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GOVST Meeting Agenda

 

Presentations will be motivated with the following questions prior to the meeting:

Session 1: Introduction to GODAE OceanView

What is the status, plans, progress and issues related to development of GODAE OceanView?

Session 2: Co-chairs to provide a discussion paper/presentation on proposed objectives of a 5-year work plan and how to implement it.

Session 3: Update (for existing Task Teams (TTs)) and future plans for TTs

What is the status, plans, progress and issues related to TTs?

Session 4: National reports

What is the status, plans, progress, strengths and weaknesses of each national effort?

Session 5: GODAE Summer School

Session 6: GODAE Special Issue – Oceanography Magazine

Session 7: GOVST links with international research/intergovernmental groups

 

Proposed presentations – Presenters to be confirmed (Name tags to be provided)

Location: Mercator-Ocean, "A" Building - Room A20 Ground floor

Day 1 - Monday, 8 June 2009

09:00 - 09:10 Eric Dombrowsky (ED)/Andreas Schiller (AS) - Welcome and workshop objectives

Session 1: Introduction and overview of GODAE OceanView plans/responsibilities (AS, ED & Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (KWB))

09:10 - 09:40 The scope of GODAE OceanView (AS & ED)

09:40 - 10:10 Objectives (discuss a 5-year plan) (AS & ED)

10:10 - 10:40 International relationships (ownership & linkages) (AS & ED)

10:40 Coffee/tea break

11:10 - 11:40 Task teams (also discuss the formation of new task teams – coupled ocean/atmos    modelling and forecasting ?) (AS & ED)

11:40 - 12:00 Membership (AS, ED & KWB)

12:00 - 12:30 Organisation of GODAE OceanView - Report from the project office (KWB)

12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:30 Patrons' Group Meeting (incl. lunch) in room 201 or 210)

                    [Patrons and co-chairs only]

 

The main meeting will resume at 14:30

Session 2: Presentation of draft paper and discussion of work plan for the next 5 years

14:30 - 15:00 Report from JCOMM/IOC (Jean-Louis Fellous)

15:00 - 15:30 Report from ET-OOFS (Gary Brassington)

15:30 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 17:30 First discussion of work-plan for the next 5 years (AS & ED) (to be continued on day 3)

 

17:30 End of Day 1

 

 

Day 2 - Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Session 3: Reports from the (established) GODAE OceanView Task Teams (summaries of previous activities and future plans) (TT chairs)

09:00 - 09:30 Intercomparison TT (Fabrice Hernandez, Matt Martin)

09:30 - 10:00 OSE TT (Peter Oke, Gilles Larnicol)

10:00 - 10:30 Coastal TT (Pierre De Mey, Villy Kourafalou)

10:30 Coffee/tea break

11:00 - 11:30 Ecosystem TT (Pierre Brasseur, Niki Gruber)

Session 4: Reports/response from representatives of the national forecasting systems (part 1)

11:30 - 12:00 BLUElink, Australia (Gary Brassington - GB) (30 min)

12:00 - 12:30 C-NOOFS, Canada (Fraser Davidson) (30 min)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 FOAM, NCOF, UK (Matt Martin) (30 min)

14:30 - 15:00 HYCOM/NCODA, USA (Eric Chassignet, Jim Cummings) (30 min)

15:00 - 15:30 Mercator-Ocean, France (Nicolas Ferry) (30 min)

15:30 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:30 MFS, Italy (Srdjan Dobricic) (30 min)

16:30 - 17:00 MOVE/MRI.COM, Japan (Masafumi Kamachi) (30 min)

17:00 - 17:30 NLOM/NCOM (Pat Hogan) (30 min)


17:30 End of day 2

 


19:00 Dinner - place to be confirmed (self-pay)

Day 3 - Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Session 4: Reports/response from representatives of the national forecasting systems (part 2)

09:00 - 09:30 RTOFS, NCEP (Hendrik Tolman) (30 min)

09:30 - 10:00 TOPAZ, Norway (Laurent Bertino) (30 min)

Session 5: GODAE Summer School

10:00 -10:30 GODAE Summer School – status report (Gary Brassington)

10:30 Coffee/Tea break

Session 6: GODAE Special Issue (TOS)

11:00 - 11:30 GODAE Special Issue – status report (Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Mike Bell, KWB)

Session 7: GOVST linkages with international research/intergovernmental groups – Reviews

11:30 - 12:00 MyOcean – Pierre Bahurel (30 min)

12:00 - 12:30 Argo – Mathieu Belbeoch (30 min)

12:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 GHRSST – Matt Martin (30 min) - TBC

Continued session 2: Discussion of work-plan for the next 5 years

14:00 - 15:30 Continuation of the discussion from day 1, including discussion on how to make GOVST work effectively

15:30 Coffee/tea break

16:00 - 16:30 Any other business (next meeting)

 

16:30 Meeting closes

(Last Updated: 17-06-2009)