Kirsten WilmerBecker Met Office, UK

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Report from the GODAE Project Office
Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office, UK)
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Content

• This years developments
• GODAE website
• GODAE brochure
• Future meetings

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Last years developments

• Meeting organisation
• - GODAE-IMBER meeting, Coastal and Shelf
  Seas workshop, OOPC-GODAE
• meeting on OSSE/OSE, SCS-IO meeting, IGST
  meetings, Final Symposium,
• Summer School
• Publications
• EOS-paper, Agenda item 11.1
• - request, collection and implementation of
  comments circulation and display on
• GODAE website
• External interest
• - Provision of info about GODAE to Yves
  Desaubies (Ifremer) for presentation at
• workshop marking the official launch of
  the SIMORC service (System of Industry
• Metocean data for the Offshore and
  Research Communities)
• - provision of short report on GODAE-IMBER
  activities for the IMBER SSC Meeting 06/07
• and IMBER newsletter article 07/07
• - Established contact with Sara Tweedie
  (Oceanmotion, NASA)
• GODAE examples could be used for
  educational applications

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Last years developments

• Funding
• - Transfer of funds from BMRC
• - Support from Patrons/funding bodies
• - Financial situation and sponsorships
• Website
• - Published 4 June 2007
• - CMS system provides possibility to
  actively contribute to content
• - Other features (task/project management
  system etc.)
• Brochure
• - Next main issue for GPO
• - Should focus on GODAE achievements
• - Plan to publish (latest) March 08

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Meeting organisation
? GODAE-IMBER meeting (2 - day meeting,
CNRS, Paris, June 2007) - Organisation in
collaboration with Patrick Monfray, Adrian Hines
and the University of Brest (Admin
support) - 6 GODAE and 6 IMBER
representatives (by invitation) - Funding
for meeting came from CNRS - New working
group as been formed - Meeting minutes,
presentations and preliminary outcomes are
available on GODAE website
(http//www.godae.org/GODAE-IMBER-only.html)
- Agenda item 8.3 ? GODAE Coastal and
Shelf Seas workshop (2 - day workshop, POL,
Liverpool, October 2007) - Organisation in
collaboration with Pierre De Mey and Roger
Proctor (POL) - Coastal workshop website
available (Third announcement
registration now open - http//cobs.pol.ac.uk/cobs
/CSSWG/) - Over 40 participants (by
invitation) - Abstracts confirmed
(available on workshop website) - Funding
will come mainly from participants (75 workshop
fee has been requested) - Agenda item
8.2
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Meeting organisation continued
? OOPC-GODAE meeting on OSSE/OSE (5-7
November 2007, Paris) - Organisation in
collaboration with Pierre-Yves Le Traon and
Albert Fischer - presently 26 participants
(by invitation) - Discussion Agenda item
8.1 ? SCS-IO meeting (TBC) - meeting
was scheduled for beginning of June but has now
been postponed - no new date proposed
- Will be discussed under agenda item 4. ?
IGST - organisation in collaboration with
Fraser Davidson !!! ? Final Symposium -
Discussion Agenda item 7. and 17. (revisit)
? Summer School - Discussion Agenda
item 12.
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Funding

• ? Transfer of funds from BMRC
• All funds have now been transferred from
  Melbourne to the Met Office ? 143,451.85
  (214,034.16)
• A new budget has been set up
• ? Support from Patrons/funding bodies
• EUMETSAT contribution received Dec 2006 ? 13,400
  (20,000)
• NOAA (Stan Wilson) contributions to be
  transferred via IOC ? expected funds 28,700
  (59,000)
• Further funding expected from CNES (Eric
  Thouvenot), EUMETSAT (Francois Parisot), Met
  Office (Mike Bell)
• Encouraging new patrons to join the Patrons
  group (tbc)
• ? Financial situation and sponsorship
• Currently healthy, but more funds needed to cover
  period until the end of GODAE (Dec 08)
• Major events (Final Symposium Summer school)
  can not be funded by the GODAE project office,
  but will need direct fund raising
• ? More information Item 7. 12. on agenda

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Website actions for GPO (1)

