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BUILDING ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLES FROM EUROPEAN SATELLITE ARCHIVES

AN ESA ROUND-TABLE

MAY 13^th, 2008

Vespucci Conference Hall, Hotel Slovenja, Portorož

The round-table will be followed by the Bridging the Gap conference Ice-breaking cocktail, sponsored by ESA, in the Atrium of the adjacent Grand Hotel Portorož.

INVITATION

Dear Madam, Dear Sir,

Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing humankind in the twentyfirst century and it is indeed high on the European political agenda. Yet uncertainty in climate predictions is the critical element in IPCC considerations of mitigation and adaptation strategies to cope with changing climate.

It has been shown that the major element of uncertainty in predictions up to 30 years into the future is the lack of adequate information on initial conditions – i.e. lack of quality observations. The primary need to reduce the uncertainty in climate predictions over this period is for more abundant and better observations, many of which are derived from satellite observations. These are the Essential Climate Variables.

Under the overall coordination of the Committee for Earth Observation Satellites, the European Space Agency is playing a leading role in answering the needs defined by the Global Climate Observing System and in making best use of the Earth Observation archives available in Europe.

I would like to invite you to attend a round-table organised by the Agency at the eve of the conference “Bridging the Gap”, organised by the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, to be held on May 13th at 17:30 in Portorož, Slovenia.

V. Liebig

Director of Earth Observation Programmes

Speakers

Dr Silvo ZLEBIR

Director General of the Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia

Dr Volker LIEBIG

ESA Director of Earth Observation programmes

Prof. Hartmut GRASSL

Former Director of the Max-Planck Institute of Meteorology

Dr Lars PRAHM

Director General of EUMETSAT

Dr Dominique MARBOUTY

Director of the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-term Weather Forecasts)

Moderator: Mrs Tanja CEGNAR

Coordinator of the Bridging the Gap conference, Environmental Agency of the Republic

of Slovenia

This conference is organised by Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia in co-operation with the European Commission (DG ENV, DG RTD, DG JRC), the European Environment Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland, the Environment Agency for England and Wales and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

ARSO

EPA SWEPA