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AIC Report. Argo TC AST #8 Paris, IOC of UNESCO. Argo Status. 2804 Active Floats 2643 on GTS 2743 at GDACs 115 (258) on “grey list”. Argo Status. 2804. 2400. 1800. 1200. When will we reach 3000 Floats ? - survival rate maintained
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AIC Report Argo TC AST #8 Paris, IOC of UNESCO
Argo Status • 2804 Active Floats • 2643 on GTS • 2743 at GDACs • 115 (258) on “grey list”
Argo Status 2804 2400 1800 1200 When will we reach 3000 Floats ?- survival rate maintained - Deployment rate 800 year => 3000 by the end of August
Argo Status • Distribution not optimal (south hemisphere) Source: SIO/ USA
Argo Planning • Argo is entering a new phase: sustain the array • Rational planning of deployment is necessary to: • Maintain an optimal coverage • Make an optimal use of ship time • Deployment opportunities: • Extend regional support • Cooperate with other panels (e.g. DBCP) • Monitor planned cruise (need international tech. coord. process)
Argo Planning • Argo needs to organize efficiently its own planning • Regional coordinators have recalled difficulties in gathering plans • TC took step to facilitate their work, • Establishing a centralized mechanism to update all plans • Extending the regular notification process • Draft mode added • Text file loader added • User Guide issued • Many exchanges with float operators • Providing new (R/T) products: web pages, ASCII files, GIS data layers • Monitoring network coverage, age, lifetime • Missing spatial dispersion (ideas ?, volunteers ?)
Argo - Planning Goal: cross all data layers: floats, drifters, density, age, plans, SOOP lines, past/planned cruises, etc …
Cycle metadata Need to cross check AIC meta-database & GDAC metadata files
Argo - Technology • Float lifetime improving but not yet optimal 2004 2006 2003 2005
AIC - Background • Established in Feb. 2001, Toulouse (France), within JCOMMOPS • Became part of the Argo Project Office in 2003 • Staffed with 1 Technical Coordinator (IOC employee) • Funded by Australia, Canada, France, UK and US • Guidance by AST co-chairs and Director • Close collaboration with IOC and WMO secretariats • IOC Res. XX-6 implementation • International Technical Coordination
TC Activities • E. Charpentier moved to WMO in Feb. 2006 • replaced by Hester Viola (BOM, Australia) in July 2006 => Impact on TC work load minimal • Information system finalized • New website released in Sept. 2006 • Float database management rationalized: • Weekly/Monthly reports to float operators and data managers • Working time: 1 day/week + 1 day/month • floats activity (4500 deployed, 2800 active) is rigorously monitored
TC Activities => See report for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, biennial and ad hoc tasks. • Need technical (I.S development and maintenance) & secretariat support • 500 Argo emails sent in 2001 • 500 in 2002 • 1000 in 2003 • 1350 in 2004 • 1250 in 2005 • 1800 in 2006
2006 TC Missions • AST#7 Hyderabad • Argo France meeting, Brest • IOC/ABE-LOS #6 meeting, Malaga • IOC Executive Council, Paris • Visit of WMO, Geneva • Visit Webb Research, Woods Hole • DBCP meeting, San Diego • Visit Scripps, Dan Diego • ADMT #7, Tianjin • Argo Workshop, Ghana • Visit Ifremer / IRD / Meteo France, Brest • EURO Argo, NAARC #2 meetings, Brest
Weekly/Monthly Report • Report sent to argo-st & argo-dm mailing lists • Most of information is available on-line • New tables added (e.g. metadata files check by Coriolis, GTS reports by MEDS) • Latest versions with index, links working • Reports stored on-line • Will be gradually improved
AIC & Data Management • Assistance for data distribution, Argos RT data distribution monitoring • New human resource at CLS … • Daily monitoring (GTS & GDACs) • reports to DACs to optimize distribution => datamissing on GTS/GDACs < 1.5% • Visibility for all GDACs, DACs, ARCs products Send your URLs to AIC • Argo Users Survey (see report)
Communication with users • 1) Direct support to users • Support Centre on AIC website (doc., simple form) • Coriolis codac@ifremer.fr evaluated • Generic ( operational) email set up: support@argo.net • Need relay when TC unavailable • Monitored by AST/ADMT (request open/closed) • FAQs gradually added • 2) Feedback from data users • No clear mechanism today • See SOLO/FSI pb… • Website / email • support@argo.net => appropriate relay to float operator, data source, dm operator, etc. • 3) Communication to all data users (pb., updates, … ) • New mailing list probably needed • SOLO/FSI pb good opportunity to start
