DRAFT Agenda

* Version 5 – Note that times are subject to change *

Quality Assurance of Real Time Ocean Data (QARTOD) II: Waves and Currents February 28 – March 2, 2005 Norfolk, VA

Monday, February 28 – Nauticus Auditorium

7:45 Coffee and Continental Breakfast with the Old Dominion University Propeller Club and the ODU Maritime Institute

9:00 Welcome and Assembly Addresses
Meeting Manager – Larry Atkinson
Nauticus Director Welcome – Rich Conti
NOS CO-OPS – Rich Edwing, Deputy Director of NOS/CO-OPS

9:30 Review of QARTOD I Findings – Mark Bushnell

9:50 Challenge and Meeting Goals – Mark Bushnell

1. Share information between users, operators, vendors, etc. with existing plans, needs, and operations
2. Develop working sensor-based QA/QC standards for:
   • In-situ current observations
   • Remote current observations
   • In-situ (and remote) wave observations
     1. Discuss implementation issues: standards, or not?; peer review (Type A) or cooperative efforts (Type B) for:
   • QA/QC
   • Algorithms
   • Product delivery
   • Standardization/metadata balance
3. Develop framework for QARTOD III

10:00 Review of Workshop Agenda – Larry Atkinson

10:15 Break

Presentation format is 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions and discussion

10:30 Presentations: In-situ Currents – Bill Burnett, Moderator
Richard Bourgerie - Real-Time QA/QC of Current Meter Data in NOAA’s Ocean Service
Don Conlee - Initial Automated Quality Checks for Oil Platform Current Data
Jennifer Dussault – QA/QC for ATON ADCP

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Presentations: In-situ Currents, con't – Bill Burnett, Moderator
Chris Paternostro - An Oceanographic Processing Environment: From System Design to Data Quality

14:00 Presentations: Remote Currents – Libe Washburn, Moderator
Jack Harlan - NOS HF Radar QA/QC Efforts for IOOS: 2005
Paul Hall - Coastal HF Radar and Operational Search and Rescue Modeling

15:00 Break

15:15 Presentations: Remote Currents, cont. – Libe Washburn, Moderator
Josh Kohut - Long Range HF Radar surface current evaluation with in situ observations
Jim O'Donnell - Uncertainty in the Radial Velocity Estimates from Standard Range CODAR SeaSondes^? in the FRONT area

16:15 Adjourn for the day

17:00 Moderators SPO Meeting - Sheraton Waterside Hotel

Tuesday, March 1 – Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Presentations: In-situ Waves – Kent Hathaway, Moderator
Julie Thomas - Data Integration Demonstration
Chung-Che Teng – Real Time Wave Data Processing and QA/QC
John Brubaker - ADCP-Based Determination of Directional Wave Spectra in the York River

10:30 Break

10:45 Cross-Cutting Presentations
Jeremy Cothran - TWiki Tutorial: a presentation on TWiki use and features
Stephanie Watson - DMAC/MMI/Metadata

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Charge to the Breakout Groups
For sensor specific data, can the group:

• Identify/standardize real-time quality tests?
• Provide quality descriptor flags based upon test results (5 level & extended)?
• Identify metadata requirements?
• Identify calibration requirements?
• Identify common data formats?
• Identify any additional requirements associated with DMAC compatibility?
• Describe the roadmap and current roadblocks to developing an operational QA/QC capability?

14:00 Breakout Groups – Facilitators: Bushnell, Ache, Cohen, and Loper

• In-situ (and Remote) Waves - Tech Lead: Hathaway; Facilitator: Loper
• Remote Currents - Tech Lead: Washburn; Facilitator: Cohen
• In-situ Currents - Tech Lead: Burnett; Facilitator: Ache

16:30 Adjourn for the day

18:00 QARTOD II Participant’s Reception at Nauticus. There will be a 10 minute presentation by Ken Tenore of the Alliance for Coastal Technology.

Wednesday, March 2 – Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 Report Out from the Breakout Groups – Moderator, Larry Atkinson

• In-situ (and Remote) Waves
• In-situ Currents
• Remote Currents

10:15 Synthesize Workshop Recommendations/Resolutions – Facilitator, Larry Atkinson

10:45 Break

11:00 Designing QARTOD III – Facilitator, Larry Atkinson
Prospective date, location, lead, and parameters of interest

11:30 Workshop Follow-up and Action Items – Facilitator, Atkinson

12:00 Adjourn

-- GabrielFranke - 26 Jan 2005
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