Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology
ETMC-4
Meeting
26 - 28 November 2012
Location
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
InnovOcean Campus
8400 Oostende
Belgium
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology
Summary
This meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology will also discuss the new Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) There will be an ad hoc Session of the DMCG during or at the end of this meeting.
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- 1 - Organization of the Session
- 1.1 - Opening
- 1.2 - Adoption of the Agenda
ETMC-4-Doc-1.2.1(1) Provisional Agenda
ETMC-4-Doc-1.2.1(2) Provisional annotated agenda - 1.3 - Working arrangements
ETMC-4-INF4-Docplan Documentation Plan
ETMC-4-INF2-Time-Table Time Table - 10 - Closure of the Session
- 2 - JCOMM aspects and reports
- 2.1 - Report by the ETMC Chairperson
ETMC-Doc-2.1-Chair-Report Report by the ETMC Chairperson - 2.2 - 2.2 JCOMM-IV outcome and priorities for the Data Management Programme Area (DMPA)
ETMC-4-Doc-2.2-DMPA-Priorities 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)
ETMC-4-Doc-2.4-GCC-Reports Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) - 2.5 - Report of the Responsible Members (RMs)
ETMC-4-Doc-2.5-RM-Reports Report by the Responsible Members - 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
ETMC-4-Doc-3.1-GOOS-GCOS-Req GOOS and GCOS requirements for climatological data sets - 3.2 - Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
ETMC-4-Doc-3.2-GFCS Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) - 3.3 - Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl)
- 4.1 - Vision and Strategy
- 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.
ETMC-4-Doc.4.3.3-CMOC-Establishment Establishment of CMOCs (performance indicators for existing centres, and evaluation criterias for candidates) - 4.4 - Implementation Plan
ETMC-4-Doc-4.4-MCDS-IP Updated MCDS 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)
ETMC-4-Doc-5.1-IMMT-MQCS 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
ETMC-4-Doc-5.2-BUFR Review of BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data - 5.3 - Review of electronic logbooks
ETMC-4-Doc5.3-e-logbooks Review of electronic logbooks - 5.4 - Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal)
ETMC-4-Doc-5.4-Masking Ship callsign masking (including Encode proposal) - 5.5 - Stage of HQCS
ETMC-4-Doc5.5-HQCS Stage of the Higher Level Quality Control (HQCS) - 6 - Data and Metadata: Archeology and archival
- 6.1 - Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
ETMC-4-Doc-6.1-ICOADS 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
ETMC-4-Doc-6.2-Metadata 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.)
ETMC-4-Doc-6.3-Integration Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) - 6.4 - International marine data and metadata recovery
ETMC-4-Doc-6.4-Data-Rescue International marine data and metadata rescue - 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
ETMC-4-Doc-6-Action-Items Review of action items
Report
| Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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| ETMC-4-Final-Report | Final Report, ETMC-4 | 28/01/2013 |
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Agenda Documents
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Background Documents
| Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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| Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
| 4.3.3. | CMOC - China submission, 14/2/2012 | 16/11/2012 |
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| 4.3.3. | CMOC Germany submission - 13/2/2012 | 16/11/2012 |
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Other Documents
| Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
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| Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
| 2012-11-26-28-ETMC4-GENERAL_LOCAL_INFO | 19/10/2012 |
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There are 25 participants associated with Fourth meeting of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology .
ETMC core member
MCDS
IODE experts
Joint Secretariat
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= Person has confirmed their participation and been approved to participate.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 25
Confirmed: 25
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 25
Confirmed: 25
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 0
Rejected: 0
Group(s):
IOC,
IODE,
JCOMM.
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Created at 15:24 on 31 Jul 2012 by Etienne Charpentier
Last Updated at 14:02 on 28 Jan 2013 by Etienne Charpentier
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Created at 15:24 on 31 Jul 2012 by Etienne Charpentier
Last Updated at 14:02 on 28 Jan 2013 by Etienne Charpentier