1. Review Electronic Logbooks
Takashi Yoshida
Frits Koek
16-21 April 2007
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2. Review Electronic Logbooks
eLogbooks
OBSJMA for Win
AMVER/SEAS
TurboWin
Raiden
Recommendations
16-21 April 2007
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3. Review Electronic Logbooks
OBSJMA for WIN
Current version published in 2004
New manual published December 2005
Only weather observation
16-21 April 2007
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4. Review Electronic Logbooks
OBSJMA
2004
2005
2006
Total number of eLogs
11,000
11,062
10,824
eLogs with dummy call sign
1,052
5,288
Total number of VOSs which use OBSJMA 48 55 40
VOSs which use dummy call sign 12 20
16-21 April 2007
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5. Review Electronic Logbooks
AMVER/SEAS
Current version 5.3 (2001)
Weather observation
VOSClim
XBT observations
AMVER report
Uses COMSAT (no costs for the ship)
Website
16-21 April 2007
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6. Review Electronic Logbooks
AMVER/SEAS
Now including a thermosalinograph module and are installing it on the first ship this month.
Experimenting with real time transmission of TSG data via Iridium.
Evaluating the costs of the Iridium service with TSG data before deciding if Iridium is a viable service for transmitting other ocean and met data.
16-21 April 2007
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7. Review Electronic Logbooks
TurboWin
Current version 4 (2007)
Weather observation
VOSClim
Pub 47 meta data entry form
Special phenomena report form
Buoy/float deployment form
VOS-ID
IMMT-3 storage
Climatology
16-21 April 2007
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8. TurboWin developments
Web-based TurboWin (uses Java 6)
Installation and User manual
16-21 April 2007
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9. eLogbook recommendations
eLogbooks are at the front end of the obs
New requirements should be well thought over
and planned
We need better coordination wrt:
IMMT
BUFR
Communications
VOS-ID
Pub-47
16-21 April 2007
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