1. Plans for 10th Annual Workshop & Celebration
Bill Collins
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado

2. Venue and Timing Time slot: June 21-23, 2005 Locale: Breckenridge
No conflicts with AGU, AMS, or EGS meetings
No conflicts with Gordon Conferences
Locale: Breckenridge
Thanks to Jay, cost = cost of meeting local to Boulder.
Our preferred conference site knows our needs.

3. Theme: Crosscutting Science using CCSM
Topics:
IPCC
Paleoclimate and Abrupt Climate Change
Challenges of Building an Earth System Model
Revamped meeting schedule:
Short WG meetings focused on WG business
More discussion in plenary
Return of the “wrap-up” session
Formal poster session
Celebration of the 10th anniversary:
Overview of progress and challenges from CSM1CCSM3
Special event to commemorate anniversary

4. Proposed Schedule for the Meeting

5. Other highlights Discussion of proposed biases workshop
First meeting of chemistry working group?
ASP conference on integrative Earth system modeling (after conference)

6. Possible Topics for Future Meetings
2006: Coupled chemistry-climate
First results from 1st generation C3SM
Findings with new BGC models
Aerosol-climate interactions, etc
2007: IPCC
Overview of the IPCC AR4
Major uncertainties highlighted by AR4
Experimental design for the AR5
Interactions with RCM work, WGs 2 and 3.