The first day was devoted mostly to the following presentations:

Ed Schneider - Overview of the CSM Project

Maurice Blackmon - Remarks on CSM Plans and Activities

Albert Arking and Fei Liu - Discrepancies Between Models and Observations of the Absorption of Solar Radiation in the Atmosphere and their Impact on Climate System Modeling

Jim Carton - Models of the Tropical Atlantic

Gokhan Danabasoglu, Peter Gent, Bill Large, and Jim McWilliams - Simulation of Equatorial Pacific mean SST and its variability

David Straus and J. Shukla - Performance of CCM and Other Models in the DSP Project

Andrey Proshutinsky - Analysis of the Arctic Climate Oscillations

Joe Tribbia - Persistence of Pacific Anomalies in CCM3 and in Nature

David DeWitt - Diagnosis of Differences in Simulated Midlatitude Dynamical Anomalies Caused by a Change of Cumulus Convection Parameterization

Sirpa Hakkinen - Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic

Ed Schneider - Diagnosis of Causes of Differences Between COLA and CSM Coupled Models

Discussions were held for the rest of the meeting.

Highlights:

• General agreement with the recommendation of the SSC that the Seasonal-to-Interannual and Decadal-to-Centennial should be merged into a single working group to be called the "Natural Variability Working Group."
• Outline of milestones expected in CSM development in the coming year presented by Maurice Blackmon.
• Discussion of CSM integrations proposed by the SI and DC working groups as part of the recent CSM CSL proposal. An action item resulting from this discussion was to produce a list of existing integrations that are available for analysis, so that the proposed experiments can be placed in context.
• A proposal by Roxanna Wajsowicz for an integration to study of the role of the Indonesian throughflow. A proposal by Ed Schneider to determine the cause of the difference in signal/noise between CCM and the COLA AGCM in the DSP winter seasonal prediction experiments.
• Description of work in progress to improve CCM diagnostics, presented by Sumant Nigam.
• Reviews of recent workshops held by other working groups: Paul Dirmeyer (Land), Gokhan Danabasoglu (Ocean), and Andrey Proshutinsky (Polar Climate).