Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Reports of Meetings of Experts and Equivalent Bodies IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU Coastal Panel of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Third Session Accra, Ghana 13 – 15 April 1999 GOOS Report No. 76 UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Reports of Meetings of Experts and Equivalent Bodies IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU Coastal Panel of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Third Session Accra, Ghana 13 – 15 April 1999 GOOS Report No. 76 UNESCO IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU/C-GOOS-III/3 Paris, April 1999 English only IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU/C-GOOS-III/3 page (i) TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY Page 1. OPENING ..............................................................................................................1 2. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS ......................................................................1 3. REPORTS AND STATUS OF C-GOOS PLANNING .......................................................2 3.1 OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................2 3.1.1 The Initial Design...................................................................................3 3.1.2 Critical Design Criteria: Integrated, Sustained and Operational.......................4 3.1.3 Indicators and Indices.............................................................................4 3.1.4 Global Inventory of Coastal Data and Programmes.......................................5 3.2 EFFECTING CRITICAL LINKAGES WITH USER GROUPS ......................................5 3.3. CAPACITY BUILDING.....................................................................................6 3.3.1 GOOS Principles ...................................................................................6 3.3.2 C-GOOS Review of «Principles of GOOS Capacity Building» ..........................7 3.3.3 C-GOOS Principles ................................................................................7 3.4 RESULTS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS MEETING....................................................8 3.5 C-GOOS DESIGN PROCESS...............................................................................8 4. THE GLOBAL COMPONENT ...................................................................................9 4.1 BACKGROUND...............................................................................................9 4.2 THE BEGINNINGS OF A GLOBAL NETWORK.................................................... 10 5. PILOT PROJECTS ................................................................................................ 12 5.1 PILOT PROJECT PROPOSAL FORMAT.............................................................. 12 5.2 PROPOSED PILOT PROJECT ........................................................................... 13 6. CO-ORDINATION AND COLLABORATION.............................................................. 14 6.1 THE GLOBAL COMPONENT OF C-GOOS .......................................................... 14 6.1.1 OOPC ............................................................................................... 14 6.1.2 GLOSS.............................................................................................. 14 6.2 HOTO and LMR............................................................................................. 15 6.3 LOICZ ........................................................................................................ 15 6.3.1 Background ........................................................................................ 15 6.3.2 Data Management................................................................................ 16 6.3.3 Coastal Typology ................................................................................. 16 6.3.4 Material Flux Modelling ........................................................................ 17 6.3.5 Regional Project .................................................................................. 17 IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU/C-GOOS-III/3 page (ii) 6.4 REGIONAL GOOS PROGRAMMES ................................................................... 17 6.4.1 EuroGOOS......................................................................................... 18 6.4.2 NEAR-GOOS...................................................................................... 19 6.4.3 GOOS-Africa ...................................................................................... 20 6.5 GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL OBSERVING SYSTEM (GTOS) ....................................... 21 6.6 DUTCH COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME.................................... 21 7. THE STRATEGIC PLAN ........................................................................................ 22 8. INTERSESSION ACTION PLAN III.......................................................................... 23 8.1 THE GLOBAL NETWORK .............................................................................. 23 8.1.1 Design .............................................................................................. 23 8.1.2 Benefits and Products ........................................................................... 23 8.1.3 Data Management................................................................................ 23 8.1.4 Capacity Building and Enhancements....................................................... 23 8.1.5 Existing Operational Programmes: Potential Building Blocks ........................ 23 8.1.6 Implementation Mechanisms .................................................................. 23 8.1.7 Soliciting New Pilot Projects ................................................................... 23 8.2 PILOT PROJECTS.......................................................................................... 23 8.2.1 Biodiversity and Habitat: Western and Indo-Pacific, PhytoNet ...................... 23 8.2.2 Coastal Circulation and Natural Hazards: Eastern South Pacific Western South Atlantic, West Africa, Vietnam........................................... 23 8.3 COLLABORATIONS....................................................................................... 23 8.3.1 LOICZ/C-GOOS Collaboration............................................................... 23 8.3.2 GTOS/C-GOOS Collaboration................................................................ 23 8.4 MECHANISMS FOR SUSTAINING AND ENHANCING C-GOOS ............................. 24 8.5 USER GROUPS AND STAKEHOLDERS ............................................................. 24 ANNEXES I. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS II. AGENDA III. EFFECTING CRITICAL LINKAGES BETWEEN C-GOOS AND END-USERS IV. GOOS SERVICES AND PRODUCTS BULLETIN V. PRINCIPLES OF GOOS CAPACITY BUILDING VI. DRAFT DESIGN FOR THE INITIAL OBSERVING SYSTEM OF COASTAL GOOS VII. PILOT PROJECT PROPOSALS VIII. (BRIEFING DOCUMENT ON) LOICZ IX. (BRIEFING DOCUMENT ON) C-GOOS AND LOICZ X. LIST OF ACRONYMS IOC-WMO-UNEP-ICSU/C-GOOS-III/3 1. OPENING The third meeting of the Coastal GOOS (C-GOOS) Panel was opened at 0900 on 13 April, 1999 by Kwame Koranteng, Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC), who welcomed the Panel and invited participants (Annex I). Tom Malone, Chairman of the C-GOOS Panel, thanked K. Koranteng and the LOC for their hard work in planning and arranging the meeting and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute for hosting the meeting. T. Malone then thanked the panel members for coming and gave a special welcome to observers from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria; to Frank van der Meulen representing the National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management of the Netherlands; to George Needler representing the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate; and to Thorkild Aarup, the new Technical Secretary for C-GOOS. Apologies were noted from Janet Campbell, Elisabeth Lipiatou, Carlos Duarte, Stephen Walker and Sinjae Yoo. Thorkild Aarup welcomed participants on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and on behalf of the sponsors of GOOS: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), and International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). This meeting was made possible by the IOC, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the USA, and the Government of the Netherlands, and their generous support is gratefully acknowledged. Tom Malone emphasized the primary objectives of this Panel meeting as follows: (i) review and evaluate the initiating design of C-GOOS global network with the goal of agreeing on a preliminary design strategy; (ii) review and evaluate pilot project proposals with the goal of identifying a short list of high priority projects that should go to the full proposal stage; (iii) discuss possible linkages with related programmes, in particular the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC), the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS), the Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS), and the Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ); and (iv) agree on the content and organization of the C-GOOS strategic design plan. The Panel hopes to adhere to the following time table: complete a draft of the C-GOOS Strategic Design Plan in preparation for C-GOOS-IV (China, November, 1999); develop the outline for the C-GOOS Implementation Plan at C-GOOS-IV; draft the Implementation Plan during the intersession period before C- GOOS-V (Spring, 2000); and finalize the Implementation Plan at the C-GOOS-V meeting. 2. ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS Edgardo Gomez was elected