GOVST-VI Meeting, Q Station, Sydney 2 – 6 November 2015

GOVST-V: 6th Meeting

GOVST-II Tokyo 2010

GOVST-IV Rio de Janeiro 2012

GOVST-I Toulouse 2009

GOVST-III Paris 2011

GOVST-V Beijing 2014

Sydney, Australia 2015

GOVST-VI Meeting, Q Station, Sydney 2 – 6 November 2015

6th GODAE OceanView Science Team meeting

Strategy, Collaborations and Future

Andreas Schiller, Fraser Davidson and Kirsten Wilmer-Becker

2 November 2015

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Content Part I

• Meeting Objective

• Agenda Overview

• Attendance

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Meeting Objectives (1)

6th face to face meeting of GOVST

– Main focus of this Meeting:

• Review of Task Team work plans and progress

• Science presentations (main theme: Western boundary currents)

– Review of collaborations within GOV

– Future plans

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Meeting Objectives (2)

– Review progress made since Beijing meeting (GOVST-V)

• National reports (posters)

– Overview presentations and review of international collaborations and

observing systems

• CEOS, GOOS, OOPC, JCOMM, ET-OOFS, GSOP/CLIVAR, Argo, Altimetry,

GHRSST, ……

– Patron’s group teleconference on Tuesday (report to GOVST today by Masa Kamachi, representing the Patrons Group)

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Meeting Overview

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Agenda

Day 1 (Monday, 2 November 2015)

» Welcome and introduction «

• Welcome & introduction

• Welcome speech

• Meeting purpose and objectives

• Patrons’ overview of last year

• Communications/last year’s activities

• Poster session – national group progress

• End of day 1 at ca. 17:00

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Agenda Day 2 (Tuesday, 3 November 2015)

» Task Team Day«

• All Task Teams (COSS, CP, DA, IV, MEAP and OSEval) have two 20 min slots (+10 min discussion) slots to

– Provide an overview of last years progress, issues and future plans

– Present a coupled of science questions (TT related) to discuss these with the GOVST (see agenda)

– Discussion about TT work plans

• Specific discussion about the interaction of the large-scale GOV systems with coastal/regional systems

• Poster session – national group progress

• End of day 2 at ca. 17:00

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Agenda Day 3 (Wednesday, 4 November 2015)

» Observing systems and international collaborations«

• Presentations from international and intergovernmental agencies and organisations mostly linked to ocean observations who work with GOV or to which GOV contributes (incl. CEOS, GOOS, OOPC, JCOMM/ ET-OOFS, GSOP/CLIVAR, Argo, Altimetry, GHRSST,….

• Short presentation providing an “Overview of Ocean Services” (production, delivery and users)

• GOV dinner - tbc

• End of day 3 at ca. 17:30

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Agenda Day 4 (Thursday, 5 November 2015)

» Science Day«

• Invited Patrons’ Group meeting (in parallel to the science day presentations, 1.5 hours)

• Invited talks on the topic of “Western boundary currents”

• Invited talks on general science topics relevant to the GOVST

• Discussions

• End of day 4 at ca. 17:00

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Agenda Day 5 (Friday, 6 November 2015)

» Conclusion and future outlook«

• Feedback from Patrons’ Group meeting

• Summer school proposal

• Review of work plan progress and recommendation for future work

• Next GOVST meeting - India

• End of day 5 at ca. 13:00

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Attendance for this meeting

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GOV Operational Ocean Monitoring

and Forecasting: National Centres

GOVST-VI Meeting, Q Station, Sydney 2 – 6 November 2015

GOV Operational Ocean Monitoring

and Forecasting: National Centres

Mercator Ocean (France)

MFS (Italy)

Topaz (Norway) FOAM (UK)

BLUELink> (Australia)

JMA/MRI (Japan)

NMEFC / SOA (China)

NOAA, Navy, ECCO (US)

CONCEPTS (Canada)

REMO (Brasil)

INDOFOS (India)

ECMWF (Eu)

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Attendance

• Apologies

– GOV: ECMWF and MFS will not be represented

– Patrons: CNES, EUMETSAT, ESA, Ifremer and NASA will not be

(re)presented

• We’ll have several guests attending

– From Australia (see science presentations)

• All TT are (re)presented

• We have a good overall attendance

~ 26 GOVST/Patrons’ Group members attending, from Europe, Americas,

Asia, Australia

~ 16 guests

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Content Part II

• Review of GOV Strategy

• Review of TT work plans

• Collaboration within GOV

• Future requirements for GOV

• Coordination of GOV

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GOV goals

• to continuously improve operational oceanography for

societal benefit

• to facilitate collaboration among the scientific community

working in this research domain

• to measure progress by annual reporting on:

• defined TT work plans

• uptake of TT results by National Forecasting Centres.

Review of GOV Strategy

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• GOV STRATEGIC PLAN

• The GOV Strategic Plan provides a high-level view (5-10

year horizon) defining: • expected investments and outcomes of GOV

• “returns on investment” as reflected in robust metrics

• Efforts and actions to achieve the strategic goals are

expected: • to be more effective if done on a collective basis

• will impact major practical applications

• to intersect community scientific interest and Patrons’ expectations or

requirements

• to be aligned with Patrons’ core interests and priorities.

Review of GOV Strategy

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GOV Strategy & Ocean Forecasting

Prediction

System Assimilation

Modelling

Validation

Observation

Network

Product

Dissemination Access & Service

End

Users

Data

Management

Value Added Decision

Support & Applications

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GOV Strategy & Ocean Forecasting

Prediction

System Assimilation

Modelling

Validation

Observation

Network

Product

Dissemination Access & Service

End

Users

Data

Management

MEAP-TT DA-TT CP-TT

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• TT work plans were provided following the last GOVST

meeting

• Patrons agreed to support the TTs by acting as

champions

• Reporting format agreed following discussions with

Patrons is by bi-annual updated one page quad chart

• First provision of quad-charts in July 2015 (see Patrons

Group presentation)

• This meeting will provide:

• a first opportunity to discuss the work plans with TTs

• and refine the work planning/reporting process

Review of TT work plans

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TTs & co-chairs ↔ Patrons

GOVST co-chairs ↔ Patrons

TT co-chairs ↔ TT members

Programme Office ↔ GOVST / co-chairs / TT

Large scale systems ↔ TTs

Collaboration within GOV

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• How to better link GOV into the

international/intergovernmental landscape of

ocean R&D (and services)

• Upcoming challenges and opportunities in

next 10 years

• What is our future vision of GOV to: • meet challenges /needs and

• benefit from opportunities?

• Where does GOV go?

Future requirements of GOV

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– Review PO responsibility and requirements

– What can and should be improved?

Coordination of GOV

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Thank you