Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology
ETMC-4

Meeting

26 - 28 November 2012

Location

UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61
B-8400 Oostende
Belgium


Organizer & Staff
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Participation

By invitation only.

Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology
Summary

This meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology will also discuss the new Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) There will be an ad hoc Session of the DMCG during or at the end of this meeting.

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Final Report
Agenda Documents: 28
Background Documents: 2
Other Documents: 1
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Report
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ETMC-4-Final-Report Final Report, ETMC-4 28/01/2013
Agenda Documents
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1.2 ETMC-4-Doc-1.2.1(1) Provisional Agenda 29/10/12
1.2 ETMC-4-Doc-1.2.1(2) Provisional annotated agenda 29/10/12
1.3 ETMC-4-INF4-Docplan Documentation Plan 12/11/12
1.3 ETMC-4-INF2-Time-Table Time Table 02/11/12
2.1 ETMC-Doc-2.1-Chair-Report Report by the ETMC Chairperson 16/11/12
2.2 ETMC-4-Doc-2.2-DMPA-Priorities JCOMM-IV outcome and priorities for the Data Management Programme Area (DMPA) 18/11/12
2.4 ETMC-4-Doc-2.4-GCC-Reports Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) 20/11/12
2.5 ETMC-4-Doc-2.5-RM-Reports Report by the Responsible Members 16/11/12
3.1 ETMC-4-Doc-3.1-GOOS-GCOS-Req GOOS and GCOS requirements for climatological data sets 14/11/12
3.2 ETMC-4-Doc-3.2-GFCS Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) 06/11/12
4 ETMC-4-Doc-4(1)-MCDS-Decisions JCOMM-IV decisions regarding the Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) 16/11/12
4 ETMC-4-Doc-4(2)-Rec2-Clarif Clarifications regarding JCOMM Recommendation 2 (JCOMM-4) 27/11/12
4.2 ETMC-4-Doc-4.2(1)-IODE-Role-MCDS Potential Contributions and Roles of IODE in MCDS 18/11/12
4.2 ETMC-4-Doc-4.2(2)-NODC-Role-MCDS Potential Contributions and Roles of NODCs in MCDS 21/11/12
4.2 ETMC-4-Doc-4.2(3)-WDS-Role-MCDS Potential Contributions and Roles of ICSU WDS in MCDS 19/11/12
4.3 ETMC-4-Doc-4.3.1-DACs-GDACs-Process MCDS DACs and GDACs ToR, establishment process, and candidates 16/11/12
4.3.3 ETMC-4-Doc.4.3.3-CMOC-Establishment Establishment of CMOCs (performance indicators for existing centres, and evaluation criterias for candidates) 27/11/12
4.4 ETMC-4-Doc-4.4-MCDS-IP Updated MCDS Implementation Plan 14/11/12
5.1 ETMC-4-Doc-5.1-IMMT-MQCS Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format and the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) 20/11/12
5.2 ETMC-4-Doc-5.2-BUFR Review of BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data 06/11/12
5.3 ETMC-4-Doc5.3-e-logbooks Review of electronic logbooks 14/11/12
5.4 ETMC-4-Doc-5.4-Masking Ship callsign masking (including Encode proposal) 05/11/12
5.5 ETMC-4-Doc5.5-HQCS Stage of the Higher Level Quality Control (HQCS) 22/11/12
6.1 ETMC-4-Doc-6.1-ICOADS Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) 17/11/12
6.2 ETMC-4-Doc-6.2-Metadata Instrument/Platform metadata 16/11/12
6.3 ETMC-4-Doc-6.3-Integration Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) 17/11/12
6.4 ETMC-4-Doc-6.4-Data-Rescue International marine data and metadata rescue 17/11/12
9 ETMC-4-Doc-6-Action-Items Review of action items 16/11/12
Background Documents
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4.3.3. CMOC - China submission, 14/2/2012 16/11/2012
4.3.3. CMOC Germany submission - 13/2/2012 16/11/2012
Other Documents
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2012-11-26-28-ETMC4-GENERAL_LOCAL_INFO 19/10/2012
There are 25 participants associated with Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology .

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ETMC core member
Name Country
BERRY David Switzerland
FREEMAN Eric United States of America
HOSHIMOTO Mizuho Japan
LIN Shao Hua China
MOK Hing-Yim China
SCOTT Nicola United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
WOODRUFF Scott United States of America
MCDS
Name Country
DE MARGERIE Sylvain Canada
SETA Akihiro Japan
IODE experts
Name Country
BELOV Sergey Russian Federation
GREGG Margarita United States of America
IONA Athanasia Greece
KEELEY J Robert Canada
REED Greg Belgium
TROISI Ariel Argentina
Joint Secretariat
Name Country
CHARPENTIER Etienne Switzerland
EICHLER Karolin Switzerland
PISSIERSSENS Peter Belgium
Participating by Webex
Name Country
BLOUCH Pierre France
CROUT Richard United States of America
SMITH Shawn United States of America
= Person has confirmed their participation and been approved to participate.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 25
Confirmed: 25
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Group(s): IOC, IODE, JCOMM.
 Label(s): Created at 15:24 on 31 Jul 2012 by Etienne Charpentier
Last Updated at 14:02 on 28 Jan 2013 by Etienne Charpentier