Draft agenda

GOSUD draft agenda (24 Aug, 2004)

Place: Southampton Oceanography Centre

Time: 0900 23-24 Sep, 2004

1. Introduction (France, Canada)

The co-chairs will review the status of GOSUD towards its objectives.

2. Project Elements (France, Canada, others)

a) Real-time and Delayed Mode Data Processing / Flow (France, others?)

We will be provided with a summary of the data processing and flow into the archive at Coriolis. We will also hear about data requests and products.

b) QC processing

c) Issues of duplicates control

d) Products

e) Provision of data to others

3. Links to other programs (All)

The data collected by GOSUD will contribute to surface truth for the SMOS and Aquarius satellite missions. We have also made a link into the High Resolution Marine Meteorology (HRMM) Project chaired by Sean Smith at U Florida in Tallahassee.

4. GOSUD Annual Report for 2003 (Canada)

MEDS prepared an annual report for GOSUD for the year 2002. This was presented to the JCOMM SOT meeting in 2003. A proposed version for 2003 will be presented at this meeting and participants can comment directly on its contents and usefulness.

5. Review of action items from Monterey 2003 (All)

We will review the action items noting those that are completed, in progress or not done. For the latter two categories we will review the actions to verify their suitability.

6. Other business

  • BUFR Template (Takashi Yoshida)
  • Metadata template from HRMM (Liz Kent)
  • Poster for IODE meeting (Bob Keeley)