Third Joint GOSUD/SAMOS Workshop

04 May 2010

UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61

B-8400 Oostende
Belgium

Annotated Agenda

1. OPENING OF THE SESSION
1.1. Session arrangements
1.2. Adoption of the agenda
1.3. Designation of a rapporteur
1.4. Logistics arrangements
2. OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP
3. PROJECT OVERVIEW
3.1. Status of the project
3.2. Status of the Network
3.3. Status of the data stream
3.4. Report from the GDAC-Coriolis
3.5. Report from the global data archival -US NODC
4. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE PROJECT (INTRODUCTION)
5. DATA EXCHANGES
5.1. Data format: adoption of the NetCDF V2 format
5.2. Data format: future evolutions
5.3. Role of the GTS within the project
5.4. BUFR format
5.5. Metadata
5.6. Data distribution
5.7. Agree on a simple format to submit data to the Project
6. PROCESSING TOOLS AVAILABLE
6.1. IRD Processing tools
6.2. Others. Possible distribution of tools
7. DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT
7.1. Quality of the data
7.2. Reports from National Data centres
7.3. Distribution of Quality control tasks
8. DATA USERS
8.1. Sciences users
8.2. Satellite validation
8.3. Operational Oceanography
9. NEW CONTRIBUTIONS
9.1. Enlarging the network
9.1.1. Cruises of sailing ships
9.1.2. Research vessels: the EUproject Eurofleet
10. PRODUCTS
11. GOSUD VISIBILITY
12. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE PROJECT (CONTINUED AND ADOPTION)
13. CONCLUSIONS
14. NEW STEERING TEAM OR CHAIR/CO-CHAIR
15. CLOSING OF THE SESSION