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Session information and Draft Meeting Agenda
Presentations will be motivated with the following questions prior to the meeting:
Session 1: Overview of observing system components and activities (open session)
- What is the status, plans, progress, strengths and weaknesses of each platform?
Session 2: Assimilation diagnostics (open session)
- What assimilation diagnostics are currently computed from your system? How are they archived? How are they used? How could we use them to help monitor the GOOS?
- System overview:
- Method (e.g. OI, Cooper and Haines, SEEK, EnOI, etc.)
- What data are assimilated directly? with-held? super-obed?
- System diagnostics:
- What diagnostics are computed routinely? (BG minus Obs, An minus Obs, biases, …);
- How are they used/interpreted?
- How are they archived?
- System performance:
- When/where/why does the system perform well/poorly?
- What are the known limitations/problems with the system?
- Do you already consider any diagnostics to monitor the GOOS?
- to detect problems with instruments (biases etc);
- to identify regions of the ocean that are under-sampled
Session 3: OSE/OSSE activities (open session)
- Presentations will be solicited from invited participants and others on recent OSE/OSSE activities
Session 4: How to move forward? (closed session)
- What can we, as the GODAE/OSE community, do to feed back information to the observation programs for the benefit of the broader oceanographic community? What is feasible? What is likely to be fruitful? Who will do what?
Draft Agenda
Day 1 - Thursday, 4 June 2009
09:00 Oke/Larnicol - Welcome and workshop objectives
Session 1: Introduction and Overview of observing system components (open session)
09:30 Schiller/Dombrowsky - Status of GODAE OceanView
09:45 Brassington – Status of JCOMM ET-OOFS
10:00 Lambin/Dibarboure - Satellite altimetry: status and products
10:30 Belbeoch/Viola - JCOMM-OBS international coordination and Argo and other in situ programs status
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Cummings - GHRSST: status and products
11:30 Cummings - Forecast sensitivity: towards routine monitoring of the GOOS at NRL
11:45 Rabier - Lessons learned from THORPEX
12:30 Lunch
Session 2: Assimilation diagnostics and metrics (open session)
13:30 Weaver - Ensemble/Var diagnostics
13:50 Cummings - NRL
14:10 Drevillon - Mercator-Ocean
14:30 Lea - UK Met Office
14:50 Brassington/Oke - BLUElink
15:10 Bertino - TOPAZ
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Fujii - JMA
16:20 Larnicol/Guinehut – CLS
16:40 Weaver/Oke - Discussion
What diagnostics are could be fed back to observational groups to support design,
maintenance and justification for the GOOS? Can we coordinate our routine activities to
help support each other and help improve our systems?
18:00 End of Day 1
19:00 (?) Dinner (time to be confirmed)
Day 2 - Friday, 5 June 2009
Session 3: General Contributions (15-30 minute presentations depending on numbers; open session); Topics include: Evaluation of GODAE systems, OSE/OSSE activities
09:00 Fujii - OSE experiments using the JMA ENSO forecasting system
09:20 Bertino - Evaluating the assimilation of Ferrybox data between Norway and Denmark
09:40 Brassington - Impact of SSS on a multivariate assimilation system
10:00 Rio - Impact of GOCE for modelling centers: status of GOCINO
10:20 Dibarboure - Future altimetry design : from impact studies to operational metrics or the reverse ?
10:40 Coffee break
11:00 Oke - Potential impact of HF radar and gliders on ocean forecast system
11:20 Remy - Sensitivity studies within GLORYS project (title to be confirmed)
11:40 Tranchant - Multivariate data assimilation (SAM2) of Simulated (SMOS and Aquarius) SSS in a 1/3° Atlantic ocean model (MNATL)".
12:00 Oke/Brassington - GODAE inter-comparisons around Australia
12:30 Lunch
Session 4: How to move forward? (closed session)
13:30 Discussion:
- Currently available assimilation and QC metrics
- Proposal for routine observing system assessment
- International coordination
- Options for engaging with observational community
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Action: - Collating information and disseminating
18:00 End of Day 2
(Last Updated: 19-06-2009)