About

The MetOcean (Meteorology and Oceanography) DWG was created to allow the MetOcean community to develop interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain.The group does not directly create OGC standards, but rather enables collaboration and communication between groups with meteorological and oceanographic interests.

( please see the following for more information: https://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/MetOceanDWG/WebHome )

While the MetOcean DWG discusses many different aspects such as Temporal CRS, Vertical CRS, WMS, etc, MDL has joined in the collaboration mainly to engage in the development of the MetOcean Application Profile (OGC Doc 14-052, an extension to the WCS2.0 core, with most of the work done at the UK Met Office by Peter Trevelyan).

Note: the original OGC 14-052 MetOcean Application Profile is being split into several different individual papers to address specific aspects of the MetOcean Application Profile. The three below have been written, with a fourth addressing the GetPolygonCoverage function to follow:

• 1.15-045r1 MetOcean metadata profile for WCS2.0
• 15-044r1 Web Coverage Service Interface Standard Coverage Collection Extension
• 15-108 Met Ocean GetCorridor Extension to WCS2.0

MDL would like to leverage the MetOcean Application Profile and the subsequent standard to ultimately encode higher level handling of multi-dimensional data (4Dim:x,y,z,t; 5Dim: ensembles) through its web services. This includes web services that can handle all kinds of data slice and cross-sectional queries (polygons, vertical profiles, 3Dim flight corridors, etc). This also includes methodology on grouping similar coverages into collections (similar to the Web Feature Service's FeatureCollections).

Examples

Some examples of the MetOcean Extension to the WCS2.0 core follow. These function request and responses denote the capability of Web Services that MDL would like to leverage.

1. GetCapabilities:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/getCapabilities/GetCapabilities.html
2. DescribeCoverageCollection:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/describeCoverageCollection/DescribeCoverageCollection.html
3. DescribeCoverage:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/describeCoverage/DescribeCoverage.html
4. GetCoverage:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/getCoverage/GetCoverage.html
5. GetCorridorCoverage:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/getCorridorCoverage/GetCorridorCoverage.html
6. GetPolygonCoverage:
   https://sats.nws.noaa.gov/~WGDS/examples/MetOcean/getPolygonCoverage/GetPolygonCoverage.html