Third Session of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology

08 - 12 February 2010,

Bureau of Meteorology
700 Collins street
GPO Box 1289

Melbourne 3001
Australia



Agenda



1 ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION
1.1 Opening
1.2 Adoption of the agenda
1.3 Working arrangements
2 JCOMM ASPECTS
2.1 Report by the ETMC Chairperson
2.2 Report by the Secretariats
2.3 JCOMM Observations Programme Area (OPA)
2.3.1 Ship Observations Team (SOT)
2.3.2 Data Buoy Cooperation Panel
2.4 JCOMM Services Programme Area (SPA)
2.4.1 Results from the Fourth session of the Services Coordination Group
2.4.2 Expert Team on wind Waves and Storm Surges (ETWS)
2.4.3 Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI)
2.5 JCOMM Data Management Programme Area (DMPA)
2.5.1 Results from the Third Session of the Data Management coordination Group
2.5.2 Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP)
3 REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE WORLD CLIMATE PROGRAMME AND OTHER CLIMATE RELATED PROGRAMMES
3.1 Review of 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 Review relevant outcomes from the OceanOBS'09 conference (Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009)
3.3 Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl)
4 DATA AND METADATA: OPERATIONAL FLOW
4.1 Results of the ETMC GTS comparison (using December 2007 data)
4.2 Review of BUFR (and other) templates for VOS and other surface marine data
4.3 Review of electronic logbooks
4.4 Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal)
4.5 Status of the WMO Ship Catalogue (WMO No. 47)
4.6 Status of buoy and other Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) metadata
4.6.1 Report from META-T project and JCOMMOPS
4.6.2 Report from ODAS metadata centre
4.6.3 Rig and platform metadata issues
5 DATA QUALITY AND EXCHANGE
5.1 Overview from the Task Team on Delayed-Mode Voluntary Observing Ship data (TT-DMVOS)
5.2 Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format and the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS)
5.3 Review of the operations of the Global Collecting Centres
5.3.1 Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs)
5.3.2 Report of the Responsible Members (RMs)
5.4 Status of modernization proposals
5.4.1 Data Flow
5.4.2 Higher-level Quality Control (HQC)
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 The International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format
6.1.2 Proposal for formal recognition of ICOADS within JCOMM
6.1.3 Proposal for “advanced” (bias adjusted) ICOADS
6.1.4 Potential linkages with satellite data
6.2 Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.)
6.3 International marine data and metadata recovery
6.3.1 RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine data (RECLAIM) and related projects (ACRE, GODAR, HISKLIM, HISTOR, etc.)
6.3.2 Lloyds commercial ship particulars
6.4 History of the marine ship code
6.5 Wave and storm surge data
6.5.1 Status of the global extreme wave event archive
6.5.2 Potential for calculation of wave monthly summaries
7 MARINE-METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARIES
7.1 Status of the Task Team on Marine-meteorological and Oceanographic Climatological Summaries (TT-MOCS)
7.2 New perspectives on contributions and climatological requirements within JCOMM
7.2.1 Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI)
7.2.2 Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges (ETWS)
7.2.3 JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP
8 MARINE DATA AND CLIMATOLOGY WORKSHOPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
9 MANUALS, GUIDES AND OTHER TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
9.1 Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology
9.2 Review of the Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558 and 471)
9.3 Review of the Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100)
10 ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS
10.1 Terms of Reference (ToR) of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology
11 REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS
12 CLOSURE OF THE SESSION