| PILPS-C1 : The experimental plan needs to be finalized in accordance with the recommendations of the panel. | Nicolas Viovy |
| What are the options for a PILPS exercise in semi-arid or arid regions. | Bart Nijseen, Andy Pitman, Han Dolman. |
| Is there a possibility that GAME-tropic has produced data which could be used for a PILPS type experiment ? | Taikan Oki |
| A letter needs to be sent to PILPS-2e and Rhone-AGG participants to ask if they accept that their model output is archives by ALMA. | Jan Polcher |
| GSWP-1.5 will be organized and two objectives are set : 1) it should prepare the infrastructure for GSWP-2 2) it should pave the way for the validation of LSS with remote sensed data. An experimental plan will be submitted to the GLASS panel before the end of 2001. | Taikan Oki |
| GSWP-2 will prepare its experimental plan and work with GSWP-1.5 for preparing the infrastructure. A workshop will be held at the end of 2002 to finalize the GSWP 2 experimental plan. | Paul Dirmeyer |
| Activities in the local coupled action need to be launched with a workshop in the spring of next year. The aim of the workshop will be to review current activities in the field and recommend an experimental set-up for models which can be used to test the surface/atmosphere interactions. | Paul Houser and Bart Van den Hurk. |
| The more academic experiment (labeled exp2 during the meeting and described in a recent paper by Koster et al.) with GCMs proposed in the global coupled action should start soon. An experimental plan should be finalized and distributed. | Randy Koster |
| We need to prepare the poor man's LDAS experiment proposed in the global coupled action on a broader basis. It is of more general interest that just the LSS community and it should be carried out in close collaboration with GSWP and AMIP. | Randy Koster, Jan Polcher |
| What can be done to test surface/atmosphere interactions with regional models ? The panel will be briefed on this topic at next year's meeting. | Roni Avissar |
| We need to contact Chris Milly to see if his new model, the description of which is currently being published, could serve as a baseline model for the community and be recommended to GCSS and other GMPP projects. The code would be distributed through the ALMA infrastrucutre. | Jan Polcher, Andy Pitman and Paul Dirmeyer |
| We have to take up contact with Peter Cox to see how best C4MIP can be represented on the GLASS panel and how the link with GAIM/IGBP can be maintained. In view of the expertise available at the Hadley Centre somebody from the Haldey Centre should be on the GLASS panel. | Jan Polcher |
| Version 3 of the ALMA data exchange convention needs to be written. This is only an incremental change from version 2. It corrects bugs found and enhancements needed for PILPS-C1. | Jan Polcher |
| Forcing data from previous experiments need to be assembled in one central location. In some cases the data needs to be tracked down. This effort will be followed later by the output data from the inter-comparisons since PILPS-2e. | Taikan Oki with help from Andy Pitman |
| A convention is also needed for the ancillary data used by land-surface schemes in the various inter-comparison. This effort should be done in collaboration with ISLSCP. | Paul Dirmeyer |
| The implementation plan needs to be finalized in some way. The proposal is to read through it, correct it where needed and put it on the web. It will not have the quality of a printed document but will nevertheless constitute an important description of GLASS. Then it will be thinned out to make it suitable for publication in an appropriate journal. | Jan Polcher and Andy Pitman |
| Minutes of 2001 GLASS panel meeting. | Taikan Oki |