1. French VOS Programme Status report 2005 3 rd VOS-TAG meeting - Hamburg 20 - 21 mach 2006 -

2. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 The French VOS Programme is made of 64 selected ships (1st march 2006) 6 of them are dedicated to the VOS-Clim project -41 are equipped with a BATOS AWS (version 1 or 2) -2 with a Mini-BATOS AWS -7 with a MINOS AWS -2 are until equipped with old POMMAR stations -12 with standard materials (6 using TurboWin)

3. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Vessel typenumber 2005 observations remarks Container Carrier (CC)1753,7793 operating « round the world » line Ferry (F)1617,895 Research Vessel (RV)109,6783 operating in Antarctic Ocean Gas Tanker (GT)54,952 Trawler (T)42,549 Passenger Vessel (PV)3809 Ro/Ro container (RR)3676 Liquid Tanker (LT)21,238 Other (OT)31,0412 cable-laying ships General Cargo (GC)2486 Number of SHIP messages sent onto the GTS during 2005 : ~ 93,000 (manned ~ 21,000) Météo-France VOS fleet

4. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Météo-France VOS fleet

5. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Météo-France VOS fleet

6. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Port Meteorological Offices Boulogne sur mer Le Havre Caen Aix en Provence Brest Saint Nazaire Bordeaux Nouméa Le Port Papeete N elle Calédonie La Réunion Tahiti Trappes (installation team) Toulouse (management)

7. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 METEO FRANCE Shipboard Automatic Weather Station BATOS version III (february 2006) (designed and assembled by Météo-France)

8. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Weather sensors (Pressure, Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Wind speed and direction, Surface Sea Temperature) Weather screen Satellite communication (Data reporting, 7 x cheaper than classical « code 41 ») PC

9. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 METEO FRANCE Shipboard Automatic Weather Station MINOS (designed by Météo-France)

10. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Automatic Weather Station MINOS Weather sensors (only Pressure and air temperature) hourly observations satellite communication (Argos)

11. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 VOS Monitoring Web page http://www.meteo.shom.fr/vos-monitoring/

12. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Co-ordination & collaboration Meteo-France is responsible member for the Surface Marine Programme of EUCOS (E-SURFMAR) VOS operators are invited to use the monitoring tools which has been developed and made available by Meteo-France on the Internet http://www.meteo.shom.fr/vos-monitoring/

13. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 VOS Awards - Rewards Kind of Award Years Observations numberTransmissions number Remarks Satisfaction 1 400 Minimum required: 1 year and 400 observations (or 400 transmissions) Gratitude 3 10001800 Minimum required: 3 years and 1000 observations (or 1800 transmissions) Bronze medal 9 28004500 Minimum required: 9 years and 2800 observations (or 4500 transmissions) Silver medal 15 48007500 Minimum required: 15 years and 4800 observations (or 7500 transmissions) Gold medal 21 680010500 minimum required: 21 years and 6800 observations (or 10500 transmissions) « Le Verrier » medals (bronze, silver and gold) for mariners

14. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 VOS Awards – Rewards mariner’s payment Observation payment Transmission payment Observation night majoration transmission night majoration Remark 0.69 € 0.82 € "Night" majorations are payed at 00h, 03h and 06h UTC in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.

15. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Publication A quaterly maritime meteorological magazine, « METMAR », is published and free distributed aboard VOS ships and to ship’s managers

16. Direction des Systèmes d’Observation 3rd VOS-TAG meeting 20/21 March 2006 Expected evolution for 2006/2008 The « BATOS » version 3 AWS is now available for the EUCOS-Surfmar Programme members. The equipment of 7 ships with « BATOS 2 » and 2 ships with MINOS is expected, per year by Météo-France

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