Appendix a

Thursday, 11 March 2004 - Continued:

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13.00 11. MEETING OF CEOP WORKING GROUPS IN PARALLEL SESSIONS
Three sessions are planned:
11.1 CEOP Data Management and Data Integration Working Groups Session (Williams/Bosilovich Co-Chairs, McDonald/Isemer - Correspondents)
The Chair(s) and Correspondents will organize the group to respond to at least the following topics:

1. 
   Implementation issues for EOP-3
   
2. 
   Data Collection for EOP-2, and 4
   
3. 
   Data Policy issues with regard to new datasets (e.g. BSRN, etc.)
   
4. 
   Data Quality Assurance/Control
   
5. 
   Data Availability, Data Archive/Flow, etc.
   
6. 
   Possible additional Satellite Validation Sites
   
7. 
   WGISS Test Facility (WTF) Definition/Applicability
   

(viii) CEOP Data Integration of Satellite data, Model output and in-situ products