ࡱ> #` ԍbjbj\.\. 4>D>Dw     ===8=l4>d 3qr>L>"?(?(?@>A@U@ ppppppp$sh vrp %G@@%G%Gp  (?(?p4cMcMcM%G (? (?pSM%GpcMcMRTl  o(?> 1&#=JHm$pdp<3qfmvK*v<oo8v Hoa@5BNAMC Da@a@a@ppL^a@a@a@3q%G%G%G%G DdD d & d &           INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (of UNESCO)WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONUNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMMEINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE Eleventh Session of the Global Ocean Observing System Scientific Steering Committee (GSSC-XI) 8-10 April 2008 Room XIV UNESCO BONVIN Paris, France 5.1.1 WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology Report by the Co-Presidents of JCOMM Summary The JCOMM Management Committee held its 6th session at IOC in Paris, 3-6 December 2007. At the halfway point in the intersessional period, overall and despite the chronic shortage of funds and the work overload for most JCOMM volunteering contributors, the Commission appears to be in very reasonable shape, with all Programme Areas well placed to complete a number of substantive tasks over the next two years, and report significant results to JCOMM-III. Both WMO Congress and the IOC Assembly met during the past year, and while in both governing bodies the recognition of and support for JCOMM expressed by Members/Member States was positive and encouraging, unfortunately this did not translate into adequate regular budget support, which means that JCOMM has to work harder to attract extra-budgetary funds, if it is to achieve its goals. Externally, JCOMM now has excellent and productive partnerships with IODE and GOOS. JCOMM has also been very active in a number of cross-cutting activities of both WMO and IOC, such as the tsunami and other coastal hazards work in IOC and disaster risk reduction, QMF, WIS and WIGOS in WMO. As with others involved in existing earth observing system components, JCOMM worked hard to gain appropriate recognition and support within the GEOSS process, but it is tough going. In terms of outreach, the JCOMM newsletter has been a success, there have been a significant number of JCOMM publications over the past year, and the Secretariats and others have been doing an excellent job in developing and consolidating the JCOMM web presence, which is now a major vehicle for both internal and external communication and information exchange. Major results of the Management Committee meeting included: Identification of key results and decisions in all programme and cross-cutting areas, for presentation to JCOMM-III in 2009; Finalization of a detailed JCOMM capacity building strategy, which identifies the key strategic goals for JCOMM CB, as well as the means for achieving these; (c) Finalization of the IP, now re-named the JCOMM Operating Plan, and agreement on a process for providing, by April 2008, JCOMM input to the overall reporting process to the ECs of WMO and IOC on the implementation of the respective Organizations strategic plans; Agreement on the terms of reference for the JCOMM review; Agreement on the rationale, structure and methodology for preparing a JCOMM virtual (web based) handbook on standards and best practices. This will provide an easy access reference book and guide to all the existing material relating to standards and best practices prepared under JCOMM and its predecessors, covering observations, data management and services; allow for the identification of gaps in such material; and facilitate input to the WMO QMF and ISO accreditation process; Agreement on the immediate establishment (with terms of reference and general membership) of a JCOMM Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems (ET/OOFS), to facilitate the transition of the operational component of GODAE into an intergovernmental environment, and address urgent issues. Further details on these and other issues of interest to the GSSC are given in the paragraphs below. It is likely that there will be an almost complete change in JCOMM senior management at the next session (Morocco, early November 2009). PED informed the Committee that he will not seek re-election for a second term, and the other co-president, Jean-Louis Fellous, may also have to stand down. Two of the three PA Coordinators are also retiring. While in principle it is a good time to have a substantial renewal and rejuvenation in JCOMM management, the fact remains that it is increasingly difficult to find people with the expertise and willingness to devote substantial amounts of their own time to take on such demanding volunteer roles. Finally, the Committee accepted the offer by PED to host its next session in Australia, most probably in December 2008. This will be the last meeting of the Committee before JCOMM-III. Observations Programme Area The status of the observing system is now at 59% of the GCOS-92 Implementation Plan targets. The phased implementation plan, as presented at JCOMM-II, projected that the system would be at 66% by now, and the OPA needs to revise the implementation targets and continue to advocate for additional national commitments; the system cannot be fully implemented and sustained at the present level of commitments. However, despite overall slowing of system implementation, two system elements have achieved their initial design targets: the global surface drifting buoy array reached 1250 data buoys in sustained service in 2005, and the Argo array reached 3000 active floats in 2007. GCOS-92 remains as the foundation roadmap guiding the OPA work plan. Subsequent to the issuance of GCOS-92, three additional challenges have arisen that are now influencing the global implementation strategy coordination with the international