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| 1 | Organization of the Session |
| 1.1 | Opening |
| 1.2 | Adoption of the Agenda |
| 1.3 | Working arrangements |
| 2 | JCOMM aspects and reports |
| 2.1 | Report by the ETMC Chairperson |
| 2.2 | 2.2 JCOMM-IV outcome and priorities for the Data Management Programme Area (DMPA) |
| 2.3 | Data Management Practices |
| 2.4 | Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) |
| 2.5 | Report of the Responsible Members (RMs) |
| 3 | Requirements |
| 3.1 | Review the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) requirements for climatological data sets |
| 3.2 | Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) |
| 3.3 | Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) |
| 4 | Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) |
| 4.1 | Vision and Strategy |
| 4.2 | Potential Contributions and Roles |
| 4.3 | MCDS Data Centres |
| 4.3.1 | Data Acquisition Centres (DACs), ToR and establishment process, candidates |
| 4.3.2 | Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs), ToR and establishment process, candidates |
| 4.3.3 | Centres for Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOCs), ToR, including tasks (esp. mirroring, Summaries), future role of Responsible Members (RMs), ICOADS partnership, performance indicators for existing centres, and evaluation criterias for candidates. |
| 4.4 | Implementation Plan |
| 5 | formats and Quality Control |
| 5.1 | Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format and the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) |
| 5.2 | Review of the BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data |
| 5.3 | Review of electronic logbooks |
| 5.4 | Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal) |
| 5.5 | Stage of HQCS |
| 6 | Data and Metadata: Archeology and archival |
| 6.1 | Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) |
| 6.1.1 | Funding update & international task sharing |
| 6.1.2 | The International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format |
| 6.1.3 | Proposal for “advanced” (bias adjusted) ICOADS |
| 6.1.4 | Potential linkages with satellite data |
| 6.1.5 | CMOC nomination plans/progress |
| 6.2 | Instrument/Platform metadata |
| 6.2.1 | Status of the WMO Ship Catalogue (WMO-No. 47) |
| 6.2.2 | Buoy metadata |
| 6.2.3 | Rig and platform metadata issues |
| 6.3 | Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) |
| 6.4 | International marine data and metadata recovery |
| 6.4.1 | RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data (RECLAIM) and related projects (ACRE, GODAR, HISKLIM, HISTOR, etc.) |
| 6.4.2 | Lloyds commercial ship particulars |
| 6.5 | History of the marine ship code |
| 6.6 | Sea-ice climatology |
| 6.7 | Wave and storm surge data |
| 6.7.1 | Status of the global extreme wave event archive |
| 6.7.2 | Potential for calculation of wave monthly summaries |
| 7 | Marine data and climatology workshops, and recommendations |
| 8 | Information Echange, including manuals, guides and other technical publications |
| 8.1 | Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology |
| 8.2 | Review of the Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558 and 471) |
| 8.3 | Review of the Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100). |
| 8.4 | ETMC / MCDS Website(s) |
| 9 | Review of action items |
| 10 | Closure of the Session |