Task Team WIGOS Metadata

15 June 2023 13-14:30 UTC

Agenda & Notes

Opening

• Welcome
• Secretariat updates (Anna)
• Review FT2023-2 proposals for amendments

Codes Issues

(issues with "*" were discussed during the meeting)

No. [issue name and link] (assignee), status

1. Table 1-01-01, Revision of winds variables #417 (Gao), in validation*
2. Table 1-02: Measurement unit - new unit for GHG observation #454 (Gao), in validation*
3. 2-02 Program/network affiliation: new additions to GOOS #462(Anthonin), in validation*
4. Table 4-07, climate zone, As and Aw reversed #479 (Shuli), in validation*
5. Table 5-02-01: new methods of observation (for atmospheric variables) #336(Jörg), in validation to split proposal*
6. 1-01-01 Align radiation variables requirements #389 (Franziska, John), in validation*
7. 1-01-01 Addition of variable definitions (part 2: lightning) #391 (Jörg), in discussion
8. table 5-02-05: add: radar water level gauge, radar velocimetry and image velocimetry (hydrology) #436(Juan), in discussion*
9. List of Application Areas #438 (Anna, John), in discussion, for FT2024-1*
10. 1-01-01 Addition of definitions for cloud variables #443 (Franziska), in discussion
11. re-combine split tables #464 (Jörg), in discussion (NOT for FT approval)
12. Reintroduce paths #472 (Anna), in discussion*
13. Change duplicate notations in tables 1-01-* and 5-02-* #474 (Anna), in discussion
14. Table 9-02 Data policy #475 (Anna), in discussion
15. Table 7-06 Level of Data #477 (Jitze), in discussion
16. Table 2-02 Programme/network affiliation: add GDP to GOOS #478(Anthonin, Magali), in validation*

WMDR issues

1. Instrument deployments and siting classifications (Jitze), in discussion
2. Historization of station characteristics (TBD), in discussion

Notes:

• (Anna) JET-EOSDE workflow, FT2-2301 publication, WIS metadata should include WMDS codes for observation datasets;
• (Joerg) An ET-Metdata F2F meeting would be very beneficial especially as the requirements for OSCAR/NextGen are in development;
• the team reviewed FT2023-1 issues;

Actions

Next meetings

• Friday 30 June 2023 12-14 UTC
• 20 July 2023

Attendees

Team Members

Name	Present
Jörg Klausen (Switzerland Chair TT-WIGOSMD)	X
Tom Kralidis (Canada ET-Metadata Chair)
Gao Chen (USA)	X
Lara Ferrighi (Norway)	X
Rainer Maerz (Germany)
Shuli HAN (China)
Juan Bianchi (Argentina)	X

WMO Secretariat

Name	Present
Anna Milan	X
David Berry	X
Rodica Nitu
Lize Anthonin (OceanOPS)	X
Johanna Korhonen	X
Magali Krieger (OceanOPS)	X
Washington Otieno
Champika Gallage

Collaborators/Guests

Name	Present
Franziska Stürzl (OSCAR/Surface)	X
Sarina Danioth (MeteoSwiss)
Jitze van der Meulen (KNMI)
John Eyre (retired from UK MetOffice)	X
Tanja Kleinart, ET-WT
Samantha Linnerts, ET-WT
Thinesh Sornalingam, ET-WT
Markus Fiebig, NILU