tsunami warning system, the International Polar Year, and the regional GOOS networks. A third version of the webtool Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC) has been posted  HYPERLINK "http://osmc.noaa.gov:8180/Monitor/OSMC/OSMC.html" on the web and includes some performance monitoring of variables. JCOMM-II requested a review of JCOMMOPS. MAN-6 agreed that the analysis of the work at JCOMMOPS, in preparation for considering the new Observing Program Support Center (OPSC), in actual fact constituted a thorough review. This review had established the value and need for JCOMMOPS (in fact, the need for an expanded JCOMMOPS). As endorsed by MAN-V, the Observations Coordination Group drafted a list of requirements for an OPSC for consideration by the co-presidents. These requirements were then included in an Announcement and Call for Letters of Intent to host an international OPSC that was distributed to all IOC-WMO Members-Member States via a Joint Circular Letter. The planned OPSC will include the existing JCOMMOPS and in addition serve the growing requirements of the several international programmes working to coordinate implementation of an integrated global ocean observing system. Fifteen LoIs have been received. These LoIs will be reviewed by a small group established by the JCOMM co-presidents, on the basis of a detailed analysis of the LoIs, prepared by the Secretariat, in terms of the criteria given in the announcement and call for LoIs, with a view to establishing a short list of candidates, from which detailed proposals for hosting the OPSC will be requested. These detailed proposals will then be addressed by a full Committee, to include representatives of all the panels and groups planning to contribute resources to the OPSC. It is expected that this process will take some months to complete; however, the OPSC is an significant resource for the ocean observing community, and it is important that the process for its establishment be seen to be fair and transparent. Two other OPA issues are worth noting: (i) after many decades of discussion and disagreement, the Ship Observations Team has finally agreed on a global award scheme for the VOS, based on the certificates now awarded to the VOSClim ships; (ii) discussions have begun between JCOMM Management and the Argo Science Team, with a view to developing a more formal, and mutually advantageous, coordination mechanism for JCOMM and Argo. Services Programme Area A Services Programme Area workplan has been developed and adopted by the SCG, providing a prioritization of activities set out by the Commission in the 2nd Session report, including the new SPA structure focused toward Met-Ocean support for Maritime Safety Systems. A dedicated JCOMM SPA web site ( HYPERLINK "http://www.jcomm-services.org" http://www.jcomm-services.org) and content management system has been set up by the UK Met Office to assist the development and management of the SPA. The ESA GlobWave activity has great potential to support the extension of the ETWS wave model intercomparison work into a spatial/spectral domain and include altimeter reference data. The IPY Ice Logistics Portal ( HYPERLINK "http://www.ipy-ice-portal.com/" http://www.ipy-ice-portal.com/), supported financially for GMES with content under the purview of the ETSI, has been in operation since May 2007. A national agency already involved in operational sea ice services is to be approached for continuing financial support after current funding runs out in June 2008. The important developments made by the GHRSST-PP in developing a new generation of operational satellite SST data products and services are directly relevant to JCOMM work, and discussions are underway to strengthen the relationship between JCOMM and the GHRSST-PP project office and science team (e.g., satellite coordination activities, end-to-end technologies, operational standards and services, WIGOS/WIS). The Scientific and Technical Symposium on Storm Surges, organized by the WMO and IOC and hosted by the Korean government in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 2 to 6 October 2007, provided a significant step forward to facilitate and support the provision of safety-related services. The symposium was considered a great success and in particular the input to this Symposium will enhance storm surge forecasting capability, and complement the JCOMM Guide to Storm Surge Forecasting, under finalization. The recommendations and actions arising from the symposium are now being distributed for follow-up. It has been proposed that future such symposiums might best be organized in conjunction with the biennial workshops on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting Workshop, so as to provide enhanced opportunities to strengthen the wave, surge and coastal hazard community, in recognition of the increased importance of total water level in coastal prediction and coastal area management. The planned JCOMM International Maritime Safety Conference (IMSC) is now scheduled to take place at IMarEST, London in October 2008, in order to facilitate users participation and to reduce travel costs. The scope of the conference has been revised to a more focused 2-day event. A workshop, to be held jointly with WCRP and the Oil and Gas Producers (OGP), entitled Storms in a changing climate and their impacts on offshore industry, will take place at the WMO Headquarters, Geneva, 27-29 May 2008. A new JCOMM Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems has been established in the SPA, as a part of the follow-on to GODAE, and details of this are given below. Data Management Programme Area JCOMM-II requested the preparation of a JCOMM