Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP)

Terms of Reference of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel

The Data Buoy Cooperation Panel shall:

Consider the expressed needs of the international meteorological and oceanographic communities for real-time or archival data from ocean-data buoys on the high seas and request action from its members, the Technical Co-ordinator or action groups to meet these needs;

1. Co-ordinate activity on existing programmes so as to optimize the provision and timely receipt of good quality data from them;

2. Propose, organize and implement, through the co-ordination of national contributions, the expansion of existing programmes or the creation of new ones to supply such data;

3. Support and organize as appropriate such action groups as may be necessary to implement the deployment of data gathering buoys to meet the expressed needs of oceanographic and meteorological programmes such as WWW, WCRP, GOOS and GCOS;

4. Encourage the initiation of national contributions to data buoy programmes from countries which do not make them;

5. Promote the insertion of all available and appropriate buoy data into the Global Telecommunication System;

6. Promote the exchange of information on data buoy activities and encourage the development and transfer of appropriate technology;

7. Ensure that other bodies actively involved in buoy use are informed of the workings of the panel and encourage, as appropriate, their participation in the panel deliberations;

8. Make and regularly review arrangements to secure the services of a Technical Co-ordinator with the terms of reference given in Part B;

9. Report formally to the Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM), and participate in and contribute to an integrated global operational ocean observing system, implemented and co-ordinated through JCOMM;

10. Submit annually to the Executive Councils of the WMO and the IOC, to JCOMM and to other appropriate bodies of WMO and IOC, a report which shall include summaries of the existing and planned buoy deployments and data flow.

General Membership

OPEN membership, comprising existing DBCP members, Action Groups, TIP.

JCOMMOPS will participate in the work and the meetings of the Team.


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Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) also has the sub-groups DBCP Executive Board, DBCP Task Team on Data Management, DBCP Task Team on Instrument Best Practices and Drifter Technology Development, DBCP Task Team on Moored Buoys, DBCP Task Team on Capacity Building, DBCP National Focal Points for buoy programmes, DBCP Action Groups, International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), WCRP-SCAR International Programme for Antarctic Buoys (IPAB), DBCP-PICES North Pacific Data Buoy Advisory Panel (NPDBAP), Surface Marine programme of the Network of European Meteorological Services, EUMETNET (E-SURFMAR), International Buoy Programme for the Indian Ocean (IBPIO), International south Atlantic Buoy Programme (ISABP), Global Drifter Programme (GDP), Tropical Moored Buoy Implementation Panel (TIP), OCEAN Sustained Interdisciplinary Timeseries Environment observation System (OceanSITES), OceanSITES Steering Team, OceanSITES Data Management Team and OceanSITES Executive Committee

People in Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP)

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NAME, POSITION, INSTITUTION		ROLE	COUNTRY
	Al WALLACE (leader) DBCP vice-Chairperson for North America, Director,... Meteorological Service of Canada	Chair, NPDBAP co-chair	Canada
	Julie FLETCHER Manager, Marine Observations Meteorological Service of New Zealand	VOS Chair	New Zealand
	Ken JARROTT DBCP vice-Chairperson for the Southern Hemisphere, Head,... Bureau of Meteorology	Vice Chair	Australia
	Hester VIOLA DBCP Technical coordinator, and OceanSITES Project Office JCOMMOPS	Technical Coordinator	JCOMMOPS
	Graeme BALL Manager, Marine Operations Group Bureau of Meteorology	SOT chair, IBPIO chair	Australia
	Boram LEE Programme Specialist Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO	Secretariat	Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
	Uwe SEND Professor University of San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	OceanSITES co-chair	United States
	Frank GROOTERS Senior Consultant, International Relations Department Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute	JTA Chair	Netherlands
	Ignatius RIGOR University of Washington, School of Oceanography	IABP coordinator	United States
	Shaun R DOLK Manager, Drifter Operation Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,...	GDP and NPDBAP coordinator	United States