EUROPEAN COMMISSION
RESEARCH DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
Political Co-ordination and Strategy
COST
Brussels, 06 June 2000
ZD/00-067
DRAFT MINUTES OF THE THIRD
MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING OF
COST ACTION 716
‘EXPLOITATION OF GROUND-BASED GPS FOR
CLIMATE AND NUMERICAL WEATHER
PREDICTION APPLICATION’
BRUSSELS, Belgium, 28-29 September 1999
Rue de la Loi 200, B-1049 Bruxelles/Wetstraat 200, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium - Office: SDME 1/53
Telephone: direct line (+32-2)2965169, Fax: 2964289
Internet: zoltan.dunkel@cec.eu.int
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1.
WELCOME
The 3rd MC of Action 716 was held at The European Commission, 36, rue Froissart, in BRUSSELS,
Belgium. Mr. Gunnar ELGERED the chairperson of the Action in his capacity addressed the
participants. The copy of the attendance list is given in Annex 1, the list of National Delegates in
Annex 2.
2.
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA
MCM3/D1 The agenda was adopted without modification.
The Agenda is given in Annex 3.
3.
COMMENTS ON THE MINUTES OF THE 2nd MC-MEETING APRIL 23, 1999
MCM3/D2 The minutes of the 2nd MC meeting was adopted with the following modifications:
i) item 7: remove the sentences ‘The archiving program need support climate purpose.’ and
‘The common archiving, the uniform system is necessary.’ at he end of that paragraph, add
the sentence: ‘Working Group 3 has the task to specify these requirements.’
ii) item 10: In the last sentence in the 1st paragraph, delete ‘in USA’.
4.
STATUS OF THE ACTION
The MoU of the Action has signed by in total 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United
Kingdom. The summary of the COST Meteorology Action is given in Annex 4.
5.
BUDGET
The economic status was reviewed. It was noted that if needed there would be resources for a
Working Group meeting still during 1999, even though this is not planned for the moment. Mr.
DUNKEL gave a summary the COST budget in 1999 and showed the budget plan of Action 716 for
2000. The budget plan of COST Meteorology domain is given in Annex 5.1
6. REPORT FROM PROJECT 1 PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF PROPOSED WG
MEMBERS (P.PESEC)
Mr. Peter PESEC reported the Working Group 1 activity as chairman. No members for WG1 are
appointed in addition to the chairman. Responses to the questionnaire sent to each country.
Concerning present hardware and software the response have been received and a final report is
expected in time for the workshop planned for July 2000. Mr. PESEC will be a member also of
Working Group 2. Draft summary of WG1 meeting is given in Annex 6.
7. REPORT FROM PROJECT 2 PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF PROPOSED WG
MEMBERS (H. VAN DER MAREL)
Mr. VAN DER MAREL, the chairman of WG2, reported the WG2 activity.
MCM3/D3 The MC accepted the following members for WG2:
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The Annex 5 contains the simple summary of MC’s plans were submitted to the Secretariat. The opinion of TC
was 450-500 thousands euros seems to be realistic. The COST Commission Secretariat allocated 450.000
euros for the COST Meteorology domain for 2000.
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Mr. Hans van der MAREL (chairman)
Mr. Peter PESEC
Mr. Antonio RIUS
Mr. Gerd GENT
Mr. Elmar BROCKMAN
Mr. David JERRET
Mr. Rene WARNANT
Mr. Eric DOERFLINGER
Mr. Francesco VESPE
and two possible additional members from the EUREF and BALTEX GPS activities.
MCM3/D4 The next WG2 meeting will be held in MATERA, I, 4 March 2000 and a 2nd one
just before the next MC meeting.
8. REPORT FROM PROJECT 3 PRESENTATION AND APPROVAL OF PROPOSED WG
MEMBERS (S. BARLAG)
Ms. Sylvia BARLAG, the chairlady of WG3, presented the report from Working Group. The
summary of her presentation is given in Annex 7.
