Sixth Session of the JCOMM Expert Team on Marine Climatology

19 - 20 July 2016,

National Oceanography Centre, Channel Coast Observatory, Southampton
University of Southampton
Waterfront Campus
European Way

Southampton
SO14 3ZH
United Kingdom

Annotated Agenda

1 Organization of the Session
1.1 Opening
1.2 Adoption of the Agenda
1.3 Working Arrangements
2 JCOMM Aspects and Reports
2.1 Report by ETMC Chair
2.2 JCOMM Management Committee and Data Management Coordination Group
3 Marine Climate Data System Top Priorities
3.1 Review of MCDS developments, data and metadata, and WIGOS, platform data
3.2 Future of the Contributing and Responsible Members, and areas of responsibility
3.3 Data Acquisition Centres (DACs), ToR, and candidates
3.4 Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs), ToR, and candidates (GCCs), a formal procedure, make sure no divergent documents
3.5.4 Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO No. 558 and 471)
3.5 Centres for Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOCs)
3.5.1 Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
3.5.2 CMOC/China Development Status
3.5.3 CMOC ICOADS and WOD application status
3.6 Updating of the Implementation Plan
4 Formats and Quality Control
4.1 Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format
4.2 Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format, and formalize it
4.3 Status of the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS, how to formalize)
4.4 Higher level quality control
4.4.1 Status of Higher Level Quality Control Standard
5 Considerations of MARCDAT-4 Recommendations
5.1 Recommendations by 20 July
5.2 Recommendations MARCDAT-4 pending by conclusion of the workshop
6 Information Exchange
6.1 ETMC/MCDS websites
6.2 Other Media
7 Review of Action Items
8 Closure of the Session