Draft Agenda

1. Welcome by P. Wadhams
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Chair and Rapporteur of the meeting
4. Highlights of activities of the Secretariat in 2011 by S. Sandven
5. Presentations by the members of their main work in 2011 and further plans

• Institute of Marine Research (IMR)

• Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)

• University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (UCAM DAMTP)

• Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI)

• University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental Physics (UB IUP)

• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

• Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAS)

• Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)

• Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer

• Mercator Ocean

• Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Russia (NIERSC)

• Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no)

• Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI)

• Geophysical Institute – University of Bergen

• Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)
  
  (Members who have indicated that they cannot attend are expected to provide slides giving an overview of their activities)
  
  

6. New legal status of  EuroGOOS as European Interest Group (EIG) and reporting to the EuroGOOS annual meeting 13 -15 December,
7. Status of SIOS: Svalbard Integrated Observing System – Preparatory Phase project in FP7 for European research infrastructure in Svalbard
8. ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) sea ice project is in contract preparation
9. Other projects involving ArcticROOS members: SIDARUS, ICEMAR, etc.
10. Data dissemination through Arctic-ROOS web site and partners web sites. How can we provide more data and data products via this portal ?  Most of the partners have data that are accessible on web sites.  These should be linked to the Arctic ROOS portal so that it is easy for users to find data. The portal should provide different levels of information: high level synthesis, graphics and maps, data sets.
    
11. The data includes
• daily, weekly and monthly data
• forecast
• historical data, re-analysis and climate data
• information on data policy and data management
  
  Actions to update and populate the Arctic ROOS portal http://arctic-roos.org
  Examples of web sites provided by the other ROOS’s can be reviewed under links of the EuroGOOS web site http://www.eurogoos.org
  
  
12. Strategy for Arctic ROOS. How to develop Arctic ROOS in the post-IPY era? How can operational oceanography at high latitudes have more focus as provider of useful information for society?
13. A short policy document for promotion
14. Plan for dedicated Arctic-ROOS activities
15. Plan proposals to fund activities to build and operate operational oceanography systems
16. Action items and administrative issues
17. AOB