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The provision of marine weather services in an important function
of the national meteorological services of coastal and maritime
nations - including the Met Office. As well as forecasts the Met
Office plays a major role in providing observations of weather
at sea.
| Global Collecting Centre for Marine Climatological
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Under the Joint
WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine
Meteorology (JCOMM), intergovernmental body of experts,
which provides the international co-ordination, regulation
and management of marine meteorological services, the Met
Office runs one of two Global Collecting Centres (GCCs).
The GCC is run as part of the World
Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Marine Meteorology
Programme.
Aims
The aim of the Global Collecting Centre is to ensure that
marine data are received from contributing members around
the world and processed to an agreed standard. The data
are then distributed on a quarterly basis to eight responsible
members, each with their own area of responsibility.
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Countries under the MCSS
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members as of 2002 |
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These eight members are:
- Germany
- Hong Kong (China)
- India
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Russian Federation
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
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GCC Annual Report
At the end of each year the GCC Annual Report is published. This
details data received and processed over the past year and also
any new developments and future plans within the MCSS (Marine Climatological Summaries Scheme).
Covering
letter (PDF, 1.4 Mb)
Annual
Report 2007 (PDF, 1.34 Mb)
Update of code format
At the JCOMM-II meeting in Halifax, Canada in September 2006, a proposal to update the data exchange format and data standards was accepted (recommendation 9). This came into force on 1 January 2007.
The International Maritime Meteorological Tape (IMMT) format, for the exchange of delayed-mode observations, is now in its 3rd version: IMMT-3 (PDF, 50 kb)
The Minimum Quality Control Standards (MQCS) are now in their 5th version: MQCS-V (PDF, 110 kb)
Consolidated MQC for Contributing Member software version 3 is now available from the World Meteorological Organization.
Contact the GCCs
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