EUCLIPSE First Period Report

school at this prestigious location has been approved and a reservation has been
made for the second half of June 2013.
vi) Edited book with lectures from the summer school (Deliverable D0.10,
Month 48)
The possibility of an edited book was discussed during the general assembly in June in
Exeter (UK). The general feeling was that there is a need for a comprehensive
textbook on the topic “Clouds & Climate”. As EUCLIPSE consists of an excellent group
of experts on this theme we feel that this is a unique opportunity to write a standard
text book. The expected audience will be advanced graduate students, PhD candidates
with a background in one of the disciplinary areas the book will cover. A breakdown in
13 chapters has been made. Each chapter will be written by 2 authors from the
EUCLIPSE consortium. A preliminary version of the book is expected to be ready
during the Summer school in 2013 and the final release date is expected in early
2014.
• Problems which have occurred and how they were solved or envisaged
solutions;
Due to administrative reasons that were beyond control of the EUCLIPSE project office
the final contracts and the money transfer was only arranged in May 2010. As a result
numerous partners could start advertising for personal only after this date. There
have been discussions with the EU officer whether EUCLIPSE should postpone the
starting date. It was advised to keep the starting date fixed and to consider an
extension of the project if this appears to be necessary. The effects of this have been
minor the only mild delay of a few months in the delivery of the output of the ESM
simulations (deliverable D1.4).
• Changes in the consortium, if any;
The consortium is unchanged with respect to the start of the project.
• List of project meetings, dates and venues;
An up-to-date list of project meetings (including meeting agendas, presentations and
reports) is maintained on the project website (www.euclipse.eu ). It therefore suffices
here to give a list with the EUCLIPSE project meetings:
i) Kick-off Meeting EUCLIPSE, September 27-28, 2010 Pietershof,
Utrecht, the Netherlands.
ii) WP3 meeting on the various intercomparison cases jointly with the
GEWEX Cloud System Studies (GCSS) Boundary Layer Clouds
Working Group, September 29-30, 2010, KNMI, De Bilt, The
Netherlands.
iii) Technical Meeting on the construction of a EUCLIPSE observational
database for European Atmospheric Profiling Stations, December 2,
2010, IPSL, Paris France.
iv) 2 nd General Assembly (combined with CFMIP and GCSS), June 6-10,
2011, Met Office, Exeter, UK.
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