ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION

Opening of the Session

Adoption of the Agenda

• Provisional Agenda (Rev. 3)
• Provisional Annotated Agenda (Rev. 2)

Working Arrangements

• Documentation Plan (Rev. 3)
• Provisional Time Table (Rev. 4)

MONITORING, CODING AND DATA MANAGEMENT

Monitoring and data centre reports

VOS Monitoring Report from the Exeter (UK) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC)

Monitoring Report from the Real-Time Monitoring Centre (RTMC) for the VOS Climate (VOSClim) data

ASAP QC Monitoring report

• ASAP quality monitoring reports- Appendix A (ECMWF report)
• ASAP quality monitoring reports- Appendix B (Meteo France report)
• ASAP Quality Monitoring Reports (Rev. 1)

Global temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)

Global Ocean Surface Underway data Pilot Project (GOSUD)

Marine Climate Data System (MCDS)

Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) report on the VOS

VOSClim Data Assembly Centre (DAC) report

Operational Coding requirements

BUFR Template for VOS data

BUFR Template and implementation for XBT/XCTD/TSG data

SOOP, GO-SHIP, and ASAP metadata requirements

SOT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

• Draft updated SOT Implementation Strategy
• SOT Implementation Strategy

ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS

Review the Terms of Reference of the SOT, VOSP and SOOPIP

Review of the SOT Management Team (including the role of the SOT Technical Co ordinator)

Funding issues (SOT Technical Co-ordinator, Trust Funds)

SOT annual report format

NATIONAL REPORTS

• National Reports
• SOT Indian Initiatives
• China National Report
• SOT-8 NR Australia
• SOT-8 NR China
• SOT8-NR- France
• SOT-8 NR Germany
• SOT-8 NR Greece
• SOT-8 NR Hong Kong
• SOT-8 NR India
• SOT-8 NR Japan
• SOT-8 NR Netherlands
• SOT-8 NR UK
• SOT-8 NR USA

NEXT SESSION OF THE SOT

REVIEW OF THE SOT-8 SESSION REPORT, ACTION ITEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

CLOSURE OF THE SESSION

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, NEW DEVELOPMENTS

REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIAT, OPA COORDINATOR, SOT CHAIRPERSON, and JCOMMOPS

Report from the Secretariat (incl. relationship with IMO)

Report from the Observations Programme Area Coordinator

Report from the SOT Chairperson

Report from JCOMMOPS (incl. from the SOT Technical Coordinator)

REVIEW OF PENDING ACTION ITEMS FROM SOT-7

REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP-BASED OBSERVATIONS

GCOS / GOOS / WCRP Ocean Observations for Physics and Climate (OOPC)

Rolling Review of Requirements update

REPORTS BY THE ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMES

International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP)

Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Project

Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Programme (GO SHIP)

Group for High-Resolution SST (GHRSST)

World Ocean Council

OceanScope

Ferrybox

Other associated programmes

RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE TASK TEAMS AND PILOT PROJECTS

Task Team on Satellite Communication Systems

Task Team on ASAP

Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion

• Draft VOS Brochure
• Draft VOS Poster
• The VOS Scheme, a Framework Document, draft revised version (REV3)

Task Team on Metadata for WMO-No. 47

Task Team on Instrument Standards

Task Team on Call Sign Masking and Encoding

Task Team on Training

VOS Ancillary Pilot Project

NINETH SESSION OF THE VOS PANEL (VOSP-9)

VOS Programme activity reports

Report by the VOSP Chairperson

SOT Technical Coordinator report on VOS support activities

VOS Programme status reports

VOS status report

VOS participation

Metadata – status & completion

KPI compliances

VOS Data coverage

E-SURFMAR Expert Team on VOS status report

Status report

E-SURFMAR Metadata database

VOS Donation Programme

VOS Developments

Electronic logbooks

Electronic logbooks software status

Electronic logbook developments (TurboWin, TurboWeb & TurboWin+)

VOS meteorological instruments

VOS automation Status

E-SURFMAR - EUCAWS developments

AMOS developments

Other AWS developments

PMO Status and activities

Role of the PMO

VOS & AWS inspection reports - implications of automation

VOS Issues

VOS Classes

Future composition of the international VOS fleets

Upgrading to VOSClim standards

Third party data and non-VOS support ships

VOS website

ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE SOOP IMPLEMENTATION PANEL (SOOPIP-11)

SOOP Programme activity reports

Report by the SOOPIP Chairperson

SOT Technical Coordinator report on SOOP support activities

XBT Science Team

Programme status and implementation

Status of SOOP implementation

XBT sampling transect occupation

Ship riders in High Density deployments

XBT Ship Recruitment

Interactions with other SOOP sampling programmes and activities

pCO2 systems

Thermosalinograph Network

Developments and plans for the SOOP

XBT Fall Rate Equation (FRE) advancements

Fall Rate Equation Experiments for Depth Offsets

Review of the XBT network

Data Management

XBT Data Flow and Transmission

Southern Ocean Data

International Quality controlled Ocean Data Base (IQUOD)