Welcome to the MetOceanDWG web

Welcome to the public wiki of the Met Ocean Domain Working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium.

Anyone can edit this wiki, but, of course, responsibly. Instructions can be found on the TWiki Text Formatting Rules page.

Events announcements :

MetOcean Teleconfs and Meetings

Other connected events

Overview

The Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group (Met Ocean DWG) is a recently established community orientated working group of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This is not a group that directly revises OGC standards, but rather enables collaboration and communication between groups with meteorological and oceanographic interests. The Met Ocean DWG maintains a list of topics of interest to the meteorological and oceanographic communities for discussion, defining feedback to the OGC Standards Working Groups (SWG), and performing interoperability experiments. The Met Ocean DWG is intended to be a public forum for communication, and both the email list and this Twiki are open to interested parties.

The DWG extended itself to cover Oceanography as well, because of the long history of collaboration and shared institutions between meteorology and oceanography. Please see the current Met Ocean DWG Charter.

The original charter is at Meteo DWG Charter .

Meetings

1st workshop on the use of GIS/OGC standards in meteorology-ECMWF-24-26 Nov 2008 Programme and Presentations

Athens OGC TC Meeting. 30 March 2009 Initial Meteo DWG Kickoff Meeting

Boston OGC TC Meeting. 22-25 June 2009 AgendaAndSlides200906

Darmstadt OGC TC Meeting. 28 Sept-1 Oct 2009 AgendaAndSlides200909

2nd workshop on the use of GIS/OGC standards in meteorology-Météo-France-Toulouse-23-25 Nov 2009 Programme and Presentations

Mountain View OGC TC Meeting. 7-11 Dec 2009 AgendaAndSlides200912

Frascati OGC TC Meeting. 8-11 March 2010 AgendaAndSlides201003

Email list

Subscription to the public email list at : https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/meteo.dwg

Work process management

The Meteo DWG is gathering topics of interest to the community. Some feedback is available from early implementations of the OGC standards for meteorological products.This highlights several issues that are characteristic of the domain and require some best practices recommendations to ensure interoperability between the different implementations. The Group proposes to develop an open discussion on each issue following the Twiki recommended style for discussions described at : http://external.opengis.org/twiki_public/bin/view/TWiki/GoodStyle and some teleconferences that will be announced there, through the email list and via the calendar. An analysis will then be made and submitted for review.

If you have questions or ideas to improve this process, please express it at : suggestions to improve the MDWG working process

Current Activities:

WMS Best Practices:

Time handling

SLD/SE Requirements:

Styling (using SLD/SE)

Conceptual Modelling:

Minutes of all telecons

Weather Exchange Models (XML)

Use Cases

Controlled vocabulary (going towards a Taxonomy or Ontology)

Interoperability Experiment for WMS:

Definition

Planning

Use Cases

Participants

Implementations

General issues:

Performance

Future activities:

CRSs

Interoperable Web Map Services

Interoperable Web Map Tiling Services

Gridded Coverage Data in OGC Standards

Other topics of interest

Past activities:

Questionaire on the use of WMS in meteorology

MetOceanDWG Web Utilities

•   - advanced search
• WebTopicList - all topics in alphabetical order
• WebChanges - recent topic changes in this web
• WebNotify - subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when topics change
• WebRss, WebAtom - RSS and ATOM news feeds of topic changes
• WebStatistics - listing popular topics and top contributors
• WebPreferences - preferences of this web

• 09-DRAFT_MeteorologyOceanography_DWG_Charter.doc: Draft Met & Ocean DWG Charter