MCM3/D5 The MC accepted the following members for WG 3:
Ms. Sylvia BARLAG (chairwoman)
Mr. Dave OFFILER
Mr. Mark HIGGINS
Mr. Nils GUSTAFSSON
Ms. Christina KOEPKEN
Mr. Henrik VEDEL
Ms. Jennifer HAASE
Mr. Jean PAILLEUX
Mr. Heimo QUIBY
Mr. Antti LANGE
Mr. Antonio RIUS.
Concerning the forthcoming meetings WG3 plans a WG meeting in January or February 2000. User
requirements are expected to deliver to WG2 in time for the meeting in Matera on March 4, 2000.
Also WG 3 plans for a meeting together with MCM in July 2000.
9.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM NATIONAL DELEGATES
No additional comments were submitted from the national delegates.
10. PROPOSAL FOR HOSTING INSTITUTE OF STSM BUDGET
The MC has examined the implementation of short-term scientific mission in the context of the Action,
and the necessity to delegate the administration of this mission to a participating Institute.
MCM3/D6 After explanation and open discussion of the tasks and procedures foreseen and
taking into account the interest expressed by National Delegates within the Action, the
Management Committee decided to recommend Institute of Engineering, Surveying and Space
and Geodesy (University Park, NOTTINGHAM NG7 2RD, UK, responsible person: Professor
Alan DODSON) as the most suitable Institute to administer this operation taking into
consideration available administration facilities and infrastructure and its willingness to
undertake the tasks.
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11. PROPOSAL FOR SHORT TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS
Concerning the STSM no proposal for STSM was received so far.
MCM3/D7 The MC agreed that the MC delegates to the chairman, the vice-chairman, and
the WG chairpersons to decide about future proposals and report at the MC meetings.
12. WORKSHOP IN YEAR 2000
The workshop planned for year 2000 was discussed, and especially the proposal from Statens
Kartverk in Norway to arrange it together with the IGS (International GPS Service for Geodynamics).
It was decided to accept this proposal. The workshop will be July 10-12, 2000.
The Program Committee (PC) will include the chairman, the vice-chairman, the three WG chairmen,
and Hans-Peter Plag, chairman of the Local Organising Committee. There will be a link established
from the COST-716 home page (see below) to the home page of the workshop.
The MC has examined the implementation of ‘Towards operational GPS Meteorology’ Workshop in
OSLO, N, 10-12 July 2000, in the context of this Action.
MCM3/D8 The MCM accepted a total budget of 9 keuro to subsidy the Workshop.
MCM3/D9 After explanation and open discussion of the tasks and procedures foreseen, and
taking into account the interest expressed by National Delegates within the Action, the
Management Committee decided to recommend the Norwegian Mapping Authority
(Serviceboks 15, N-3504 HØNEFOSS, N, responsible person Mr. Hans–Peter PLAG) as the
most suitable Institute to prepare the above mentioned action.
13. DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED UNTIL THE NEXT MC-MEETING
Item 1: The chairman will establish a COST-716 home page. Its address will thereafter be distributed
to all the MC delegates who thereafter are welcome to suggest improvements.2
Item 2: Martin Vermeer volunteered to think about a logo for the COST-716 Action.
14. A.O.B.
No any other business was discussed.
15. DATE AND LOCATION OF NEXT MEETING
MCM3/D10 The next Management Committee meeting will be held in OSLO, N, 12-13 July
2000 together with Working Group 1, 2, and 3 meetings 10-11 July 2000.
16. CLOSING THE MEETING
Mr. ELGERED expressed his thanks to the MC and WGs for their work and closed the meeting.
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The list of COST Meteorology Actions homepage is given in Annex 8.
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List of Annexes
Annex
1
Copy of attendance list
Annex
2
List of national delegates
Annex
3
Agenda
Annex
4
Status of the Action
Annex
5
Budget plan for 2000
Annex
6
Draft report of Project 1 by Mr. Peter PESEC
Annex
7
Draft report of Project 3 by Ms. Sylvia BARLAG
Annex
8
Homepage addresses
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