Welcome and Introduction

1. Copernicus
Atmosphere
Monitoring
Service
CAMS General Assembly, Athens, 14-16 June 2016
Vincent-Henri Peuch (ECMWF)
Welcome

2. 2
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

3. 3
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 