GCOS GOOS WCRP/OOPC IX/3 

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reports and maps 

31    7.4.7 

to suggest the WCRP WG on Surface 

Chair, cc to 

Fluxes seek more operational met service 

JSC, WGNE, 

representation / input 

Taylor, Weller 

32    7.4.10 

to develop on the OOPC website an 

Fischer, 

information database for existing ocean 

Dickey, Hood 

biogeochemical climate observational 

systems (moorings, floats, VOS, etc.), 

including what measurements are being 

taken, including research based and 

interdisciplinary measurements as well as 

sustained observations 

33    7.5 

to liaise with GDAC concerning the 

Weller, Keeley  ASAP 

availability/use of stable mooring time 

series for QC of Argo profiles 

34    7.5 

to build clearly defined targets for the data  Chair, 

system, as goals against which 

Secretariat, 

implementation bodies will be measured; 

Keeley, w/ 

and to regularly review observing system 

contrib. from 

targets 

all 

35    7.5 

to comment directly on the adequacy and 

Keeley 

suitability of actions taken by JCOMM 

and IODE to improve the data systems 

36    7.5 

to actively contribute to the currently 

Fischer (to get  ASAP 

ongoing IODE evaluation with our 

survey to 

requirements; and to encourage CLIVAR 

OOPC); 

to do so 

all 

37    8.1 

to encourage CLIVAR to get better 

with Action 15   

observational covariance information   

time and space variability of the 

subsurface ocean, for observing system 

evaluation 

38    8.1 

to encourage documentation of 

with Action 15   

climatology comparisons, and estimation 

of errors in global/historical subsurface 

climatologies  

39    8.1 

to help improve estimates of quantitative 

Reynolds, 

summer 

requirements for VOS for fluxes 

Weller, with 

2004 

Taylor, Kent 

40    8.2 

to make a list of ocean climate products 

chair, Weller, 

ASAP 

needing evaluation, and transmit this to 

Keeley, 

the JCOMM Products & Services PA and 

Dickey, 

to GSOP 

Reynolds 

10. 

DATE AND LOCATION OF NEXT SESSION 

The chair suggested meeting at the WMO, site of two of OOPC s sponsors (GCOS and 

the WCRP), and where the OOPC has never met. After discussion, OOPC X was set for 9 12 

May 2005, at the WMO, Geneva, Switzerland.