data management plan, which is now completed, together with a first draft of the DM implementation plan, which has been endorsed by the Management Committee. The DMCG is in the process of consolidating BUFR templates for reporting data from OPA activities to standardize how information is reported. The Meta-T project, designed to determine how to handle water temperature instrument metadata, has made some progress. For workload reasons a new co-chair has started and this has re-invigorated their activities. They are working towards agreement on what information needs to be exchanged with the observations and what can remain on servers that can be polled as required. In the ET on Marine Climatology, the activities supporting the MCSS have been handed to a task team to continue to manage. This will permit the ETMC to pay greater attention to other issues including climate summaries and indices (in cooperation with SPA) and an extreme waves database. The CLIMAR-III workshop is scheduled for May 2008 in Poland. A project has also begun to recover information in historical logbooks, the RECLAIM project. The ET on Data Management Practices has concentrated its work exclusively on the development of the end-to-end (E2E) technology. This has become a component of the WIS where JCOMM is playing a very active role. The same technology has been adopted as the infrastructure for the IOC Ocean Data Portal. At a recent IODE Officers meeting it was agreed that ETDMP (a joint team of DMPA and IODE) should pass the support and development of the E2E technology to a task team. This will allow ETDMP to take on the role of supporting the development of and agreement to standards that will result from the Standards Forum (see later). An Ocean Data Portal ( HYPERLINK "http://www.oceandataportal.net" http://www.oceandataportal.net) has been developed as a JCOMM/IODE ETDMP product, hosted by the IOC Project Office for IODE. The portal will provide transparent access to metadata and data held by all participating data centres (operating as data providers) taking into account all security and data policy issues. It aims to provide seamless and easy to use access to the different data, supplied by different programs. With the E2EDM technology it can be used at the global, regional or task-specific scale. The portal user web-interface provides the ability to: (i) discover metadata (through simple Google-like or advanced search); (ii) retrieve data from the data providers (able to monitor the request progress in backgound); (iii) view data as table, map or graph; and (iv) download received data in NetCDF. Cross-Cutting Activities The IPY and its legacy Leaving behind a legacy is a key aim of the IPY 2007-2008, which will be focused on the establishment of observing systems for detecting and monitoring changes in the ice/ocean/atmosphere system at high latitudes and for providing the data essential for forecasting future change. In the preparations for the IPY, WMO, in partnership with ICSU and IOC, promoted the notion that Arctic and Southern Ocean Observing Systems should be key outcomes of the investment in the IPY 2007-2008. These two new systems will contribute directly to GOOS and GCOS. The development of ocean observing systems for the polar oceans is complementary to the establishment of a Global Cryosphere Watch (GCW). The ICSU/WMO Joint Committee (JC) for the IPY has requested the IPY Project Office, the Secretariat and the JC Sub-Committees, to prepare a road map for the development of a detailed plan for the IPY legacy. In the case of the IPY ocean observing systems, the road map will focus on the process for the development of iAOOS and SOOS, as well as sea ice elements of the GCW, and would explicitly recognize the key role to be played by JCOMM in the future coordination and maintenance of a high latitude ocean/sea ice observing system. It is planned that JCOMM will be involved, initially, in the development and implementation of plans for the long-term maintenance of components of the observing system in which it already has expertise. The Commission should also at least develop communication with other observing system elements which are, at the present time, more experimental, with a view to their eventual integration into the operational system. Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems (ET/OOFS) The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) has coordinated the development of ocean forecasting systems, and has made good progress. Its final symposium will be held in November 2008. Three key areas within the current GODAE workplan priorities include JCOMM: the development of product standardization and interoperability between systems (including intercomparison activities); the transition from demonstration to operational systems; and the sustainability of the global observing system, including especially satellite components. The JCOMM Management Committee has agreed that an Expert Team on OOFS be established within the SPA to address these issues, as part of the direct legacy of and follow up to GODAE. The draft proposed Terms of Reference for the team have undergone review by the co-chairs of GODAE and the co-Presidents of JCOMM, and they were subsequently adopted (with some modifications) by the Management Committee (see Annex 1). The SPA Coordinator and IOC have been consulting with the International GODAE Steering Team (IGST) on JCOMM plans. The IGST supported the proposal for the establishment of an ET/OOFS, noting that a strong dialogue between the JCOMM/SPA and GODAE groups should be maintained. The ongoing research and development effort necessary to maintain and improve operational ocean