Browsing JCB/JCOMM Commmunity Practices Collection by Title

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.

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 ...

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 [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/403]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 ...

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 [SUPERSEDED by http://hdl.handle.net/11329/135]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 ...

Guide to Data Collection and Location Services using Service Argos. Revision 1.

Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (WMO and IOC, Data Buoy Cooperation Panel, 2011)

The Argos system locates fixed and mobile platforms and collects environmental data from them. The system was developed under a co-operative programme between the French Space Agency (CNES, France), the National Aeronautics ...

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 ...

SOOP Basic ship visit and rider rules. [NO LONGER ABLE TO LINK TO THIS]

Cook, Steven (SOT, WMO & IOC, 2003)

The following guidelines pertain to any person who might have occasion to visit, install, repair or replace equipment, or ride on any Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) participating in any program to collect scientific ...

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 ...