Thursday May 12
Chair: Carl Wainmam
| 9:00 to 9:30 | Welcome remarks by local organizing committee |
Chris Reason, UCT Steve Piotrowicz, NOAA Josef Weidinge, Benefit Lesley Staegemann, BCLME |
| 9:30 to 10:00 | Summary of the Argo program including objectives, instrumentation, and data management methodology. Definition of Argo Regional Data Center (ARDC) | Bob Molinari |
| 10:00 to 10:30 | International Argo Information Center | Matthieu Belbeoch |
| 10:30 to 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 to 11:05 | Objectives of the meeting. | Silvia L. Garzoli |
| 11:05 to 12:00 | Other Argo Regional Data Centers: |
Virgine Thierry, Fr Trevor Guymer, UK |
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Lunch |
Chair: Ashley Johnson
National reports:
| 13:00 to 15:00 | ||
| Angola | DATA ARCHIVE | Pedro Tchipalanga |
| Argentina: | A review of Argentine Argo related institutions (CEADO, SHN) and possible contributions to the program. | Ariel Troisi |
| Brazil | Brazilian Contribution to ARGO | Edmo Campos University of Sao Paolo |
| MOVAR: Monitoring the Upper Ocean Thermal Variability between Rio de Janeiro and Trindade Island | Mauricio Matta Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. | |
| Namibia | TBA | |
| Nigeria | Argo: Innovative technology for understanding subsurface ocean observations off Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. | Regina Folorunsho |
| 15:00 to 15:15 | Break | |
| 15:15 to 16:15 | National reports (continued) | |
| South Africa | An overview of the Southern African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO). | Marten Grundlingh |
| On seasonal forecasting, and potential use of Argo data. | Willem Landman | |
| The SAWS drifter programme in the South Atlantic | Keith Moir | |
| Observations in the Southern Oceans | Gerhard Schulze | |
| MCM monitoring in the Benguela system | Ashley Johnson | |
| Argo deployments on the Agulhas | Sabina | |
| Uruguay | The Uruguayan Oceanography, Hydrography and Meteorology Service of the Navy and their interest in participation in Argo | Santiago Karabajich |
| US | AOML role in Argo. The US Argo Data Assembly Center and Atlantic deployments. | Claudia Schmid |
| Available Data and products at AOML. | Silvia Garzoli | |
| 16:15 to 17:00 | Develop a list of potential SA-ARC activities |
Friday May 13
Chair: A. Piola
| 9:00 to 9:30 | Creation of Working Groups to determine how to achieve SA-ARC objectives (i.e. contributions required, data submittal, data processing, etc.) | |
| 9:30 to 12 noon | Working groups | |
| 10:30 to 10:45 | Break | |
| 12:00 to 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 to 15:15 | Working groups continue | |
| 15:15 to 15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30 to 16:00 | Working groups continue | |
| 16:00 to 17:00 | Working group reports (plenary) | |
| 17:00 | Adjourn for the day |
Saturday May 14
Chair: Ariel Troisi
| 9:00 to 12:00 | Synthesis of working group reports and summary of action items.
Future activities. Next meeting. Plenary. |
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| 10:30 to10:45 | Break | |
| 12:00 noon | Adjourn. | |
| 12:00 to 1:00 | Lunch |