1. Predictive Modeling Breakout Session
GEOSS Workshop Boulder
22 September 2007

2. Community Needs Model interoperability – biggest need Examples:
WRF, varying degrees of success
Integration of models and data sets to improve assimilation techniques
How to cause gravitation toward interoperability
Can GEOSS facilitate this movement? Belief is that it is uniquely positioned to do so.

3. GEOSS Model/Software Standards
Needs to have university and broad community involvement rather than exclusionary development; restricted corporate development focus is wrong way to proceed
Increasing development of community-based standards should be fostered
Metadata would be valuable for narrowing searches for EO data, but is usually hard to obtain. Metadata standards are needed.

4. GEOSS User Input
User input deemed critical to developing modeling standards, but users often don’t have time to interact with GEOSS community – important to have regional managers providing information on actual regional problems.
Web page FAQ of:
Questions from users on GEOSS and requirements
How progress is being made and could be made on user services
EO information broker may be a new profession to assist users

5. GEOSS Workshops
Workshops have important range of diversity – more valuable than many focused meetings
Suggestion to organize more workshops with science (AMS, AGU) and user (NEMA) communities