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Worldwide marine meteorological and oceanographic communities are working in partnership under the umbrella of the WMO-IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, in order to respond to interdisciplinary requirements for met/ocean observations, data management and service products.
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JCOMM Commmunity Practices Collection
A selection of documents describing community and best practices
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Best practices related to mooring set-up. Presented at: Workshop on training for less experienced users of hardware 15th September 2015, Trieste, Italy.
(OGS: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy, 2015)Approaching an oceanographic mooring Principles of “Best Practices” in all phases of the system (predeployment test, maintenance, calibration etc.) should be followed. They cover the entire infrastructural chain of data ... -
Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue Version 5.2, 2014 edition
(WMO/JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice, Geneva, Switzerland, 2014)Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) and Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) are becoming widely available on ships navigating in icy waters and it is necessary to provide ice data in a form that can be ... -
Recommended algorithms for the computation of marine meteorological variables
(Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM), Geneva, Switzerland, 2015)A range of variables observed under the Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) scheme, and circulated over the Global Telecommunication System (GTS) in real-time (RT), or exchanged internationally in delayed mode (DM), may be ... -
An Oceanographers’ and Marine Meteorologists’ Cookbook for Submitting Data and Metadata in Real-time and Delayed Mode.
(Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM), Geneva, Switzerland, 2015)There are many marine meteorological and oceanographic (met-ocean) observations which are not currently contributing to WMO and IOC Applications. Several reasons may explain the situation, including for example reluctance ... -
IHO Standards for Hydrographic Surveys, 5th edition, February 2008.
(International Hydrographic Bureau, Monaco, 2008)This publication, “Standards for Hydrographic Surveys” (S-44), is one of the series of standards developed by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) to help improve the safety of navigation. Formal ... -
A Guide to Making Climate Quality Meteorological and Flux Measurements at Sea
(NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, 2006)The body of this handbook describes in detail the factors to be considered in equipping a vessel to obtain climate-quality meteorological and flux data. It discusses the nature of the basic quantities to be measured, the ... -
The WMO Voluntary Observing Ships' Scheme.
(WMO-JCOMM, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010)The international scheme under which ships plying the various oceans and seas of the world are recruited for taking and transmitting meteorological observations is known as the WMO Voluntary Observing Ships’ Scheme. ... -
Extreme value analysis: wave data
(WMO-JCOMM, Geneva, Switzerland, 2011)Estimates of the m-year return value of significant wave height ─ the value which is exceeded on average once every m years ─ are needed for the safety control and design of ship, offshore, and coastal structures, ... -
Manual on Sea-level Measurements and Interpretation, Volume V: Radar Gauges. [includes Supplement Practical Experiences]
(Intergovernmental Oceanographic Comission of UNESCO, Paris, France, 2016)Volume 5 which is devoted specifically to ‘Radar Tide Gauges’. Radar range finders have been used in industry (where they measure the levels of liquids in tanks) and hydrology (for measuring river, lake and reservoir ... -
Handbook of best practices for open ocean fixed observatories.
(European Commission, Fix03 Project, 2016)This handbook collects the “best practices” in all phases of the system covering the entire infrastructural chain of data acquisition. It includes recommendations on how to produce high quality data aiming towards common ... -
SOT Recruitment presentation : Partnership between marine industry and the marine meteorological & oceanographic communities. Version 3, 2008.
(WMO & IOC, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008)This is a series of PowerPoint slides describing SOT VOS recruit information. Powerpoint presentation entitled "Partnership between Marine Industry and the Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Communities" to be used ... -
WOCE Sea Surface Salinity user's manual. Version 1.0. [17 Jun 2015]
(Ifremer/GOSUD, [Brest, France], 2015)This document is the WOCE-SSS data user's manual. It contains the description of the formats and netcdf files of the WOCE-SSS cd-rom -
VOS Quick Reference Guide - National VOS Programme Managers. [Web document]
(JCOMM Ship Observations Team, 2017)The purpose of this "Quick Reference Guide" is to: Help newly appointed personnel become familiar with their JCOMM responsibilities; Reacquaint experienced personnel with their JCOMM responsibilities; and ... -
VOS Quick Reference Guide - Port Meteorological Officers. [Web document]
(JCOMM Ship Observations Team, 2017)The purpose of this "Quick Reference Guide" is to: Help newly appointed personnel become familiar with the functions of a PMO; Reacquaint experienced personnel with these functions; and Promote the resources ... -
Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue, Version 5.1. Draft for Approval. February 2012. [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/403]
(WMO/JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012)Many Arctic and Baltic nations maintain Ice Services and issue ice charts on a regular basis when marine activities are occurring in the vicinity of sea ice and icebergs. These ice charts are used on ships as an aid ... -
User guide for thermosalinograph (TSG) installation and maintenance aboard a ship.
(JCOMM Ship Observations Team, 1999)Since 1990, the ECOP group (Etudes Climatiques de l'Ocean Pacifique tropical, former SURTROPAC group), IRD/Noumea, has been operating temperature and salinity measurements on board merchant vessels using thermosalinographs. ... -
XBT/XCTD standard test procedures for reliability and performance tests of expendable probes at sea. Revised draft.
(TC SOT, JCOMM Ship Observations Team, 2000)The best way to assure a quality XBT or XCTD is to implement a standard set of procedures for testing the probes. This document proposes a three step process for insuring XBT/XCTD quality: 1. Start with a set of specifications ... -
Quality Control Cookbook for XBT Data ( Expendable Bathythermograph Data). Version 1.1.
(CSIRO, Australia, 1994)The Quality Control (QC) procedures described here have been developed by oceanographers participating in the CSIRO XBT Program, specifically to assure the research quality of expendable bathythermograph (XBT) data of 0.6 ... -
Procedures used at AOML to quality control real time XBT data collected in the Atlantic Ocean.
(NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, Florida, 1994)Quality control (QC) procedures developed and implemented at AOML for the examination of real time XBT data are presented. The steps required to QC XBT data are outlined in a "cook book" format. The methods employed are ... -
SOOP Basic ship visit and rider rules. [NO LONGER ABLE TO LINK TO THIS]
(SOT, WMO & IOC, 2003)The following guidelines pertain to any person who might have occasion to visit, install, repair or replace equipment, or ride on any Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) participating in any program to collect scientific ...
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