Opening of the workshop (Abdalah NASSIF, Morocco)

The Laboratory Calibration of the Wave Height and Period Measurements from the Gravitational Acceleration Wave Buoys (Jianging YU, China)

Quality Control Routines for Marine Instrument Data Distributed in Real-Time (Walt MCCALL, USA)

Preparation and Calibration of Argo floats (Mathieu BELBEOCH, JCOMMOPS)

General discussion and conclusion

Marine observations and JCOMM contirbution to WIGOS (Etienne Charpentier, WMO)

National Presentations

Algeria

Libya

Morocco

Tunisia

Discussion on the national marine observation capabilities and instrument calibration and testing requirements in the sub-region

Regional Marine Instrument Centres (RMIC)

Activities of the RMIC for the Regional Association IV (Walt MCCALL, USA)

Activities of the RMIC for the Asia Pacific region (Aina WU, China)

Discussion on the development of the RMIC for RA-I, and future collaborations within RA-I in this regard

Discussion on future collaborations between RMICs

State of the art of in situ Sea Surface Temperature (SST) measurement (David Meldrum, UK)

Calibration of Sea Surface Temperature Sensors (Mounir AZZIZ, Morocco)

Infrastructure and instruments of a standard laboratory, including visit and tour of MétéoMaroc facilities, and hand-on work (Mounir AZZIZ, Morocco)

An Automatic Weather System for the Marine Environment (Rydall JARDINE, South Africa)

Wave height and mean water level measurement of a fixed platform (Henri KARANJA; Kenya)