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The partnership with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)
and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO ) for JCOMM officially started in 1999, when the Technical Commission was
established. Prior to 1999, marine meteorological and oceanographic
observations, data management and service provision programmes were
international coordinated through the WMO Commission for Marine
Meteorology (CMM) on one hand and through the joint WMO-IOC Committee
for the Integrated Global Ocean Services System (IGOSS) on the other
hand. While enhancing safety at sea remained the primary objective of
marine forecast and warning programmes, requirements for data and
services steadily expanded in volume and breadth during the preceding
decades. Other applications, such as coastal area management,
optimization of commercial fishing activities, ship routing, offshore
resource exploration and development, pollution prevention and clean-
up and, most recently, climate modeling and prediction, became
increasingly important. Moreover, many of these applications required
observational data sets and predicted products for both the oceans and
the overlying atmosphere.
Responding
to these interdisciplinary requirements necessitated the development of
ever closer working relationships between oceanographers and marine
meteorologists. This was reflected at the global level by growing
collaboration between IOC and WMO in organizing and coordinating ocean
data acquisition, data management and provision of related services.
As formally constituted, JCOMM is an intergovernmental body of experts
that provides the mechanism for international coordination, regulation
and management of oceanographic and marine meteorological observing,
data management and services systems. The creation of this Joint
Technical Commission results from a general recognition that worldwide
improvement in coordination and efficiency may be achieved by combining
the expertise and technological capabilities of WMO and IOC. One of
the primary initial priorities for JCOMM is the development and
implementation of operational oceanography, on the basis of designs and
requirements expressed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and
the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), including in particular an
operational ocean observing system for climate.
JCOMM meets its mandate through:
- Further development of the observing networks under the guidance of the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the WMO-IOC-UNEP-ICSU Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the World Weather Watch (WWW)
and other operational programmes, and cooperation with these bodies in
seeking commitments for all components of an operational programme in
the global oceans.
- Implementation of integrated end-to-end data management systems in collaboration with the Commission for Basic Systems (CBS), the Committee for International Data and Information Exchange (IODE), the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU),
and other appropriate data management bodies, to meet the real-time
operational needs of the present operational systems and the global
observing systems.
- Delivery of products and services
needed by international science and operational programmes, Members of
WMO, and Member States of IOC. An important component of this will be
the coordination of the safety-related marine meteorological and
associated oceanographic services as an integral part of the Global
Maritime Distress and Safety System of the International Convention for
the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).
- Provision of capacity building through education, training, technology transfer and implementation support to Member States.
- Establishment
and enhancement of partnerships, liaison and collaboration with other
global programs and international agencies both within and outside the
UN system
IODE collaborates with JCOMM through the JCOMM Data Management Programme Area (DMPA) and its JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) . The DMPA is managed by the JCOMM Data Management Coordination Group. The IODE Co-Chair (one of the two Co-Chairs) is a member of the DMCG.
The figure below shows the JCOMM management structure.
JCOMM Data Management Coordination Group
Session reports :
Find out more on JCOMM's data management coordination group HERE
Find out more about the JCOMM data management programme area HERE
JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices
Sessions : [CLICK HERE]
Membership: [CLICK HERE]
JCOMM Data Management Plan
The main goal of this DMPlan is to explain how data management can be
conducted under the present structure to promote the long-term
objectives of JCOMM. The plan presents a review of the various
components of data management that must be considered as part of JCOMM.
It makes a number of recommendations. Some of these are, in fact,
underway either as formal projects in JCOMM, as an activity undertaken
by one or more members, or as activities undertaken by other
organizations with which JCOMM is linked. Most of the work requires
coordination of activities across WMO-IOC Member / Member States
participating in JCOMM. Developing this degree of cooperation will be a
challenge. The national organizations of each Member / Member State
have national priorities and objectives that must be met. Progress will
be made by aligning these national requirements with activities at an
international scale.
Download the Plan here
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