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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

1. 

OPENING AND WELCOME .......................................................................................1 

2. 

REVIEW AND ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA .........................................................1 

3. 

OOPC REVIEW 2003 2004..........................................................................................1 

4. 

SCIENCE......................................................................................................................6 

4.1 Ocean Climate 2003 2004 ............................................................................................6 

4.2 Invited Presentation: The RAPID MOC Observing Programme ....................................6 

5.  

HIGH LATITUDES   STATUS, ISSUES, OPPORTUNITIES .....................................7 

5.1 Arctic Ocean.................................................................................................................7 

5.2 Cryosphere ...................................................................................................................8 

5.3 Southern Ocean ............................................................................................................8 

6.  

SPONSORS REPORTS AND INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES................................9 

6.1 Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ................................................................10 

6.2 Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) ..................................................................10 

6.3 World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)............................................................11 

6.4 Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology 

(JCOMM).........................................................................................................................11 

6.5 Other Organizations....................................................................................................12 

6.5.1 Partnership for Observations of the Global Ocean (POGO) ..................................12 

6.5.2 Group on Earth Observations (GEO)....................................................................12 

6.6 CLIMAR II Conference..............................................................................................13 

7.  

EXPERIMENTS, PROGRAMS, AND PROJECTS ....................................................13 

7.1 EC/ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) and MERSEA....13 

7.2 Satellites.....................................................................................................................16 

7.3 CLIVAR: basin perspectives.......................................................................................16 

7.3.1 VAMOS ..............................................................................................................17 

7.3.2 Atlantic Panel ......................................................................................................17 

7.3.3 Pacific Panel ........................................................................................................17 

7.3.4 Indian Panel.........................................................................................................19 

7.4 Other International Activities......................................................................................19 

7.4.1 Tropical Moored Arrays.......................................................................................19 

7.4.2 Argo ....................................................................................................................20 

7.4.3 SOOP ..................................................................................................................20 

7.4.4 GLOSS ................................................................................................................21 

7.4.5 VOSClim.............................................................................................................21 

7.4.6 OceanSITES ........................................................................................................21 

7.4.7 Air Sea Fluxes .....................................................................................................22 

7.4.8 SST Working Group ............................................................................................22 

7.4.9 Ocean Carbon ......................................................................................................22 

7.4.10 Biogeochemistry ................................................................................................24