Cape Town
South Africa
| 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 JCOMMOPS |
| 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 JCOMMOPS (incl. from the SOT Technical Coordinator) |
| 4 | REVIEW OF PENDING ACTION ITEMS FROM SOT-7 |
| 5 | REQUIREMENTS FOR SHIP-BASED OBSERVATIONS |
| 5.1 | GCOS / GOOS / WCRP Ocean Observations for Physics and Climate (OOPC) |
| 5.2 | Rolling Review of Requirements update |
| 6 | REPORTS BY THE ASSOCIATED PROGRAMMES |
| 6.1 | International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) |
| 6.2 | Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Project |
| 6.3 | Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Programme (GO SHIP) |
| 6.4 | Group for High-Resolution SST (GHRSST) |
| 6.5 | World Ocean Council |
| 6.6 | OceanScope |
| 6.7 | Ferrybox |
| 6.8 | Other associated programmes |
| 7 | RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE TASK TEAMS AND PILOT PROJECTS |
| 7.1 | Task Team on Satellite Communication Systems |
| 7.2 | Task Team on ASAP |
| 7.3 | Task Team on VOS Recruitment and Programme Promotion |
| 7.4 | Task Team on Metadata for WMO-No. 47 |
| 7.5 | Task Team on Instrument Standards |
| 7.6 | Task Team on Call Sign Masking and Encoding |
| 7.7 | Task Team on Training |
| 7.8 | VOS Ancillary Pilot Project |
| 8 | NINETH SESSION OF THE VOS PANEL (VOSP-9) |
| 8.1 | VOS Programme activity reports |
| 8.1.1 | Report by the VOSP Chairperson |
| 8.1.2 | SOT Technical Coordinator report on VOS support activities |
| 8.2 | VOS Programme status reports |
| 8.2.1 | VOS status report |
| 8.2.1.1 | VOS participation |
| 8.2.1.2 | Metadata – status & completion |
| 8.2.1.3 | KPI compliances |
| 8.2.1.4 | VOS Data coverage |
| 8.2.2 | E-SURFMAR Expert Team on VOS status report |
| 8.2.2.1 | Status report |
| 8.2.2.2 | E-SURFMAR Metadata database |
| 8.2.3 | VOS Donation Programme |
| 8.3 | VOS Developments |
| 8.3.1 | Electronic logbooks |
| 8.3.1.1 | Electronic logbooks software status |
| 8.3.1.2 | Electronic logbook developments (TurboWin, TurboWeb & TurboWin+) |
| 8.3.2 | VOS meteorological instruments |
| 8.3.3 | VOS automation Status |
| 8.3.3.1 | E-SURFMAR - EUCAWS developments |
| 8.3.3.2 | AMOS developments |
| 8.3.3.3 | Other AWS developments |
| 8.4 | PMO Status and activities |
| 8.4.1 | Role of the PMO |
| 8.4.2 | VOS & AWS inspection reports - implications of automation |
| 8.5 | VOS Issues |
| 8.5.1 | VOS Classes |
| 8.5.1.1 | Future composition of the international VOS fleets |
| 8.5.1.2 | Upgrading to VOSClim standards |
| 8.5.1.3 | Third party data and non-VOS support ships |
| 8.5.2 | VOS website |
| 9 | ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE SOOP IMPLEMENTATION PANEL (SOOPIP-11) |
| 9.1 | SOOP Programme activity reports |
| 9.1.1 | Report by the SOOPIP Chairperson |
| 9.1.2 | SOT Technical Coordinator report on SOOP support activities |
| 9.1.3 | XBT Science Team |
| 9.2 | Programme status and implementation |
| 9.2.1 | Status of SOOP implementation |
| 9.2.2 | XBT sampling transect occupation |
| 9.2.3 | Ship riders in High Density deployments |
| 9.2.4 | XBT Ship Recruitment |
| 9.3 | Interactions with other SOOP sampling programmes and activities |
| 9.3.1 | pCO2 systems |
| 9.3.2 | Thermosalinograph Network |
| 9.4 | Developments and plans for the SOOP |
| 9.4.1 | XBT Fall Rate Equation (FRE) advancements |
| 9.4.2 | Fall Rate Equation Experiments for Depth Offsets |
| 9.4.3 | Review of the XBT network |
| 9.5 | Data Management |
| 9.5.1 | XBT Data Flow and Transmission |
| 9.5.2 | Southern Ocean Data |
| 9.5.3 | International Quality controlled Ocean Data Base (IQUOD) |
| 10 | MONITORING, CODING AND DATA MANAGEMENT |
| 10.1 | Monitoring and data centre reports |
| 10.1.1 | VOS Monitoring Report from the Exeter (UK) Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (RSMC) |
| 10.1.2 | Monitoring Report from the Real-Time Monitoring Centre (RTMC) for the VOS Climate (VOSClim) data |
| 10.1.3 | ASAP QC Monitoring report |
| 10.1.4 | Global temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) |
| 10.1.5 | Global Ocean Surface Underway data Pilot Project (GOSUD) |
| 10.2 | Marine Climate Data System (MCDS) |
| 10.2.1 | Global Collecting Centres (GCCs) report on the VOS |
| 10.2.2 | VOSClim Data Assembly Centre (DAC) report |
| 10.3 | Operational Coding requirements |
| 10.3.1 | BUFR Template for VOS data |
| 10.3.2 | BUFR Template and implementation for XBT/XCTD/TSG data |
| 10.4 | SOOP, GO-SHIP, and ASAP metadata requirements |
| 11 | SOT IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY |
| 12 | ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS |
| 12.1 | Review the Terms of Reference of the SOT, VOSP and SOOPIP |
| 12.2 | Review of the SOT Management Team (including the role of the SOT Technical Co ordinator) |
| 12.3 | Funding issues (SOT Technical Co-ordinator, Trust Funds) |
| 12.4 | SOT annual report format |
| 13 | NATIONAL REPORTS |
| 14 | NEXT SESSION OF THE SOT |
| 15 | REVIEW OF THE SOT-8 SESSION REPORT, ACTION ITEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS |
| 16 | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |