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

French VOS Programme

Status report

2005

3rd VOS-TAG meeting

- Hamburg 20 - 21 mach 2006 -

Direction des Systèmes d’Observation3rd 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)


Vessel type number2005

observationsremarks

Container Carrier (CC) 17 53,779 3 operating « round the world » line

Ferry (F) 16 17,895

Research Vessel (RV) 10 9,678 3 operating in Antarctic Ocean

Gas Tanker (GT) 5 4,952

Trawler (T) 4 2,549

Passenger Vessel (PV) 3 809

Ro/Ro container (RR) 3 676

Liquid Tanker (LT) 2 1,238

Other (OT) 3 1,041 2 cable-laying ships

General Cargo (GC) 2 486

Number of SHIP messages sent onto the GTS during 2005 :

~ 93,000 (manned ~ 21,000)

Météo-France VOS fleet






Port Meteorological Offices

Boulogne sur merLe HavreCaen

Aix en Provence

BrestSaint NazaireBordeaux

NouméaLe PortPapeete

Nelle CalédonieLa Réunion

Tahiti

Trappes (installation team)

Toulouse(management)


METEO FRANCE Shipboard Automatic Weather Station

BATOSversion III (february 2006)

(designed and assembled by Météo-France)


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


METEO FRANCE Shipboard Automatic Weather Station

MINOS(designed by Météo-France)


Automatic Weather StationMINOS

Weather sensors

(only Pressure and air temperature)

hourly observations

satellite communication

(Argos)


VOS Monitoring Web page

http://www.meteo.shom.fr/vos-monitoring/


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/


VOS Awards - Rewards

Kind of Award Years Observations number Transmissions number Remarks

Satisfaction 1 400 400 Minimum required: 1 year and 400 observations(or 400 transmissions)

Gratitude 3 1000 1800 Minimum required: 3 years and 1000 observations(or 1800 transmissions)

Bronze medal 9 2800 4500 Minimum required: 9 years and 2800 observations(or 4500 transmissions)

Silver medal 15 4800 7500 Minimum required: 15 years and 4800 observations(or 7500 transmissions)

Gold medal 21 6800 10500 minimum required: 21 years and 6800 observations(or 10500 transmissions)

« Le Verrier » medals (bronze, silver and gold) for mariners


VOS Awards – Rewards

mariner’s payment

Observation payment

Transmissionpayment

Observation night majoration

transmission night majoration

Remark

0.69 € 0.69 € 0.82 € 0.82 €

"Night" majorations are payed at 00h, 03h and 06h UTC in the North

Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea.


Publication A quaterly maritime

meteorological magazine,

« METMAR », is published and free distributed

aboard VOS ships and to ship’s managers


Expected evolution for 2006/2008The « 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

Fleet expected evolution of the Météo-France selected ships for the next four years...

64

7380

87

2005 2006 2007 2008

(estimated new installations : around 9 a year)

VO

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um

ber

estimated fleet increasement:

7 a year

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