Working Groups in operation

At the 15th session of the Commission of Agricultural Meteorology in Brazil in 2010, the Commission continued to use an Open Programme Area Group (OPAG) concept with the same OPAGs but made changes in the Expert Teams. The following OPAGS and Expert Teams were agreed upon:

CAgM Management Group

OPAG 1: Agrometeorological Services for Agricultural Production

• 1.1 - ICT for Agrometeorological Services (ICAS)

• 1.2 - ET on Strengthening Operational Agrometeorological Services (ETSOAS)

• 1.3 - ET on the Application of Agrometeorological Products and Services for Sustainable Agricultural Development (ETAAPS)

OPAG 2: Support Systems for Agrometeorological Services

• 2.1 - ICT on Support Systems for Agrometeorological Services (ICSAS)

• 2.2 - ET on Developing Agrometeorological Decision Support Systems at Different Scales (ETDADS)

• 2.3 - ET on Software Resources For Operational Applications in Agrometeorology (ETSROA)

OPAG 3: Climate Change/Variability and Natural Disasters in Agriculture

• 3.1 - ICT on Climate Change/Variability and Natural Disasters in Agriculture (ICCND)

• 3.2 - ET on Weather and Climate Extremes and Impacts and Preparedness Strategies in Agriculture, Rangelands, Forestry, and Fisheries (ETWIPS)

• 3.3 - ET on User Response to Climate Variability and Climate Change: Adaptation to Changing Climate at the Regional Level (ETURCC)

Expert Teams Reporting Directly to the President and/or Management Group

• Joint Expert Team with JCOMM on Weather, Climate, and Fisheries

CAgM Experts serving on teams of other Technical Commissions

• Joint CCL/CAgM/CHy Expert Groupon Climate, Food, and Water

• Inter-Commission Group on WMO Information Group (ICG-WIS)

• Inter-Programme Expert Team on Metadata Implementation (IPET-MI)

• Inter-Commission Task Team on Quality Management Framework (ICTT-QMF)

• CAgM Representative to Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

Note: ICT stands for Implementation/Coordination Team and ET stands for Expert Teams.