JCOMM OCG ROUNDTABLE September 2015 JCOMM in-situ Observations Programme Support Centre

JCOMM OCG ROUNDTABLE September 2015

JCOMM in-situ Observations Programme Support Centre


Infrastructure / Staff

• Full staff regrouped in Brest– Mathieu Belbéoch (FR) – Martin Kramp (GER)– Champika Gallage (CA)– Anthonin Lizé (FR)– Emanuela Rusciano (IT)

• One staff under contract in Toulouse (until October – to be continued Nov/Dec - if budget allows)– Thomas Latter (UK)

• Internships, students to be recruited late 2015

• New TC for Regional/Coastal systems (mainly gliders) 2017



• What proportion of staff time is available per programme?

• Dedicated staff time + infrastructure staff time• Drivers: ToR & budget

• ToR:STAFF (%) Argo DBCP OceanSITES SOT GO-SHIP JCOMMOPS

MB 70 30

MK 33 33 33

CG 70 30

AL 100

ER 100



• Budget (2014 analysis)

• Driver to redistribute staff time with JCOMMOPS activities

Contributions Argo DBCP OceanSITES SOT GO-SHIP

% 30 30 15 15 10




Infrastructure

• 50% increase in staff time for Argo , DBCP• 100% for OceanSITES, SOT, GOSHIP

• + some JCOMMOPS services (expenses)


Priorities

• Internal organization (weekly meetings, follow up on actions)

• Database (old - new )

• Website finalisation and review (release Dec. 1st)

• Core deliverables (monthly/yearly reports to panels, steering and data teams)

• Cruise Information Centre

• Work on indicators and metrics

All is linked …


Database status


Workplan / Priorities

• New database status– Work on DBCP metadata was more important than expected– Synchronisation with Meteo-France to be reviewed (Lead CG)

• Website review process– 20, 30 days per staff in the next two months

• Discuss ER workplan– Room for specific studies, audits

• Balance activities/priorities vs budget (e.g. OceanSITES)– Specific actions identified for OceanSITES– Suggestions ?


ER Workplan


Action Items


Action Items



www.jcommops.org





Website review process

• 4 axes:– External (ALTRAN company subcontracted)– Internal (TCs with programme perspective)– Community survey - key testers only– Community survey – larger audience

• September – October: review processes• November: build on feebdack• Dec. 1st launch


ALTRAN

• Survey tool (community)• Testing tools• Audit report (Performance, ergonomics)• Bug tracking tool• Scenarios follow up• User manual (on-line help + videos)


Website review

• Contour of the review defined and common to all

• Elements to be tested by all– Generalities– Dashboard– Query, Grid, Register, Inspect– GIS viewer– Stats – Summary, Implementation, Data flow, Instrumentation (Indicators)

• General (static) information to be added gradually• Metrics widget to be finalized once well defined by all panels


Ship Time

• Lady Amber (used by NASA for SPURS2 – ~400 days)

• No financial support for JCOMMOPS …• Bullet proof solution with maritime operator

rejected• Needs ?


Thank you

Documents

JCOMM OCG ROUNDTABLE September 2015 JCOMM in-situ Observations Programme Support Centre