1. Management report Zofia Stott Jon Styles Assimila Limited

2. Agenda am 1030Welcome and introductions  Pascal Lecomte 1040Management overview  Zofia Stott/Jon Styles 1050Progress on Coupled Model Data Assimilation project  Overview and introduction Keith Haines  Task 3: Evaluating observation strategies Chris Old  Task 1: Building an idealised coupled system, Amos Lawless/Polly Smith  Task 2 and 4: Progress with CERA development, Patrick Laloyaux, Eric de Boisseson  Plans over next 6 months 1200Progress on Interfacing EO Data with Atmosphere and Land Models project  Task 5: OSSE tool development and demonstration Liang Feng  Task 6 and 7: Progress to date and next steps on high resolution forward and inverse modelling for CO2/CH4 and CO:CO2 ratios Liang Feng/Martyn Chipperfield 1230LUNCH

3. Agenda pm 1330Outreach activities: progress and discussion (across all 3 projects) Bethan Harris  The web site  Plans for code and tools  Plans for workshops (Tris Quaife/Nancy Nichols/Mel Sandells) 1400 Progress on Interfacing EO Data with Atmosphere and Land Models project  Task 2: Process model development Tris Quaife  Task 3: EOLDAS baseline Phil Lewis  Plans over the next 6 months Phil Lewis 1430Progress on Advanced Data Assimilation project  Overview and introduction Peter Jan van Leeuwen  WP 1: Data-assimilation methods for nonlinear non-Gaussian and multi-scale problems Peter Jan van Leeuwen  WP2: Quantifying and representing uncertainty in models and observations at multiple scales, Stefano Migliorini, Ross Bannister, Nancy Nichols  WP3: Snow products – plans over the next 6 months Mel Sandells 1530TEA 1600Review of deliverables AOB, Review of actions and next steps Date of next meeting

4. Overview KO 27 March 2012 PM1 11 December 2012 All three projects continue to make good progress – Work packages remain relevant, achievable within resources available Deviations since KO relate – Delay in PM1 by 3 months – Projects broadly on track on with revised schedule (end date June 2014) – Coupled model project: WP4.1 of CERA development is behind schedule as additional effort/time spent on WP4.2: SST constraint – Interfacing EO project: WP3.1 EO-LDAS V1 software development has remained behind schedule

5. Deliverables – Coupled Model D5.1 (Task 2) – Implementation of baseline coupled system CERA-S, User documentation D6 (Task 3) – A current reanalysis assessment report D8.2 (Task 4) – Methodology to constrain the SST implemented in the CERA-S system Delayed D8.1 (Task 4) – Report on sensitivities to the ocean data assimilation cycle

6. Deliverables – Advanced Methods D1/4/5 (draft) (Task 1, 2) – Assessment report of assimilation methods – Assessment report on measures of representivity – Integrated report on relative influence of errors in data assimilation D2/3 (draft) (Task 2) – Assessment report on background and model errors

7. Deliverables – Interfacing EO TN1 (Task 2 – Land) – Technical note on vegetation processes TN2 (Task 2 – Land) – Technical note on vegetation structure D5 (Task 5 – Atmosphere) – OSSE tool documentation Delayed (Task 3 – Land) – EOLDAS tool documentation V1

8. Deliverables - Roadmap Integrated roadmap V2 Related promotional material, tools and code