1. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Advances in HOmogenisation MEthods for climate series an integrated approach COST ES0601 “HOME” MC meeting Bucuresti 19-20 th of May, 2010

2. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Agenda 19 th morning Welcome of participants (09H30-10H00) Adoption of minutes of last meeting Adoption of Agenda Presentation of new delegates Matters arising News from COST Office(Chandrasa) Report from Grant Holder (Berta) Status of Action

3. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Agenda 19 th, afternoon Progress report of Wgs (14H00) –Bibliography (Enric) –Benchmark (Victor) –Practical recommandations (Ingeborg) –Daily data (Petr, Olivier)

4. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Agenda 20 th Morning 09H00 –Preparation of Annual Progress Conference (Activity report) –Action planning –Action budget planning –Meeting plannings

5. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 20 th Afternoon 14H00 –planning of additional meetings and STSMs for period june 2010 – September 2010 –organization of R summer school –Preparation of year 4 workplan and budget plan; next MC… –Constitution of WG5 : WG leader, volunteers –Vote for extension of the Action to additional 6 months (Training) –Publications… –AOB –Closing

6. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 MC opened Adoption of AgendaY/N Adoption of minutes of last MCY/N Welcome to new delegates Matters arisingY/N

7. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Report from COST Office COST Office news

8. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Report from GH Status of budget

9. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Main achievements this year Bibliography Intercomparison simulations Benchmark experiment - and Mallorca meeting Practical recommandations Advances in Dailies

10. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 To be improved Unification of procedures –Blocking point for software implementation

11. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 To be discussed WG 5 constitution (software) Additional 6 months (training)

12. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Progress Report WG1: Bibliography –Enric, your turn… WG2/3 Benchmark results –Victor….

13. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Progress Report WG2/3 Practical recommandations –Inge…

14. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 News from WG3 (correction) From bibliography Multivariate –MASH –Caussinus Mestre –Mixed Linear Models Unification of the 3 models (Tamas, Anders, Olivier) March meeting did not occur (agenda) - discussions To be organized asap <> software

15. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 WG3 : UBRIS2 experiment Urban effect and homogenisation Mestre, Böhm, Auer, Stepanek, –C&M correction model, modified to take into account additional non-climatic trends, adapted to monthly scale –Tested on a set of 13 Viennese series, Bucuresti and Praha series –Allowed testing significance of urban trends and correction

16. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 WG4 : daily values Petr : your turn...

17. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Experiment on simulated data Great help from Christine Gruber STSM Couple of series simulated according to a bivariate AR(1) process Allows control precisely temporal and spatial correlations, as well as variance Vincent, HOM and SPLIDHOM for various correlations

18. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Added inhomogeneities

19. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Corrected vs Raw

20. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Corrected vs Raw

21. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 ACTION PLANNING Elaborated with care As detailed as possible

22. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 ACTION PLANNING PRIORITIES UNIFICATION OF PROCEDURES FINAL BENCHMARK ANALYSIS HOMOGENISATION OF BENCHMARK DAILY DATASET CONSTITUTION OF WG5

23. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Suggestions for remaining budget Depending on actual MC expenses On a basis of 25k€ => 35k€ left –R summer school (already voted)~12k€ –5 STSMs (1xUBRIS (?), 4x dailies~10k€ –1xEM(Paris, July, 4 persons)~4k€ –1xEM (Zurich, september)~2k€ –1xWG dedicated to Benchmark~10k€ VOTES

24. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Additionnal Votes… Preparation of Second Installment of the Grant (MC approval) Preparation of next year Grant (MC approval)

25. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 WG5 Volunteer….

26. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 FUTURE Date, place next MC Date, place final event Vote in favor of 6 months extension Training purposes

27. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Votes Remaining budget –STSMs –EMs –WG

28. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 THANKS SORIN!!!

29. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010

30. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 European Added value Everybody is on board Large enough to interest other people NOAA : Matt Menne Canada : Lucie Vincent Australia

31. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Coordination Action is large (26 countries)‏ Relying more on small WG/expert meetings and STSMs Management Committee = Dissemination of the results to all partners

32. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Young people WG leaders and Chairman are not so old 2 STSMs (only), more in the future (6 planned next year)‏ Recall this is only our first year

33. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Non-COST Andorra –Active participation to the “Catalan experiment” –Motivated people Australia : quite recent

34. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Dissemination homogenisation.org

35. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Conferences ECSN, November 2007, Vienna EGU, April 2008, Vienna 6th Seminar on homogenisation, May 2008, Budapest

36. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Articles At least 3 articles fully realized thanks to COST should be published in peer reviewed journals during year 2 More articles written by COST members will acknowledge COST

37. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Problems Web site –Used to be quite empty (much improved now)‏ –Forum had to be closed Administration –Thanks to Carine and Chandrasa –Sorry to always forget signing the attendance list –Plenty of (small?) mistakes Personal involvement of the Chair : too large!

38. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Further plans Large intercomparison experiment, based on the benchmark dataset Continue exploring mathematical procedures for detection Unifying correction procedures Encourage procedures for daily values

39. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Further plans More STSMs (at least 6)‏ Improving the web Publications

40. ES0601 Action progress report COST ES0601 MC5Bucuresti, 19-20 May 2010 Thanks… To Sylvain and ESSEM DC, for having selected our Action To Carine & Chandrasa To the Action Rapporteur John Sweeney, who attended our last MC (may we expect a milder review after that?)‏