JCB/JCOMM Commmunity Practices Collection

IHO Standards for Hydrographic Surveys, Edition 6.0.0 September 2020.

International Hydrographic Organization (International Hydrographic Organization, Monaco, 2020)

This publication aims to provide a set of standards for hydrographic surveys primarily used to compile navigational charts essential for the safety of navigation, knowledge and the protection of the marine environment. It ...

Best practices related to mooring set-up. Presented at: Workshop on training for less experienced users of hardware 15th September 2015, Trieste, Italy.

Bensi, Manuel; Siena, Giuseppe (OGS: Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy, 2015)

Approaching an oceanographic mooring Principles of “Best Practices” in all phases of the system (predeployment test, maintenance, calibration etc.) should be followed. They cover the entire infrastructural chain of data ...

The WMO Voluntary Observing Ships' Scheme.

JCOMM Secretariat (WMO-JCOMM, Geneva, Switzerland, 2010)

The international scheme under which ships plying the various oceans and seas of the world are recruited for taking and transmitting meteorological observations is known as the WMO Voluntary Observing Ships’ Scheme. ...

Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue, Version 5.1. Draft for Approval. February 2012. [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/403]

Falkingham, John; Smolyanitsky, Vasily (WMO/JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice, Geneva, Switzerland, 2012)

Many Arctic and Baltic nations maintain Ice Services and issue ice charts on a regular basis when marine activities are occurring in the vicinity of sea ice and icebergs. These ice charts are used on ships as an aid ...

WOCE Sea Surface Salinity user's manual. Version 1.0. [17 Jun 2015]

Petit de la Villéon, Loïc; Carval, Thierry (Ifremer/GOSUD, [Brest, France], 2015)

This document is the WOCE-SSS data user's manual. It contains the description of the formats and netcdf files of the WOCE-SSS cd-rom

SOT Recruitment presentation : Partnership between marine industry and the marine meteorological & oceanographic communities. Version 3, 2008.

JCOMM Ship Observations Team (WMO & IOC, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008)

This is a series of PowerPoint slides describing SOT VOS recruit information. Powerpoint presentation entitled "Partnership between Marine Industry and the Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Communities" to be used ...

VOS Quick Reference Guide - Port Meteorological Officers. [Web document]

JCOMM Ship Observations Team (JCOMM Ship Observations Team, 2017)

The purpose of this "Quick Reference Guide" is to: Help newly appointed personnel become familiar with the functions of a PMO; Reacquaint experienced personnel with these functions; and Promote the resources ...

Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue. Version 4. [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/135]

JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice (Canadian Ice Service, Ottawa, Canada, 2007)

A number of northern nations, particularly, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Russian Federation, the United States, and those bordering on the Baltic Sea, maintain Ice Services (for a complete list of national ice services ...

Best guide and principles manual for the Ships of Opportunity Program (SOOP) and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) operations.

Cook, Steven; Sy, Alexander (World Meteorological Organization & Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, 2001)

This guide provides the best guide practices for the Ship of Opportunity Program for operating Expendable Bathythermograph (XBT) practices.