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- DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2003 DBCP Technical Document No. 25 2004
- SUMMARY Introduction
- 1. Current and Planned Programmes Seventeen countries, seven action groups and two data management centres submitted reports on their data buoy activities 2. Data Flow
- 5. Technical Developments
- 6. Communications System Status
- 7. Administrative Matters
- TOTAL 169,262
| ANNUAL REPORT
FOR 2003 DBCP Technical Document No. 25
DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2003 DBCP Technical Document No. 25 2004 N O T E
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FOREWORD I am pleased to present this seventeenth Annual Report for the Data Buoy Co-operation Panel, covering the Panel’s activities during 2003. The efforts of the Panel members have been once again very significant in producing another successful year for the Panel. The work of the Panel is summarised in this Annual Report, and various key areas of the Panel’s work, are highlighted to provide an overview of the Panel’s achievements during the year. In particular, I would like to emphasise that under the guidance of the Panel, that the amount of quality buoy data available in a timely manner to the meteorological/oceanographic communities has continued to increase annually. The user communities now have routine access to essentially all the useful data, and can be assured that the data are quality controlled to the appropriate standards. In my chairman’s capacity, I had discussions with the Chairman of the Observations Coordination Group, in preparation for the JCOMM MAN-II meeting. It was noted that the major challenge for the DBCP is to investigate methods to facilitate an increase in buoy numbers the present numbers to approx. 1250 drifters. In order to achieve this goal, it was suggested that as an initial step, the DBCP should consider a more structured interaction between requirement-setting and implementing panels. While the OOSDP, OOPC, OceanObs99, & Ocean.US/Airlie House Report present the conceptual requirements for observations, there is a general interface issue between the OOPC and JCOMM with regard to observational requirements. In coming years, it is hoped that a more formal interaction will evolve, and possibly enable a more coherent strategy to be developed for implementation groups, such as the Panel. As in previous years, I would like to note that the Panel’s Action Groups have been quite busy during the year and have been crucial in advancing the work of the Panel into all of the world’s ocean basins. These groups are very active in the intersessional periods and play a key role in the success of the DBCP as a whole. I would also like to thank all those people who have participated in the activities of the Panel, and whose work is essential for the continuing success of the Panel. In particular, I would like to thank the people associated with arranging this year’s annual meeting in Brazil, and also the organiser of the Technical Workshop, Mr Eric Meindl from NDBC. In closing, I would like to highlight the decision of the Panel to create a new vice chair position for Asia, in recognition of the growing number of countries in Asia that were now actively involved in ocean data buoy programmes and the work of the panel. At this point, I would also like to note that both myself and the vice chair for North America (Eric Meindl) are retiring from our respective positions. From a personal perspective, I would like to express my appreciation to all those people that have helped me over the eight years of my chairmanship. I feel that the Panel has made many advances over those years, and I feel proud to have been associated with the Panel during this time. I wish the Panel, and it’s office bearers, every success in the future. Graeme Brough Chairman, DBCP SUMMARY Introduction The Drifting Buoy Cooperation Panel was established in 1985 by WMO Resolution 10 (EC-XXXVII) and IOC Resolution EC-XIX.7. In 1993 the governing bodies of IOC and WMO agreed to change the name of the panel to the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) and to slightly modify its terms of reference, so that the panel might also provide any international coordination required for moored buoy programmes supporting major WMO and IOC programmes (IOC Resolution XVII-6 and WMO Resolution 9 (EC-XLV)). The panel is now part of the Observations Programme Area of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM). 1. Current and Planned Programmes Seventeen countries, seven action groups and two data management centres submitted reports on their data buoy activities 2. Data Flow The mean number of reporting data buoys was around 1400, of which roughly one-half report data onto the GTS. The Internet double access (1 Mbits + 2 Mbits) increased the reliability of the main communication link used to distribute processed data to users and to retrieve data sets from receiving stations. The significant impact of the Argos data delay was happened by the Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) reception in Lannion site, because of the limited capability to recover “blind” orbit data. This situation is not likely to change until the launch of NOAA-18 (2004) which will have a full suite of operational, digital recorders. 3. Data Quality The quality of air pressure and sea surface temperature data was excellent. Such a result is most likely attributable to the implementation of the DBCP quality control guidelines for GTS data and to an increased confidence in the quality of the buoy data on the part of the numerical weather prediction community. There were some development for the quality control of real-time data and its report, such as buoy monitoring statistics of BOM, and a new tool at JCOMMOPS for PMOCs. 4. Data Archival The Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) in Canada has acted as the RNODC for drifting buoys on behalf of IOC and WMO since 1986. During the last intersessional period, MEDS has archived an average of 309,000 BUOY reports per month and received reports from an average of 837 buoys per month, an increase of 36,000 reports from last year. 5. Technical Developments The development for the code of BUFR report was continued during the intersessional period, cooperated with CBS Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes. BUFR encoding capability was finally implemented operationally at Service Argos in early July 2003. The Evaluation Sub-group analyzed technical issues regarding the spikes of the data in the Southern Ocean under certain high sea state conditions, and recommended a DBCP-M2-TEST format for the test and comments. 6. Communications System Status The Argos system has continued to provide a reliable service for recovery and processing of buoy data in real or quasi real-time. Various system enhancements were undertaken during the year and future developments are planned for the next few years. A ARGOS two-way instrument, allowing user to send message to their platforms equipped of an Argos receiver, was also reviewed at the DBCP session. Unfortunately, first satellite carrying Argos downlink capability failed in late 2003 so that capability won't be available before 2005. 7. Administrative Matters The Panel has eight action groups: the European Group on Ocean Stations (EGOS); the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP); the International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB); the International South Atlantic Buoy Programme (ISABP); the International Buoy Programme for the Indian Ocean (IBPIO); the Global Drifter Programme (GDP); and the Tropical Moored Buoys Implementation Panel (TIP); and the North Pacific Data Buoy Advisory Panel (NPDBAP). The Panel's technical coordinator, Mr Etienne Charpentier, has continued to be employed by UNESCO/IOC as a fund-in-trust expert and located with CLS/Service Argos in Toulouse, France. He is in addition discharging the tasks of technical coordinator for the Ship-of-Opportunity Programme (SOOP) since January 1999. Fourteen countries contributed on a voluntary basis to the financial support of the Panel and/or SOOP in 2003: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom and USA. For the Panel's next financial year (1 June 2004 to 31 May 2005), a total budget of US$169,262 is planned to be allocated as follows:
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