OPST – 3, Dec 2020
 
				
				3rd Annual Meeting of the OceanPredict Science Team (OPST-3)
7, 8 and 10 December 2020
| Where: | Online, GoTo meeting | 
| When: | 7, 8 and 10 December 2020 | 
| Duration: | 3 days | 
| Organisers: | Eric Chassignet (FSU) Fraser Davidson (DFO) PN Vinayachandran (Indian Institute of Science) Kirsten Wilmer-Becker (Met Office) | 
| Announcement | N/A | 
Participation
- Members of the OceanPredict Science Team (OPST)
- Members of the OceanPredict Advisory Board (OPAS)
- Invited guests
Contacts:
Fraser Davidson, OPST co-chair
Eric Chassignet, OPST co-chair
PN Vinayachandran, OPST co-chair
Kirsten Wilmer-Becker, OP Programme Office
Links to previous meetings of the OPST/GOVST can be found on the GODAE OceanView website
OPST-3 agenda
The full OPST-3 meeting agenda can be downloaded from the document section.
| Topics | Description | Communication / presentations | Length | Day | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Meeting objectives & overview | – Meeting objectives – Action/activity review, on what was done in the past 6 months | Oral presentations & discussions | 5 min (day 1) 10 min (day 1) | Day 1 | 
| 2. UN Decade of Ocean Science /OP programme plan review | – Review of the OP / UN Decade programme plan | Presentation from OP co-chairs & discussion | 20 min (day 1) 30 min (day 3) | Day 1 & Day 3 | 
| 3. Contributions to the UN Decade Programme Plan | OP activities supporting the programmes / possible complementing UN Decade projects | Presentations from OP members & discussions | 55 min (day 1) 90 min (day 2) | Day 1 & Day 2 | 
| 4. Future | Where is OP going? Question/ ideas / /concerns | Discussion | 50 min (day 3) | Day 3 | 
| 5. AOB | Any other business | Discussion | 10 min (day 3) | Day 3 | 
Attendance list (collated from all 3 meeting days)
Total participation – 33 attendees over 3 days
| Co-chairs (3): | Eric Chassignet, FSU, USA | 
| Fraser Davidson, DFO, Canada | |
| PN Vinayachandran | |
| OPST members (21): | Laurent Bertino, NERSC, Norway | 
| Do-Seong Byun, KHOA, South Korea | |
| Abhisek Chatterjee, INCOIS, India | |
| Stefano Ciavatta, PML, UK | |
| Pierre De Mey-Frémaux, CNRS/LEGOS, France | |
| Katja Fennel, Dalhousie University, Canada | |
| Yosuke Fujii, MRI/JMA, Japan | |
| Chris Harris, Met Office, UK | |
| Patrick Heimbach, MIT, USA | |
| Fabrice Hernandez, Mercator Ocean, France | |
| Pat Hogan, NRL, USA | |
| Guimei Liu, NMEFC, China | |
| Villy Kourafalou, University of Miami, USA | |
| Matt Martin, Met Office, UK | |
| Avichal Mehra, NOAA, USA | |
| Kristian Mogensen, ECMWF, UK | |
| Andrew Moore, UCSC, USA | |
| Gregory Smith, ECCC, Canada | |
| Clemente Tanajura, UFBA, Brazil | |
| Elisabeth Remy, Mercator Ocean, France | |
| Andreas Schiller, CSIRO, Australia | |
| OPAS members (5): | Eric Bayler, NOAA/NESDIS, USA | 
| Paul DiGiacomo, NOAA/NESDIS, USA | |
| Mikhail Entel, BoM, Australia | |
| Pierre Bahurel, MIO | |
| Hendrik Tolman, NOAA/NCEP, USA | |
| Guests (3): | Enrique Alvarez, Puertos del Estado | 
| Laura Bastide, MOI | |
| Alison Clausen, UNESCO/IOC | |
| Albert Fischer, UNESCO/IOC/GOOS | 
OPST-3 presentations
| Title | Presenter | Affiliation | 
|---|---|---|
| Overview presentation of OceanPredict national systems (1-2 slides per system) | (NMEFC , China; CONCEPTS, Canada; ECMWF,UK; FOAM, UK; INCOIS, India; MRI/JMA, Japan; KHOA/KIOST, South Korea; REMO, Brazil; TOPAZ, NOrway; RTOFS, USA; MOI/CMEMS, France; MFS, Italy; BlueLink, Australia) | See presenters | 
| The Ocean Decade Implementation & Overview of Call for Decade Actions | Alison Clausen | IOC | 
| CoastPredict programme introduction | Villy Kourafalou | University of Miami/ RSMAS | 
| COSS-TT – CoastPredict plans | Villy Kourafalou and Pierre De Mey-Frémaux | University of Miami / RSMAS and LEGOS/CNRS | 
| OS-Eval TT overview and SynObs project plans | Yosuke Fujii and Elisabeth Remy | JMA-MRI and MOi | 
| OceanPredict – UN Decade programme plans | Eric Chassignet, Fraser Davidson and PN Vinayachandran | FSU, DFO and Indian Institute of Science | 
OPST-3 Meeting Report is in progress and will be published in due course.