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Events announcements :

2nd workshop on the use of GIS/OGC standards in meteorology

23 – 25 November 2009 Toulouse Meteo-France http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/gis-ogc/index.html

The new deadline for registering is 12 November 2009. (instead of 31 October) The new deadline for receiving abstract is 2 November 2009. (instead of 16 October)

Overview

The Meteorological Domain Working Group (Meteo DWG) is a recently established community orientated working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This is not a group that directly revises OGC standards, but rather enables collaboration and communication between groups with meteorological interests. The Meteo DWG maintains a list of topics of interest to the meteorological community for discussion, defining feedback to the OGC Standards Working Groups (SWG), and performing interoperability experiments. The Meteo DWG is intended to be a public forum for communication, and both the email list and this Twiki are open to interested parties.

Please see the current Meteo DWG Charter for further details.

The DWG is considering extending itself to cover Oceanography as well, because of the long history of collaboration and shared institutions between meteorology and oceanography. Please see the proposed MODWG Charter.

Meetings

1st workshop on the use of GIS/OGC standards in meteorology-ECMWF-24-26 Nov 2008 Programme and Presentations

Athens OGC TC Meeting. 30 March 2009 Initial Meteo DWG Kickoff Meeting

Boston OGC TC Meeting. 22-25 June 2009 AgendaAndSlides200906

Darmstadt OGC TC Meeting. 28 Sept-1 Oct 2009 AgendaAndSlides200909

2nd workshop on the use of GIS/OGC standards in meteorology-Météo-France-Toulouse-23-25 Nov 2009 Programme and Presentations

Mountain View OGC TC Meeting. 7-11 Dec 2009

Email list

Subscription to the public email list at : https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/meteo.dwg

Work process management

The Meteo DWG is gathering topics of interest to the community. Some feedback is available from early implementations of the OGC standards for meteorological products.This highlights several issues that are characteristic of the domain and require some best practices recommendations to ensure interoperability between the different implementations. The Group proposes to develop an open discussion on each issue following the Twiki recommended style for discussions described at : http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/TWiki/GoodStyle and some teleconferences that will be announced there, through the email list and via the calendar. An analysis will then be made and submitted for review.

If you have questions or ideas to improve this process, please express it at : suggestions to improve the MDWG working process

Topics of Interest

• Some of these issues are common to several standards :

Time handling

Controlled vocabulary (going towards a Taxonomy or Ontology?)

CRSs

Weather Exchange Models (XML)

• Others may be specific to one of the standards :

Interoperable Web Map Services

Gridded Coverage Data in OGC Standards

Other topics of interest

Interoperability Experiments

Interoperability Experiments Volunteerings

Interoperability Experiments Implementations?

Questionnaire on the use of WMS in meteorology and inter operability experiments

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) recently established a Meteorology Domain Working Group (and a Hydrology Domain WG) to provide a focus for the application of the OGC standards and profiles to meteorology. The OGC is also pursuing a Memorandum of Understanding with WMO to allow mutual representation of experts at their respective meetings.

The initial plan of the Meteo DWG is to perform Interoperability Experiments with the OGC Web Mapping Services (WMS) standard between June and December 2009, as recommended at the OGC - ECMWF workshop in November 2008. The intent is to produce an agreed OGC WMS profile for meteorology, or possible changes to the WMS standard. Such a profile should help improve global inter-operability with the wider geospatial community as well as "intra-operability" within the meteorological community. This should also help reduce the cost of implementing operational and research systems. We would like you to take a few minutes to fill in the questionnaire, so that the MDWG can measure the interest in, and identify any volunteers for, these Inter-operability Experiments.

Please expand upon your answers if you would like to supply more information.

The initial results from the questionnaire have been presented :

• at the European Working Group on Operational [Meteorological] Workstations (EGOWS) 2009 Conference beginning of June 2009 in the Netherlands.
• at the OGC Technical Conference in Boston in the USA.

It formally closed on 1st September 2009 and an analysis was be presented at the OGC Technical Conference in Darmstadt, Sept 2009. Since then, a few other entries have been made, but not substantially altering the conclusions.

MetQuestionnaire *

Analysis of the WMS Meteo Questionnaire updated on 18 September 2009

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• 09-DRAFT_MeteorologyOceanography_DWG_Charter.doc: Draft Met & Ocean DWG Charter