Hobart
Australia
| 1 | ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1 | Opening of the Session |
| 1.2 | Adoption of the Agenda |
| 1.3 | Working Arrangements |
| 2 | SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, NEW DEVELOPMENTS |
| 3 | REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIAT, OPA COORDINATOR, SOT CHAIRPERSON AND SOT TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR |
| 3.1 | Report from the Secretariat |
| 3.2 | Report from the Observations Programme Area Coordinator |
| 3.3 | Report from the SOT Chairperson |
| 3.4 | Report from the SOT Technical Co-ordinator |
| 4 | REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS FROM SOT-V |
| 5 | REPORTS ON ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP-BASED OBSERVATIONS |
| 5.1 | Requirements for ship-based observations |
| 5.1.1 | GCOS / GOOS / WCRP Ocean Observing Panel for Climate (OOPC) |
| 5.1.2 | Rolling Review of Requirements update |
| 5.2 | Reports by associated programmes |
| 5.2.1 | International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) |
| 5.2.2 | Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Project |
| 5.2.3 | Ferrybox Project |
| 5.2.4 | Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Programme (GO SHIP) |
| 5.2.5 | Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Group 133 'OceanScope' |
| 5.2.6 | Group for High-Resolution SST (GHRSST) |
| 5.2.7 | Other associated programmes |
| 6 | REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE TASK TEAMS |
| 6.1 | Task Team on Satellite Communication Systems |
| 6.2 | Task Team on ASAP |
| 6.3 | Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion |
| 6.4 | Task Team on Metadata for WMO-No. 47 |
| 6.5 | Task Team on Instrument Standards |
| 6.6 | Task Team on Call Sign Masking and Encoding |
| 6.7 | Task Team on VOSClim |
| 7 | SEVENTH SESSION OF THE VOS PANEL (VOSP-VII) |
| 7.1 | PROGRAMME REVIEW |
| 7.1.1. | Report by the VOSP Chairperson |
| 7.1.2 | Recommendations from the Fourth International PMO workshop |
| 7.1.3 | Report on the E-SURFMAR VOS Technical Advisory Group (VOS-TAG) |
| 7.2 | PROGRAMME STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION |
| 7.2.1 | VOS status, trends and developments |
| 7.2.2 | VOS automation and electronic logbook software |
| 7.2.3 | Review of WMO and related publications |
| 7.3 | ISSUES FOR THE VOS |
| 7.3.1 | Report on trial of IMO numbers as REAL |
| 7.3.2 | IMO – report on WMO / IMO actions, progress on MSC circular, etc. |
| 7.3.3 | Technology challenges (AIS, LRIT, etc.) |
| 8 | NINTH SESSION OF THE SOOP IMPLEMENTATION PANEL (SOOPIP-IX) |
| 8.1 | PROGRAMME REVIEW |
| 8.1.1 | Report by the SOOPIP Chairperson |
| 8.1.2 | Outcome and recommendations from the XBT Bias and Fall-rate Workshop |
| 8.1.3 | Report by the SOOP Science Team |
| 8.2 | PROGRAMME STATUS AND IMPLEMENTATION |
| 8.2.1 | Status of SOOP implementation |
| 8.2.2 | Review of the sampling scheme according to user requirements |
| 8.2.3 | Review of XBT transect responsibilities and International Collaborations |
| 8.2.4 | Operational XBT systems and development |
| 8.2.5 | Other ocean underway observation operations (TSG, pCO2, etc.) |
| 8.3 | ISSUES FOR THE SOOP |
| 8.3.1 | Reporting of SOOP observations in real-time onto the GTS |
| 8.3.2 | New technologies |
| 8.3.3 | Partnerships and integration of other programmes with SOOP |
| 8.3.4 | XBT biases |
| 8.3.5 | World Ocean Atlas (WOA) |
| 9 | MONITORING, CODING AND DATA MANAGEMENT |
| 9.1 | Monitoring and data centre reports |
| 9.1.1 | VOS Monitoring Report from the Exeter (UK) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) |
| 9.1.2 | Monitoring Report from the Real-Time Monitoring Centre (RTMC) for the VOSClim project |
| 9.1.3 | Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) report on the VOS and VOSClim |
| 9.1.4 | VOSClim Data Assembly Centre (DAC) report |
| 9.1.5 | ASAP QC Monitoring report |
| 9.1.6 | Global temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) |
| 9.1.7 | Global Ocean Surface Underway data Pilot Project (GOSUD) |
| 9.1.8 | Global temperature data distribution by Coriolis |
| 9.2 | Coding requirements |
| 9.2.1 | BUFR Template for VOS data |
| 9.2.2 | BUFR Template for XBT/XCTD data |
| 9.2.3 | BUFR coding requirements for other types of data (e.g. TSG) |
| 9.3 | Metadata requirements |
| 9.4 | Review of the Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme (MCSS) |
| 10 | FUTURE WORK PROGRAMME |
| 10.1 | Partnership and integration with other ship-based observation programmes |
| 10.2 | WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) |
| 11 | SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE |
| 11.1 | Telecommunication facilities |
| 11.1.1 | INMARSAT and IMSO |
| 11.1.2 | EUMETSAT |
| 11.1.3 | Argos |
| 11.1.4 | Iridium |
| 11.1.5 | Review of satellite data telecommunication systems |
| 11.2 | JCOMM in situ Observations Programme Support Centre (JCOMMOPS) |
| 12 | PROGRAMME PROMOTION, AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE |
| 12.1 | SOT Annual Report |
| 12.2 | Websites |
| 12.3 | Focal Point mailing lists |
| 12.4 | Publications and brochures |
| 13 | ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS |
| 13.1 | Review the Terms of Reference of the SOT, VOSP and SOOPIP |
| 13.2 | Review of the SOT Management Team (including the role of the SOT |
| 13.3 | Funding issues (SOT Technical Co-ordinator, Ship Consumables Trust Fund, ASAP Trust Fund) |
| 14 | NATIONAL REPORTS |
| 15 | NEXT SESSION OF THE SOT |
| 16 | REVIEW OF THE SOT-VI SESSION REPORT, ACTION ITEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
| 17 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |