News & Meetings

1. HALO workshop 16. - 17. November 2004

The 1. HALO workshop was held at ECMWF in Reading on 16. - 17. November 2004.

The HALO workshop was a forum for all interested parties to discuss the thematic analysis of future and present data demands and the issues of data acquisition, sharing and dissemination between the GMES Integrated Projects (IP).

Workshop participants

Presentations on GMES activities and data infrastructure issues were given at the first day of the workshop. The presentations of the workshop can be accessed by the following link:

Workshop presentations

The second workshop day was dedicated to working group discussion among the HALO Partners. The working groups were dedicated to the following topics:

• Interacting parts of Ocean - Atmosphere IPs (WG1)
• Interacting parts of Land - Atmosphere IPs (WG2)
• Future GMES demands on Ocean, Land and Atmosphere IPs (WG3)
  

Workshop discussion summary

Documents on the HALO SSA and reports on the integrated projects covered by HALO can be found at the Document Page

Title	MB	Name	Affiliation
Status of GMES	0.2	Peter Breger	EC-DG RTD
GEMS (Atmosphere IP) and HALO	1.7	Tony Hollingsworth	ECMWF
MERSEA (Ocean IP) and HALO	1.8	Yves Desaubies	IFREMER
Carbo-Ocean Project	2.3	Andrew Watson	University of East Anglia
Geolands (Land IP) Core Service Biogeophysical Parameters and HALO	2.3	Marc Leroy	Medias-France-
Geolands (Land IP) Observatory on Natural Carbon and HALO	1.8	Jean-Christophe Calvet	Meteo France
Status of GMES Service Elements (GSE)	5.1	Luigi Fusco	ESA
PROMOTE - GSE of the atmosphere theme	2.2	Henk Eskes	KNMI
Status of HALO	0.2	Johannes Flemming	ECMWF
Data transfer and dissemination in the meteorological community		Baudouin Raoult	ECMWF
Overview of PREVIEW (Risk IP)	3.8	François Gerard	Meteo France
Software solutions for exchange of large environmental data sets	4.3	Keith Haines	NERC-ESSC
GRID technology and earth-science applications	2.2	Luigi Fusco	ESA