Opening Session

Linhart Hall, Monday, 4 September 2006 [ Floor Plan ]

08:30 – 09:15 Welcome Addresses and Awards Ceremony

David Burridge,EMS President
Welcome

Walter Kirchhofer, European Climate Support Network (ECSN)
Welcome

Franco Einaudi, American Meteorological Society

Janez Podobnik, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning, Slovenia

Silvo Žlebir, Director General, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia

Jožef Roškar, Director Meteorological Office, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia

Pierre Bessemoulin, President of the WMO Commission for Climatology, Météo France

Evangelina Oriol-Pibernat, European Space Agency

Awards Ceremony

Strategic Lectures

9:15–10:45
Chairperson: BURRIDGE, D.

Michel Jarraud, Secretary General WMO
Climate information and services: leveraging opportunities and risk management

José Achache, Director GEO Secretariat
GEOSS: from Observations to Science and to Applications

10:15–10:45 Coffee Break

10:45–13:15
Chairperson: KIRCHHOFER, W.

Dominique Marbouty, Director ECMWF
European developments in Numerical Weather Prediction

Mikael Rattenborg, Director of Operations, EUMETSAT
Operational Earth Observation

Georgios Amanatidis, European Commission, DG Research
Climate research within the EC Framework Programmes

Robert Sausen, DLR
Quantifying the Climate Impact of Global and European Transport Systems:An overview of the Integrated Project QUANTIFY after 18 months

Albert Klein-Tank, KNMI
ENSEMBLE-based predictions of climate change and their impacts -an overview of the EC FP6 ENSEMBLES project

13:15 Lunch Break