GOVST-VII meeting, The Holiday Inn, Kochi, 7-11 November 2016
Programme Office Report 2016 Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, Met Office 7 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Programme Office Report 2016 Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, Met Office 7 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
7 th GODAE OceanView Science Team meeting Programme Office Report 2016 Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, Met Office 7 November 2016 GOVST-VII meeting, The Holiday Inn, Kochi, 7-11 November 2016 Content Actions from last meeting Meetings/workshops
GOVST-VII meeting, The Holiday Inn, Kochi, 7-11 November 2016
- Actions from last meeting
- Meetings/workshops
- Reporting
- Critical finances
- Website progress and issues
- Publications
- Other things….
Content
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Action G-VI-1: GOVST co-chairs and PO to consider ways to better support the PO. Action G-VI-2: CP-TT to organise the next CP-TT workshop in collaboration with WGNE in 2017; location to be discussed Action G-VI-3: OSEval-TT co-chairs to consider including evaluation of sentinel 3 observations (or SWOT) with support from the COSS-TT selecting the regions in their work plan (also including BGC) Action G-VI-4: OSEval-TT co-chairs (with GOV co-chairs) to consider contributing to the climate change debate on a broader scale e.g. wrt future observation requirements (not only through CLIVAR/GSOP) Action G-VI-5: OSEval-TT co-chairs and PO to organise the OSEval-TT workshop in 2016, dates and location to be confirmed Action G-VI-6: DA-TT to organise a joint workshop with the MEAP-TT in July 2016 Action G-VI-7: PO to check with Chris Brown/Emlyn Jones if it can help to support the questionnaire (end-user requirements) Action G-VI-8: PO to support the MEAP-TT co-chairs in identifying a representative for the MEAP-TT from the Met Office Action G-VI-9: COSS-TT co-chairs to include details about the collaboration with the IV-TT in the COSS white paper. Action G-VI-10: IV-TT co-chairs and PO to explore options for providing a tool to easily share, exchange and track progress with activities Action G-VI-11: IV-TT co-chairs to organise the next IV-TT workshop in 2016; dates and location to be discussed Action G-VI-12: OSEval-TT co-chairs to explore options to improve collaboration with the GOOS, including setting up a special panel at Patrons level (see also action G-VI-13.)
Actions from Sydney meeting (1)
Done Done In progress Done In progress ?
Postponed to 2017
In progress Ongoing In preparation ? ?
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Action G-VI-13: GOVST co-chairs to discuss options for setting up an Observations Group at Patrons’ level to better direct the GOV TTs in supporting any issues related to the ocean observing system. Action G-VI-14: GOVST co-chairs to continue to support Argo and to improve communication with GOOS Action G-VI-15: The GOVST and TTs to work with the VC representatives on facilitating processing large new data sets when available. Action G-VI-16: COSS-TT co-chairs to plan the next COSS workshop with ARCOM chairs (e.g. include training or tutorials) and to make an effort to also engage with/invite representatives from large-scale systems. Action G-VI-17: GOV TTs to draft a letter of support for the PO to be sent to Patrons in order to highlight the difficult financial situation and the need to keep the PO going to make TT activities possible. Action G-VI-18: All IV-TT intercomparison groups to decide if and how much information about the Class-4 intercomparison should be made publicly available (IV-TT co-chairs and PO to set up questionnaire). Action G-VI-19: PO to check the budget information from the last Santa Cruz meeting (OSEval/IV-TT, 2011) and forward to AM. Action G-VI-20: GOVST co-chairs and PO to discuss options for setting up a “super TT meeting “ at future GOVST annual meetings, also to be iterated with the TT co-chairs. Action G-VI-21: GOVST co-chairs/PO to add points about future organisation of GOVST meeting to agenda of next meeting Action G-VI-22: KWB to run a doodle poll to make sure the best suitable date for the next GOVST-VII meeting in India is found
In progress, plan to run a TT co-chair only discussion at this meeting
In progress Setting up of PG observations group has been endorsed by patrons. In progress
Ongoing
Ongoing Done
Actions from Sydney meeting (2)
Done Done Done Done
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Meetings & workshops
