GODAE is sponsored by
Format of the meeting
In order to help focus on a concerted outcome please take into account the following:
The format of this meeting is a 'workshop' an will organized in several sessions covering:
- Observing system assessment and design methodologies: theory, use and limitations
- Altimetry (impact of one to several altimeters, Mean Dynamic Topography issues)
- Argo (T and/or S) and in-situ observing system (XBT lines, tropical moorings, reference moorings, hydrography, transport monitoring)
- Sea Surface Temperature/GHRSST- PP
- Other observing systems (e.g. winds, sea surface salinity, velocity)
- Synthesis of results, recommendations and work plan for 2008
Please prepare your presentations in order to stir discussion and maximise the interactions with the audience (presentations of 15-20 minutes maximum for a 30' time slot).
Presentations should be focussed on the workshop objectives (see WWW site) and should aim, in particular, at providing initial recommendations on the observing systems. They should also identify the main issues and recommendations for future works (e.g. preparation of the GODAE final symposium).
In addition,we would be grateful if you would keep in mind that any observing-system-specific comments that you can make will be of particular interest, no matter how preliminary. The over-arching observing system questions are:
- Would any level of improved coverage and/or accuracy add value to your product(s) or is there need for a specific level of improvement?
- Are there any clear shortcomings in the present data set that affect your ability to make fit-for-your-purpose outputs?
- Are there any 'supplemental' data set issues that limit the skill of your outputs, and how severe are the limits? e.g., surface wind stress; other surface fluxes; geoid; climatological information (means, standard deviations, covariances); bottom topography; coastlines; near-shore land topography; etc.
- Are there any clear redundancies in the present data set in any particular regions?
Rapporteurs
In order to capture the main issues of the meeting and stir a useful discussion at the end, two rapporteurs per item have been appointed (see below). These items will mostly be covered by the individual session (see the website for information on the programme), but may also cut across all presentations/issues.
| Item/session | Rapporteurs | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Methodologies and issues | Jim Cummings, Pierre Brasseur |
| 2 | Altimetry and satellite observing system | Eric Dombrowsky, Peter Oke |
| 3 | Argo and in-situ observing system | Magdalena Balmaseda, Bob Molinari, Albert Fischer |
| 4 | Requirements for high resolution ocean forecasting vs ocean state estimation | Tony Lee, Matthew Martin |
(Last Updated: 18-06-2008)