DBCP-29

29th Data Buoy Cooperation Panel Session

23 – 27 Sep 2013, Paris cedex 07, France

The 29th Session of the JCOMM Data Buoy Co-operation Panel (DBCP)

will be held at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris France, from 23 - 28 September 2013. The first day of the session will feature the Science and Technology Workshop of the DBCP. DBCP-29 will be followed by the 33rd Meeting of the Argos Joint Tariff Agreement (JTA-33), 30 Sept. - 2 Oct. The theme of the 2013 DBCP Science and Technology Workshop will be "Buoy Science and Technology". Presentation submissions are welcome. Abstract deadline for the workshop is 31 July 2013. For more information see S&T Workshop Announcement

Details of Venue Hotels and Transportation

The DBCP-XXIX will be held at UNESCO Headquarters Annex (1 rue Miollis) in Salle XIII, Bonvin Bldg, Please see the visting IOC page for hotel suggestions, visa requirements, and directions to the venue A cash-bar reception will be arranged to follow the S&T workshop for Monday Night. A Self-Funded Dinner will be arranged for Wednesday night following the sessions. Details will be resolved and presented at the meeting.

Location

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy

75732 Paris cedex 07
France

Organisers and Staff

Staff
Mrs Irene Gazagne
Mr. Etienne Charpentier
Dr Thomas Gross
Ms Simonetta Secco
1

Opening and Welcome of the DBCP Session

10

Information Reports

10.1

Argo Steering Team and Argo Information Centre

10.2

Buoy data management centres

10.3

Argos operations and developments

10.4

Iridium operations and developments

11

Organizational Issues

11.1

JCOMMOPS Activities

11.2

JCOMM & JCOMMOPS

11.3

Decisions of WMO & IOC governing bodies

11.4

User requirments

11.5

WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS)

11.6

Financial Reports

12

Report and Recommendations from the Executive Session

12.1

Update DBCP Implementation Plan

12.2

Update DBCP Operating Principles

14

Election of the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson

15

Adoption of the Session Report

16

Dates and Places for the Next Session

17

Closure of the Session

2

Scientific and Technical Workshop

3

Opening of the DBCP Business Session

3.2

Working arrangements

4

Reports by the Chairperson, Vice-Chairpersons, and the Executive Board

5

Report by the Technical Coordinator

6

Reports by the Task Teams

6.1

Task Team on Data Management (TT-DM)

6.2

Task Team on Instrument Best Practices and Drifter Technology Development (TT-IBPD)

6.3

Task Team on Moored Buoys (TT-MB)

6.4

Task Team on Capacity Building (TT-CB)

7

Reports by the Action Groups

8

Pilot Projects

8.1

Progress Report on Pilot Project on the Impact of SLP from Drifters on NWP

8.2

Progress Report on Pilot Project on Wave Measurement Evaluation and Test From Moored and Drifting Buoys

