Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP)

Terms of Reference:
(Annex to Resolution 3 (JCOMM-4))

Existing Terms of Reference for the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP), the Tropical Moored Buoy Implementation Panel (TIP) and action groups. The DBCP terms of reference will be kept under review by the panel, with any changes proposed to be considered by the Management Committee, with a view to their approval by the co-presidents on behalf of the Commission.
General Membership:

• Open membership, comprising existing DBCP members, action groups, TIP.


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

Terms of Reference:
(as approved by the JCOMM Co-Presidents on behalf of the Commission, 24 July 2012, per Resolution 3 (JCOMM-4))

The Data Buoy Co-operation 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, as well as rigs and platforms reporting surface marine meteorological and oceanographic data 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 and metadata 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, GCOS, GFCS, WIS, and WIGOS;

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

5. Promote data exchange, including the insertion of all available and relevant platform data and metadata into the Global Telecommunication System, and the submission of data and metadata to the appropriate archives;

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; and

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 that shall include summaries of the existing and planned buoy deployments and data flow.


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Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP) also has the sub-groups DBCP Executive Board (DBCP-EB), DBCP Task Team on Capacity Building (TT-CB), DBCP Task Team on Moored Buoys (TT-MB), DBCP Task Team on Data Management (TT-DM), DBCP Task Team on Drifter Best Practices and Technology Development (TT-DBPD), DBCP Task Team on Wave Measurement (TT-WM), Pilot Project on High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (PP-HRSST), DBCP Working Group on data buoy Vandalism, DBCP National Focal Points for buoy programmes (DBCP-NFP), 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), International Tsunami Partnership (ITP), Tropical Moored Buoy Implementation Panel (TIP) and Global Drifter Programme (GDP)

People in Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP)

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NAME, POSITION, INSTITUTION		ROLE	COUNTRY
	Champika GALLAGE Scientific Officer, Earth System Monitoring Division World Meteorological Organization	WMO Secretariat	World Meteorological Organization
	Rick LUMPKIN National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic...	Vice Chairperson	United States of America
	Ting YU Associate Researcher National Marine Data and Information Service(NMDIS)/SOA	Vice Chair	China
	David MELDRUM Research Fellow, Technology Development	Member	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
	Shaun R DOLK Manager, Drifter Operation Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Atlantic...	GDP and NPDBAP coordinator	United States of America
	Jean ROLLAND Météo France, Centre de Météorologie Marine	Chair, Task Team on Technological Developments	France
	Ahlam Suliman AL-KHAROUSI Marine Ecologist Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Wealth, Marine...		Oman
	Hamad Bin Mohammad ALGHILANI Marine Ecology Expert Advanced Aquatic Environmental Research Services		Oman
	Sara ALMEIDA Instituto Hidrográfico Lisboa		Portugal
	Nathan ANDERSON Research Consultant NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory		United States of America