GAW at WMO Congress XVI

	GAW Programme document
	Side event "Sand and Dust Storm Research" Flier Enric Terradellas, Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET), Spain Slobodan Nickovic, WMO Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland Xiaoye Zhang, CMA, China
	Side event " Megacities and GURME " Flier Welcome, Chair for side meeting, Deon Terblanche, Director, ARE/RES, WMO CAS views on importance of Megacities, including air quality forecasting, Michel Beland, CAS President GURME activities addressing megacity issues, Liisa Jalkanen, C/AER Research and operational activities addressing megacity climate change and air quality problems, Alexander Baklanov (DMI, GURME SAG member) Shanghai GURME project, Tang Xu, Director-General, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (SMB), CMA
	Side event " An urgent, emerging challenge for WMO: Supporting Greenhouse Gas Management Strategies with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis " Flier Dr. James Butler, Director, Global Monitoring Division, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA. (Member: WMO Commission on Atmospheric Sciences) Mr. Bob Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Earth Networks, Germantown, Maryland, USA Dr. David Crisp, Principal Investigator, NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA Dr. Frédéric Chevallier, Research Scientist, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), Paris, France All presentations together