ET-OOFS-1

1st meeting of the Expert Team for Operational Ocean Forecast Systems

11 – 15 Nov 2008, Nice, France

Joint GODAE OceanView - JCOMM ET-OOFS meeting Tuesday 11 November 2008, 13:00-17:00 JCOMM ET-OOFS meeting Saturday 15 November 2008, 13:30-18:00

Notes

Purpose: Discuss the scope, terms of reference and plan for ET-OOFS

Objective(s): Confirm the scope and terms of reference
Define and agree to a task plan for 2009

Location

both meetings in Room <b>Gallieni 5</b>
Palais des Congrès Acropolis
Nice
France

Organisers and Staff

Organisers
Dr. Albert Fischer
Dr. Gary Brassington
I.1

Opening of Joint GODAE OceanView - JCOMM ET-OOFS meeting (13:00, 11 November)

I.2

Role, responsibilities and objectives (13:15)

I.2.1

ET-OOFS review

I.2.2

GODAE OceanVIEW

I.3

Development of a partnership (14:00)

I.3.1

Clarify points of potential duplication

I.3.2

Determine points for joint action

I.3.3

Leveraging the working groups to address ET-OOFS

I.3.4

Sharing knowledge - latest advances

I.3.5

Sharing knowledge - agency/stakeholder/servicing requirements

I.4

GOOS (14:45)

I.4.1

A joint plan for supporting satellite altimetry and other components of GOOS

I.4.2

Discuss JCOMM letter and call amongst the community. Role of JCOMM. What proactive actions are required? Coordination between the groups

I.5

Stakeholders (15:30)

I.5.1

Stakeholders - user communities

I.5.2

Providing a common voice when dealing with stakeholders

I.6

Joint Programs (16:00)

I.6.1

Monitoring of systems

I.6.1.1

Research intercomparisons vs. Operational monitoring

I.6.1.2

Progress of pilot project, translating proven elements to operational centre requirements

I.6.2

Observing systems vs. Operational observing system requirements

I.6.3

Outside groups

I.6.3.1

WGNE - engaging to develop benchmark standard for flux products

I.6.3.2

WMO - support adoption of recommendations for flux products

I.7

Close (17:00)

II.1

Opening of JCOMM-ET-OOFS-1 (13:30, 15 November)

II.10

Other business (17:30)

II.11

Next meeting (18:00)

II.2

JCOMM/SPA/ETs (13:45)

II.2.1

Overview of the structure and ToRs of the other groups within JCOMM

II.2.2

Presentation: DMPA (Keeley), Dexter?, Donlon?

II.3

Expert Team structure and partnerships (14:00)

II.3.1

Introduce Core Team, Experts

II.3.2

Review GODAE OceanView (follow-on) / ET-OOFS partnership

II.3.3

Discuss other key partnerships: DMPA, other ETs, OPA, WGNE

II.4

Terms of Reference (14:30)

II.4.1

Review specific issues of role, mandate, scope

II.4.2

Task: agree upon a set of revisions to the ToR document for JCOMM

II.4.3

Task: Confirm the membership of the team

II.5

Business (15:00)

II.5.1

What needs to be achieved by ET-OOFS?

II.5.2

When do things need to be achieved?

II.5.3

What are the measures of success?

II.6

Specific task: requirements for member agencies (15:30)

II.6.1

Discuss the criterion to establish for compliance to be recognized as an agency for ocean forecast services

II.6.2

Determine the process for proposing, endorsing and adoption of ET-OOFS recommendations

II.7

Specific task: nomenclature, symbology and standards (16:00)

II.7.1

Outline the current state of the art

II.7.2

Define the priority tasks for 2009

II.7.3

Nominate candidates to lead and address the tasks

II.8

Specific task: operational intercomparisons (16:30)

II.8.1

Review of the GODAE intercomparisons

II.8.2

Discuss a proposed subset for Operational monitoring

II.8.3

Define the priority tasks for 2009

II.8.4

Nominate candidates to lead and address the tasks

II.9

Special task: servicing (17:00)

II.9.1

Review of OOFS products and services

II.9.2

Review of user community requirements

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
I.1 SPA_ETOOFS_ ET-OOFS-1 Agenda
I.2.1 JCOMM/MAN-VI/Doc 3.3, SPA_ETOOFS_ Proposed SPA Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecast Systems (ET-OOFS)
II.4 SPA_ETOOFS_ Survey on ET-OOFS Terms of Reference, scope and agenda

Other Documents

Code Title
SPA_ETOOFS_ Overview of schedule for

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 2
Confirmed 19
Not Confirmed 0
Not-participating 0
Total 21
Groups: GOOS, IOC , JCOMM, OOS
Created at 13:17 on 29 September 2008 by Dr. Albert Fischer
Last Updated at 16:02 on 23 November 2010 by Mr. Sungmin O
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