Our suggestions

1
Post GODAE Content

• Our suggestions
• Our ambitions
• What we should keep from GODAE
• Core activities
• Working groups
• Relationship with ET-OOFS
• Terms of reference
• Leadership
• Refresh of Members
• Ownership
• Duration
• Project Office funding

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Our ambitions

• Transition to operational systems from the
  demonstration of valuable services to the
  provision of operational services with high
  availability and reliability.
• Continuous improvements of systems through
  scientific technological advances extend
  existing capabilities to the coastal zone and
  ecosystems. Coupled ocean/atmosphere. Climate.
• Develop operational services and further links
  with applications
• Ensure a suitable sustained ocean observing
  system through the demonstration of the value of
  observations.

3
What we should keep

• Characteristics of IGST team
• focus on scientific advances for operational
  application
• Clear and ambitious but achievable objectives
• its global international scope
• it is for technical specialist discussion
• refreshing, constructive nature
• pity not to continue
• GODAE name
• E could be Experimentation as in WGNE
• Could be Global Operational Oceanography Data
  Assimilation Expert (GODAE)
• - the GODAE Team or Working Group
• - Global refers to scope of membership

4
Initial Core Activities

• Improvement of high-resolution, basin scale,
  physical ocean analyses forecasts
• Observation Impact Assessments
• Intercomparisons
• forms a coherent core and springboard
• recognises importance of global observing system
• Extensions building on core capabilities

5
Working groups

• Most activities will require collaboration with
  other groups and should be pursued through
  dedicated working groups
• observation impact assessments (OSE etc)
• coastal shelf seas
• ecosystems (with IMBER)
• Re-analyses (with WGSIP and GSOP)
• coupled ocean-wave-atmosphere f/cs (with WGNE?)
• Working groups should be formed and disbanded
  according to demand progress

6
Relationship with ET-OOFS

• JCOMM provides an inter-governmental vehicle to
  make definitive statements on standards, working
  practices, nomenclature etc.
• ET-OOFS will enable us to use this vehicle it
  is an important opportunity
• JCOMM does not have a science mandate (unlike
  IPCC)
• ET-OOFS and GODAE have different roles and
  probably require different types of people
• Gary Brassington is a safe pair of hands for
  coordination between ET-OOFS and GODAE
• From the GODAE point of view ET-OOFS could appear
  to be one of the GODAE working groups

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Leadership

• Co-chair arrangement works well. We suggest
• one from research one from operational teams
  
• one should have data assimilation background
• taken from two continents
• Co-chairs need to be able to commit at least 10
  of their time to the task
• Two good options are
• Andreas Schiller / Eric Chassignet
• Jim Cummings / Eric Dombrowsky

8
Refresh of members

• There are relatively few recent new members
• Possibilities for new members include
• Peter Oke
• Pierre Brasseur
• Anthony Weaver
• Laurent Bertino
• Srdjan Dobricic
• NOAA/NCEP expert
• One of Japanese attendees at Paris OSE meeting

9
Ownership

• Important to have owners for
• legitimacy (other groups could claim it if we
  dont)
• visibility
• Best not to put all eggs in one basket apply for
  2-4 owners (IOC, OOPC, WCRP, GOOS, CEOS, JCOMM)

10
Duration

• Options on duration
• 5 years to 2013 (end of Clivar so poor choice)
  
• 10 years (a long time to plan no obvious
  rationale)
• For forseeable future (cf WGNE)
• On-going working group seems best
• Transition GODAE from an experiment to a
  permanent body for international coordination
  of the development (and operation?) of
  operational oceanography systems

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Project Office funding from 2010

• Up to new co-chairs where to put Project Office
• Kirsten is very effective Project Office
  staying at Met Office is an option to be
  considered
• Options for funding
• Sponsors NOAA, EUMETSAT etc.
• Subscription fee
• Owners (e.g. IOC has small fund)
• Recommend sponsors invited to meetings (GODAE
  Patrons)