Fifth Session of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology (ETMC)
ETMC-5
Meeting
22 - 25 June 2015
World Meteorological Organization
Case Postale 2300
CH-1211 Geneva
Switzerland
Organiser(s) & Staff
Participation
By invitation only.
INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS
How to get to WMO
Hotels in Geneva

[View an annotated printable version of this agenda]
- 7.4 - History of the marine ship code
- 7.5 - Sea-ice climatology
ETMC-5.doc-7.5 Sea-ice climatologie - 7.6 - Interactions with ETWCH, including wave and storm surge data
ETMC-5.doc-7.6 Wave and storm surge climatologies, including the Extreme Wave Data-Set - 7.6.1 - Status of the global extreme wave event archive
- 7.6.2 - Potential for calculation of wave monthly summaries
- 8 - UPDATING OF RELEVANT WMO MANUALS, GUIDES AND OTHER TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
ETMC-5.doc-8 Status of the review of WMO No. 558 and 471, including updated and future workplan - 8.1 - Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology
- 8.2 - Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558 and 471)
- 8.3 - Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100)
- 9 - INFORMATION EXCHANGE
- 9.1 - ETMC / MCDS Website(s)
- 9.2 - Other media
- 1 - ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION
- 1.1 - Opening
- 1.2 - Adoption of the agenda
ETMC-5-doc-1.2(1) Provisional Agenda (Rev. 1)
ETMC-5-doc-1.2(2) Provisional Annotated Agenda (Rev. 2) - 1.3 - Working arrangements
ETMC-5-INF2-Time-Table Provisional Time Table (Rev. 4)
ETMC-5-INF4-Docplan Documentation Plan (Rev. 2) - 10 - REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS
ETMC-5.doc-10 Review of action items from the previous ETMC Session - 11 - CLOSURE OF THE SESSION
- 2 - JCOMM ASPECTS AND REPORTS
- 2.1 - Report by the ETMC Chairperson
ETMC-5-doc-2.1 Report by the ETMC Chairperson - 2.2 - JCOMM Management Committee guidance
ETMC-5-doc-2.2 JCOMM Management Committee guidance - 2.3 - Data Management Practices
ETMC-5.doc-2.3-ETDMP Data Management Practices - 2.4 - Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs)
ETMC-5.doc-2.4 Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) - 2.5 - Report of the Responsible Members (RMs)
ETMC-5.doc-2.5-RMs Report of the Responsible Members (RMs) (Rev. 1) - 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-5.doc-3.1 GOOS and GCOS requirements for climatological data sets (Rev. 1) - 3.2 - Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
ETMC-5.doc-3.2 Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) (Rev. 1) - 3.3 - Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP)
ETMC-5-doc-3.3(1)-CCl Existing and potential linkages with the CCl (Rev. 1)
ETMC-5-doc-3.3(2)-ETCCDI CCl/WCRP/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) (Rev. 1) - 3.4 - Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM)
- 4 - MARINE DATA AND CLIMATOLOGY WORKSHOPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- 4.1 - CLIMAR-4 outcome, recommendations, and follow up
ETMC-5.doc-4.1-CLIMAR-4 Outcome of CLIMAR-4 - 4.2 - Preparations for MARCDAT-4
- 5.1 - Review of MCDS developments
- 5.2 - Future of the Contributing and Responsible Members, and areas of responsibility
- 5.3 - Data Acquisition Centres (DACs), ToR, and candidates
- 5.4 - Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs), ToR, and candidates
- 5.5 - Centres for Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOCs)
- 5.5.1 - Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
- 5.5.2 - CMOC/China development status
- 5.6 - Updating of the Implementation Plan
- 6 - FORMATS AND QUALITY CONTROL
ETMC-5.doc-6(2)-IMMT-MQCS Status of the IMMT and MQCS - 6.1 - Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format
ETMC-5.doc-6(1) International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format (Rev. 1) - 6.2 - Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format
- 6.3 - Status of the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS)
- 6.4 - Higher level quality control