forecast systems will also need to continue beyond GODAE, and this effort will need to maintain a close link to the ET-OOFS to ensure that work is complementary, and that science developments feed the operational systems. Dr Adrien Hines has been requested to become interim chair of ET/OOFS, which is planned to meet in either late 2008 or early 2009. JCOMM Standards and Best Practices Since its inception in 1907, the WMO Commission for Marine Meteorology, one of the predecessors of JCOMM, had responsibility for the global coordination, standardization and eventually regulation of the provision of marine meteorological services. In support of such services, it also coordinated, and, to the extent possible, recommended best observing practices for the Voluntary Observing Ships. The results of this work were eventually consolidated in two WMO mandatory publications, the Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services, as well as in relevant sections and chapters of other WMO manuals and guides. The material included in these mandatory WMO publications was the subject of an extensive community development and formal intergovernmental review and approval process, and thus had the status of accepted standards and best practices. Similarly, other bodies, which were now integral parts of JCOMM (GLOSS Group of Experts, Joint Committee for IGOSS and the DBCP), all recognized a requirement to develop and publish guidance on best practices in instrumentation, observations and data quality control for their respective specialized components of the ocean observing system. This guidance was generally published in the IOC Manuals and Guides series, and again could be recognized as community accepted practice. In addition, all these bodies from time to time coordinated or commissioned various other technical reports and surveys, for the benefit of Members/Member States, but which could not generally be regarded as recording accepted community standards. Exceptions to this included the peer-reviewed results of special projects such as the VSOP-NA (which had become the observing standards for VOSClim), various sea ice standards (developed within the specialized sea ice community), and recommended best practices resulting from major international experiments such as TOGA and WOCE. Both sessions of JCOMM clearly recognized the importance of, and role of JCOMM in evaluating and setting standards for instruments and observations to be included as part of an operational ocean observing system. They also recognized that this standard setting role should extend to both data management practices and services, and the Management Committee was charged with taking appropriate action. This is a complex issue, and also a critically important one for JCOMM, with a number of components: Compilation of existing JCOMM standards and best practices material into a structured and easily accessible format/publication; Implementation of a strategy for updating and maintaining existing material; Implementation of a strategy for identifying and filling gaps. The audience for this catalogue of standards and best practices material is internal, a tool for the Expert Teams and Implementation Panels as well as the Commission as a whole to keep stock of their material, as well as external. Three major external audience types have been identified: New operators of observing platforms who would have their own reasons to take data but would want to make them available at JCOMM quality standards and through JCOMM data streams Creators and provisioners of products who would want to know about the quality of inputs to their products Deliverers of products who would like to know about the applicability and quality of JCOMM-related products The planned catalogue will segregate these types of users to present the material in a way appropriate to each. There should be an observing platform-segregated view as well as a products-segregated view. Each platform view (to include ocean satellites as well as in situ platforms) would hold information about standards and best practices of the entire system from: platforms, instrumentation, siting, characteristics; through data and metadata formats, quality control procedures, data stream implementation including real-time and archiving; and finally products using the platform data. A product-segregated view will have information about the standards and best practices for data inputs, product output and metadata formats, intercomparison frameworks, quality control procedures, and the data streams from observing platforms (or other products) entering into the creation of the products. The creation of the catalogue will help to identify gaps and information in need of updating. The tasks involved (and therefore the charge to the expert undertaking this work) are to: extract the appropriate portions of the existing compilation of documents and appropriately tag and identify them in the scheme outlined above, give each extract a JCOMM identifier (number and branding) implement a platform-segregated view as outlined above implement a product-segregated view as outlined above to do this in a system that was sustainable and simple to maintain, with those responsible for the maintenance clearly identified in the scheme The compilation of the catalogue will not be a trivial task, and will probably require the services of a consultant, for a period approaching one month. The Secretariat has been requested to approach relevant Members/Member States, with a view to their either seconding, or providing the resources to hire, an appropriate expert to undertake the work, which should be completed, and the catalog published to the