College Park, Maryland
United States
| 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 |