Opening Ceremony Programme

Opening Session, 29 September 2008

- preliminary programme (May 2008)

09:00 – 10:00 Welcome Addresses and Awards Ceremony

Welcome David Burridge, EMS President
Welcome Frits Brouwer, KNMI Director
Welcome Aryan van Engelen, ECSN Manager

J.C. Huizinga-Heringa, Secretary of State,
Ministry of Transport and Water Affairs, The Netherlands

Pier Vellinga, Free University of Amsterdam

Clare Goodess, ENSEMBLES

Ben Dieterink, HMEI

Awards Ceremony

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 13:00 Strategic Lectures

Chair: David Burridge

Jean Palutikof: IPCC WG II, Head TSU
- on the main messages from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report: impacts of climate change

Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General WMO

André Jol, EEA Head of Group Climate Change & Energy
- on Impacts of and adaptation to climate change in Europe

Walter Dabberdt, AMS President
"A Perfect Storm? – The looming urban grand challenge."

Tim Palmer, ECMWF
"Seamless prediction of weather and climate: bringing the insights and constraints of NWP into the climate-change arena."

13:00 Lunch