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JCOMM Meeting Report No. 97 World Meteorological Organization WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (OF UNESCO) _____________ _____________ SHIP OBSERVATIONS TEAM SEVENTH SESSION Victoria, Canada 22 to 26 April 2013 FINAL REPORT 2013 JCOMM Meeting Report No. 97 [page left intentionally blank] - ii - WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (OF UNESCO) _____________ ___________ SHIP OBSERVATIONS TEAM SEVENTH SESSION Victoria, Canada 22 to 26 April 2013 FINAL REPORT 2013 JCOMM Meeting Report No. 97 - iii - NOTES WMO AND IOC DISCLAIMERS WMO Regulation 42 Recommendations of working groups shall have no status within the Organization until they have been approved by the responsible constituent body. In the case of joint working groups the recommendations must be concurred with by the presidents of the constituent bodies concerned before being submitted to the designated constituent body. WMO Regulation 43 In the case of a recommendation made by a working group between sessions of the responsible constituent body, either in a session of a working group or by correspondence, the president of the body may, as an exceptional measure, approve the recommendation on behalf of the constituent body when the matter is, in his opinion, urgent, and does not appear to imply new obligations for Members. He may then submit this recommendation for adoption by the Executive Council or to the President of the Organization for action in accordance with Regulation 9(5). © World Meteorological Organization, 2013 The right of publication in print, electronic and any other form and in any language is reserved by WMO. Short extracts from WMO publications may be reproduced without authorization provided that the complete source is clearly indicated. Editorial correspondence and requests to publish, reproduce or translate this publication (articles) in part or in whole should be addressed to: Chair, Publications Board World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Tel.: +(41 22) 730 84 03 P.O. Box No. 2300 Fax: +(41 22) 730 80 40 CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] IOC (OF UNESCO) DISCLAIMER The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariats of UNESCO and IOC concerning the legal status of any country or territory, or its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of the frontiers of any country or territory. ____________ - iv - C O N T E N T S Executive Summary .................................................................................................................. 1 Session report ...........................................................................................................................5 Annex I Agenda .............................................................................................................80 Annex II Participants list .................................................................................................83 Annex III Action Items and Recommendations from the Previous SOT Session, which still require the Team’s attention ............................................................ 92 Annex IV Action List / Workplan arising from this Session............................................... 97 Annex V Terms of Reference of the SOT Task Teams................................................. 105 Annex VI Proposed changes to the SOT Terms of Reference ...................................... 112 Annex VII SOT Key Performance Indicators from the SOT Implementation Strategy .... 115 Annex VIII RSMC Exeter Monitoring Report.................................................................... 116 Annex IX Report by the Real Time Monitoring Centre (RTMC) of the VOSClim ........... 129 Annex X Report by the Task Team on ASAP ............................................................... 133 Annex XI ASAP Trust Fund ........................................................................................... 140 Annex XII Status of Automated Systems ........................................................................ 142 Annex XIII Relevant electronic mailing lists maintained by JCOMMOPS ........................ 149 Annex XIV Contributions to the DBCP/SOT Trust Fund for 2013 .................................... 150 Annex XV Draft Terms of Reference for the JCOMMOPS funds management at CLS .. 151 Annex XVI Draft white paper and workplan for the VOS Pilot Project for WIO ................ 153 Annex XVII Recommendations from GHRSST to OCG-4................................................. 159 Annex XVIII Workplan for the SOT Technical Coordinator................................................. 160 Annex XIX JCOMM Proposal for the encryption of Ship’s callsigns within BUFR reports 164 Annex XX Draft Terms of Reference of the JCOMMOPS Ship Coordinator ................... 168 Acronym List ....................................................................................................................... 169 ____________ - v - JCOMM MR No. 97 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Seventh Session of the JCOMM Ship Observations Team (SOT) was held in the conference room of the Harbour Towers Hotel in Victoria, Canada, from 22 to 26 April 2013 at the kind invitation of the Government of Canada, and Environment Canada. As for previous SOT Sessions, a Technical and Scientific Workshop focusing on new initiatives and / or new developments in shipboard meteorological or oceanographic instrumentation, observing practices, data management procedures, and quality control and ocean products was organized during the first day of the meeting. 10 presentations were delivered during the workshop, which covered each of the theme areas, and permitted to prepare further discussions at the main SOT Session. The Team reviewed and addressed the SOT relevant priority activities of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) for the period 2012- 2016. The Team noted that the implementation of WIGOS was now well underway, and it identified a number of WIGOS implementation activities where the Team could contribute, and urged its members to collaborate to as needed. The Team noted the reports from the JCOMM Observations Programme Area Coordinator, the SOT Chair, and the SOT Technical Coordinator, and reviewed action items from the previous SOT Session. About 56% of the actions have been successfully completed, or addressed. The Team reviewed requirements for ship-based observations in support of WMO and IOC Applications, including those the ocean related actions from the GCOS Implementation Plan. The Team noted some SOT related actions from the WMO Implementation Plan for the Evolution of Global Observing Systems (EGOS-IP) and made recommendations accordingly. The meeting reviewed the collaboration with associated programmes. Issues of common interest were discussed, including logistical aspects, and the sharing of the data. The Team agreed that there should be a concerted approach with the shipping industry between the various groups involved in the making of marine meteorological and oceanographic observations from ships. The Team noted that the World Ocean Council (WOC) could be a good mechanism to realize this concerted approach. The SOT Task Teams reported on their activities and made a number of recommendations to the Team, including for example: (i.) The Task Team on Satellite Communication Systems (TT-Satcom) recommended the design of a new communication system for conventional VOS based on their future FleetBroadband GMDSS terminals to replace Inmarsat-C Code 41; (ii.) The Task Team on ASAP (TT-ASAP) invited other operators than E-ASAP to consider operating ASAP vessels in other areas that the North Atlantic Ocean; (iii.) The Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion (TT-VRPP) decided to draft a new survey/questionnaire directed at the VOS observers and shipowners with a view to assessing the performance of VOS Scheme. The Team also concurred on the need to convene a fifth international Port Meteorological Officers (PMO) Workshop in Chile in 2014. It agreed that there was value of arranging a shipping industry forum to be held in conjunction with the next SOT-8 session (iv.) The Task Team on Metadata for WMO Publication No. 47 (TT-Pub47) proposed new metadata fields and changes for the Publication (to be submitted to JCOMM-5); (v.) The Task Team on Instrument Standards (TT-IS) recommended to complete the review of relevant sections of the WMO No. 8 Guide, and to submit those changes to CIMO as needed; (vi.) The Task Team on Callsign Masking and encoding (TT-Masking) agreed with the principles of a universally accepted solution for the masking of VOS data (i.e. the ENCODE proposal) to be submitted to the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) although the governance for the management of private encryption keys will have to be refined. The meeting agreed that, while it was bound by previous decisions of the WMO Executive Council to proceed with the schemes for the time being, it should take stock of the current situation with regard to the - 1 - increasing amount of ship data now available publicly through other means than VOS GTS reporting (e.g. AIS, LRIT), and report this situation back to CBS, via the OCG, for a review of its decisions in this regard. The Team decided to establish a new SOT Task Team on Training (TT-Training) chaired by Paula Rychtar (USA). It further decided to include
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