1. Contributions to WIGOS David Meldrum, vice chair, JCOMM OCG
Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
Contributions to WIGOS
David Meldrum, vice chair, JCOMM OCG

2. Management Committee Data Management PA Expert Team on
Updated June 2012 as per JCOMM-4 decision
Management Committee
2 Co-Presidents
3 PA Coordinators
Experts leading priority activities
(with participation of representatives of partner programmes/bodies)
Data Management PA
Expert Team on
Marine Climatology
Data Management
Practices
(joint with IOC
International
Oceanographic Data
and Information
Exchange: IODE)
JCOMMOPS: JCOMM in situ Observing Platform Support Center
Observations PA
Ship
Obs.
Team
SOOPIP
VOSP
Data Buoy
Cooperation Panel
GLOSS
Group of Experts
Argo
IOCCP
OceanSITES
link to
Coordination Group
OPA Coordinator (chair),
Selected Experts including OCG Vice-chair,
Representatives of Obs. Networks / Programmes
DMPA Coordinator (chair),
Chairs of ETs,
IODE Co-chair,
Selected experts
Services & Forecasting Systems PA
Maritime Safety
Services
Waves and Coastal
Hazards Forecasting
Systems
Operational Ocean
Forecast Systems
Sea Ice
SFSPA Coordinator (chair),
Selected experts,
GODAE Ocean View representative
Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for
Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

3. Current JCOMM contributions to WIGOS
See Doc 6(1)_JCOMM
Addressing legacy recommendations of JCOMM Pilot Project for WIGOS
Creation of Regional Marine Instrumentation Centres (RMICs)
Establishment of an International Forum for Users of Satellite Data Telecommunications (Satcom Forum)
Work programme in support of WIGOS has resource implications of about USD100k per year

4. Current JCOMM contributions to WIGOS
International co-ordination well established
Real-time monitoring and support to operators
Promotion of best practice
Metadata availability
RMICs established in USA and China; Morocco next
Update of Manuals and Guides
Capacity development
Transition to climate-quality observations
Preparatory workshop for Satcom Forum
Pilot Projects
New sensors, new ECVs, platforms and standards
Interaction with satellite community
Communications technologies

5. Monitoring - platforms on GTS (3-day window) http://www.osmc.noaa.gov/

6. Monitoring - platforms on GTS (30-day window) http://wo.jcommops.org/

7. Monitoring - GTS delays for drifting buoys http://wo.jcommops.org/

8. Monitoring - Argo profiling floats http://www.osmc.noaa.gov/

9. One output - surface current climatology http://www. aoml. noaa
Will increasingly be used for network design

10. Capacity Development

11. Interaction with satellite community: Group for High Resolution SST (GHRSST)
GHRSST use drifter SST for validation
New drifter spec agreed that meets their needs
Pilot ‘upgrade’ programme launched

12. Climate Issues - Global Sea Level Rise (courtesy of Ed Harrison, NOAA PMEL)
The satellite + tide gauge analysis tells us the recent 20 year trend is ~3mm/yr, with interannual variability
Our upper ocean heat content analyses are not able to explain the observed trend
Where is the missing heat and/or mass?
Deeper Ocean? Ice? Land water changes? Are ocean processes key to future rate?
Global Sea Level Rise

13. Future JCOMM contributions to WIGOS
Closer interaction with satellite community
Pilot project for in situ surface vector winds
Roll-out of climate-quality observations
Ocean heat content and sea-level rise
Deep Argo
Sub-sea cables (ITU/IOC/WMO JTF): dual use for tsunami warning
Improved sea-level network: dual use for tsunami warning
Implementation of Satcom Forum
Biogeochemical observations
Composite network design
OSSEs
Better metrics of system performance