Programme Office Report 2017 Eric Chassignet, Fraser Davidson, Paul - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

8th GODAE OceanView Science Team meeting

Programme Office Report 2017

Eric Chassignet, Fraser Davidson, Paul DiGiacomo, Kirsten Wilmer-Becker 10 November 2017

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

• 2016 meeting outcomes (actions)
• Membership
• Meetings/workshops
• Other major tasks
• Finances

Content

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

2016 meeting outcomes (actions)

DONE

• GOV Vision survey results were circulated to GOVST & patrons
• Champion email addresses were added to the respective TT mailing lists
• GOVST-VIII agenda organisation was supported by a GOVST sub-group

Ongoing

• GOVST to identify and formulate the big overarching vision, questions and priorities for

GOV (this meeting and future documentation)

• GOV groups to better share knowledge about outcome/products of GOV through

national report additions (name of service contact, list of publicly available products, links to product websites)

• TT co-chairs to provide slides for ongoing update of GOV generic presentation

In preparation

• GOV to support the completion and publication of the “Guide for Operational

Oceanography” of ET-OOFS

• PO to send TT update quad-charts to national group reps for information & feedback

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOV membership

Several GOVST membership changes since last year:

• New GOVST co-chairs confirmed (May 2017)
• Eric Chassignet (FSU/ COAPS)
• PN Vinayachandran (Indian Institute of Sciences)
• New OSEval-TT co-chairs (July 2017)
• Elisabeth Remy (Mercator Ocean) and Yosuke Fujii (MRI-JMA)
• New system representatives
• Giovanni Coppini, CMCC representing the MFS
• Yosuke Fujii, MRI-JMA representing the Japan Forecasting System (MOVE.COM/MRI)
• Kristian Mogensen, ECMWF representing ECMWF

Changes to the GOV Patrons’ Group membership:

• Mikhail Entel (BoM) took over from Rick Bailey (BoM)
• Francois Montagner (EUMETSAT) took over from Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)
• Melinda Lontoc-Roy (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) has joined the Patrons’ Group from

Canada

• Philippe Escudier (CNES) has stepped down, a new members has not yet been confirmed

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOV membership

Several GOVST membership changes since last year:

• New GOVST co-chairs confirmed (May 2017)
• Eric Chassignet (FSU/ COAPS)
• PN Vinayachandran (Indian Institute of Sciences)
• New OSEval-TT co-chairs (July 2017)
• Elisabeth Remy (Mercator Ocean) and Yosuke Fujii (MRI-JMA)
• New system representatives
• Giovanni Coppini, CMCC representing the MFS
• Yosuke Fujii, MRI-JMA representing the Japan Forecasting System (MOVE.COM/MRI)
• Kristian Mogensen, ECMWF representing ECMWF

Changes to the GOV Patrons’ Group membership:

• Mikhail Entel (BoM) took over from Rick Bailey (BoM)
• Francois Montagner (EUMETSAT) took over from Hans Bonekamp (EUMETSAT)
• Melinda Lontoc-Roy (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) has joined the Patrons’ Group from

Canada

• Philippe Escudier (CNES) has stepped down, a new members has not yet been confirmed

We are very grateful for the commitment and contribution from our previous co-chair Andreas Schiller (CSIRO) who was one of the central drivers for the establishment of GOV after GODAE. He chaired GOV from 2009 together with Eric Dombrowsky who left GOV in 2014.

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GODAE OceanView international workshops / meetings (2017)

 COSS-TT / ARCOM meeting, Cape Town, April 2017  GOV International School, Mallorca, October 2017  Joint DA-TT & OSEval-TT meeting, La Spezia, October 2017  GOVST-VIII meeting, Bergen, Nov 2017

Important events in 2018 & 2019

 GEO Blue Plant Symposium, Toulouse, July 2018  25 Years of Altimetry (CNES/ESA) symposium, Azores, September 2018  GOV Symposium 2018, Halifax, Nov 2018, recommending tag on TT meetings  Ocean Obs ‘19, Honolulu, Sep 2019

Meetings & workshops

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

COSS-TT/ ARCOM meeting, Cape Town, April 2017

Co-organised with CSIR, SAEON and the University of Cape Town, SA

Topic: International Coordination Meeting of the Costal and Shelf Seas TT in collaboration with ARCOM (Group for Altimetry for Regional & Coastal Ocean Models)

