Twentieth Session of the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate

14 - 17 March 2017,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole, MA 02543
United States



Agenda



1 Welcome and Opening
1.1 Opening from Co-Chairs and Welcome from WHOI Director, Mark Abbot
1.2 Discuss/Accept Agenda
1.3 Progress since OOPC-19
2 Programmatic Priorities
2.1 Global Climate Observing System
2.2 Global Ocean Observing System
3 Research and Development
3.1 World Climate Research Programme
4 Systems based Reviews and Evaluations
4.1. Tropical Pacific Observing System (TPOS 2020)
4.2 AtlantOS progress, towards and Integrated Atlantic Observing System
4.3 Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS) Review
4.4 Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS)
4.5 Evaluating Multidisciplinary Observing System Requirements: Outcomes from the IMSOO Workshop
4.6 Connecting up the Coastal Zone
4.7 Air Sea Fluxes
4.8 Polar Seas
5 Approaches to Assessing Observing System Performance and Evaluation
6 Supporting sustained observing systems
6.1 JCOMM Observations Coordination Group
6.2 G7 Oceans Compact
6.3 Webinar: Are we there yet? 20+ years of looking for the Ocean Observing System for Climate
7 Discussion: Future Prioirities, work plan update, what we want to deliver for OceanObs19
8 Summary of Decisions, Actions