GOVST-VII meeting, The Holiday Inn, Kochi, 7-11 November 2016
GODAE OceanView international workshops / meetings: HRCP Workshop, Exeter, April 2016 (linked to CP-TT) Joint DA/MEAP-TT Workshop, Santa Cruz, July 2016 IV-TT meeting, Montreal, September 2016 The Global Ocean Week, Toulouse, September 2016 GOVST-VII meeting, Kochi, Nov 2016 Upcoming events: COSS-TT / ARCOM Workshop, Cape Town, April 2017 OSEval-TT Workshop, China, mid-2017 – to be discussed tomorrow CP-TT Workshop, 2017/18 – to be discussed tomorrow GODAE Summer School, Majorca, Spain, 2-13 October 2017 GOVST-VIII meeting, Norway or Canada, Autumn 2017
Meetings & workshops
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HRCP Workshop, Exeter, April 2016
Co-organised with Met Office, University of Reading and NOC, UK Topic: High-Resolution ocean modelling for Coupled Seamless Predictions Duration: 3-days Main hosts/organisers: Mike Bell (Met Office), David Ferreira (University of Reading), Helene Hewitt (Met Office), Adrian New (National Oceanography Centre ), Malcolm Roberts (Met Office), Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) Scope: The scope of this workshop was to look at the scientific development of
- cean models and global coupled prediction systems at resolutions of order 1/12°
for seasonal to decadal prediction and short-range weather forecasting. Participation: 86 attendees Representation: over 10 countries Abstract submissions: 52 abstracts submitted Outcomes: A short “white” paper covering the issues and recommendations will be submitted for publication following the meeting.
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Joint DA/MEAP-TT workshop, Santa Cruz, July 2016
Organised with The University of Santa Cruz and NOAA (sponsor) at Santa Cruz University, CA, USA Topic: The current state-of-the-art in data assimilation and marine ecosystem analysis & predictions, where both disciplines overlap and how issues can be addressed and improved. The workshop also addressed DA-TT and MEAP-TT questions separately. Duration: 2.5-days Main hosts/organisers: Andy Moore (UCSC), Katja Fennel (Dalhousie University), Marion Gehlen (LSCE), Matt Martin (Met Office ) and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) Participation: 53 attendees Representation: 9 countries Abstract submissions: 43 submitted abstracts Report available from website
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IV-TT workshop, Montreal, September 2016
Co-organised with ECCC and MEOPAR (sponsor) Topic: Task Team only workshop: the 4 objectives included
- Class-4 intercomparison status review
- Future directions of Class-4
- Ongoing other initiatives (e.g. Class 1 consensus forecast)
- Recent advances in evaluation and verification efforts and the development of new metrics
Duration: 3-days Main hosts/organisers: Greg Smith (ECCC), Fabrice Hernandez (Mercator Ocean) and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) Participation: 14 attendees Representation: 7 countries Abstract submissions: 9 abstracts submitted Report available from website
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GOVST-VII, Kochi, Nov 2016
Organised with INCOIS and IOGOOS with support from EUMETSAT Topic: Annual GODAE OceanView Science Team Meeting
- Consolidate collaborations/activities within GOV and facilitate
interaction with international and intergovernmental
- rganisations outside GOV
Duration: 5-day meeting Main hosts/organisers: Abhisek Chatterjee, Francis Pavanathara , Kirsten Wilmer-Becker and Satheesh Shenoi Participation: ~40 attendees Representation: more than 10 countries Group-photo after this presentation
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Reporting
GOVST-VII meeting, The Holiday Inn, Kochi, 7-11 November 2016
GOV reporting
- Workshop and meeting outcomes
- Most reports or minutes available online
- Financial overviews
- GOV financial reports/ summaries are regularly provided to the GOV Patrons’
Group and GOVST co-chairs
- GOV account information is exchanged with the Met Office Finance
Department and Science Admin group (for future planning)
- Contract deliverables
- Some sponsors require project reporting for the contributions they provide
- Event/meeting/workshop announcements
- Summaries of meeting- and workshop details are summarised in
announcement or brochures
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GOV reporting
- Collection of quad-charts and national reports and provision online
- Collection and provision of quad-charts on a 6-monthy basis
