Day 1 am - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future

1. Day 1 am - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future • 8:00 – 8:50 Arrival time – Host Jean-Yves Peterschmitt; Tea and Coffee – (50 min) • 9:00 Welcome – logistics, and expectations for the meeting Dean Williams – (5 min) • 9:05 Day-1 Introduction – Karl Taylor and Bryan Lawrence: “Introduction to CF issues to be addressed ” – (10 min) • 9:15 CF Governance(1 hr 15 min) • CF website – Dean Williams: ”Status and remaining issues for website” – (5+5 min) • Standard Name Committee – Alison Pamment: “Status, improvements needed, and issues for discussion” – (15+15 min) • Conventions Committee – Karl Taylor: “Support and governance issues” – (10+25 min) • 10:30 BREAK (20 min) • 10:50 Convention changes & technical discussion(1 hr 20 min) • GridSpecs – V. Balaji: “Sub-grids & curvilinear Cartesian coordinates” – (45+20 min) • Wording changes – Alison Pamment: “Ros Hatcher's wording change” – (5 min) • Variable identification – Russ Rew: “Coordinate variable identification with the axis attribute” – (5+5 min) • 12:10 LUNCH(1 hr 5 min)

2. Day 1 pm - CF Standards, Governance, Support, and Future • 1:15 CF technical discussion continued(1 hr 15 min ) • CLIVAR WG – Anna Pirani: “Requirements of the seasonal prediction community” – (10+5 min) • Issues concerning underlying principles of CF (e.g., differing needs of obs. vs. models; how much intelligence required of applications; advisability of "pointers" to information external to the netCDF file; standard names vs. other controlled vocabulary; aggregation and discovery files) – (1 hr) • 2:30 BREAK(20 min) • 2:50 Miscellaneous technical issues (e.g., forecast (valid) time and original (run) time; ensembles; subgrid variation; time & calendar for paleoclimate simulations) – (1 hr) • 3:50 Software in support of conventions(1 hr) • LibCF – Ed Harnett and Russ Rew: “The new NetCDF CF library and status” – (20+5 min) • NetCDF-4 – Russ Rew: “Experiences with NetCDF-4 and implications for the new CF conventions” – (15+5 min) • CMOR – Karl Taylor: “The future of CMOR” – (10+5 min) • 4:50 Completion of any discussions postponed from earlier in the day(20 min) • 5:10 Day wrap-up discussion(20 min) – Outstanding issues; synthesis of discussion; and action items; promotion of CF; What can we do to make the system work better? • 5:30 Adjourn • 6:00 Champagne and Food aggregation experiment (60 mn + 30 seconds )

3. Day 2 am - AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData • 9:00 Day-2 Introduction – Karl Taylor: “Introduction to AR5 and its Timelines” – (10 min) • 9:10 Focus on AR5. Session Chair TBD • V. Balaji, Princeton University, “AR5 use cases” - (20 + 5 min) • Michael Lautenschlager, WDC Climate/Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, “IPCC WG II+III Requirements for AR5 Data Management” - (20 + 5 min) • Bryan Lawrence, NCAS/BADC “Technical and social requirements for a putative AR5 distributed database of simulation and other data” - (20 + 5 min) • 10:25 BREAK(20 min + 5 min) • Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL – “A proposed architecture for AR5 distributed model analysis and comparison” - (20 + 5 min) • 10:50 AR5 Panel Discussion(1 hr 20 min ). Panel Moderator TBD • 12:10 LUNCH(1 hr 15 mins )

4. Day 2 pm - AR5: Semantic Content and Aggregation of MetaData • 1:25 Semantic Content of Metadata. Session Chair TBD • Jon Blower, University of Reading – “DEWS: Delivering CF-NetCDF marine data through OGC Map and Coverage Services” – (20 + 5 min) • Lois Steenman-Clark, University of Reading - “NMM - a draft standard semantic metadata” – (20 + 5 min) • Jeremy Tandy, Met Office – “Moving forward from the RAL Feature Workshop" – (20 + 5 min) • Bert Jagers, Delft Hydraulics, Delft – “Storing data for integrated 1D, 2D, 3D models of rivers, estuaries, and seas “ – (20 + 5 min) • Eric Guilyardi, NCAS/BADC – “METAFOR, a project for devising a Common Information Model for climate modelling data and models" – (10 + 5 min) • 3:20 BREAK(20 min) • 3:40 Semantic Aggregation of Metadata. Session Chair TBD • Luca Cinquini, NCAR – “RDF/OWL triple stores”– (20 + 5 min) • Rocky Dunlap, Georgia Tech - “Employing Semantics for Multi-Schema • Aggregation” – (20 + 5 min) • Roy Lowry, British Oceanographic Data Centre - “Vocabulary management: a foundation for semantic interoperability through ontology development” – (20 + 5 min) • 4:55 Day Wrap-up Round-table Discussion(20 min) – Outstanding issues, synthesis of discussion, and action items. • 5:15 Adjourn • Evening: dinner at restaurant Le Bec Rouge

5. Day 3 - Interoperability and User Experience • 9:00 A Focus on User Experience. Session Chair TBD • Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire – Connecting large data bases to users through open-source, web-based tools - (20 + 5 min) • Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences in using the Community Data Portal to support Scientific Data Workflows” - (20 + 5 min) • Serguei Nikonov, GFDL – “The LASurator” - (20 + 5 min) • 10:15 BREAK(20 min) • 10:35 Interoperable Systems. Session Chair TBD • Stephan Kindermann, DKRZ, German Climate Computing Center – “Distributed data access and processing in the Collaborative Climate Community Grid (C3-Grid) Project” – (20 + 5 min) • Jai-Ho Oh, Pukyong National University – “Current Progress on the Weather/Climate Information System in Korea” – (20 + 5 min) • Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF – “The EU Funded BRIDGE Project” – (20 + 5 min) • Michael Burek, NCAR – “Experiences with Metadata Federation using OAI and THREDDS” – (20 + 5 min) • John Caron, UNIDATA – “Restricting Access to OPeNDAP, WCS Datasets with the THREDS Data Server” - (20 + 5 min) • 12:40 Wrapup. Session Chair TBD (30 mins) • 1:00 Main Meeting Adjourns – Safe Travels!