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Our suggestions Our ambitions What we should keep from GODAE Core activities Working groups

Post GODAE – Content. Our suggestions Our ambitions What we should keep from GODAE Core activities Working groups Relationship with ET-OOFS Terms of reference Leadership Refresh of Members Ownership Duration Project Office & funding. Our ambitions.

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Our suggestions Our ambitions What we should keep from GODAE Core activities Working groups

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  1. Post GODAE – Content • Our suggestions • Our ambitions • What we should keep from GODAE • Core activities • Working groups • Relationship with ET-OOFS • Terms of reference • Leadership • Refresh of Members • Ownership • Duration • Project Office & funding

  2. Our ambitions Transition to operational systems: from the demonstration of valuable services to the provision of operational services with high availability and reliability. Continuous improvements of systems through scientific & technological advances : extend existing capabilities to the coastal zone and ecosystems. Coupled ocean/atmosphere. Climate. Develop operational services and further links with applications Ensure a suitable sustained ocean observing system through the demonstration of the value of observations.

  3. What we should keep • Characteristics of IGST team • focus on scientific advances for operational application • Clear and ambitious but achievable objectives • its global international scope • it is for technical specialist discussion • “refreshing”, constructive nature • “pity not to continue” • GODAE name • E could be “Experimentation” – as in WGNE • Could be Global Operational Oceanography & Data Assimilation Expert (GODAE) - the GODAE Team or Working Group - Global refers to scope of membership

  4. Initial Core Activities • Improvement of high-resolution, basin scale, physical ocean analyses & forecasts • Observation Impact Assessments • Intercomparisons • forms a coherent core and springboard • recognises importance of global observing system • Extensions building on core capabilities

  5. Working groups • Most activities will require collaboration with other groups and should be pursued through dedicated working groups • observation impact assessments (OSE etc) • coastal & shelf seas • ecosystems (with IMBER) • Re-analyses (with WGSIP and GSOP) • coupled ocean-wave-atmosphere f/cs (with WGNE?) • Working groups should be formed and disbanded according to demand & progress

  6. Relationship with ET-OOFS • JCOMM provides an inter-governmental vehicle to make definitive statements on standards, working practices, nomenclature etc. • ET-OOFS will enable us to use this vehicle – it is an important opportunity • JCOMM does not have a science mandate (unlike IPCC) • ET-OOFS and GODAE have different roles and probably require different types of people • Gary Brassington is a safe pair of hands for coordination between ET-OOFS and GODAE • From the GODAE point of view ET-OOFS could appear to be one of the GODAE working groups

  7. Leadership • Co-chair arrangement works well. We suggest • one from research & one from “operational” teams • one should have data assimilation background • taken from two continents • Co-chairs need to be able to commit at least 10% of their time to the task • Two good options are: • Andreas Schiller / Eric Chassignet • Jim Cummings / Eric Dombrowsky

  8. Refresh of members • There are relatively few recent new members • Possibilities for new members include • Peter Oke • Pierre Brasseur • Anthony Weaver • Laurent Bertino • Srdjan Dobricic • NOAA/NCEP expert • One of Japanese attendees at Paris OSE meeting

  9. Ownership • Important to have owners for • legitimacy (other groups could claim it if we don’t) • visibility • Best not to put all eggs in one basket; apply for 2-4 owners (IOC, OOPC, WCRP, GOOS, CEOS, JCOMM)

  10. Duration • Options on duration • 5 years to 2013 (end of Clivar – so poor choice) • 10 years (a long time to plan – no obvious rationale) • For forseeable future (cf WGNE) • On-going working group seems best • Transition GODAE from an experiment to a ‘permanent’ body for international coordination of the development (and operation?) of operational oceanography systems

  11. Project Office & funding from 2010 • Up to new co-chairs where to put Project Office • Kirsten is very effective – Project Office staying at Met Office is an option to be considered • Options for funding • Sponsors – NOAA, EUMETSAT etc. • Subscription fee • Owners (e.g. IOC has small fund) • Recommend sponsors invited to meetings – (GODAE Patrons)

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