• Action 4 JC to send his analysis of web hits to
  circulate to MK, KH
• and KWB. KWB to put on
  GODAE website
• - web statistics received will be made
  available on the website
• Summary web (ftp) USGODAE server statistics
  (June 06 June 07)
• Total visits 296,512
  (86,885)
• Total hits 343,277,452
  (file downloads 37,883,736)
• Total megabytes transferred 31,483,294
  (6,354,837)
• Average visits per day 754
  (221)
• Highest volume month October 2006
  (May 2007)
• Most requested page /dods/GDS/fnmoc_ghr...MOC
  _GHRSST_sst.dods
• Most frequent keywords godae

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Website action 4 (2)
Web
USGODAE -web server Domain breakdowns
FTP
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Website - actions for GPO (3)

• Action 5 IP to be published on the GODAE website
• - available
• Action 21 KWB to put all documents as listed by
  FH defining metrics on
• GODAE website
• - received input from Fabrice will be
  added to GODAE website
• Action 39 GODAE website should give visibility
  to the CSSWG
• - done
• Action 41 AF and CD to liaise on the
  www.godae.org domain, keep KWB
• informed
• - done

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GODAE website
? Collaboration with a local web company
following the example of the GHRSST,
JCOMM SPA and NCOF website

• ? Setting up the website
• - agreement of website
• features (CMS content
• management system,
• registration facility,
• task/project
• management system,
• etc.)
• - assembly of header
• (including the redesign of
• the GODAE logo)
• - website testing
• - assessment of website
• users led to design of
• website structure

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GODAE website assessment (2)
? Purpose ? Promote GODAE (Inform wide audience
about operational oceanography, promote
GODAE data and
products, inform wide audience about GODAE
induced meetings
and events, inform the funding bodies about
research and
collaborative progress, raising awareness of
ocean
issues (like the status of the observing system),
educate and interest
the younger generation in ocean
science issues ? User assessment ? Targeted
audience (IGST, symposia and summer school
attendees students, funding
institutions/patrons, ocean
scientist and other scientists,
programme managers,
end-users, educational sector, general public)
? Sources of information ? GODAE documents
(Papers, publications, meeting information and
outcomes, books,
brochure, links to other websites
(product data servers, other
GODAE websites, other
ocean science websites) ? Maintenance issues ?
Time, complexity, comprehensiveness
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GODAE website - structure (3)

• ? Website structure
• ? What is GODAE? Background, organisation,
  functional components, work
• plan
  priorities, GODAE groups, Steering Team (IGST) ?
  link to
• (IGST
  members), Project Office
• ? Activities Projects, Events and
  meetings ? Info for general public (IGST
  meetings,
• symposia,
  summer school, working groups
• Working
  groups ? links to CSSWG, GODAE-IMBER and
• 
  Intercomparison working group
• ? Science Observing the ocean ? link to
  instruments and measurements
• Data
  Assimilation, Forecasting the ocean ?link to
  ocean products
• Evaluating
  the predictions ? link to Intercomparisons
  working group
• ? Data products Observational data ? more
  detailed info on observation methods and
• 
  instruments, links to space agencies and
  projects, Quality Control ? link
• to
  intercomparison/metrics group, Applications,
  Demonstration cases,
• Ocean
  Products, Data assembly and data servers, Data
  management

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GODAE website special features (4)

• ? Special web features (TO BE USED BY ALL)
• ? CMS Content Management System allows all
  users to
• - Login (user groups)
• - Edit text
• - Add pages, events, documents and news
• ? Task/project management system
• - Get direct information on status of own
  actions
• - Ability to enter progress on actions
  assigned
• - Setting up new actions/tasks/projects
• ? Registration facility (web administrator)
• - Set up registrations for meetings
• - Registration are directly sent via email
• ? Search facility ( available soon)

