JCOMMOPS

JCOMMOPS was the in situ Observations Programme Support Centre of the Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology, set up at the first JCOMM session in 2001 and located in Brest, France. It coordinated the operational ocean-observing networks: Argo profiling floats, the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel drifters and moorings, the Ship Observations Team, and the global tide-gauge effort, tracking platform deployment, metadata, and network coverage. After the WMO governance reform disbanded JCOMM, the center was rebranded OceanOPS in 2019, the Joint WMO-IOC centre for in situ observations support. It remains the implementation focal point for the Global Ocean Observing System.