Joint WMOIOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology JCOMM Ship Observations Te

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Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for
Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM)Ship
Observations Team (SOT)

• Teruko Manabe
• WMO Secretariat

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• What is JCOMM
• What is SOT
• VOS Panel
• SOOP Implementation Panel
• ASAP Panel
• collaboration between SOT and CO2 panel

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JCOMMJoint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for
Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

• Intergovernmental coordination, regulation and
  management of operational marine meteorology and
  oceanography
• Equivalent for the oceans of existing body for
  operational meteorology
• Integrated operational ocean observing system
  and data management
• New products and services, close user
  interaction
• Involvement of all maritime countries
• An implementation mechanism for global GOOS
• Needs strong regional interactions and support

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• JCOMM provides a global framework for the
  intergovernmental coordination of operational
  oceanography and marine meteorology
• Traditional responsibilities
• Implementation mechanism for global GOOS
• Organizational and operational structure similar
  to that for the World Weather Watch
• Global, regional and national

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where we are now

• Ship-based observations
• 6000 VOS observing meteorology and surface
  oceanography
• 120 SOOP for subsurface TS
• 20 ASAP for upper air
• Liaison with ocean CO2 community
• 1400 drifters observing meteorology and surface
  oceanography
• 100s of ocean buoys for met ocean
• 400 sea level stations in GLOSS
• Argo liaison
• JCOMMOPS support
• Sea ice monitoring, satellite and in situ
• Ocean satellites

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Requirements

• Maritime Safety and transport
• Large proportion of global commerce
• Critically sensitive to marine weather and
  climate
• Safe and economic sea transport for sustainable
  development
• Natural disaster prevention
• Tropical cyclones, waves and storm surges
• Maximum impact in coastal areas
• Operational forecasts and warnings, meteorology,
  oceanography, hydrology
• Global Climate Study
• Marine/ocean data to support
• Seasonal to interannual
• Decadal plus climate studies

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JCOMM STRUCTURE
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Ship Observations Team(SOT)http//www.jcommops.or
g/sot/

• Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Panel
• Automated Shipboard Aerological Programme (ASAP)
  Panel
• Ship-of-Opportunity Programme (SOOP)
  Implementation Panel (SOOPIP)
• To maintain, coordinate, and integrate these
  programmes to support the range of presently
  defined operational and research applications
• Ensure that there is proper coordination in
  dealing with the volunteer ships and their crew
• Deal with common technical issues, such as
  telecommunications
• Look for and develop other areas of synergy
• First session of SOT (SOT-I), Goa, India, 25
  February- 2 March 2002
• http//www.wmo.ch/web/aom/marprog/Publications/pub
  lications.htmJCOMM MEETING REPORT

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SOOPIP (SOOP Implementation Panel)http//www.bres
t.ird.fr/soopip/

• Scientific objectives
• OOPC and CLIVAR Ocean Observations Panel ,(TOGA,
  WOCE)
• OOPC, SOOPIP and CLIVAR UOP convened a workshop
  to review the upper ocean thermal network
  (Melbourne, 1999)
• Implementation
• the status of the SOOP XBT network
• how to implement the recommendation of the
  workshop
• frequently repeated XBT network, as recommended
  by the review
• high-density XBT network, as recommended by the
  review
• XBT sampling by SOOPIP during the first half of
  2001
• Surface salinity sampling using
  thermosalinographs
• a comprehensive project plan of establishing a
  surface salinity network is under development.

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SOOPIP (SOOP Implementation Panel)

• Data Management and Programme Monitoring
• Real-time (low-resolution) and delayed mode
  (high-resolution) data
• GTSPP (Global Temperature and Salinity Profile
  Project)
• WOCE/CLIVAR Data Assembly Centres (scientific
  data quality control)
• SOOP Task Team on Quality Control and Automated
  Systems (TT/QCAS)
• Sampling and Resource
• Multidisciplinary Sampling

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SOOP Implementation Panel

• Review, recommend on and, as necessary,
  coordinate the implementation of specialized
  shipboard instrumentation and observing
  practices
• Coordinate the exchange of technical information
  on equipment and expendables, development,
  functionality, reliability and accuracy
• Ensure the distribution of available programme
  resources to ships to meet the agreed sampling
  strategy in the most efficient way
• Ensure the transmission of low resolution data in
  real time from participating ships ensure that
  delayed more high resolution data are checked and
  distributed in a timely manner to data processing
  centres
• Maintain, through the SOOP Coordinator,
  appropriate inventories, monitoring reports and
  analyses, and information exchange facilities
• Provide general guidance to the coordinator in
  his support for the SOOP.

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JCOMMOPSJCOMM in situ Observing Platform Support
Centrehttp//www.jcommops.org

• Structure
• Products
• number and geographical distribution of marine
  stations
• GTS reports
• coverage
• other maps

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SOOP Implementation Panel http//www.brest.ird.fr/
soopip/

• Instrumentation and observing practices
• Network design
• Monitoring
• Data Management
• GTSPP
• Telecommunication

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Membership of SOT

• Chair, selected by the Commission
• Chairs of the SOOPIP, VOSP and ASAPP
• OPEN membership, comprising operators of VOS,
  SOOP and ASAP, representatives of monitoring
  centres, data management centres and bodies,
  representatives of IMSO and other communications
  satellite systems, representatives of
  manufacturers, representatives of science
  advisory bodies and users as appropriate.
• The chair, in consultation with the co-presidents
  of the Commission, should secure support to
  enable appropriate and adequate participation in
  the meetings of this group.
• JCOMMOPS will participate in the work and the
  meetings of the Ship Observations Team

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Collaboration between SOT and CO2 panel

• a VOS recruitment strategy
• SOT Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme
  Promotion
• PMO network
• Common technical issues
• Second session of SOT (SOT-II)
• London, UK, 28 July to 1 August 2003
• technical workshop