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| 1 | ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1 | Opening |
| 1.2 | Adoption of the agenda |
| 1.3 | Working arrangements |
| 2 | JCOMM ASPECTS |
| 2.1 | Report by the ETMC Chairperson |
| 2.2 | Report by the Secretariats |
| 2.3 | JCOMM Observations Programme Area (OPA) |
| 2.3.1 | Ship Observations Team (SOT) |
| 2.3.2 | Data Buoy Cooperation Panel |
| 2.4 | JCOMM Services Programme Area (SPA) |
| 2.4.1 | Results from the Fourth session of the Services Coordination Group |
| 2.4.2 | Expert Team on wind Waves and Storm Surges (ETWS) |
| 2.4.3 | Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI) |
| 2.5 | JCOMM Data Management Programme Area (DMPA) |
| 2.5.1 | Results from the Third Session of the Data Management coordination Group |
| 2.5.2 | Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) |
| 3 | REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE WORLD CLIMATE PROGRAMME AND OTHER CLIMATE RELATED PROGRAMMES |
| 3.1 | Review of WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) requirements for climatological data-sets |
| 3.2 | Review relevant outcomes from the OceanOBS'09 conference (Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009) |
| 3.3 | Existing and potential linkages with the WMO Commission for Climatology (CCl) |
| 4 | DATA AND METADATA: OPERATIONAL FLOW |
| 4.1 | Results of the ETMC GTS comparison (using December 2007 data) |
| 4.2 | Review of BUFR (and other) templates for VOS and other surface marine data |
| 4.3 | Review of electronic logbooks |
| 4.4 | Ship call sign masking (including encode proposal) |
| 4.5 | Status of the WMO Ship Catalogue (WMO No. 47) |
| 4.6 | Status of buoy and other Ocean Data Acquisition System (ODAS) metadata |
| 4.6.1 | Report from META-T project and JCOMMOPS |
| 4.6.2 | Report from ODAS metadata centre |
| 4.6.3 | Rig and platform metadata issues |
| 5 | DATA QUALITY AND EXCHANGE |
| 5.1 | Overview from the Task Team on Delayed-Mode Voluntary Observing Ship data (TT-DMVOS) |
| 5.2 | Status of the International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format and the Minimum Quality Control Standard (MQCS) |
| 5.3 | Review of the operations of the Global Collecting Centres |
| 5.3.1 | Report of the Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) |
| 5.3.2 | Report of the Responsible Members (RMs) |
| 5.4 | Status of modernization proposals |
| 5.4.1 | Data Flow |
| 5.4.2 | Higher-level Quality Control (HQC) |
| 6 | DATA AND METADATA: ARCHEOLOGY AND ARCHIVAL |
| 6.1 | Status of and linkages with the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) |
| 6.1.1 | The International Maritime Meteorological Archive (IMMA) format |
| 6.1.2 | Proposal for formal recognition of ICOADS within JCOMM |
| 6.1.3 | Proposal for “advanced” (bias adjusted) ICOADS |
| 6.1.4 | Potential linkages with satellite data |
| 6.2 | Oceanographic data and metadata integration issues (XBT fall rate equation, SSS, etc.) |
| 6.3 | International marine data and metadata recovery |
| 6.3.1 | RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine data (RECLAIM) and related projects (ACRE, GODAR, HISKLIM, HISTOR, etc.) |
| 6.3.2 | Lloyds commercial ship particulars |
| 6.4 | History of the marine ship code |
| 6.5 | Wave and storm surge data |
| 6.5.1 | Status of the global extreme wave event archive |
| 6.5.2 | Potential for calculation of wave monthly summaries |
| 7 | MARINE-METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARIES |
| 7.1 | Status of the Task Team on Marine-meteorological and Oceanographic Climatological Summaries (TT-MOCS) |
| 7.2 | New perspectives on contributions and climatological requirements within JCOMM |
| 7.2.1 | Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI) |
| 7.2.2 | Expert Team on Wind Waves and Storm Surges (ETWS) |
| 7.2.3 | JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP |
| 8 | MARINE DATA AND CLIMATOLOGY WORKSHOPS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
| 9 | MANUALS, GUIDES AND OTHER TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS |
| 9.1 | Guide to the Applications of Marine Climatology |
| 9.2 | Review of the Manual on and Guide to Marine Meteorological Services (WMO-No. 558 and 471) |
| 9.3 | Review of the Guide to Climatological Practices (WMO-No. 100) |
| 10 | ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS |
| 10.1 | Terms of Reference (ToR) of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology |
| 11 | REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS |
| 12 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |