1. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: Where are we ? Agenda: –Shift (one month now) for availability of products –Not clear view of “intercomparison strength of work” in the different areas (ie how many groups plan a dedicated work looking at more than their own hindcast? ) –Target: define a deadline to be prepared for the Symposium Validation and intercomparison of analysis and forecast products F. Hernandez (Mercator-Ocean), G. Brassington (BoM), J. Cummings (NRL), L. Crosnier (Mercator-Ocean), F. Davidson (DFO), S. Dobricic (ICMCC), P. Hacker (Univ. of Hawaii), M. Kamachi (JMA), K. A. Lisæter (NERSC), M. Martin (UK Met Office) Availability of products (end of July ?????) Availability of intercomparison results (mid October ????) –Managing the outcomes: How do we take profit from feedbacks ? Initiative to keep on this activity?

2. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: Where are we ? Partners involved / status: Status of 3 months hindcast products OpenDAP or FTP addressesPartner’s main regions of interest MERProduced All areas TBCNAT, TAT, SPA, TPA, IND, ARC UKMOn going NAT, SAT, GLO, ACC, MED TBCNAT, MED TOPTBC tbc BLKProduced IND, SPA BlueLink OpenDAP : TBCIND MFSTBC tbc MRIProduced at MRI, provided to University of Hawaii Univ of Hawaii OpenDAP : TBC NPA HYCOn going All areas TBCNPA, TPA, TAT, ACC WBC, Gulf of Mex. CNFProduced, need to transition to new NetCDF format FTP server of CNOOFSNorth West Atlantic

3. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: Where are we ? oceansea-ice MERxx UKMxx TOPxx BLKx MFS MRI 2 xx (fice) HYCxx (fice) CNFx

4. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: decisions Agenda: 30/07June 15/09 01/10 Nov. Products on OpenDAP Intercomparison Synthesis Contributions sent to FH for the Proceedings Additional analysis

5. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: decisions Summing-up results: Results are presented at the GODAE Final Symposium. A manuscript for proceedings has to be prepared for the 1st of October 2008. Framework of the document : –Reminding previous “MERSEA Strd1” intercomparison in the framework of GODAE (but allready published !) –Description (half a page) of each system involved in the comparison (each partner provides its contribution) –Results presented by area… All areas are covered. –Particular attention paid to data used for the validation (recom. of E. Harrison, M. Johnson)

6. IGST XIII – Washington 2/06/2008 Status of the intercomparison exercice: open questions Intercomparison… what next? –Interest for looking at the same data set (FEB-MARCH-APRIL 08) but for forecast analysis (BLK, HYC… MER?) –Interest to keep on in the future with some diagnostics (tbd) –No idea yet about the way we are going to feedback after the intercomparisons exercice…. But for sure it will offer many outcomes…