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Background
The Third JCOMM
"Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology" (CLIMAR-III), held in
Gdynia, Poland from 6-9 May 2008, built on the outcomes of the two
previous CLIMAR workshops (2003
and 1999); and on the outcomes of the alternating and closely related
"Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data" (MARCDAT)
workshops (2005
and 2002).
All these workshops have brought together a wide spectrum of marine data
users and managers of marine data and products, and have included an
underlying focus on the continuing evaluation, utilization, and
improvement of ICOADS.
CLIMAR-II took place at Residence Palace, Brussels, Belgium, 17-22
November 2003, together with the 150th anniversary celebration of the
Brussels Maritime Conference of 1853. CLIMAR-II focused on key issues of
marine climatology such as development of new-generation global and
regional climatologies of basic surface variables, and of improved
surface air-sea fluxes governing the impact of the oceans on atmospheric
climate variability.
An additional workshop goal was to revise Advances in the Applications
of Marine Climatology (JCOMM TR No. 13 and WMO/TD-No. 1081)--which
constitutes the Dynamic Part of the Guide to the Applications of Marine
Climatology (WMO/TD-No. 781)--and the resulting
Revision 1 (June 2005) of this publication recently became freely
available via the WMO website. Based on the success of these past
workshops, JCOMM-II (Halifax, September 2005), agreed to the proposal
for a third such self-funded workshop.
Objectives
Major goals of CLIMAR-III were:
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to review ongoing
developments in the flow and standardization of marine
(meteorological and oceanographic) data and metadata under JCOMM,
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to foster and
coordinate the development of marine (meteorological and
oceanographic) climate data and products, including ICOADS, and
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to seek and compile
appropriate contributions for a second revision of the JCOMM TR No.
13.
Participation
A wide range of professionals participated, involved in the fields of
applications of marine climatology, climatological data archival and
retrieval, climate research including modeling, and users of marine
climate data and products. |
Third JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology