April 2011

The relevant deliverables were submitted two weeks in advance of PM4 for ESA review and a very useful PM4 took place on the 4th May. Efforts have already started to address the feedback from ESA on the documents.

For the PS-WFVS the automated online report generation and access is operational, with users able to access reports online. Reports are generated on a daily basis. The first ECMWF file was received on 4thMay, 2011 and we hope to have a report for them issued in June covering the month of May. Feedback will be collected on the previously issued UKMO and SHOM reports during May.

Ifremer have widened the scope of the tool beyond what was originally stated by the Statement of Work. Problems have been encountered in fixing the issues discovered from the original testing, and accommodating the extra functionality. It is of the utmost importance that the online tool goes live a comfortable time period prior to UCM-2. The current delivery estimate is during July but a progress teleconference has been arranged for June 1 between ESA, Logica and Ifremer to check that this timescale is still valid.

A GlobWave presentation was made at the MARCDAT-III workshop at ESRIN on 5th May. Efforts are ongoing regarding the organisation of UCM-2.