1. 5/2-5/20071 http://www.oceansites.org R. Weller OOPC 12 May 2-5, 2007

2. 5/2-5/20072 OceanSITES Steering Committee Bob Weller WHOI, USA (Co-Chair) Uwe Send IfM Kiel, Germany (Co-Chair) Ed Boyle MIT, USA Francisco Chavez MBARI, USA Don Conlee NDBC, USA Tommy Dickey UCSB, USA Dave Karl SOEST, USA Tony Knap Bermuda Station Yoshifumi Kuroda JAMSTEC, Japan Richard Lampitt NOCS, UK Roger Lukas SOEST, USA Mike McPhaden PMEL, USA V. S. N. Murty NIO, India Kostas Nittis HMRC, Greece Rodrigo Nuñez SHOA, Chile John Orcutt SIO, USA Svein Osterhus Bergen Univ., Norway Sylvie Pouliquen Ifremer/Corilois, France Hendrik van Aken NIOZ, Netherlands Douglas Wallace IFM Kiel, Germany

3. 5/2-5/20073 At OOPC 10, a statement of purpose: A global ocean timeseries observatory system is now under development A GOOS/CLIVAR/POGO sponsored (via OOPC/COOP) activity The system is multidisciplinary in nature, providing physical, meteorological, chemical, biological and geophysical timeseries observations Goal is to make the data are publicly available as soon as received and quality-controlled by the owner/operator An international Science Team provides guidance, coordination, outreach, and oversight for the implementation, data management and capacity building A pilot system (2001-2006) has been defined consisting of all operating sites and those planned to be established within 5 years, subject to evaluation in terms of the qualifying criteria by the Science Team.

4. 5/2-5/20074 Milestones since OOPC 11 Development and potential development of the observing system Western boundary current moorings Keo Gulf Stream Applications for new sites Cross-linking networks The global component of US NSF ORION

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7. 7 A data issue: insertion of data on the GTS. Useful means of distribution, but where OceanSITES sites are meant to provide withheld data (not used for model initialization) to serve as independent validation, verification for models or other fields, does insertion put the validity of the ‘independent’ data at risk? How to ensure GTS data not used for initialization? What is need to insert on the GTS?

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10. 10 sensible latent Net longwave Net shortwave Green - NCEP2 Blue - ERA40

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13. 5/2-5/200713 Gulf Stream mooring 38.5°N, 65°W

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16. 5/2-5/200716 Stabilized platform for radiometers under consideration for use at OWS M (from Oystein Godoy, Norwegian Met Inst.

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18. 5/2-5/200718 SOTS/ PULSE Eurosites

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22. 5/2-5/200722 Stable platform design under consideration for ORION Global

23. 5/2-5/200723 OceanSITES continues as a volunteer group liaising with JCOMM OPS. Could do better at: - data management/sharing - advocacy - tracking performance, QC

24. Ship support - coordination with other activities Long-term national commitments Rapid tech evolution (ORION, multidisc.) Coordinated sites - climate/carbon/tsunami/swell Growing out of the ‘pilot phase’ data flow, standards,… Sampling, calibration standards - linking networks (BSRN, cross cal at Davos ….) JCOMM, DBCP … OceanSITES has moved forward as a collaboration of investigators from different nations. How to now move forward to a more formal existence? The advice and guidance of the OOPC is sought.