3rd meeting of the Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges

18 - 22 May 2010,

Hyatt Regency Hotel
370 King Street West

Toronto ON M5V1J9
Canada

Annotated Agenda

1 Opening of the Session
1.1 Opening
1.2 Adoption of the agenda
1.3 Working arrangements
2 Reports
2.1 Report of the Services Programme Area Coordinator
2.2 Report of the Chairperson of the Team
2.3 Report of the Secretariat
3 Activities
3.1 Operational wave forecast verification project
3.2 Extreme wave database
3.3 Storm Surge Climatologies
3.4 WMO Coastal Inundation and Forecasting Demonstration Project
3.5 WMO Storm Surge Watch Scheme
3.6 UNESCO-IOC Enhancing regional capabilities for Coastal Hazards Forecasting and Data Portal Systems
3.7 ESA R&D project on storm surge application
4 Guides and relevant publications
4.1 Guides
4.1.1 Guide to Wave Analysis and Forecasting
4.1.2 Guide to Storm Surge Forecasting
4.1.3 Dynamic parts of the Guides
4.2 Technical Reports
4.3 JCOMM Services Web Page
5 Observations Requirements
5.1 DBCP Pilot Projects
5.1.1 PP WET
5.1.2 PP WMD
5.2 WMO Rolling Review of Requirements (Wave measurements)
5.3 Wave Measurement issues (BUFR, CIMO Guide)
5.3.1 Wave Measurement Issues - BUFR
5.3.1(1) Wave Measurement Issues - 2
5.3.2 WMO Publication No. 8 - Guide to Meteorological instruments and Methods of Observation
5.4 OceanObs 09
6 Workshops and Capacity Building
6.1 Technology Transfer
6.1.1 Storm Surge Symposium (Follow-up)
6.1.2 JCOMM Training Workshops
6.1.3 Development of e-learning modules (Ocean Teacher, Bilko)
6.2 Other workshops and conferences
7 Cooperation with other JCOMM Bodies
7.1 Expert Team on Maritime Safety Services (ETMSS)
7.2 Expert Team on Marine Climatology (ETMC)
7.3 Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems (ETOOFS)
8 Cooperation with other WMO/IOC and International Programmes
8.1 WMO Tropical Cyclone Programme (TCP)
8.2 WMO Disaster Risk Reduction Programme (DRR)
8.3 UNESCO-IOC Integrated Coastal Area Management (ICAM)
9 Organizational Matters
9.1 Review of ETWS Terms of Reference
10 Review of the Intersessional workplan
11 Any Other Business (AOB)
12 Review of ETWS-III session report and action items
13 Closure of the session