8.3

Progress Report on Pilot Project for High Resolution SST

9

Issues for the Panel

9.1

Information Exchange

9.2

Deployment opportunities and strategies

9.3

Data timeliness

9.4

Vandalism

9.5

Metadata

Report Documents

Code Title
JCOMM-MR-106 DBCP-29-doc-15 Sessional Report DBCP-29 Sessional Report

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
10.1 DBCP-29-doc-10.1-Argo REPORT BY THE ARGO PROGRAMME
10.2 DBCP-29-doc-10.2-DriftingBuoyManagement Data Buoy Management Centers
10.3 DBCP-29-Doc-10.3-Argos Argos Operations and Developments
10.4 DBCP-29-doc-10.4-Iridium DBCP-29 Iridium operations and developments
11.1 DBCP-29-doc-11.1-JCOMMOPS-Activity JCOMMOPS: Activity Report
11.2 DBCP-29-doc-11.2-JCOMM-JCOMMOPS JCOMM & JCOMMOPS
11.3 DBCP-29-doc-11.3-WMO-IOC-ExecBodies REPORT ON DECISIONS OF WMO AND IOC GOVERNING BODIES
11.4 DBCP-29-doc-11.4-User Requirements DBCP-29 User Requirements
11.5 DBCP-29-Doc-11.5-WIGOS WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS)
11.6 DBCP-29-doc-11.6-Financial-Report Financial Report
12.1 DBCP-29-doc-12-1-DBCPImplementationPlan2013 Global Data Buoy Obsevations A DBCP Implementation Strategy 12th Edition
12.2 DBCP-29-doc-12-2-DBCP-Operating-Principles OPERATING PRINCIPLES OF THE DATA BUOY CO-OPERATION PANEL (DBCP)
13 DBCP-29-INF7 Format for DBCP National Report
13 DBCP-29-doc-13-NationalReports DBCP-29 National Reports
2 DBCP-29-INF6 DBCP-29 SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP TIMETABLE and ABSTRACTS
3.1 DBCP-29-Doc-3-1-1-Agenda DBCP-29 Agenda
3.1 DBCP-29-Doc-3-1(2)-AnnotatedAgenda DBCP-29 Annotated Provisional Agenda
3.1 DBCP-29-INF2 DBCP-29 Time Table
4 DBCP-29-doc-4-Chair-ViceChair-Reports REPORTS BY THE CHAIRPERSON, VICE CHAIRPERSONS, AND THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
5 DBCP-29-doc-5-TechCoordinator REPORT BY THE TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR
6.1 DBCP-29-doc-6.1-TT-DM REPORT BY THE TASK TEAM ON DATA MANAGEMENT (TT-DM)
6.2 DBCP-29-doc-6.2-WG-DBP Report by Working Group on Drifter Best Practices
6.3 DBCP-29-doc-6.3-TT-MB REPORT BY THE TASK TEAM ON MOORED BUOYS (TT-MB
6.4 DBCP-29-doc-6.4-TT-CapacityBuilding REPORT BY THE TASK TEAM ON CAPACITY-BUILDING (TT-CB
7 DBCP-29-doc-7-ActionGroups REPORTS BY THE DBCP ACTION GROUPS 2013
8.1 DBCP-29-Doc-8.1-PP-SLP-NWP REPORT ON THE PILOT PROJECT ON THE IMPACT OF SLP FROM DRIFTERS ON NWP
8.2 DBCP-29-doc-8.2-PP-WET Progress Report on Pilot Project on Wave Measurement Evaluation and Test From Moored and Drifting Buoys
8.3 DBCP-29-doc-8.3 PP-HRSST DBCP-29 Pilot Project for High Resolution SST (PP-HRSST)
9.1 DBCP-29-doc-9.1-Information Exchange INFORMATION EXCHANGE
9.2 DBCP-29-doc-9.2-DeploymentOps DEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
9.3 DBCP-29-doc-9.3-GTS-Timeliness GTS DATA BUOY REPORTS TIMELINESS
9.4 DBCP-29-doc-9.4-Vandalism REPORT BY VANDALISM WORKING GROUP
9.5 DBCP-29-doc-9.5-Metadata COLLECTION OF INSTRUMENT/PLATFORM METADATA

