1. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 E-SURFMAR Status and Plans (December 2014) Pierre Blouch E-SURFMAR Operational Service Manager

2. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 E-SURFMAR – Highlights 2014 (1) Drifting buoys  – Better distribution than ever : e.g. we never had so many buoys in high latitudes – Longer lifetimes : one buoy stopped working after 2.5 years at sea – Savings due to this better efficiency => ~60 k€ by the end of the year – Reflections about the re-use of recovered buoys : ~10 buoys available in Brest VOS ships – Experimentation with a « deck drifter » (refurbished drifting buoy) on a French Navy ship during her campaign in Arctic  – Revision of the compensation scheme for VOS observations – Writing of rules for collaboration on PMO activities (ship visits) – Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) for EUCAWS stations (planned on 17-19 December)

3. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 E-SURFMAR – Highlights 2014 (2) Data management – Continuation of the TAC2BUFR migration Information on progress regularly published on ECMWF wikisite FM13 messages from conventional VOS now converted into BUFR – FM13 messages received at KNMI forwarded to Meteo-France for BUFR conversion – Formalisation of E-SURFMAR ship-to-shore dataformats #100 (S-AWS) and #101 (conventional VOS). Implementation of this latter in TurboWin v5.5 Other activities – Participation in the Surface Drifter component of AtlantOS proposal (reply to H2020 call BG-8-2014 - In-situ Atlantic ocean observations) Evaluated favourably by EC last week Moored buoys – New third party partner : Instituto Hidrografico (IH), Portugal. Their buoy data are forwarded onto the GTS by IPMA – Experimentation by Met Office with a new type of moored buoy 

4. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 Drifting Buoys Network Deployment from a container ship 12-27 Dec. 2014 EUMETNET buoys Non-EUMETNET buoys

5. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 Drifting Buoys Network Deployment from IB Oden 12-27 Dec. 2014 EUMETNET buoys Non-EUMETNET buoys

6. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 E-SURFMAR – Plans 2015 (1) Drifting buoys (in addition to routine tasks) – Deployment of 6 to 10 drifters in the Arctic  – Start of the work for AtlantOS (April) – Deployment of recovered buoys after refurbishment VOS ships – Site Acceptance Test (SAT) for EUCAWS (6 months) – Development of a fully autonomous barometric station  – Distribution of TurboWin v5.5 on conventional VOS – Purchase of a first EUCAWS from series ?

7. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 E-SURFMAR – Plans 2015 (2) Data BUFR migration – Use of new template TM 315009 for all drifting buoy data – Application of template TM 315008 to moored buoy data – Application of template TM 308014 to VOS data if officially agreed – End of use of previous templates – End of use of TAC codes ? Other activities – Start of the exploitation of E-SURFMAR ship-to-shore dataformats #100 and #101 – Exploitation of E-SURFMAR study results to possibly adapt the present network design

8. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 Questions ?

9. GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles CT-3 Meeting – De Bilt – 1-2 December 2014 Contact Details Pierre Blouch E-SURFMAR Programme Manager GIE/EIG EUMETNET GIE EUMETNET Secretariat c/o L’Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique Avenue Circulaire 3 1180 Bruxelles, Belgique Tel: +32 (0)2 373 05 18 Fax: +32 (0)2 890 98 58 Email: info@eumetnet.eu Web: www.eumetnet.eu E-SURFMAR Programme Manager Meteo-France Centre de Meteo Marine 13 rue du Chatellier – CS 12804 F-29228 Brest Cedex 2 Tel: + 33 (0) 298 22 18 52 Fax: + 33 (0) 298 22 18 49 Email: Pierre.Blouch@meteo.fr Web: www.eumetnet.eu