ETOOFS-4: Fourth Session of JCOMM Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems

25 - 29 March 2013,

College Park, Maryland
United States



Agenda



1 Opening of the session (AM, Monday 25th)
1.1 Opening (9:30AM)
1.2 Team introductions (9:45AM)
1.3 Welcome speech by Dr.Wayne Higgins (10:00AM)
1.4 Adoption of the Agenda (10:15AM)
1.5 Working Arrangements (10:25AM)
2 General Business (Monday)
2.1 Guidance and requirements from JCOMM and WMO-IOC (10:30AM)
2.2 Chairperson report (10:45AM)
2.3 GOVST-4 and GOV-WGNE (11:30AM)
2.4 GOV-COSS-TT2 (11:45AM)
2.5 Nomination of Vice-Chairperson for ETOOFS(12:00PM)
3 Observational Requirements (Monday)
3.1 Updates of Observing Systems (2:00PM)
3.2 Teleconference for Observational Requirements (11:00AM/2:30PM)
3.3 RRR of WMO
4 Seasonal climate forecast system (9:00AM, Tuesday)
4.1 Observational requirements (9:00AM, Guimei Liu, Arun Kumar)
4.2 Extreme monitoring (10:00AM Gary Brassington, Yan Xue)
4.3 Performance metrics for seasonal climate forecast (11:00AM, Alistair Sellar, Ed Harrison, Tony Lee by teleconference)
5 National reports (2:00PM, Tuesday)
6 Capacity development (4:00PM, Tuesday)
7 Marine emergency/pollution response (AM, Wednesday)
7.1 Introduction/overview of the project (9:00AM)
7.2 Review of ad hoc working group for marine emergency/pollution response and status of capability (10:00AM)
7.3 Discussion and finalise plan (11:00AM)
8 Performance metrics (2:00PM, Wednesday)
9 Summary of previous sessions (PM, Wednesday)
10 Guide to operational ocean forecasting systems (Thursday & Friday)
11 Closure