Event Documents

Code Title
DBCP-29-PPT-10.1 DBCP-29 Information Report Argo
DBCP-29-PPT-10.2 DBCP-29 Information Report buoy data management centers
DBCP-29-PPT-10.3 DBCP-29 Information Report Argos Operations and Developments
DBCP-29-PPT-10.4 DBCP-29 Information Report Iridium operations and developments
DBCP-29-PPT-11.1 dbcp-29 Org Issues JCOMMOPS Activities
DBCP-29-PPT-11.2 dbcp-29 Org Issues JCOMM and JCOMMOPS
DBCP-29-PPT-11.3 dbcp-29 Org Issues WMO & IOC Governing Bodies
DBCP-29-PPT-11.4 dbcp-29 Org Issues User Requirements WMO RRR / GOOS-OOPC
DBCP-29-PPT-11.5 dbcp-29 Org IssuesWMO Integrated Global Observing Systems
DBCP-29-PPT-11.6 dbcp-29 Org Issues Financial Reports
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 USA Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 Ukraine Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 UK Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 New Zealand Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 China Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 CanadaReport
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 Brazil Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 Australia Report
DBCP-29-PPT-National Report DBCP-29 India Report
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech CTD profiling on a surface mooring in the upper 500 m for ENSO observations
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 20 Features of GPS use on Argos-2 and Iridium
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T18 Tracking MesoScale Eddies Across the Southern Mozambique Channel Using Argo Float Technology
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 17 New Observations of Subsurface Thermal Saline and Current Structure for the Arabian Sea From Omni Buoys
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 16 Canadian Arctic Buoy Array (CABA)
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 15 Drifting Characteristics of SVP Drifters in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 14 Waver Measurement Comparisons From Moored Buoys and Light Vessels
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 13 Identifying Drifter Deployment Values Based on Key Factors that Affect Drifter Lifetimes
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 12 Capacity of HRSST-2 Buoys to measure SST with a High Degree of Accuracy
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 11 Development of Mooring of a Brazilian Prototype of the TAO/PIRATA Atlas Buoy
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 10 A New Global Surface Current Climatology, with Application to the Hawaiian Island Region Lead
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 09 The Response of the Surface Circulaiton of the Arabian Sea to Monsoonal Forcing
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 08 2013 SVP Drifter Developments at SIO
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 07 A Wind Profiling Platform for Offshore Wind Measurements and Assessment
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 06 The Ekman Current Observed from Drifters in the Northeast Pacific
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 05 Partnerships and Capacity Building
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 04 Evaluating Drifter and Drogue Lifetimes for Various Manufacturers
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 03 Investigation of Recent Reduced Life Spans of GDP Drifters
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 02 Optimizing Argos PMT Settings for Drifting Buoys
DBCP-29-PPT-Sci Tech DBCP-29 S&T 01 Status and Performance of MetOcean Iridium Drifting Buoys
DBCP-29-PPT-05.0 Report by the Technical Coordinator
DBCP-29-PPT-06.1 DBCP-29 Task Team Data Management
DBCP-29-PPT-06.2 TT-IBPD
DBCP-29-PPT-06.3 DBCP-29 Task Team on Moored Buoys
DBCP-29-PPT-06.4 DBCP-29 Capacity Building Task Team (TT-CB)
DBCP-29-PPT-07.1 DBCP-29 Action Group E-SURFMAR
DBCP-29-PPT-07.10 DBCP-29 Action Group ITP
DBCP-29-PPT-07.2 DBCP-29 Action Group GDP
DBCP-29-PPT-07.3 DBCP-29 Action Group IABP
DBCP-29-PPT-07.4 DBCP-29 Action Group IBPIO
DBCP-29-PPT-07.5 DBCP-29 Action Group IPAB
DBCP-29-PPT-07.6 DBCP-29 Action Group ISABP
DBCP-29-PPT-07.7 DBCP-29 Action Group NPDBAP SOC
DBCP-29-PPT-07.8 DBCP-29 Action Group OceanSITES
DBCP-29-PPT-07.9 DBCP-29 Action Group TIP
DBCP-29-PPT-08.1 DBCP-29 Pilot Project SLP
DBCP-29-PPT-08.2 DBCP-29 Pilot Project WET
DBCP-29-PPT-08.3 DBCP-29 Pilot Project HRSST
DBCP-29-PPT-09.1 DBCP-29 Issues Information Exchange
DBCP-29-PPT-09.2 DBCP-29 Issues Deployment Opportunities and Strategies
DBCP-29-PPT-09.3 DBCP-29 Issues Data Timeliness
DBCP-29-PPT-09.4 DBCP-29 Issues Vandalism
DBCP-29-PPT-09.5 DBCP-29 Issues Metadata

Background Documents

Code Title
DBCP-29-INF1 DBCP-29 Documentation Plan
DBCP-29-INF9 DBCP-29 Local Arrangements and Social Events
DBCP-29-INF7 Format for DBCP National Report
DBCP-29-INF5 Scientific and Technical Workshop of the 29th DBCP
DBCP-29-Other-ITP-Australia Australian tsunameter network Status report to the International Tsunameter Partnership 2013
DBCP-29-INF8 Template for the Report by the DBCP Action Groups to the 29th Session of the DBCP

Other Documents

Code Title
JCOMM-MR-093, DBCP-28-Final-Report Twenty-eighth Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP)

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 4
Confirmed 71
Not Confirmed 0
Not-participating 1
Total 75
Groups: GOOS, IOC, JCOMM
Created at 10:58 on 19 February 2013 by OceanExpert Manager
Last Updated at 09:09 on 15 July 2015 by OceanExpert Manager
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