Frontiers in Marine Science (Aug 2019)
The Joint IOC (of UNESCO) and WMO Collaborative Effort for Met-Ocean Services
- Nadia Pinardi,
- Johan Stander,
- David M. Legler,
- Kevin O'Brien,
- Kevin O'Brien,
- Tim Boyer,
- Tim Boyer,
- Tom Cuff,
- Pierre Bahurel,
- Mathieu Belbeoch,
- Sergey Belov,
- Shelby Brunner,
- Eugene Burger,
- Eugene Burger,
- Thierry Carval,
- Denis Chang-Seng,
- Etienne Charpentier,
- S. Ciliberti,
- Giovanni Coppini,
- Albert Fischer,
- Eric Freeman,
- Eric Freeman,
- Champika Gallage,
- Hernan Garcia,
- Hernan Garcia,
- Lydia Gates,
- Zhiqiang Gong,
- Juliet Hermes,
- Emma Heslop,
- Sarah Grimes,
- Katherine Hill,
- Kevin Horsburgh,
- Athanasia Iona,
- Sebastien Mancini,
- Neal Moodie,
- Mathieu Ouellet,
- Peter Pissierssens,
- Paul Poli,
- Roger Proctor,
- Neville Smith,
- Charles Sun,
- Charles Sun,
- Val Swail,
- Jonathan Turton,
- Yue Xinyang
Affiliations
- Nadia Pinardi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Johan Stander
- South African Weather Service, Pretoria, South Africa
- David M. Legler
- NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Kevin O'Brien
- NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
- Kevin O'Brien
- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
- Tim Boyer
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Tim Boyer
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
- Tom Cuff
- National Weather Service Organization, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Pierre Bahurel
- Mercator Ocean, Toulouse, France
- Mathieu Belbeoch
- 0JCOMMOPS (WMO/IOC-UNESCO), Brest, France
- Sergey Belov
- 1All Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information World Data Center, Obninsk, Russia
- Shelby Brunner
- NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Eugene Burger
- NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
- Eugene Burger
- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
- Thierry Carval
- 2IFREMER, Brest, France
- Denis Chang-Seng
- 3IOC of UNESCO, Paris, France
- Etienne Charpentier
- 4WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
- S. Ciliberti
- 5CMCC Foundation, Lecce, Italy
- Giovanni Coppini
- 5CMCC Foundation, Lecce, Italy
- Albert Fischer
- 3IOC of UNESCO, Paris, France
- Eric Freeman
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
- Eric Freeman
- 6Riverside Technology, inc., Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Champika Gallage
- 4WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
- Hernan Garcia
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Hernan Garcia
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
- Lydia Gates
- 7Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
- Zhiqiang Gong
- 8China Meteorological Administration, Climate Division, Forecasting and Network Department, Beijing, China
- Juliet Hermes
- 9South African Environmental Observation Network, Cape Town, South Africa
- Emma Heslop
- 3IOC of UNESCO, Paris, France
- Sarah Grimes
- 4WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
- Katherine Hill
- 4WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
- Kevin Horsburgh
- 0National Oceanography Center, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Athanasia Iona
- 1Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Athens, Greece
- Sebastien Mancini
- 2Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Neal Moodie
- 3Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Mathieu Ouellet
- 4Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Peter Pissierssens
- 3IOC of UNESCO, Paris, France
- Paul Poli
- 5Center de Météorologie Marine, Météo-France, Brest, France
- Roger Proctor
- 2Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Neville Smith
- 6GODAE Ocean Services, Canterbury, NSW, Australia
- Charles Sun
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Silver Spring, MD, United States
- Charles Sun
- NOAA, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, United States
- Val Swail
- 7Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Jonathan Turton
- 8UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
- Yue Xinyang
- 9State Oceanic Administration, National Marine Data and Information Service, Tianjin, China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00410
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6
Abstract
The WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) has devised a coordination mechanism for the fit-for-purpose delivery of an end-to-end system, from ocean observations to met-ocean operational services. This paper offers a complete overview of the activities carried out by JCOMM and the status of the achievements up to 2018. The JCOMM stakeholders consist of the research and operational institutions of WMO members and the IOC member states, which mandated JCOMM to devise an international strategy to move toward the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The three areas of activity are the Observation Program Area (OPA), the Data Management Program Area (DMPA) and the Services and Forecasting Services Program Area (SFSPA), and several expert teams have been established to contribute to the international coordination efforts. OPA is organized into observing networks connected by different observing technologies, DMPA organizes the overall near-real time and delayed mode data assembly, and the delivery methodology and architecture, and the SFSPA coordinates the met-ocean services resulting from the observations and data management. Future developments should enhance coordination in these three program areas by considering the inclusion of new and emergent observing technologies, the interoperability of met-ocean data assembly centers and the establishment of efficient research to operations protocols, in addition to better fit-for-purpose customized services in both the public and private sectors.
Keywords
- marine meteorology and oceanography
- global ocean observing networks
- data management
- ocean services
- capacity development
