Workshop for a new Marine Climate Data System (MCDS)

28 November - 02 December 2011,

Office of
Deutscher Wetterdienst,
Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 76

20359 Hamburg
Germany

Annotated Agenda

1 Opening and welcome
2 Opening of the workshop
2.1 Adoption of the agenda
2.2 Working arrangements
3 New Marine Climate Data System
3.1 Background information, and rationale
3.2 Modernized VOS delayed mode data-flow
3.3 Establishment of a network of mirrored WMO-IOC Centres for Marine-Meteorological and Oceanographic Climatological Data (CMOC)
3.4 Follow up of the RNODC/DB and SOC/DB working group recommendations, and their contribution to the MCDS
3.5 Integration of the Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) Metadata Service (ODASMS) into the MCDS
3.6 Contribution of the GDACs, GTSPP, GOSUD to the MCDS
3.7 Contribution from the IODE NODCs and former IODE RNODCs
3.8 Longer-term scenarios for integrating other and new sources of data (e.g. tropical and coastal moored buoys, OceanSITES, Argo, satellite)
3.9 Assessment of future requirements for the Marine Climate Summaries
3.10 Draft Vision for 2020 for the future Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) to ultimately replace the existing MCSS
3.11 Draft strategy for the realization of the Vision, to be submitted to JCOMM-IV
3.12 Draft Implementation Plan for the realization of the Strategy
4 Conclusion of the workshop