Plenary Session A1: Climate Research in Service to Society (Chair: G. Asrar)

Welcoming Remarks by Bill Ritter, former Governor of the State of Colorado

Opening Remarks and Expectations for the Week (A. Busalacchi)

Welcome by Local Host:
Roger Wakimoto, Director of National Center for Atmospheric Research

Keynote address by Thomas R. Karl (NOAA, chair USGCRP Subcommittee on Global Change Research): Scientific Grand Challenges from the USGCRP Perspective

Welcome Address and Expectations from the WCRP sponsors:
- WCRP: a Key Instrument for UN Climate Research - Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Director of Intergovernmental Oceans Commission (IOC)
- Climate Research in Service to Society: a WMO Perspective - Michel Jarraud, Secretary General of World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- Climate Research in the Next Decade of Earth System Research: an ICSU Perspective - Deliang Chen, Executive Director of International Council for Science (ICSU)

Welcoming Remarks by European Commission (Claus Bruening)

Keynote Talk by David Behar: Collaborative Climate Science: a User's Perspective on Need, Communication and Application

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Plenary Session A2: The Climate System Components and Their Interactions (Chair: B. Hoskins)

Scientific Grand Challenges for Global Research Addressing Societies Needs (M. Visbeck)

Uncertainties in aerosol cloud-mediated radiative forcing: two large and highly uncertain opposite effects from shallow and deep clouds (D. Rosenfeld)

Biogeochemical, Ecosystem and Human Interactions with Climate and the Complexity of the Earth System (video) (C. Nobre given by G. Brasseur)

Panel Discussion and Q&A from audience

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Parallel Sessions

Session B1: Prediction from Sub-seasonal to Multi-decadal Scales (conveners: D. Anderson, G. Brunet, B. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang)

Session B2: Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events (convener: L. Alexander, G.C. Hegerl, T. Knutson, P. Naveau, C. Schär, F. Zwiers)

Session B3: Oceans Dynamics and Sea-level: Variability and Change (conveners: B. Boening, A. Cazenave, M. Latif)

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