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No.
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Recommendation
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to/action
by
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Target
date
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1
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Recommendations
regarding ship security
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WMO
EC
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30/6/2006
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2
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Recommendations
regarding migration from SHIP to BUFR code
|
Ad
hoc TT
|
2012
|
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3
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to
write to Member Countries to ask them to delete ships that are no
longer active from their list of VOS and from their regular
submissions to WMO Publication No. 47.
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WMO
|
30/6/2006
|
|
4
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to
write to the International Chamber of Shipping to encourage
recruitment of vessels and to ask it to contact shipping
associations and make specific recommendations in this regard.
|
WMO
|
30/6/2006
|
|
5
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to
approach maritime colleges at the national level and promote SOT
& PMO activities.
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Member
Countries
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Ongoing
|
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6
|
to
provide delayed mode VOSClim data in the current format (IMMT-3)
which includes the additional VOSClim elements. Minimum Quality
Control Standards (MQCS-V) should be applied.
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Contributing
Members
|
Ongoing
|
|
7
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to
take steps to recruit more ships within available resources (as ship
recruitment is slow); Member Countries to promote SOT and VOS and to
explain data requirements.
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Member
Countries
|
asap
|
|
8
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Installation
of instruments and observing equipment on VOSClim recruited ships
should be made with due attention paid to their exposure and
location. Simple arrangement drawings should be made to better
document instrument location and exposure.
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PMOs
|
Ongoing
|
|
9
|
JCOMM-II
approved changes to WMO Publication No. 47. These changes included a
range of new fields, improved field description and better
documentation. The new version of WMO Pub. 47 (version 3) is planned
for introduction on 1/7/2007 (Database structure, semi-column and
XML formats). Member Countries to provide their input for WMO Pub.
47 in the new format after this date.
|
Member
Countries
|
1/7/2007
|
|
10
|
The
list of consolidated ship routes for inclusion in Pub 47 must be
proposed for adoption at SOT-IV.
|
SOT-IV
|
1/3/2007
|
|
11
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USA
offered a web based ship metadata collection/editing and display
system. A beta version will be available soon. Interested Member
Countries were invited to contact Robert Luke.
|
Member
Countries & NOAA/NDBC
|
asap
|
|
12
|
Information
on additional phenomena (e.g. meteors, lightning, cetacea etc) could
be inserted on E-SURMAR wikipedia web site. PMOs are invited to
check the web site.
|
PMOs
|
asap
|
|
13
|
Member
Countries must be careful with copyright of pictures made available
via the web (e.g. ship’s pictures, observed phenomena). Observers
storing pictures in electronic logbooks should be aware that such
pictures will then belong to the public domain. Electronic logbooks
should include a specification requesting the person entering
pictures in the system to agree with picture sharing e.g. by
clicking on a “yes, agreed” button.
|
PMOs
|
Ongoing
|
|
14
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to
contact Inmarsat to request that they provide regular updates of the
Inmarsat list of Land Earth Stations (LES) that accept special
access code 41.
|
WMO
|
30/6/2006
|
|
15
|
A
copy of proposed foreign VOS ship inspection form presented at the
meeting will be distributed by email to all PMOs. PMOs are invited
to check the form and provide feedback to the Chairperson of SOT by
1 June 2006.
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PMOs
|
1/6/2006
|
|
16
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PMOs,
are urged to use the foreign VOS inspection form which will be made
available from the VOS website, and return details about such
inspections to the VOS Focal Point in the country of recruitment.
|
PMOs
|
asap
|
|
17
|
NMHSs
are urged to provide Robert Luke, Chairperson of the SOT Task Team
on Instrument Standards, with details about the type of barometer
and barograph used on their VOS as well as the instrument pressure
setting.
|
Member
Countries
|
asap
|
|
18
|
PMOs
are urged (i) to familiarise themselves with observing instruments
and practices used on foreign vessels, and (ii) to use monitoring
tools available via the web (listed under JCOMMOPS and VOS web
sites).
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PMOs
|
asap
|
|
19
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KNMI
has developed software to detect formatting errors in observations,
and will contact the
NFP of VOS to provide them with a list of such errors. KNMI is also
invited to consider producing statistics on such errors and to
provide the information to NFP. KNMI can offer this software to
other Met Services if requested. Interested Member Countries are
invited to contact KNMI.
|
Member
Countries & KNMI
|
asap
|
|
20
|
Member
Countries are invited to volunteer to publish a SOT newsletter on
behalf of the Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion.
Newsworthy material for use by all NMHS publishing a marine-based
newsletter will be available from a Wiki website hosted by E-SURFMAR
which will act a s a repository for such material.
|
Member
Countries
|
Ongoing
|
|
21
|
Australia,
E-SURFMAR, and JCOMMOPS are invited to collaborate to produce a
dynamic web map showing the PMO network and providing associated
contact information on PMOs and the ports they service (e.g. PMO
references by clicking on a port).
|
Australia,
E-SURFMAR, JCOMMOPS
|
31/12/2006
|
|
22
|
PMO
networks impacts on the quantity and quality of recruited ships. For
NWP applications, it is not necessarily the number of ships that
counts but the number of observations, their quality and timeliness.
The number of observations can be raised either by increasing the
number of ships, or increasing the number of observations from each
ship through the use of automated observing systems and the
transmission of hourly data. However, for climate applications,
increasing the number of ships is more relevant (bias reduction).
|
Member
Countries
|
Ongoing
|
|
23
|
Member
Countries are invited to inform Graeme Ball of URLs of National VOS
or PMO web sites they are maintaining for inclusion on the VOS web
site.
|
Member
Countries
|
asap
|
|
24
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Member
Countries are urged to complete their SOT national reports for 2005
as soon as possible and to submit them to the WMO Secretariat (ECharpentier@wmo.int),
including VOSP, ASAPP, and SOOPIP sections. Only 7 countries have
submitted input to WMO so far. Details on format can be found on WMO
web site (http://www.wmo.ch/web/aom/marprog/Programme-Areas-and-Activities/SOT/national-reports-fmt.htm).
|
Member
Countries
|
asap
|
|
25
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The
meeting agreed to organize International PMO workshops every 3 to 4
years.
|
WMO
|
2009
|
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26
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USA
has tentatively offered to host the next International PMO workshop.
|
USA
& WMO
|
2009
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