AIC I. S. • Notification in advance is essential: • Law of the Sea requirements (IOC Res. XX-6) • Monitoring by AIC (maps, stats, tables, etc) • Deployment Planning • Tracking of Iridium floats • Interim systems developed … • AIC needs a single and independent access point
AIC I. S. • JCOMMOPS web services monitored by CLS operators • Procedures being tested • Target: 24/7 operational web services current 2007
New AIC website • New hardware/software • JCOMMOPS integrated design • New products, statistics, … • Sections improved • Ask TC for a demo …
AIC www • Audience >> target • 11000 visits/monthsince 2004 • Users survey Survey made before the release of the new site …
AIC www: Suggestions • improve website speed and stability (ongoing) • provide hard copies of content to developing countries (ongoing on Argo CDROM) • add a real-time density coverage layer to the interactive map (being finalized) • Add a web form to ask for WMO Ids (being discussed with WMO) • Access to download publications (legal issues) • More FAQs on trivial questions • Better bibliography • More visibility to oxygen pilot project • Forum to answer and discuss questions/doubts about Argo data use ( => argo@jcommops.org) • AIC & APO/AST websites => integration ? • Better design of www.argo.net
New AIC website • Homepage • Visibility for all participating countries • Direct access to national statistics • Argo Operations • Implementation • What is Argo … • Participating countries (deployment tables, stats, chronology, …) • New notification interface (more metadata gathered, planning table, netCDF loader being tested) • Beached floats retrieval (list, safety guide) • Monitoring • Project Status statistics (see presentation on “Argo Status”) • Statistics , tables for all contributions, direct access to interactive map • Map Room • New design for monthly maps • Google Earth daily files • Daily Ice edge for interactive map
New AIC website • Instrumentation • Survival charts for all float models • More accurate survival charts can be done on demand • Data • Tables on data distribution status (GTS/GDACs) tuned • DAC-less table added • Support page to be added • Links to DACs, RDACs reviewed/added • Common JCOMMOPS sections • Platform • New search engine (many more criteria for query) • Many more metadata added to result list • Statistics available for any float group • Complete float detail page netCDF metadata explorer developed • Documents • doc. & press releases checked/added • Contact • Links: updated • Meetings • Gallery • Help: Site Map added
New AIC website • AIC toolbar • Shortcuts • Search engine (Google & AIC) • Direct link to platform detail page • Brief news • Links GDACs, national websites, • Ideas ?
Argo – International issues • Law of the sea (IOC/ABE-LOS) • Better and better thanks to international cooperation • !!! Notifications please !!! • Careful with new sensors or gliders … • Donor programmes: • Achieved: Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mauritius, Brazil, Chile • Ongoing: Ecuador, Dominican Rep. , Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast • Caribbean Region, Philippines, Columbia • Cape Verde, Sri Lanka
Argo – International issues • Beached floats • 1-2 % • Retrieval is a long process • Solution: send an expert if needed • Good opportunity to strengthen regional support • Promote Argo (and other ocean . Obs) to coastal people (GOOS ?)
AIC Communications • Articles in French press (Thalassa magazine) • Article for Mercator newsletter • Float shown at national TVFrench TV ready for the 3000th … • NASA request: movie of float deployment • JCOMMOPS initiative with CNES, “Argonautica”
AIC Planning • Address any issue with new website • Highlight Argo project progresses (Products) • Improve reporting • finalize tools to assist deployment planning • Set up the Support Centre • Monitor progress in DM data processing • Improve Argo portal, www.argo.net • Finalize donor programmes with IOC/WMO • Finalize retrieval procedure • Establish new contacts (e.g. research cruises) • Improve modestly Argo media coverage
Argo Information Centre Thank You … Mathieu Belbeoch, Argo TC belbeoch@jcommops.org