* [05-Jun-2013].''' EUPORIAS/SPECS Workshop: Initialisation of Impacts Models for Seasonal Predictions. Met Office, Exeter (UK).''' Attendees: * Met Office: Jemma Gornall, Karina Williams, Pete Falloon, Carlo Buontempo, Alberto Arribas and Rutger Dankers. * University of Leeds: Kathryn Nicklin. * WUR: Ronald Hutjes. * SMHI: Ilias Pechlivanidis. * University of Cantabria: Rodrigo GarcĂ­a Manzanas. Actions to be taken involving UC: * To create an inventory of the impacts models to be run within the project, specifying their mandatory/optional input variables, temporal resolution, required/preferred format etc. --> Met Office will circulate a survey among the impact users. * To write down a document describing the basis of seasonal forecast and a glosary including a list of commonly used terms. Impact users' requests: * To locally store subsets of data (retrieved from the SPECS-EUPORIAS data portal) in netCDF format. * To directly access the ensemble mean through the SPECS-EUPORIAS data portal (in addition to accessing each individual member). Open discussions: * Possibility to establish new case studies out of Europe, based on the skill of seasonal forecasts.