World Meteorological Organization
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| 1 | ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1 | Opening |
| 1.2 | Adoption of the agenda |
| 1.3 | Working arrangements |
| 2 | JCOMM ASPECTS AND REPORTS |
| 2.1 | Report by the ETMC Chairperson |
| 2.2 | JCOMM Management Committee guidance |
| 2.3 | Data Management Practices |
| 2.4 | Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) |
| 2.5 | Report of the Responsible Members (RMs) |
| 3 | REQUIREMENTS |
| 3.1 | Review the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) requirements for climatological data sets |
| 3.2 | Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) |
| 3.3 | Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) and the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) |
| 3.4 | Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) |
| 4 | MARINE DATA AND CLIMATOLOGY WORKSHOPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
| 4.1 | CLIMAR-4 outcome, recommendations, and follow up |
| 4.2 | Preparations for MARCDAT-4 |
| 5 | MARINE CLIMATE DATA SYSTEM (MCDS) |
| 5.1 | Review of MCDS developments |
| 5.2 | Future of the Contributing and Responsible Members, and areas of responsibility |
| 5.3 | Data Acquisition Centres (DACs), ToR, and candidates |
| 5.4 | Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs), ToR, and candidates |
| 5.5 | Centres for Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Climate Data (CMOCs) |
| 5.5.1 | Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) |
| 5.5.2 | CMOC/China development status |
| 5.6 | Updating of the Implementation Plan |
| 6 | FORMATS AND QUALITY CONTROL |
| 6.1 | Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format |
| 6.2 | Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format |
| 6.3 | Status of the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) |
| 6.4 | Higher level quality control |
| 6.4.1 | Status of Higher Level Quality Control Standard (HQCS) |
| 6.4.2 | Potential linkages with satellite data |
| 6.4.3 | Status of the ICOADS Value-Added Database (IVAD) project |
| 6.5 | Review of the BUFR (and other) templates for surface marine data |
| 6.6 | Review of electronic logbooks |
| 6.7 | Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal) |
| 7 | DATA AND METADATA: ARCHEOLOGY AND ARCHIVAL |
| 7.1 | Instrument/Platform metadata |
| 7.1.1 | Status of the WMO Ship Catalogue (WMO-No. 47) |
| 7.1.2 | Buoy metadata |
| 7.1.3 | Rig and platform metadata issues |
| 7.1.4 | WIGOS Metadata |
| 7.2 | Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) |
| 7.3 | International marine data and metadata recovery |
| 7.3.1 | RECovery of Logbooks and International Marine data (RECLAIM) and related projects (ACRE, GODAR, HISKLIM, HISTOR, etc.) |
| 7.3.2 | Lloyds commercial ship particulars |
| 7.4 | History of the marine ship code |
| 7.5 | Sea-ice climatology |
| 7.6 | Interactions with ETWCH, including wave and storm surge data |
| 7.6.1 | Status of the global extreme wave event archive |
| 7.6.2 | Potential for calculation of wave monthly summaries |
| 8 | UPDATING OF RELEVANT WMO MANUALS, GUIDES AND OTHER TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS |
| 8.1 | Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology |
| 8.2 | Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558 and 471) |
| 8.3 | Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100) |
| 9 | INFORMATION EXCHANGE |
| 9.1 | ETMC / MCDS Website(s) |
| 9.2 | Other media |
| 10 | REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS |
| 11 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |