Commissions, Working Groups and Permanent Services

Commission on Mean Sea Level and Tides

Gary T. Mitchum
President of CMSLT
Professor and Associate Dean
College of Marine Science
University of South Florida
140 Seventh Ave. South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
USA
Tel: 1-727-553-3941
Fax: 1-727.553-1189
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Dr. Simon Holgate
Vice President of CMSLT
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
National Oceanography Centre
Liverpool L3 5DA
United Kingdom
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Website: http://www.psmsl.org/

pdf Annual Report 2011 (512 Kb)

Commission on Groundwater Seawater Interactions

Discontinued in 2005

Commission on Sea Ice

Discontinued in 2003
Activities Report 1995 - 1999
Activities Report 1991 - 1995

Tsunami Commission (Joint with IASPEI and IAVCEI)

Dr. Vasily V. Titov
Chair Tsunami Commission
Chief Scientist, NOAA Center for Tsunami Research
Office: PMEL, Bldg 3, Rm 2072, NOAA Sand Point
USA
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Phone: 1-206-526-4536
Fax: 1-206-526-6485

Prof. Efim Pelinovsky
IAPSO Liaison Officer

Department of Nonlinear Geophysical Processes
Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
46 Uljanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia
Phone:+7-831-4164839
Fax:+7-831-4365976
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Websites: www.iaspei.org/commissions/JCT.html
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/jtc/tsunamicommission.html

GeoRisk Commission - Joint with IAMAS, IAHS, IASPEI, IAVCEI

Website www.iugg-georisk.org/
Annual report 2002

Active Working groups

The working groups are normally financed for 3 years

SCOR/WCRP/IAPSO Working Group 136 Climatic importance of the Greater Agulhas System (2009-)

Co-Chairs: Lisa Beal (USA) and Arne Biastoch (Germany)

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg136.htm

pdf WG136_annual report 2011 (600 Kb)

pdf On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate, Nature 2011 (753 Kb)

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 133 OceanScope (2008-)

Co-Chairs: Tom Rossby (USA) and Kuh Kim (Korea)

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg133.htm

Past Working Groups

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 129 on Deep Ocean Exchange with the Shelf (DOES) (2006-)

Chairperson: Dr. John Johnson, United Kingdom
Vice-Chair: Piers Chapman, USA

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg129.htm

Workshop October 6-8 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Workshop Poster (PDF)
• Workshop (web site)

Report on the Workshop “Deep Ocean Exchange with the Shelf”
The Workshop took place in Cape Town from 6 to 9 October 2008. About 45 scientists from 18
countries attended the workshop. As part of the outreach programme to Africa, young scientists
attended from Benin, Ghana, Namibia, Senegal and Togo as well as from South Africa. The
workshop programme was followed with one exception. The workshop was co-chaired by John
Johnson, Johan Rodhe, and John Middleton; rapporteurs: Susan Allen and Dong Liang Yuan.
The 16 invited lectures were well received and generated extensive discussions. It was agreed
that the workshop papers should be published in Ocean Science, one of the EGU open access
peer-reviewed journals. Six working groups worked in parallel; the smaller size of audience
generated good discussions within each group, and five of the groups came up with definite and
positive proposals for future research on different aspects of Deep Ocean Exchange with the
Shelf. Sponsors for the workshop were IUGG, IAPSO, SCOR, ONR, and CSIR.
Received from John Johnson, co-chair of the Workshop
Download the report here (PDF, 226 K)

pdf WG 129 report 2011 (30 kb)

pdf Preface WG 129 Special Issue in Ocean Sci. (2011 Bytes)

SCOR/IAPSO Working Group 127 on Thermodynamics and Equation of State of Seawater (2005-)

Charirperson: Dr. Trevor McDougall, Australia

Website: www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg127.htm

SCOR/LOICZ/IAPSO Working Group 122 on Mechanisms of Sediment retention in Estuaries (2003-)

Chairpersons: Dr. Gerardo Perillo, Argentina, and Jams Syvitsky, USA

Website www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg122.htm

IAPSO/SCOR Joint Working Group 121 on Ocean Mixing (2002-)

Chairperson: Robin D. Muench

Chair, IAPSO/SCOR Working Group 121
Earth & Space Research
1910 Fairview East, Suit 102
Seattle, WA 98102-3620, USA

Website www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg121.htm

IAG/ IAPSO Joint Working Group on Geodetic Effects of Nontidal Oceanic Processes (1999-2003)

Final Report

IASPEI/IAPSO/IAGA International Ocean Network (ION)

Cairperson: Dr. Adam Schultz, United Kingdom
Secretary: Heinrich Villinger, Germany
pdf ION report 2007-2011 (2.77 Mb)

OTHER SERVICES

Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level

Dr. Lesley Richard
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool L3 5DA
UK

tel. 44-151-795-4800
fax. 44-151-795-4801
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