Victoria
Canada
| 1 | ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1 | Opening of the Session |
| 1.2 | Adoption of the Agenda |
| 1.3 | Working Arrangements |
| 2 | SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, NEW DEVELOPMENTS |
| 3 | REPORTS BY THE SECRETARIAT, OPA COORDINATOR, SOT CHAIRPERSON AND SOT TECHNICAL CO-ORDINATOR |
| 3.1 | Report from the Secretariat (incl. relationship with IMO) |
| 3.2 | Report from the Observations Programme Area Coordinator |
| 3.3 | Report from the SOT Chairperson |
| 3.4 | Report from the SOT Technical Co-ordinator |
| 4 | REVIEW OF ACTION ITEMS FROM SOT-6 |
| 5 | REPORTS ON ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP-BASED OBSERVATIONS |
| 5.1 | Requirements for ship-based observations |
| 5.1.1 | GCOS / GOOS / WCRP Ocean Observing Panel for Climate (OOPC) |
| 5.1.2 | Rolling Review of Requirements update |
| 5.2 | Reports by associated programmes |
| 5.2.1 | International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) |
| 5.2.2 | Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Project |
| 5.2.3 | Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Programme (GO SHIP) |
| 5.2.4 | Group for High-Resolution SST (GHRSST) |
| 5.2.5 | World Ocean Council |
| 5.2.6 | OceanScope |
| 5.2.7 | Ferrybox |
| 5.2.8 | Other associated programmes |
| 6 | RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE TASK TEAMS |
| 6.1 | Task Team on Satellite Communication Systems |
| 6.2 | Task Team on ASAP |
| 6.3 | Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion |
| 6.4 | Task Team on Metadata for WMO-No. 47 |
| 6.5 | Task Team on Instrument Standards |
| 6.6 | Task Team on Call Sign Masking and Encoding |
| 7 | EIGHTH SESSION OF THE VOS PANEL (VOSP-8) |
| 7.1 | Programme review |
| 7.1.1 | Report by the VOSP acting Chairperson |
| 7.1.2 | Report on VOS issues from the E-SURFMAR Expert Team |
| 7.2 | Programme status and implementation |
| 7.2.1 | VOS status, trends and developments |
| 7.2.2 | VOSClim status, and upgrading of ships to VOSClim standard |
| 7.2.3 | Electronic logbook software |
| 7.2.4 | Status of VOS automation |
| 7.2.5 | E-SURFMAR S-AWS developments |
| 7.2.6 | PMO activities and inspections - implications of automation |
| 7.2.7 | VOS Donation Programme |
| 7.3 | Issues for the VOS |
| 7.3.1 | VOS Ancillary Pilot Project |
| 8 | TENTH SESSION OF THE SOOP IMPLEMENTATION PANEL (SOOPIP-10) |
| 8.1 | Programme review |
| 8.1.1 | Report by the SOOPIP Chairperson |
| 8.2 | Programme status and implementation |
| 8.2.1 | Status of SOOP implementation, sampling scheme |
| 8.2.2 | XBT Science Team and SOOPIP |
| 8.3 | Interactions with other programmes or projects |
| 8.3.1 | pCO2 systems |
| 8.3.2 | Thermosalinograph Network |
| 8.4 | Issues for the SOOP |
| 8.4.1 | XBT data flow and GTS transmissions |
| 8.4.2 | Sippican Climate Quality XBT Probes |
| 8.4.3 | XBT Fall Rate Equation (FRE) experiments |
| 8.4.4 | Plans for the future XBT network |
| 8.5 | SOOP Science Presentations |
| 9 | MONITORING, CODING AND DATA MANAGEMENT |
| 9.1 | Monitoring and data centre reports |
| 9.1.1 | VOS Monitoring Report from the Exeter (UK) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) |
| 9.1.2 | Monitoring Report from the Real-Time Monitoring Centre (RTMC) for the VOS Climate (VOSClim) data |
| 9.1.3 | Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) report on the VOS |
| 9.1.4 | VOSClim Data Assembly Centre (DAC) report |
| 9.1.5 | ASAP QC Monitoring report |
| 9.1.6 | Global temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) |
| 9.1.7 | Global Ocean Surface Underway data Pilot Project (GOSUD) |
| 9.1.8 | Global temperature data distribution by Coriolis |
| 9.2 | Operational Coding requirements |
| 9.2.1 | BUFR Template for VOS data |
| 9.2.2 | BUFR Template for XBT/XCTD/TSG data |
| 9.3 | SOOP, GO-SHIP, and ASAP metadata requirements |
| 9.4 | Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) development and SOT contribution |
| 10 | SOT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY |
| 11 | SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE |
| 11.1 | JCOMM in situ Observations Programme Support Centre (JCOMMOPS) |
| 12 | PROGRAMME PROMOTION, AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE |
| 12.1 | SOT Annual Report |
| 12.2 | Websites |
| 12.3 | Focal Point mailing lists |
| 12.4 | Publications and brochures |
| 13 | ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS |
| 13.1 | Review the Terms of Reference of the SOT, VOSP and SOOPIP |
| 13.2 | Review of the SOT Management Team (including the role of the SOT Technical Co ordinator) |
| 13.3 | Funding issues (SOT Technical Co-ordinator, Ship Consumables Trust Fund, ASAP Trust Fund) |
| 14 | NATIONAL REPORTS |
| 15 | NEXT SESSION OF THE SOT |
| 16 | REVIEW OF THE SOT-7 SESSION REPORT, ACTION ITEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
| 17 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |