META-T Pilot Project
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Water Temperature metadata Pilot Project (META-T PP)
Following previous discussions with the DBCP, the SOT, OCG, and the JCOMM Management Committee, the Water Temperature metadata Pilot Project (META-T PP) was established by JCOMM/OCG workshop, Reading, United Kingdom, 28-29 March 2006.
Draft meeting's report can be found [here]
The goals of the workshop were:
- To consider user requirements, metadata relevant for the pilot project, and to draft the list of required metadata and categorization;
- to identify the metadata information that needs to be available in real-time ;
- to identify centre(s) to host/serve metadata;
- to develop an action plan for advancing the pilot project.
At the same time the following issued were considered:
- minimizing the number of duplicate records;
- seeking agreed formats and practices, as several communities had been pursuing metadata development strategies;
- seeking to harmonize the ocean, met-ocean and atmospheric community practices as far as possible;
- reviewing metadata needs of the developing operational oceanography community.
The meeting reviewed all of the in situ ocean observing systems and data management counterparts delivering SST and temperature profile data. These include:
- The Global Ocean Surface Underway Data Pilot Project (GOSUD),
- The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program (GTSPP)
- The Argo profiling float Pilot Project
- The Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) and its Actions Groups
- The Ship Observations Team (SOT)
- OceanSITES
- The Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (ODAS)
The following user requirements have been considered:
- Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
- SST analysis and GODAE High Resolution SST Pilot Project (GHRSST)
- Data assimilation and ocean field analysis
- Ocean modelling
- Ocean modelling validation
- Climate forecast
- Seasonal to decadal climate variability
- Satellite calibration
- Satellite validation
- Operational activities (e.g. weather forecasters, disaster response)
- Quality assurance activities serving above applications
- Diagnostic by platform operators
The workshop also proposed an initial categorization for the metadata. See the discussion section for the different versions of category definitions and categorization using requirements matrix.
Steering Team Membership:
- Graeme Ball, BOM, Australia (JCOMM/SOT)
- Luis Bermudez, MBARI
- Bill Burnet, NDBC, USA (TAO, metadata server)
- Thierry Carval, Coriolis, France (GOSUD, OceanSITES, Argo)
- Don Collins, NOAA, USA (metadata)
- Craig Donlon, Metoffice, UK (JCOMM/SCG, GHRSST, GODAE)
- Milan Dragosavac, ECMWF, UK (WIS, NWP)
- Gustavo Goni, AOML, USA (SOT/SOOPIP)
- Elanor Gowland, MetOffice, UK (GCC)
- Fengyu Guo, NMDIS, China (Metadata server)
- John Graybeal, MBARI (metadata)
- Ed Harrison, NOAA, USA (OOPC)
- Bob Keeley, MEDS, Canada (JCOMM/DMCG, GTSPP)
- Elizabeth Kent, NOC, UK (VOS, VOSClim)
- David Meldrum, SAMS, UK (JCOMM/DBCP)
- Greg Reed, METOC, Australia (IODE)
- Lin Shaohua, NMDIS, China (Metadata server)
- Tom Smith, NOAA, USA (SST analysis)
Secretariat:
- Etienne Charpentier, WMO, Switzerland
- Boram Lee, IOC, France
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