Workshop on Snow Observations

Please find the report of the meeting here.

Day 1	Monday 17 November 2014

13.30-13.50	Introduction
	Welcome adress	Erland Kallen
	Tour de Table, adoption of agenda	Erland Kallen
13.50-15.30	Current data holdings of historical in situ snow cover observations	Matthew Menne
	Setting the scene: Experience from GlobSnow	Jouni Pulliainen
	Data holdings at FMI	Miia Salminen
	Data holdings at CMA	Yu Yu
	Data holdings at Roshydromet	Olga Bulygina
15.30-16.00	Session Break
16.00-18.00	Current data holdings of historical in situ snow cover observations (cont.)
	Data holdings at NOAA NCDC	Matthew Menne
	Data holdings at NCAR	Steve Worley
	Data holdings at EC	Ross Brown
	Data holdings at CNRM	Eric Brun

Day 2	Tuesday 18 November 2014

09.30-10.50	Current data access facilities	Alexander Sterin
	Data access at CMA	Yu Yu
	Data access at Roshydromet	Olga Bulygina
	Data access at NOAA NCDC	Matthew Menne
	Data access at NCAR	Steve Worley
10.50-11.20	Session Break
11.20-13.00	Current data access facilities (continued)
	Data access at EC	Ross Brown
	Data access at CNRM	Eric Brun
	Data access at FMI, followed by Prototype snow cover database in development for ERA-CLIM2	Miia Salminen and Jouni Pulliainen
13.00-14.00	14.00 Lunch Break (ECMWF Cafeteria)
14.00-18.00	Ways forward for better integration	Adrian Simmons
	Experience from GPCC in serving precipitation data	Markus Ziese
	Assimilation of snow observations at ECMWF	Patricia de Rosnay
	Discussion	All

Day 3	Wednesday 19 November 2014

9.30-13.00	Meeting wrap-up and report drafting	Erik Andersson
	Drawing from minutes taken during the meeting, a summary is to be drafted.	All