Ocean–Atmosphere Challenges: Trajectories and Emerging Frontiers Foresight – National Programmes – Emerging Fields Toulouse | 6–9 July 2026
Monday 6 July – Afternoon Opening Plenary Session – Strategic Framing
- Institutional opening: INSU Directorate; OMP Directorate; CNRM & Météo-France Directorate (30')
- Objectives and methodology of the conference, at the mid-point of the OA Foresight exercise
- Scientific challenges: framing (30')
- Priority areas: framing (20')
- Introduction to the LEFE National Programme (15'), SUN and PNTS
- Contributions and achievements of PN LEFE ~ 16 talks of 5 min (1h40)
- Presentation of working groups, expected deliverables and timeline
18:30 – Icebreaker / Science Apéritif
Tuesday 7 July – Morning Thematic Workshops – Foresight Challenges and Priority Areas
- 9:00–10:30 Parallel working sessions: Challenges
- Working groups will have drafted a mid-foresight assessment, a contextualisation of LEFE activities, and identified areas for further development in the coming years: consolidation of findings within the working groups.
- 10:30–11:00 Break
- 11:00–12:30 Parallel working sessions: Priority Areas
- Same approach as for the working groups
Tuesday 7 July – Afternoon "Emerging Frontiers 🌱" Session
- 14:00–15:30 Early-Career Researcher Presentations (6 talks of 10' + 5' discussion)
- 15:30–16:00 Break
- 16:00–18:00 Restitution from morning working groups and workshops: Challenges + Priority Areas
Wednesday 8 July – Morning Thematic Workshops – AI, Climate Intervention, Emerging Observation Systems (nanosats, drones, AUVs…), Ships of Opportunity, Space (TBC)
- 9:00–10:30 Discussion groups
- Artificial Intelligence: chaired by Laurent Debreu
- Climate Intervention: chaired by Roland Séférian (TBC)
- Emerging Observation Systems: chaired by Sophie Rabouille (TBC)
- Space: chaired by Jérôme Riedi & Sébastien Payan
- 10:30–11:00 Break
- 11:00–12:00 Modelling, coupling, parameterisations: conclusions of the Scientific Steering Committee on ocean modelling, Thierry Penduff (TBC)
Wednesday 8 July – Afternoon "Emerging Frontiers" Session – Infrastructures
- 13:30–14:00 Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) – Pierre Brasseur (TBC)
- 14:00–15:30 Restitution from morning thematic groups — General discussion
- 16:00 Platform visits:
- SAFIRE visit
- Drone workshop and airborne instrumental platform development at CNRM (2 groups of 15)
- Virtual computing room and forecasters' room (2 groups of 15)
Thursday 9 July – Morning Foresight Round Table – Infrastructures and New Needs (2h)
- 9:00–9:30 Infrastructure overview (Jérôme Rose, TBC)
- 9:30–11:30 Current landscape and potential gaps
- Open Ocean: FrOOs (PY Le Traon, TBC)
- Palaeoclimate (Fabien Arnaud, Aline Govin, Xavier Crosta, Guillaume Leduc, TBC)
- Polar Foresight and the Polar RT (Gaël Durand, TBC)
- IN-AIR (J. Van Balen, Mélanie Ghysel-Dubois, TBC) / AEOLIS (V. Thouret, M. Ramonet, S. Sauvage, TBC)
- 11:30–12:30 General discussion
Thursday 9 July – Afternoon Closing
- 14:00–15:00 Round table on National Programmes (SUN, LEFE, PNTS, PNIIT, Balloons) / Agencies and Institutions (IRD, INSU, IFREMER, MOI, France Univ/RESOMAR, ADEME, MF, CNES, CEA) — Articulation between NPs and PEPRs — CBSD Agency — chaired by the CSOA presidency
- 15:00–16:00 General conclusions and outlook
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