6 Ship metadata provided to the assisting PMO for NCP each ship, including route, and rationale for recruitment 7 PMO checks metadata and coordinates PMO necessary corrections with the national contact point 8 Buddy PMO notifies the committee about readiness of Buddy PMO the candidate country 9 Evaluation by the committee PEC 10 Decision by the committee PEC 11 Drifter purchased and shipped by donor to the country Donor 12 Customs cleared by receiving country NCP 13 Drifter received and checked by NCP NCP 14 Discussions with recruited vessel for preparing drifter NCP installation 15 Drifter installation onboard the ship NCP 16 Drifter turned on, and data checked NCP 17 NCP requests service Argos to distribute the data on NCP & Donor GTS in FM-13 SHIP format 18 Data monitored by JCOMMOPS JCOMMOPS NCP checks for receipt of buoy data at his NCP forecast centre 19 GTS distribution stopped in case of systematic errors; NCP & Donor or bias correction in case this can be done 20 NCP to provide feedback to the ship on the NCP usefulness of the buoy data 21 Recovery of the drifter in case of failure or batteries NCP dead 22 Drifter shipped back to the donor for NCP evaluation/refurbishment Note: JCOMMOPS should be regularly informed on progress of each milestone so that it can effectively assist and promote the initiative. ____________
6 Ship metadata provided to the assisting PMO for each ship, including route, and rationale for recruitment NCP 7 PMO checks metadata and coordinates necessary corrections with the national contact point PMO 8 Buddy PMO notifies the committee about readiness of the candidate country Buddy PMO 9 Evaluation by the committee PEC 10 Decision by the committee PEC 11 Drifter purchased and shipped by donor to the country Donor 12 Customs cleared by receiving country NCP 13 Drifter received and checked by NCP NCP 14 Discussions with recruited vessel for preparing drifter installation NCP 15 Drifter installation onboard the ship NCP 16 Drifter turned on, and data checked NCP 17 NCP requests service Argos to distribute the data on GTS in FM-13 SHIP format NCP & Donor 18 Data monitored by JCOMMOPS JCOMMOPS NCP checks for receipt of buoy data at his forecast centre NCP 19 GTS distribution stopped in case of systematic errors; or bias correction in case this can be done NCP & Donor 20 NCP to provide feedback to the ship on the usefulness of the buoy data NCP 21 Recovery of the drifter in case of failure or batteries dead NCP 22 Drifter shipped back to the donor for evaluation/refurbishment NCP Note: JCOMMOPS should be regularly informed on progress of each milestone so that it can effectively assist and promote the initiative. ____________
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