Working together beyond GODAE for Operational Oceanography

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Working together beyond GODAEfor Operational
Oceanography

• Dr. Craig Donlon
• JCOMM Service Programme Area Coordinator
• The Met Office, United Kingdom

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Outline

• Introduction
• GODAE and JCOMM SPA since IGST XI
• Expert Team for Operational Ocean Forecasting
  Systems (ET-OOFS)
• Summary

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Services Program Area

• To coordinate and facilitate
• the sustained provision of global and regional
  coverage data products and services
• to address the continued and expanding
  requirements of the maritime user community
• for MetOcean services and information.
• Key challenge for the SPA integration of science
  standards into operational services supporting
  Maritime Safety, Emergency response, Disaster
  Risk Reduction and Maritime Hazards with full
  user support and interaction

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JCOMM Expert Teams

• These teams are for you and your needs
• ET members are Scientists not Operators
• ETs coordinate they dont do
• It is not the case that there is an Us
  (Researchers) and Them (Operational JCOMM
  heavies) separation

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The rapid rise of Operational Ocean Forecasting
Systems (OOFS)

• JCOMM has a functional community working towards
  full integration of OOFS
• OOFS is always now on the agenda at SPA meetings
  (MAES, MSS, SI, WS)
• There is a clear and growing user requirement for
  OOFS outputs
• Especially graphical forecasts of currents,
  surface drift and all information for emergencies
• The OOFS is the integrator of JCOMM and has a
  pivotal role to play in the future of JCOMM

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JCOMM Ocean Services (GODAE)
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User Feedback
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Key GODAE work-plan priorities include JCOMM

• GODAE Products
• In collaboration with JCOMM, product
  standardisation will be developed and
  interoperability between systems ensured.
• Transition from demonstration to operational
  systems
• GODAE will work with JCOMM to define its role for
  operational oceanography. Examples of transition
  to operations for the different nations will be
  promoted.
• Observing Systems
• The most critical issue for GODAE is the
  sustainability of the global observing system -
  especially satellite components. JCOMM -OPA

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Rapporteur for Operational Oceanographic
Forecasting Systems

• Terms of Reference
• Provide advice on operational ocean forecasting
  system requirements and outputs
• Provide advice on the standards and nomenclature
  used by operational ocean forecasting systems
• To act as a focal point and JCOMM SPA
  representative at GODAE meetings
• To advice on the limitations and strengths of
  operational ocean forecasting systems.

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Future of IGST RD

• The RD component should be managed as a
  Scientific group that feeds recommendations to
  the formal JCOMM group
• Mechanism well established and effective for
  other ETs (e.g. Sea Ice)
• The IGST members could remain doing the science
  as part of the IOC Ocean Sciences Working Group
  on Marine Modelling

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JCOMM activities to pull through GODAE RD to
operations

• Proposal has been accepted to harness the legacy
  of the GODAE program in an ET-Operational Ocean
  Forecasting Systems.
• Such a team is well placed to coordinate legacy
  GODAE activities including
• the ocean forecast system inter-comparison
  project,
• the management of the GODAE metrics technical
  documentation,
• the GODAE symbology and nomenclature for ocean
  forecast systems,
• a Guide to ocean forecast systems of the world
  and their outputs (GODAE-IP),
• defining and refining observation requirements
  and data management requirements.

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Top Level Objective

• To inject the rigor and discipline of the
  Meteorological Systems into Operational
  Oceanography

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ToR for ET-OOFS

• Develop and maintain 'The Guide to Operational
  Oceanographic Forecasting systems of the World"
• Provide advice to JCOMM teams and member states
  on the application, nomenclature, symbology and
  standards used by operational ocean forecasting
  systems
• Develop and operate an inter-comparison framework
  for NRT monitoring of OOFS outputs building on
  the legacy of GODAE
• Work effectively with the Scientific community
  developing and maintaining OOFS (e.g., GODAE and
  GODAE follow on)
• Provide observation requirements for OOFS to the
  JCOMM Observations Programme Area (OPA)
• Provide advice to the JCOMM Data Management
  Programme Areas (DMPA)
• Provide advice to Members/Member States on
  operational Ocean Forecast systems.

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IGST Co-Chair comments to SPA on ET-OOFS ToR

• The following points were provided by the GODAE
  Co-Chairs
• ET-OOFS and any future GODAE/IGST follow-on
  science group ToRs should be coordinated.
• The IGST has developed and maintains, with annual
  updates, coordinated technical descriptions of
  ocean forecast systems of the world that provide
  a foundation for the proposed ET-OOFS OOFS of the
  world
• The JCOMM ET-OOFS should coordinate and develop
  an inter-comparison framework building on GODAE
• The membership and work-load of the ET-OOFS and
  any follow on GODAE/IGST type activity should be
  coordinated

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Proposed Structure of ET-OOFS

• Membership ET-OOFS should comprise of
• 1 Chair
• 5 members covering the following areas of
  expertise
• Ocean Forecast systems,
• data assimilation using ocean models,
• satellite and in situ data requirements for ocean
  models,
• operational model inter-comparisons
• Additional experts (up to 20) may be considered
  to represent ocean forecasting systems/groups
• Ad hoc members (up to 20) representing ocean
  forecasting systems/groups

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ET-OOFS Timeline

• Presented and approved at JCOMM MAN-VI, Paris
  December 2007
• Chair (G Brassington) selected and appointed
  March 2008
• Initial team needs to be agreed now (here?)
• Inaugural meeting planned in November 2008 two
  days before GODAE symposium
• Need an agenda ASAP
• Formal presentation at the JCOMM-III, Commission,
  Casablanca, Morocco, September 2009

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Summary

• JCOMM provides overall governance of standards
  for operational oceanography
• GODAE has greatly assisted the development of the
  SPA that should continue in a formal manner

• Implementing a new ET-OOFS to transition GODAE
  into the International Operational JCOMM system
• Will work with post GODAE RD groups in Ocean
  Sciences and Marine Modelling
• Request IGST to endorse this approach and to work
  together with the JCOMM SPA ET-OOFS for the
  common benefit of OpOc.