December 2009 Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group 71st OGC Technical Committee Mountain View, California, USA Marie-Francoise Voidrot, Météo-France Chris Little, UK Met Office 2009-12-08 13:00-15:00 Copyright © 2009, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

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WMO-OGC MoU, Signed Nov 2009 Proposal for initial actions Four named WMO Secretariat staff have access to OGC Portal Shi Peiliang, Pierre Kerhervé, José Arimatea de Sousa Brito, David Thomas 8 WMO Experts, 2 each from Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology, Climatology WMO have 8 Commissions: CBS, JCOMM, CHy, CCl, CAeM, CAgM, CIMO, CAS Propose that main objectives of current plan are: Develop Best Practice or Profile for WMS and WMTS Develop Conceptual models suitable Promotion of OGC web standards such as WMS, WFS and WCS and related standards Develop Best Practice or Profile for Catalogue infrastructure Develop awareness and promote of O&M, SWE and related standards within WMO WIGOS community – propose WIGOS expert from CIMO Remaining three people: - ask for nominations from Presidents of CCl, JCOMM, CHy

OGC–WMO Memorandum of Understanding Signed November 2009 One expert representing CCl to liaise beween CCl and Met Ocean/Hydrology OGC DWGs One expert representing CHy to liaise beween CHy and Met Ocean/Hydrology OGC DWGs One expert representing JCOMM to liaise between JCOMM and Met Ocean/Hydrology OGC DWGs Four experts representing CBS or CIMO to liaise with the Met Ocean/Hydrology OGC DWGs to: Develop proposals related to conceptual models suitable for WMO IPET-MDI (Chair or core member of IPET-MDI) Develop proposals for best practices or profile for Catalogue infrastructure (Chair or core member of ET-WISC) Develop awareness of O&M, SWE & related standards in WMO WIGOS & CIMO communities (WIGOS expert from CIMO) Consider the use of WMS, WMTS,WFS, WCS and related standards for the development/implementation of the WIS (Chair or core member of ET-CTS) One expert to liaise with the 7 experts above, to follow-up the progress in the programme in Exhibit A of the MoU and to submit a report (at least each year) on this progress to WMO CBS Management Group (Chair or core member of ET-GDDP).

2nd Workshop on OGC/GIS Standards in Meteorology, Toulouse, 2009-11-23/25 120 participants: global, Met Services, industry, academia Presentations in plenary http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/gis-ogc/ 3 Working Groups: Web Map Services Modelling Roadmap Recommendations: Next workshop November 2010, Met Office, Exeter, UK Possible themes to include O&M Regular Teleconferences From Working Groups

Met Ocean DWG Telecons Teleconferences on Technical Issues: WMS – Mondays, 16:00 UTC Conceptual Modelling – Tuesday 16:00 UTC, starting 15 Dec 2009 Next week is last until 11th January 2010 Twiki: http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/MetOceanDWG Mailing list: meteo.dwg-requests@lists.opengeospatial.org WMS topics, one at a time until fixed, quasi-questionnaire order: Time (try to finalise and agree today) SLD/SE (focal point: Illke Rinne) Coordinate Reference Systems, including Bounding Boxes Vertical coordinates Performance etc

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