web, prior to JCOMM-III. A directly related activity was the IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards held in Oostende, Belgium, at the end of January 2008. Bob Keeley, DMPA Coordinator, reported: About 20 participants from a wide variety of organizations. Greg Reed from the Australian data centre and I shared the chairing duties We developed an initial plan for managing a standards accreditation process for data management for IODE and JCOMM. The process will use existing expert teams and so should have no budget impacts The IODE Project Office will provide some web infrastructure. We agreed on adopting ISO standards for countries, time, position. We agreed on a discovery metadata profile (ISO compliant), and some procedures for quality control of sea level, selected types of ocean profiles and waves. These ones will be used to test our certification process. In addition, the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) program has approved an initial JCOMM/IODE proposal to promote standards and interoperability between the ocean community and WMO. This dovetails nicely with the objectives of the standards meeting. This pilot project is reported in more detail below. WIGOS and the JCOMM/IODE Pilot Project Fifteenth WMO Congress (Geneva, May 2007), when discussing the concept of integration between WMO Observing Systems, agreed that planning and implementation of the integration process should proceed in phases defined by the annual meetings of the Executive Council. The process foreseen is one where planning and implementation of an integrated WMO observing system and of the WIS would culminate with the sixteenth WMO Congress (2011) adopting improvements towards strengthening the WMO programme structure and the system of technical commissions. Cg-XV also agreed that several Pilot Projects should be designed to test concepts, identify problem areas, and to help in elaborating the Plan. These include Integration of marine meteorological and other appropriate oceanic observations into the WMO global observing systems. A draft proposal for a potential JCOMM pilot project was prepared, and subsequently adopted by a recent meeting of the WMO EC Working Group on WIGOS. The pilot is designed to promote (i) interoperability of marine data systems with the WMO Information System (WIS) in close cooperation with the IOC ocean community; (ii) the documentation and integration of best practices and standards being used amongst the meteorological and oceanographic communities; and (iii) establish compliance with the WMO Quality Management Framework (QMF). The proposal represents an excellent example of the integration both across OPA and DMPA and with IODE that is an important aspect of JCOMMs mandate, and includes currently planned work being done to advance interoperability through the work of E2EDM and on standards. It is expected that WIGOS will provide support for the work, including its Steering Team. The steering team will define the precise objectives of the pilot project and consider inclusion of other elements besides in-situ data such as satellite data and model forecasting work. JCOMM and Industry Worth Nowlin reported to the JCOMM Management Committee on the work of the GOOS Advocacy and Outreach Group. The Committee was very appreciative of this work, which it recognized as also encompassing the needs of JCOMM in these areas. The Committee thanked the previous ad hoc task team on industry, that had met in March 2006, Paris, for providing the foundation for the work of the advocacy group, and agreed that the ad hoc team was now merged into the advocacy group. Capacity Building Strategy The Management Committee agreed that the original CB strategy as adopted by JCOMM in 2001 is too much a top-down approach. Capacity building activities of JCOMM should respond first and foremost to national requirements, although they can be dealt with at the sub-regional or regional level as appropriate. At the same time, CB activities supported under JCOMM will also need to fit within the objectives of the three Programme Areas. After reviewing revisions made to the JCOMM Capacity Building strategy adopted in 2001, and taking into consideration the decisions made by JCOMM-II, it has been agreed to totally overhaul the strategy, on the basis of the considerations above. This is being done by an ad hoc group, to be finalized by mid-2008. Satellite Data Requirements Strategy The JCOMM Task Team on Satellite Data Requirements, lead by Eric Lindstrom, and in conjunction with the OPA Chair, Mike Johnson, is planning to deliver a document for JCOMM-III that discusses the integrated (space and in situ) observing strategy for a number of geophysical variables including sea surface temperature, sea surface height, ocean vector winds, chlorophyll-a, sea-ice, sea state, and sea surface salinity. The document is envisioned to be similar in scope and granularity to the IGOS Ocean Theme Report of January 2001, but different in perspective having a much greater emphasis on operational utility and on the integrated nature of the space and in situ observing components. The document is tentatively entitled Observing the Global Ocean for JCOMM - The Integrated Space-based and in situ Strategy. The Management Committee discussed the degree to which ocean color and/or chlorophyll-a should be included. It noted that there is not yet an extensive in situ observing system component for ocean color within the JCOMM structure but there is usage of those satellite products. The Committee concluded that chlorophyll-a must be included in the document as experimental JCOMM products. Strategic Development JCOMM-II adopted a strategic