ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (1) DBCP DBCP 19 th session –Held in Angra dos Reis, October 2003 –Louis Vermaak presented report on ISABP –Information exchange: JCOMMOPS News section PDF of DBCP Brochure on Web Provision of articles to Port Technology International Leaflet on vandalism

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (2) DBCP 19 th session New DBCP officers –David Meldrum, Chairman –Elizabeth Horton, Vice-Chair, North-America –Louis Vermaak, Vice-Chair, Southern Hemisphere –K. Premkumar, Vice-Chair, Asia

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (3) DBCP DBCP 20 th session –Chennai, India, October 2004 –Workshop 1.5 days Vision, innovations & applications of data buoys & floats

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (4) JTA 23 th session Agreed for BUFR compression Argos Tariff reduced by 5% €3850 plus a monthly € 7.62 New tariff structure to be proposed –Discussed by sub-group –Submitted to OPSCOM June 2004 –For 2005 onwards

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (5) Technical issues BUFR –Implemented in July 2003 –Table version 11 used –GTS bulletin headers IOZXii LFPW IOZXii KARS –Panel asked for BUFR compression Agreed upon by JTA-23

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (6) Buoy metadata collection scheme –Metadata needed for Models Instrument evaluation Research –Notification via web pages By manufacturers upon buoy purchase By buoy operator upon buoy deployment –Metadata publicly available –GDP automatically notified –Provided to JCOMM ODAS metadata database Technical issues

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (7) Technical issues Buoy metadata collection scheme –Discussed with EGOS Meeting in Toulouse, Oct Specifications written EGOS funded JCOMMOPS for developments –EGOS scheme used by DBCP globally –Limit workload for operators –User friendly for manufacturers e.g. Explained to Technocean and discussed –Scheme adapted for GDP needs –Developments started at JCOMMOPS January 2004 Planned delivery end of 2004 Provision of metadata via FTP & in XML in early 2005 –China to provide ODAS metadata to end users

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (8) Other technical issues New JCOMMOPS dynamic web site –Includes News section –Platform status –Maps SPAM on buoy-qc mailing list –List to be renamed Deployment opportunities Duplicate BUOY reports NOAA/NESDIS requirement matrix on satellite data telecommunication systems to be reviewed by Action Groups for input Sondre Stromfjord LUT connected to Argos Barrow (71.3N, 156.6W) to eventually replace Lannion

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (9) NOAA/NESDIS sat-com requirement matrix ISABP invited to provide input to Rob Basset, e.g.

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (10) Other technical issues Service Argos developing new data processing system –Argos processing system & GTS sub-system merged into a brand new system providing multi-processing –Implementation end of 2005 GTS Bulletin headers: LFPW => LFVW New SVPB design manual on-line –Differences between new smaller design and older DBCP status maps available monthly New dedicated page on WMO numbers on JCOMMOPS web site

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (11) JCOMM / OCG 1250 drifter to be deployed worldwide –Lagrangian SST drifters –Barometers outside the tropical regions 50% of barometers might be funded by USA –Provided that other countries provide the other 50% –ISABP invited to consider increasing its deployments

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (12) Initial Ocean Observing System Milestones including international contributions Tide Gauges Operational GPS/DORIS Stations Surface Drifting Buoys Tropical Moored Buoys Ships of Opportunity Argo Floats Reference Stations Coastal Moorings System Evaluation Ocean Carbon Network Dedicated Ship Time High resolution and frequently repeated lines occupied Number of floats Number of moorings Number of buoys Days at sea (NOAA contribution) Product evaluation and feedback loops implemented Number of flux sites/lines, One inventory per 10 years Number of flux moorings Moorings with climate sensors Total System System % Complete 3 4 Multi-year Phased Implementation Plan (representative milestones) 10

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (13) DBCP status by country

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (14) Status map (by country)

ISABP meeting, Rio, August 2004 (15) Status map (Wind, P, SST)

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