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GODAE website - login (5)
? Login (http//www.godae.org) - Click on
login (available on all pages) - A new page
opens enter username and password - Landing
page opens - navigation
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GODAE website landing page (6)
? Landing page Administration zone - My
tasks (actions), My projects, Last 10
updates, Last 5 uploads and My
functions are available here - My
functions - Page functions - User functions
USER GUIDE
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GODAE website landing page (7)
Page functions View pages gives an overview
(incl. all subdirectories) of all pages
http//www.godae.org/admin.php?mode
viewPage Home page Control of home page only
http//www.godae.org/admi
n.php?modehomePage Site defaults Includes web
keywords and default website description
Site Acronyms List of relevant
acronyms can be implemented into
web text (via the formatting
panel)
http//www.godae.org/admin.php?modeacronym
Site Statistics Link to all site statistics
(web-hits etc.)
http//www.godae.org/admin.php?modestats
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GODAE website edit (8)
? Edit text
Update text
? Timeout - Avoiding conflicting edits - 1
hour until update - Cancel edit
? Formatting panel - tool bar to format text -
control layout - add images and tables - add
links - insert acronyms - work in html modus
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GODAE website edit (9)
Add new pages (important to set page
permissions) Edit (live example)
http//www.godae.org/Test-page.html - avoid
back button when in edit mode Add new events,
documents and news Website testing
Feedback from YOU
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GODAE website private space (10)

• ? IGST - only
• - Items in progress (EOS-paper,
  meetings, etc.)
• - Sharing of confidential information
• ? GODAE-IMBER only
• - same as IGST-only
• IGST can access GODAE-IMBER only, but not vice
  versa

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GODAE website special features (11)

• ? Task/management system (example)
• - designed to help IGST to handle
  actions/projects
• - enabling you to edit content/progress
  on actions
• ? Registration facility (example)
• - option when entering a new event
  (calendar)
• - currently only available for
  administrators

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GODAE website - Logout (11)
? Logout (http//www.godae.org) - Click on
logout (available on all pages)
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GODAE brochure

• - Next main issue of GPO
• - Should focus on GODAE achievements
• publicising GODAE concept
• building on examples of demonstrations/impact
• - Foldable glossy brochure (examples)
• - Plan to publish (latest) March 08

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Future meeting Action 43

• Action 43 Create list of meetings at which GODAE
  should be represented and candidate
  representatives. KWB to collate and maintain
  calendar on web. Note press releases and coverage
  Symposium. (CD, AF, EH, PYT, SW and KWB)
• - A few received open for discussion please
  provide more input
• IMBER/LOICZ conference, 17-21 Sept, 2007,
  Shanghai, China
• 2007 EUMETSAT/AMS Conference, Amsterdam, 24-27
  September 2007
• 2nd CLIVAR Ocean Synthesis Workshop, MIT in
  Cambridge, Massachusetts,
• US, 24-25 Sept. 2007
• EuroGOOS 2008
• PECS 2008Physics of estuaries and Coastal Seas,
  25-29 August 2008
• International Maritime Safety Conference, 6-12
  Oct 2008, Met Office, UK
• CLIVAR GSOP WMO workshop on 4D-Var and Ensemble
  Kalman Filter
• Intercomparisons, 10-13 November 2008

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Action list review (not agenda items) -1

• Action 3 JZ to seek volunteers to host Indian
  Ocean SCS workshop. Gan (Hong Kong Uni) and
  Wang (SCSIO) are possibilities. Feedback to KWB
  with copy to PDM.
• Workshop postponed
• no new date proposed
• Action 6 Data-sets already gathered for
  long-period analysis. Some coordination of these
  for use by GODAE groups would be beneficial. GPO
  to make list of relevant data-sets available on
  GODAE website.

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Action list review (not agenda items) -2

• Action 8 Implementation of poor-mans' ensembles
  in GHRSST (CD). Hines to consider poor mans'
  ensembles for 3D forecasts for North Atlantic.
• Action 9 Statement of GODAE requirements for a
  project to coordinate integration of surface
  current observations FH to lead
• Action 19 MK to revise North Pacific Metric
  document by end of November
• Input from Masa
• Action 44 MB to contact David Anderson to ask
  what coordination exists for demonstration of
  impact of observations on seasonal forecasting.
  If it is not adequate investigate whether David
  is prepared to play coordinating role. MB to
  contact David Anderson to ask what coordination
  exists for demonstration of impact of
  observations on seasonal forecasting. If it is
  not adequate investigate whether David is
  prepared to play coordinating role.