Opening

• Erol Aydin (Regional Director of TSMS)
• Omar Baddour (WMO)
• Practical arrangements

Session I - Climate monitoring (Chair: J.- P. Ceron)

• Omar Baddour (WMO): WMO climate watch systems
• Peter Bissolli (DWD, Germany): Verification of MedCOF-2 (RAVI-MED)
• Soumaya Ben Rached (INM, Tunisia): Verification of MedCOF-2 (RAI-NA)
• Peter Bissolli (DWD, Germany): Climate monitoring from RA VI RCC-CM
• Andre Kamga (ACMAD, Niger): Climate monitoring from RA I RCC Demonstration Phase
• Soumaya Ben Rached (INM, Tunisia): Climate monitoring from North Africa

Session II - Production of large scale climate outlook for winter (DJF) 2014-2015 (I) (Chair: A. Kamga)

• Roxana Bojariou (National Meteorological Administration, Romania): Climate predictive signals for the Mediterranean region
• Damien Decremer (ECMWF, UK): Seasonal forecast from System 4.
• Anca Brookshaw (MetOffice, UK): Seasonal forecast from GloSea5
• Jean-Pierre Ceron (Meteo-France, France): Summary from RA VI RCC-LRF

Session II - Production of large scale climate outlook for winter (DJF) 2014-2015 (I) (cont.) (Chair: B. Bijelic)

• Andre Kamga (ACMAD, Niger): Summary from RA I RCC-LRF Demonstration Phase
• Atika Kasmi (DMN, Morocco): Summary from North Africa
• Massimiliano Pasqui (IBIMET, Italy): Seasonal forecast from IBIMET statistical system
• Silvio Gualdi (CMCC, Italy): Seasonal forecast from CMCC
• Hakan Aksu (Directorate Hydrology, Turkey): Summary of hydrological inputs

Session III - Production of large scale climate outlook for winter (DJF) 2014-2015 (II) (Chair: A. Brookshaw)

• Discussion
• Editing and production of MedCOF-3 climate outlook statement

Session III - Production of large scale climate outlook for winter (DJF) 2014-2015 (II) (Chair: A. Brookshaw)

Session IV - Discussion on MedCOF matters (Chair: E. Rodriguez)

• MG renovation, ToR
• Web/Forum
• How to improve online MedCOF. Lessons learnt
• Verification
• Communication
• Interaction with users
• Funding/sustainability
• AOB

Session IV - Discussion on MedCOF matters (cont.) (Chair: E. Rodriguez)

Session V - Conclusions and Recommendations