Meteorology DWG

The Meteorology and Oceans Domain Working Group was established at the OGC Athens Technical Conference, 2009-03-31, to ensure that OGC standards and profiles allow the meteorological community to develop effective interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain.

The ability to easily exchange atmospheric meteorological and climatological information in a timely and useful fashion is becoming increasingly important.  Further, oceanographic data is increasingly exchanged in near real time for operational purposes as well as through the more traditional research campaigns. Oceanographic data is used both to force atmospheric models and to explicitly model the oceans, seas, tides, waves and swell.

Meteorological and oceanographic data, in general, are/is multidimensional, continually evolving, highly spatial and highly temporal in nature.
This Meteorology and Oceanography Domain Working Group brings together OGC members in an open forum to work on oceanographic, meteorological and climatological data, metadata, and web services interoperability, greatly improving the way in which this information is described, shared and used.

Meteorology and Oceanography have a long history of shared approaches and institutions, so a joint Domain Working Group is very natural

This working group is to be hosted by the OGC and co-chaired by a representative from the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS).

Chair: Chris Little (UK Met Office), Co-Chair: Marie-Francoise Voidrot (Météo-France)