BoM Water Standards Meetings
Date: 29-Jun-2017
The Bureau of Meteorology is currently running a national forum to discuss and formalise ‘water’ monitoring standards and reporting across the nation. qldwater has been involved with these meetings. As part of the forum’s work they have recently set up the Australian Hydrographers Association (AHA) Data Technical Reference Group. The Data TRG membership currently has no Queensland representative. Whilst the Data TRG is being convened by the AHA, participation is not restricted to AHA membership. BoM have invited forum members to put forward nominations of staff or organisations that may have an interest in any facet of the Data TRG’s work.
The Data TRG is currently developing objectives and scope for the activity, existing objectives include: transfer of site specific knowledge; communication of information on the monitoring program; standardised transfer of information; and assessing a data sets fitness for use. Activities include investigation of: describing data fitness for use; assessment and reporting of data quality and reliability; quantification and reporting of data uncertainty; description of monitoring stations and their limitations; the original monitoring program purpose when considering data reuse; quantify benefits; and national site numbering.
If you are interested in participating in the Data TRG please let David Scheltinga (dscheltinga@qldwater.com.au) know and he can put forward your nomination.
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