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IV-TT online meeting (7)

The IV-TT designs, tests, and publishes advanced methods for verifying and validating the quality of operational ocean products with the aim to determine skills, strengths and weaknesses of ocean analysis and forecasting systems. The team coordinates and promotes scientific validation and intercomparison activities among operational centres, with the objective to establish best practices. As a legacy of GODAE projects, it pursues intercomparisons projects, where new methods are routinely proposed and tested.

  • IV-TT meeting
  • 12 March 2026, Online (MS Team)
  • 12:00 am  (UTC)
  • Opening and News from IV-TT (Greg and Fabrice, 5mins)
  • Propose new matrix to integrate to Class4 intercomparison or establish a new Class e.g. Class5 to valid AI based forecasts and connection with OceanBench, AI-TT, COSS-TT (15mins)
  • Current status of Class4 (Greg, 10mins)
  • 5-yr and 10-yr strategic plan (links to other TT and UN Decade initiatives) to be discussed during OPST meeting in April 2026 (Greg, 10mins)
  • In person meeting for OSPT meeting in Montreal (5mins)
  • Online seminar series (5mins)
  • IV-TT In-person meeting 2026 in China (5mins)
  • Place to share documents (5mins)
No First name Surname Affiliation Country
1 Laurent Bertino NERSC Norway
2 Stefania Ciliberti NowSystems Spain
3 Andrea Cipollone CMCC Italy
4 Emanuela Clementi CMCC Italy
5 Prasanth Divakaran BoM Australia
6 Fabrice Hernandez IRD/LEGOS France
7 Robert King Met Office UK
8 Yvonnick Le Clainche DFO/MPO Canada
9 Fangli Qiao FIO China
10 Charly Regnier MOI France
11 Greg Smith ECCC Canada
12 Babette Christelle Tchonang FSU US
13 Liying Wan NMEFC China
14 Kirsten Wilmer-Becker Met Office UK
15 Chunxue Yang CNR Italy

IV-TT meeting recordings are only open to IV-TT members and attendees of the IV-TT meeting. To access the recordings you require a password. Please contact the OP programme office for information.

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