Duration: 5-days Main hosts/organisers: Pierre De Mey (LEGOS), Villy Kourafalou (University of Miami), Björn Backeberg (CSIR), Charine Collins (SAEON), Sharon Bosma (University of Cape Town), Shari Mento (SAEON), Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) Scope: The scope of this workshop was to bring together members from the regional & coastal modelling communities addressing a number of topics: science in support to coastal ocean forecasting, coastal model assessments, altimetry for regional & coastal models and operational and pre-operational coastal forecasting systems. Participation: 49 attendees Representation: 14 countries Abstract submissions: 47 abstracts submitted Outcomes: A number of small action groups to explore (1) collaborations with other disciplines (e.g. hydrology), (2) possible exchanges with other research groups (e.g. WCRP grand challenges), (3) organisation of activities (e.g. model assessment metrics), (4) contribution to common publications (e.g. on model intercomparison with focuses on dedicated processes in different regions), and (5) to strengthening of links to ARCOM (e.g. more exchange between members and representation of ARCOM on GOV website) and GOV (in particular national group representative)

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOV International School, Mallorca, 2-13 Oct 2017

Topic: A two week programme organised for early career scientists, professionals and students covering the current state of the art in operational oceanography and related advances in the ocean sciences. Duration: 2 weeks Main hosts/organisers: Ananda Pascual (IMEDEA CSIC-UIB), Jacques Verron (IGE), Eric Chassignet (FSU/COAPS), Joaquin Tintoré (SOCIB & IMEDEA), Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) and many others!! Participation: 67 students (29 EU, 6 Africa, 15 Asia, 9 North America, 7 South America, 1 Australia) from 33 countries Lecturers: 43 lecturers

The school was sponsored by national and international

• rganisations

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

Joint DA-TT/OSEval-TT meeting, La Spezia, Oct 2017

Co-organised with CMRE and ONRG (sponsor)

Topic: Recent developments in regional and global ocean DA systems, new DA methods and recent studies of observation impacts. The meeting also allowed for separate DA-TT and OSEval-TT meetings. Duration: 3-days Main hosts/organisers: Paolo Oddo (CMRE), Andy Moore (UCSC), Matt Martin (Met Office), Elisabeth Remy (Mercator Ocean), Yosuke Fujii (MRI/JMA) and Kirsten Wilmer- Becker (Met Office) Participation: 44 attendees Representation: 11 countries Abstract submissions: 39 abstracts submitted Information available from the GOV website Report to be provided asap

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOVST-VIII, Bergen, Nov 2017

Organised with NERSC and ONRG 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: Laurent Bertino, Fraser Davidson, Eric Chassignet, PN Vinayachandran and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker Participation: ~40 attendees from 10+ countries

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOVPO financial situation

• Now
• Funds are at a good level, future of

PO more stable, sponsors have committed to renewed and/or increased funding

• Future
• Need to continue to monitor sponsor contributions and flag up problems

early.

• Protect PO funding and seek additional support if TT activities or GOV events

(e.g. symposium) need funds

• Consider investing in improving GOV facilities, e.g. website
• Two years ago
• PO funds were very low, future of PO was uncertain, sponsors had

reduced their support or stopped altogether

£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 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18

Annual contribution from GOV sponsors since 2009 (UK FY)

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

GOVPO financial situation

• Current sponsors of GOV providing direct funding include:
• BoM (Australia)
• CNES (France)
• CONCEPTS (Canada)
• ESA (Netherlands/EU)
• EUMETSAT (Germany/EU)
• Ifremer (France)
• INCOIS (India)
• NERSC (Norway)
• NOAA (USA)
• Met Office (UK)
• Mercator Ocean (France)

In-kind support has been provided by:

• UFBA/REMO (Brazil)
• MRI/JMA (Japan)
• NMEFC (China)
• CSIRO (Australia)

GOVST-VIII meeting, Hotel Augustin, Bergen, 6-10 November 2017

Thank you

I apologise unreservedly for not being with you in Bergen. I thank you all so much for your kind words and well wishes. This has been extremely heartening and I am very grateful for your support. I hope to be back to normal asap and to work with you on the next GOV challenges!