Monday, 18 September  2006

14:00 Registration and Opening

14:15 Review of the Agenda

14:30 Presentations on the La Plata Basin Meteorology and Hydrology (15 minutes each)

General (45 min)

• Overview – E. Hugo Berbery 


• Operational Activities, Data Center – CPTEC. Maria Assunção Silva Dias


• The Framework CIC project for La Plata Basin (GEF funded). – Vicente Barros


• Interdisciplinary Research under Climate Change: IAI-CRN II opportunities for collaboration with LPB. – Ione Anderson

Predictability, Climate variability and Climate change (45 min)

• Predictability in the Plata Basin: linkage to the THORPEX and GEWEX programs. – Pedro Silva Dias


• Operational Numerical Prediction (Medium range to Seasonal Prediction) at CPTEC. – Marcelo Seluchi


• Climate Change in La Plata Basin. – José Marengo

16:30 Break

16:50 cont.

Land cover/land use – Agriculture  (30 min)

• CLARIS, A Europe-South America Network for Climate Change Assessment and Climate Impacts. – Jean-Philippe Boulanger

Hydrologic issues (30 min)

• Hydrologic issues. Walter Collischonn
  
• La información hidrológica en la cuenca del Plata. – Roger Monte Domecq

8:30  The EU 7^th Framework Programme and research opportunities for climate change research. – Dr. Georgios Amanatidis

9:00 Observations (90 min)

• Flux Observations in Southern Brazil. – Otavio Acevedo


• Monitoring the Convection: The Remote Sensing Contribution. – Luiz Machado
• Field campaign planning and data management. – José Meitín and Steve Williams

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Break up in Working Groups

• Field experiment/Climatic and Hydrologic monitoring
  
  
• Modeling activities

Discussion and charge for the Working Groups

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Working groups meet again for preparation of synthesis

16:00 Presentation of WGs

18:30 End of workshop