GSRN Task Team
GCOS has been working since 2015 on establishing a GCOS Surface Reference Network (GSRN). A paper in the International Journal of Climatology (Thorne et al., 2018) provides the scientific rationale. In 2017, a task team was established to scope a potential GCOS Surface Reference Network. The team produced the report GCOS-226, that provides a proposal for the establishment of a GCOS Surface Reference Network, with the support of the GCOS programme, relevant programmes at WMO and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) and outlines the next steps required for the implementation of a GSRN.
Based on the recommendation listed in GCOS-226, the Task Team GCOS Surface Reference Network (TT-GSRN) was established by the president of the Commission for Observation, Infrastructure and Information Systems (INFCOM), with concurrence of the Commission, through Decision 5 (INFCOM-1).
The TT-GSRN is responsible of the initial implementation of the GSRN and will undertake the necessary activities to instigate the network. It works under the leadership of the GCOS Steering Committee and the INFCOM Standing Committee on Earth Observing Systems and Monitoring Networks (SC-ON), in close collaboration with the Standing Committee on Measurements, Instrumentation and Traceability (SC-MINT).
The first meeting of the GSRN Task Team was held on the 23rd of March 2021, the second one from 25 to 29 September in Turin, Italy; and the third session will be held in Xi' An, China from 14 to 18 October 2024.
- Terms of Reference of the Task Team.
- Membership of the Task Team: The membership consists of two co-chairs, one nominated and agreed by GCOS and the other by SC-MINT; experts selected for their skills and ex-officio members representing the former CCl, AOPC, BIPM, GRUAN, GSN, and HMEI.
No. | Representative | Name | Gender | Organization |
1 | Co-Chair TT-GSRN, SC-ON, GCOS | Sarah Gallagher | F | Met Éireann, Ireland |
2 | Co-Chair TT-GSRN, SC-MINT | Tilman Holfelder | M | Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany |
3 | TT-GSRN Member (Lead Center Head) | Jianxia Guo | F | China Meteorological Administration (CMA) |
| 4 | TT-GSRN Member (Lead Centre) | Nan Zhang | F | China Meteorological Administration (CMA) |
5 | TT-GSRN Member (Data Management expert) | Liu Yiming | M | China Meteorological Administration (CMA) |
| 6 | TT-GSRN Member (AOPC) | Carmen Garcia Izquierdo | F | Centro Espanol de Metrologia (CEM), Spain |
| 7 | TT-GSRN Member (ET-EOSDE) | Seiyoung Park | F | Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) |
| 8 | TT-GSRN Member (GRUAN Lead Center Head) | Ruud Dirksen | M | Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany |
9 | TT-GSRN Member (HMEI) | Foeke Kuik | M | Campbell Scientific, Inc, The Netherlands |
10 | TT-GSRN Member (SC-MINT) | Jitze van der Meulen | M | KNMI, The Netherlands |
11 | TT-GSRN Member | Sergey Chicherin | M | Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, Russia |
12 | TT-GSRN Member | Howard Diamond | M | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA |
13 | TT-GSRN Member | Andrew Harper | M | Earth Sciences New Zealand |
14 | TT-GSRN Member | Andrea Merlone | M | Instituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM), Italy |
15 | TT-GSRN Member | Xiaolan Wang | F | Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) |
16 | GSN (GCOS Surface Network) | Alastair Price | M | WMO, Geneva |
17 | GCOS Secretariat | Caterina Tassone | F | WMO, Geneva |
