Met Office – Marine Networks

Met Office – Marine Networks

Sarah North

UK Selected ships 385UK Auxiliary ships NilUK VOSClim ships 52

(+ 30 Offshore platforms/Rigs – not in E-SURFMAR)

E-SURFMAR VOS TAG – UK Report

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E-SURFMAR VOS TAG – UK Report

0

4000

8000

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Real time observations from UK ‘Selected’ observing ships

= approx 74500 observations in 2005 [ + Approx. 15000 observations from Rigs]

Timeliness of observations from UK observing ships

0.00

25.00

50.00

75.00

100.00

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

All VOF HH+20 All VOF HH+115

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0

50

100

150

200

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

TurboWin Logbooks

E-SURFMAR VOS TAG – UK Report

By the end of 2005 a total of 147 ships had been supplied with electronic TurboWin logbooks – amounting to 38% of the active UK Selected fleet (at the end of 2004 this figure stood at 98 ships amounting to 25%) 75 ships have been provided with dedicated laptops for TurboWin233 Paper Logbooks received in 2005Aim to transfer to TurboWin by end of 2007

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Automatic Weather Systems - Installations1 – AUTOMET (Installed on ferry ‘Pride of Bilbao’ in July 04)

1 – MINOS GP (installed on ferry ‘Stena Leader’ in …..

1 – BATOS (installation on container ship ‘Toronto Express’ almost complete)

1 – AVOS (installation due to commence April 2006)

E-SURFMAR VOS TAG – UK Report

Automatic Weather Systems - Planned

8 - Minos GP (for coastal, Icelandic and continental ships)

2 - Minos GPW (possibly for coastal tankers/ferries)

2 – Batos (for North Atlantic container ships)

(other systems including MILOS and Weatherpak to be considered next FY as part of AWS trials)

AVOS

BATOS

MINOS

AUTOMET

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To roll out TurboWin to 90% of VOS fleet by April 2007 To withdraw inactive VOS (reduce fleet size to 300-350 ships) Increase automation (subject to budgets) Increased VOS deployment of Argo Floats All manual offshore rig observations to be sent direct by email by October 2006 Re-introduce Long Service Award Scheme Replace Wooden screens with Plastic screens

E-SURFMAR VOS TAG – UK Report

Future Plans

Expectations of E-SURFMAR Introduction of E-SURFMAR (DWD) database for metadata by end of 2006? Development of a common database for reporting European PMO inspections Introduction of Wiki site for reporting additional observations Introduction of a common E-SURFMAR publication for VOS Harmonisation of practices wherever possible (e.g. common inspection forms) Further development of TurboWin to include additional training aspects,

metadata collection, BUFR etc Commitment to increase European VOSClim participation Increased co-operation between E-PMOs