plan for the Commission and its work. The Management Committee, at its fifth session in October 2006, agreed on an outline for an Implementation Plan, to accompany the Strategic Plan. This IP was subsequently drafted by Jim Baker, with input from the PA Coordinators and others. The Committee at its sixth session in December 2007 adopted this document, with minor revisions, as the JCOMM Operating Plan for the current intersessional period. At the same time, it noted the need to prepare a shorter document in time for the forthcoming WMO EC-60 and IOC EC-41, to serve as a monitoring tool to assess progress towards achieving specific JCOMM Programme Area targets and deliverables, in a format reflecting the WMO and IOC Strategic objectives. This document, tentatively entitled Results-based JCOMM Management Plan, will be prepared through an iterative process, starting from the Secretariats proposing a framework based on WMO 3 Top-Level Objectives, 5 Strategic Thrusts and 11 Expected Results and on IOC 4 Strategic Objectives and 4 Expected Results, and using inputs from the three Programme Area Coordinators in the form of their specific goals and objectives, with associated timelines and Secretariat costs, mapped onto this framework. These inputs will be used to assemble the complete document by mid-April, 2008. The document will include elements of risk analysis. The Management Committee also discussed the need for and purpose of a JCOMM Implementation Plan, to serve as a strategic guide for the JCOMM community in the coming years in the pursuit of its long-term objectives. It was agreed that the Implementation Plan should not be formulated according to the current structure of the Commission (i.e. with reference to the Observations, Services and Data Management Programme Areas), which is subject to revision. Rather, the Implementation Plan should be service-oriented, product-based, and provide a strategic approach to delivering these products. Programme Area Coordinators will provide the building blocks, based on their existing respective implementation plans, as input to the document, to be drafted in advance of MAN-7 for further elaboration, and for adoption in final form at JCOMM-III. The JCOMM Strategy endorsed by JCOMM-II includes, inter alia, a requirement for a periodic review of the Commission. The conduct of this review during the current intersessional period was specifically requested by JCOMM-II. This review, in conjunction with the IP, should, in principle, fulfill a number of purposes: (i) Assess how well JCOMM is addressing high level strategic objectives and expected results as expressed in the various planning documents of both WMO and IOC since the establishment of the Commission; . (ii) Assess how well JCOMM has fulfilled, over the past 8-10 years, the expectations of WMO and IOC for the Commission when it was established; (iii) Analyse to what degree JCOMM delivers benefit to Members/Member States, and is cost-effective in its operations; (iv) Based on the findings under (i) to (iii) above, provide recommendations on how JCOMM can improve benefits to its Members/Member States, as well as its cost-effectiveness - including through modifications to its working structure, as appropriate. The 6th session of the Management Committee agreed on the terms of reference for the review, together with a timeline for its conduct and reporting to the seventh session of the Management Committee, and eventually to JCOMM-III. It requested the Secretariat to approach the Secretary-General of WMO and the Executive Secretary IOC, to obtain their formal approval and support for the conduct of the review, including the membership of the review team. It also requested the Secretariats to bring the review to the attention of the coming sessions of the Executive Councils of both parent Organizations, with a view to obtaining their endorsement. Annex 1 Terms of Reference of the Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems (ETOOFS) The Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems shall: Develop and maintain a Guide to Operational Oceanographic Forecasting systems " Develop, for other JCOMM teams and Members/Member States, guidance on the nomenclature, symbology and related standards to be used by operational ocean forecasting systems, as well as the applications of the output from these systems; Develop and operate an intercomparison framework for near-real-time monitoring of OOFS outputs, building on the legacy of GODAE; Coordinate closely with the scientific community developing and maintaining OOFS (e.g., GODAE and GODAE follow-on) on the further development and operational implementation of the systems; Provide recommendations on observational data requirements for OOFS to the JCOMM Observations Programme Area (OPA); Maintain liaison with the JCOMM Data Management Programme Area (DMPA) on data management issues related to OOFS; Provide advice to Members/Member States on operational ocean forecast systems. General Membership The core membership is selected to include the chairperson and up to five core members, ensuring an appropriate range of expertise in ocean forecast systems, data assimilation using ocean models, satellite and in situ data requirements for ocean models, and operational model intercomparisons. Additional experts may be invited as appropriate to represent ocean forecasting systems/groups, with the concurrence of the co-presidents of the Commission and with no resource implications to the Secretariat.   HYPERLINK "http://osmc.noaa.gov:8180/Monitor/OSMC/OSMC.html" http://osmc.noaa.gov:8180/Monitor/OSMC/OSMC.html     GSC-III/1 prov. 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