Presentations

Welcome and introductions

• Welcome and Introductions - Simon Pinnock, European Space Agency and Lothar Schüller, Eumetsat

Programmatics: European Long Term Evolution of Snow Services

• Eumetsat's Network of Satellite Applications Facilities - Lothar Schüller, Eumetsat
• ESA and Snow - Simon Pinnock, European Space Agency
• Global Cryosphere Watch - Barry Goodison, World Meteorological Organization
• GEO Involvement in Cold Regions - Yubao Qiu, GEO Secretariat

Science Outlook

• Summary of CliC/EGU/ESA "EO and Cryosphere Science Conference" - Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute

Status and Perspectives of Existing European Snow Monitoring Initiatives

• ESA GlobSnow - Kari Luojus, Finnish Meteorological Institute
• Eumetsat H-SAF - Jouni Pulliainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute
• ESA GMES PolarView - Florian Appel, VISTA GmbH, Germany
• EC GMES Cryoland - Thomas Nagler, ENVEO GmbH, Austria

Discussion Session

• Introduction to the Snow White Paper concept - Nando Foppa, MeteoSwiss
• Summary of Day 1 and Introduction to Day 2 - Florian Appel, VISTA GmbH, Germany

User/Provider Dialogue on Experiences, Expectations and Perspectives for Snow Monitoring Services

• Inclusion of Space-Based Snow Products into the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System - Bernard Bilodeau, Environment Canada
• Hydrometeorological and Hydrological Validation of Satellite derived Snow data - Peter Krahe, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany
• Use of Snow Information by Flood Forecasting Centre - Werner Schulz, State Institute for Environment, Germany
• Cryoland User Requirements on Snow Monitoring - David Gustafsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Discussion Session

• Continued discussion according seed questions from Users / Provider Dialogue - Kari Luojus, Finnish Meteorological Institute