Starting from October 31th until November 4th, the General Assembly of WATCH will be held in Amsterdam at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The agenda is: 

• Sunday 31 October
  12:00 onwards rooms booked for individual Work block meetings (to be planned by the work
  block leaders) WB1+2 ; WB 3 ; WB5 ; WB6 (Note: WB 4 will meet 4 November)
• Monday 1 November
  09:00 - 10:00 Work Block 1 progress presentation
  10:00 - 10:30 Work Block 2 progress presentation
  10:30 - 11:00 coffee/tea break
  11:00 - 11:30 Work Block 2 progress presentation (cont.)
  11:30 - 12:30 Work Block 3 progress presentation
  12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
  13:30 - 14:30 Work Block 4 progress presentation
  14:30 – 14:50 GEWEX and WATCH partnership: Peter van Oevelen
  14:50 - 15:30 Work Block 5 progress presentation
  15:30 - 16:00 tea/coffee break
  16:00 - 17:00 Work Block 6 progress presentation
  Poster Session: 17:00-18:00
• Tuesday 2 November
  09:00 - 9.20 General Assembly
  2 parallel sessions
  • (i) Test Basins (09:20-10:30: Extremes, 11:00-12:30: Water Resources)
  • (ii) Irrigation & India
• 12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
  13:30 - 16:30 WATCH outputs: Multi-Model Analysis using large-scale data
  • Methodologies to assess the spatio-temporal development of large-scale drought
  • Multi-model analysis of global drought
  • A comparison of spatial and temporal methodologies for the analysis of European drought
  • Seasonal evaluation of a multi-model ensemble to observed spatially distributed streamflow
  • How well do large-scale models reproduce regional hydrological extremes in Europe?
  • Future droughts and large-scale floods (special invitation to large-scale modellers (GHM and LSM) and partners generating large-scale forcing data (20th and 21st C) of Extremes
    Impact of climate change on global drought
  • General discussion
• 16:30 - 18:00 PSG meeting
• Wednesday 3 November
  09:00 - 12:30: 10 science talks on selected Highlights of WATCH outcomes
  12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
  Afternoon: Water Global Modelling and Water MIP meeting (to include WB4 members)
• Thursday 4 November
  2 parallel Morning sessions:
  • Work Block 4
  • Water MIP (all day event: to be planned by WaterMIP/GWSP open to those involved in WaterMIP)
• Friday 5 November
  Morning session only for WaterMIP / GWSP / GSWP members

How to find the KNAW? More information about the programme on the intranet.