- 6.4.1 - Status of Higher Level Quality Control Standard (HQCS)
ETMC-5.doc-6.4(1) Higher level quality control
ETMC-5.doc-6.4(2)-IVAD Stage of the “advanced” (bias adjusted) ICOADS (Rev. 1) - 6.4.2 - Potential linkages with satellite data
- 6.4.3 - Status of the ICOADS Value-Added Database (IVAD) project
- 6.5 - Review of the BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data
ETMC-5.doc-6.5-BUFR Review of the BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data - 6.6 - Review of electronic logbooks
ETMC-5.doc-6.6 Review of electronic logbooks - 6.7 - Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal)
ETMC-5.doc-6.7 Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal) - 7 - DATA AND METADATA: ARCHEOLOGY AND ARCHIVAL
- 7.1 - Instrument/Platform metadata
ETMC-5.doc-7.1 Instrument/Platform metadata - 7.1.1 - Status of the WMO Ship Catalogue (WMO-No. 47)
- 7.1.2 - Buoy metadata
- 7.1.3 - Rig and platform metadata issues
- 7.1.4 - WIGOS Metadata
- 7.2 - Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.)
ETMC-5.doc-7.2 Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) - 7.3 - International marine data and metadata recovery
ETMC-5.doc-7.3-Data-Rescue International marine data and metadata rescue - 7.3.1 - RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data (RECLAIM) and related projects (ACRE, GODAR, HISKLIM, HISTOR, etc.)
- 7.3.2 - Lloyds commercial ship particulars
Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
---|---|---|---|
JCOMM-MR-122, ETMC-5-final-report | Fifth Session of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology, Final Report | 26/08/2015 |
|
Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
---|---|---|---|---|
Agenda | Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
WMO-558-Marine-Climatology | Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme chapter of the Manual on Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558) | 22/05/2015 |
|
|
WMO-471-Marine-Climatology | Marine Climatology chapter of the Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 471) | 22/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-1-MCDS-Strategy | MCDS Strategy | 06/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-2-CMOC-China-Eval | CMOC/China Evaluation Report | 06/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-3-CMOC-China-Visit | Report of the CMOC/China JCOMM visiting team | 17/06/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-4-558-471-Writing | WMO 558 and 471: Outline, Guidelines, and Writing Assignment | 06/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-5-Rec2-JCOMM4 | Recommendation 2 (JCOMM-4) - Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) | 06/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-6-JCOMM-4-Decisions | JCOMM-4 Decisions on Marine Climatology | 06/05/2015 |
|
|
ETMC-5-bck-7-CMOC-Criteria | CMOC Evaluation Criteria (IODE-22) | 06/05/2015 |
|
Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
---|---|---|---|
Code | Name | Updated on | Action |
ETMC-5-bck-8-Draft-JCOMM-TR-85 | Draft JCOMM TR No. 85 on MCDS | 06/05/2015 |
|
There are 12 participants associated with Fifth Session of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology (ETMC) .
Name | Country |
---|---|
ALLAN Rob | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
BERRY David | Switzerland |
BOYER Tim | United States of America |
CUNNINGHAM Fraser | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
FREEMAN Eric | United States of America |
GATES Lydia | Germany |
LIN Shao Hua | China |
MOK Hing-Yim | China |
OHNO Hiroshi | Japan |
SATO Olga | Brazil |
SOMOVA Svetlana | Russian Federation |
SWAIL Val | Canada |
WOODRUFF Scott | United States of America |
= Person has declined to participate or had their request to participate declined.
Participant Stats:
Total Invited: 13
Confirmed: 12
Not confirmed: 0
Unapproved: 0
Not-participating: 1
Rejected: 0
Label(s): no labels
Created at 14:49 on 09 Jan 2015 by Etienne Charpentier
Last Updated at 11:49 on 26 Aug 2015 by Etienne Charpentier