Copernicus

Atmosphere

Monitoring

Service

CAMS General Assembly, Athens, 14-16 June 2016

Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)

Welcome

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Objectives of the 1st CAMS General Assembly

• Continuity AND change

• Agora for information exchange and discussion

between ECMWF, providers, users and stakeholders

• Meet and see the “many faces” of CAMS: CAMS is alive!

• Annual event, possibly joint every other year with other

Copernicus Service(s)

• GA 2016: an opportunity for the Greek communities to

be on centre stage

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Structure of the 1st CAMS General Assembly

• Today: snapshot of where CAMS stands (see after)

• Tonight: event at the prestigious Academy of Athens

• Tomorrow: “user day” (what is available? Current uses

and future needs…)

• Thursday morning: 4 parallel discussion sessions

• How to make CAMS outputs more useful?

• What are the opportunities for increasing the use of obs.?

• What are the emerging research needs?

• How to expand and maximize CAMS visibility and impact?

• Thursday afternoon: report in plenary and way forward

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Tuesday 14 June 2016

• Welcome words

• Observations for CAMS

• CAMS global products

(group picture and lunch)

• CAMS regional and supplementary products

• CAMS and its users

(end around 16h45; evening event at 19h00 or meet here 18h25 latest)

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• Don’t hesitate to come and speak with us: we can

arrange demos now or, at a later date, training sessions

or workshops…

• You can shape the CAMS of tomorrow!

• Posts, tweets etc... about the event are welcome ☺