Annual Meeting 2018 (Brussels)

Meeting files

Minutes of the business meeting

Slides

NOOS members reports

NOOS projects reports

ToRs

Report

Venue

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences – Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium

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To get access RBINS reception, please climb the small staircase half-hidden on the back left of the Museum entrance hall.

Monday Nov 19

Thematic Workshop : Uncertainty information in operational forecasting

13:00

Welcome words

Sébastien Legrand, Henning Wehde

13:10

Estimation of Estimated Accuracy Numbers for AMM15 Quid for CMEMS

Christine Pequignet

13:35

From waves ensemble forecast to services in support to oil and gas industry

Edward Steele, John Siddorn

14:00

Certain steps of Rijkswaterstaat on uncertainty information

Marc Philippart

14:25

BMA delays en use of astronomical tide: model and/or harmonic tide

Martin Verlaan

14:50

Probabilistic storm surge forecast – A new tool to asses storm surge risk

Ludwig Schenk, Stephan Dick

15:15

Break

15:45

Multi-Model-Ensemble in NOOS

 Inga Golbeck, Stephan Dick
 16:10  NOOS-Drift : estimating drift forecast inacurracy  Sébastien Legrand
 16:35  Dissemination: Impact Matrix, Ensemble  Models and Climatology Data

Niels Holt

 17:00 A multi-collocation method to estimate observation and model errors with application to
wave height data in the North Sea
 Johannes Schulz-Stellenfleth
17:25 Discussion : How to further communicate uncertainty in national services ?
18:00 End first day

Tuesday Nov 20

NOOS member reports session

09:00

Belgian operational oceanography services at RBINS and MDK

S. Legrand and H. Poppe

09:25

New developments at the Marine Monitoring Network of BSH (MARNET)

Kai Herklotz

09:50

Advances in operational oceangraphy at DMI

Jacob Nielsen
10:15

The new Met Office / Copernicus eddy resolving assimilative forecasting system for the NWS

 John Siddorn

(10:40 Coffee Break)

EuroGOOS session

11:00 News from the secretariat and EuroGOOS priorities for 2019-2020 Glenn Nolan
11:30 Potential collaboration with surrounding ROOSes

  • BOOS – NOOS
  • IBI-ROOS – NOOS
11:50 EuroGOOS Working groups

  • Coastal WG
  • DATA-MEQ
  • Science Advisory WG
  • Technology Plan working group
12:10 EuroGOOS TTs

  • FerryBox
  • Tide gauges
  • Gliders
  • HF-Radars
  • Argo Floats
  • Fixed platforms
  • Animal-borne instruments
 12:30  Discussion

  • How could EuroGOOS better support NOOS activities?
  • How could NOOS better benefit from EuroGOOS WGs and TTs activities?
  • How could NOOS better contribute to EuroGOOS WGs and TTs activities?

(13:00-14:00 Lunch)

European initiatives and projects

14:00

15:00

  • CMEMS,
  • CLAIM project,
  • JERICO-NEXT,
  • EMODNET physics, EMODNET bathymetry, geology, habitat, etc
  • AtlantOS,
  • Immersed project
  • CEASELESS
John Siddorn,

Jens Murawski,

Martin Verlaan,…

(15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break)

NOOS activities review

16:00

 Status of the NOOS river run-off project status

Jacob Nielsen
16:15 Status of the NWS portal Susanne Tamm
16:30 ‘Update on the NOOS/CMEMS verification activity at the Met Office Christine Pequignet
16:30-17:00 Flash report:

  • water level data exchange
  • transport exchange
  • WG on drift
  • wave data exchange
  • waves forecast exchange
17:00 – 18:00

Brainstorming on NOOS next objectives: a.o.

  • Sustainibility analysis of the observing system
  • How could NOOS contribute to EOOS?
  • How to promote the usage of NOOS data, products and services in climate science?
  • How to promote the usage of NOOS data, products and services in ocean health?
  • Agreement on the main lines of a NOOS program 2019-2020

 19:30 NOOS diner

La Maison du Luxembourg” –  37, rue du Luxembourg 1050 Ixelles

Wednesday NOV 21

NOOS business review

  • Welcome, introductions
  • Adoption of Agenda
  • Appointment of a rapporteur
  • Minutes of the previous meeting; Status of the actions
  • NOOS Chairmen report
  • Discussion and decision on NOOS-services, projects and new projects/initiatives
  • Decision on progress NOOS-activities (partners, web-site, services, projects)
  • Collaboration with the other ROOSs and EuroGOOS
  • Review status of signatories to NOOS MoU, identify any candidate additional partners.
  • Elections or reappointments of Steering Group Members.
  • Format, place and date for the NOOS Annual Meeting 2019
  • AOB

12:00 Closure of the meeting (small lunch)

12:15  Short Steering group meeting

14:00 EOOS conference at the Egg, Brussels