO Plenary 19-20 November 2008 Final results of Phase 2 AIP 1st Quarter 2009