BLUElink: Operational Ocean Forecasting BLUElink: Operational Ocean Forecasting in the Southern Hemispherein the Southern Hemisphere

David Griffin David Griffin et al.,et al., CSIRO CSIROandand

Gary Brassington Gary Brassington et alet al. BoM. BoM

Australia’s EEZAustralia’s EEZ

70% of Australia is ocean!70% of Australia is ocean!

Fisheries

Oil & Gas

Tourism

Satellites: SST, sealevelSatellites: SST, sealevel Argo: T, S profilesArgo: T, S profiles

Supercomputing and Supercomputing and high-resolution ocean high-resolution ocean

circulation modelscirculation models

Ocean Prediction – Ocean Prediction – AA Revolution in Ocean Science Revolution in Ocean Science

Offshore energyOffshore energy

Water qualityWater quality

National securityNational security

Fisheries and marine Fisheries and marine managementmanagement

Shipping & safetyShipping & safety

ApplicationsApplications

Relocatable Ocean Atmosphere Model (ROAM)Relocatable Ocean Atmosphere Model (ROAM)

SummarySummary

version 1 of a data-assimilating global ocean model has version 1 of a data-assimilating global ocean model has been run for 10yrs. Surface currents good, temperatures will been run for 10yrs. Surface currents good, temperatures will be better in version 2.be better in version 2.

GUI-launched nested model in final stages of testingGUI-launched nested model in final stages of testing

daily-updated web site showing ocean data popular with daily-updated web site showing ocean data popular with industrial and recreational usersindustrial and recreational users

user pull: GoogleEarth/GIS compatibilityuser pull: GoogleEarth/GIS compatibility

threat analysis: threat analysis: declining number of altimetersdeclining number of altimeters

Ocean model: Andreas Schiller, Russell Fiedler Data assimilation: Peter Oke, Jim Mansbridge

Ocean data: David Griffin, Ken Ridgway, Ian Barton, Madeleine Cahill, Jeff Dunn, Chris RathboneNested models: Peter Craig, Mike Herzfeld, Debbie Abbs, Jason Waring, Dirk Slawinski, Irshad Nainar

Operational Implementation: Neville Smith, Gary Brassington, Oscar Alves, Graham Warren, Diana Greenslade, Tim Pugh, Eric Schulz, Mikhail Entel, Konstantin Belyaev, Helen Beggs and Claire Spillman

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