Statistical Downscaling controlled vocabulary mind map

[sarah]

• Gerry to contact Antonio and Marie-Pierre to create a downscaling controlled vocabulary mind map. This will be included in the CIM in the future. If this is done within 6 months it can feed back into a future revision of the CIM. Check with CLIMPACT, CERFACS and Princeton to make sure mind map is complete. Mathieu Vrac from LSCE/IPSL could be interested to give inputs as well.

Ticket Marie-Pierre, Cc Antonio, Michel, Sébastien and Mark Morgan so that he can follow while Sébastien is on leave.

• Marie Pierre to circulate first draft from CERFACS inputs by end of June

• Marie Pierre to organize DFN sessions with Antonio, Michel and anyone interested to fill the mindmap

• Target first consistent draft by September (including all partners inputs)

A  wiki page is opened to present the Statistical Downscaling CV and to schedule the interviews of downsclaing experts.

[sebastien]

Marie Pierre organized a telco to continue this process. A draft mindmap will be discuss there. The process is ongoing.

The agenda was : The proposed agenda is the following:

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1- Brief introduction:

• Why metadata for statistical downscaling? Towards the impacts community.
• Technical: Using the Metafor CIM and deriving a special questionnaire from the CMIP5 one.
• Restriction to "statistical" methods

2- Quick presentation of the draft mindmap containing an initial structured set of vocabulary.  http://metaforclimate.eu/trac/browser/controlled_vocabularies/trunk/Downscaling/StatisticalDownscaling.mm

3- General discussion:

• Feasibility of a unique metadata content/structure (are the methods used by the impact community not too much "home-specific" to match a generic metadata structure?)
• Does the useful information vary deeply according to the community of users?
• Identify other issues.

Depending on the result of 3)... and if time,

4- Detailed discussion:

• Criticism of the proposed mindmap: f.e. Is it relevant to adopt a classification into 3 (or more) method families (weather typing, weather generator, transfer functions)?
• Try to agree on the most important metadata common to all the methods.

5- Decisions to be made during the discussion:

• Go ahead with the current draft for statistical downscaling vocabulary or restart from scratch?
• Do we need to collect other opinions/advices from impact study scientists; if yes, identify who?

[sebastien]

add Mark in cc.

[sebastien]

• markmorgan in Cc, not mark

[mariepierre]

Minutes of the first downscaling teco (June 22th) are  online.

Decision: the draft mindmap will be tested by trying to describe different downscaling method. (targeted time-line: september 1^st, 2010).

Marie-Pierre is in charge to collect feedbacks (via e-mail, DFN,...).

Tasks are distributed as follows:

Method	Downcaling expert	Metafor person in charge of the contact
DSCLIM (weather typing)	Christian Page (CERFACS)	Marie-Pierre
transfer function method (derived from M. Dequé)	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT)	Michel
extreme downscaling	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT)	Michel
anomalies method	Michel Dequé (CNRM)	Marie-Pierre
hybrid statistico-dynamical (wind downscaling)	Julien Najac (EDF)	Marie-Pierre
methods available on the downscaling portal	Antonio Cofino (univ. of Cantabria)	Marie-Pierre
weather generator	C. Flécher (CLIMATOR project)	Marie-Pierre (via Christian)
other methods	Mathieu Vrac (IPSL)	Michel

[michel]

A few changes concerning the participation of Mathieu Vrac. I think there was a misunderstanding.

Michel K.

Replying to mariepierre:

Minutes of the first downscaling teco (June 22th) are  online. Decision: the draft mindmap will be tested by trying to describe different downscaling method. (targeted time-line: september 1^st, 2010). Marie-Pierre is in charge to collect feedbacks (via e-mail, DFN,...). Tasks are distributed as follows:

MethodDowncaling expert Metafor person in charge of the contact

DSCLIM (weather typing)	Christian Page (CERFACS)	Marie-Pierre
transfer function method (derived from M. Dequé)	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT) + Mathieu Vrac if available	Michel
extreme downscaling	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT) + Mathieu Vrac if available	Michel
anomalies method	Michel Dequé (CNRM)	Marie-Pierre
hybrid statistico-dynamical (wind downscaling)	Julien Najac (EDF)	Marie-Pierre
methods available on the downscaling portal	Antonio Cofino (univ. of Cantabria)	Marie-Pierre
weather generator	C. Flécher (CLIMATOR project)	Marie-Pierre (via Christian)

[mariepierre]

After Michel previous comment, the right task-table for downscaling CV is this one:

Method	Downcaling expert	Metafor person in charge of the contact
DSCLIM (weather typing)	Christian Page (CERFACS)	Marie-Pierre
transfer function method (derived from M. Dequé)	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT) + Mathieu Vrac (IPSL) if available	Michel
extreme downscaling	Michel/Paul?-Antoine (CLIMPACT) + Mathieu Vrac (IPSL) if available	Michel
anomalies method	Michel Dequé (CNRM)	Marie-Pierre
hybrid statistico-dynamical (wind downscaling)	Julien Najac (EDF)	Marie-Pierre
methods available on the downscaling portal	Antonio Cofino (univ. of Cantabria)	Marie-Pierre
weather generator	C. Flécher (CLIMATOR project)	Marie-Pierre (via Christian)

[mariepierre]

Currently we captured feedbacks from M. Deque and the CLIMPACT Team. I need to merge them before going on with the other downscaling people.

A  wiki page is opened to follow on the discussion and tasks.