- Annual national reports
- Online publications
- Contribution to and distribution of GOV publications
- Website
– Events (internal and external) – News – GOV partner updates
- Provision of information internally (email) regarding:
– Surveys
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Financial information
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GOVPO financial situation
- The response:
- Overwhelmingly positive, strong interest for GOV PO to continue, financial
support was increased or newly started
- Now
- Funds have been replenished, future of
PO more stable, sponsors have committed to renewed and/or increased funding
- What we did:
- Drafted letters of support to GOV Patrons’ organisations, provided evidence
- f GOV benefit, provided overview of financial situation, solicited support at
a level Patrons organisation were happy to commit to
- One year ago
- PO funds were very low, future of PO insecure, sponsors had reduced
their support or stopped altogether
We need to make sure to continue the annual support to move GOV forward
£0.00 £10,000.00 £20,000.00 £30,000.00 £40,000.00 £50,000.00 £60,000.00 £70,000.00 £80,000.00 £90,000.00 £100,000.00
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GOVPO financial situation
- Current sponsors of GOV providing direct funding include:
- CNES (France)
- CONCEPTS (Canada)
- ESA (Netherlands/EU)
- EUMETSAT (Germany/EU)
- Ifremer (France)
- INCOIS (India)
- NERSC (Norway)
- NOAA (USA)
- Met Office (UK)
- Mercator Ocean (France)*
and
- Hopefully BoM again
In-kind support was provided by:
- UFBA/REMO (Brazil)
- MRI/JMA (Japan)
- NMEFC (China)
- CSIRO (Australia)
Thank you for your ongoing support for GOV!
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Membership
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GOV membership & future focus
- No membership changes since last year
- GOVST co-chair Andreas Schiller and Patrons’ Group
chair Paul DiGiacomo to step down
- Need to organise replacements and guarantee an
- ngoing plan for GOV
- Need to revisit the GOV strategy/ future plans
- Agree and move forward with symposium and
review
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Website
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Website info and twiki issues
- Website main source of information about GOV for external and
internal visitors – needs to be maintained well
- Website review required:
- Some parts of the website have been updated e.g. Task Teams area
- Others are out of date and need to be revised or removed, e.g.
publication lists, etc.
- Issues with Twiki
- Currently new users cannot be easily registered
- GOV website will host an ESA project on Observing System
Experiment with Satellite SSS to research the impact of Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data assimilation on El Niño 2015
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Publications
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GOV PO Publications
- BAMS article published in Oct 16 – “Better Informed
Marine Operations and Management: Multidisciplinary Efforts in Ocean Forecasting Research for Socioeconomic Benefit” – now available online via the GOV website or directly via BAMS
- Generic GOV presentation to be used by GOVST when
representing GOV externally
- Distribution of GOV Special issue hardcopies to authors,
editors, reviewers, etc.
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Other things….
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External groups and major events
- PO involved in discussion regarding the new GEO
Blue Planet Implementation plan Emily Smail (NOAA) will provide details about Blue Plant on Wednesday morning 3rd Blue Planet Symposium, May/June 2017, College Park
- PO continues to talk to the GSOP/CLIVAR and
OOPC programme offices
- Next Ocean Obs ‘19 conference planned for
September 2019 in Honolulu Convention Centre, USA
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Summary
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Summary
- The last year was marked by financial issues of PO
and a lot of time was spend to negotiate, network and solicit funds to resolve this ..... with success
- Despite this a number of well attended events were
- rganised and interest in GOV continues to be high
- TT support and coordination (quad-charts, projects,
surveys, web-presence…)
- Communication (website, web review, reporting,
internal/external groups)
- Focus on replacing resigning co-chairs
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