OCEAN, WEATHER, AND CLIMATE FORECASTING
Summary and Expectations
The main goal of this breakout session is to identify post-conference activities and programs that should be carried out over the coming decade to increase synergy between ocean observation initiatives and ocean, weather, and climate forecasting. These activities will guide the actions of OceanPredict, GOOS, WMO, and related communities, focusing on maximizing value from the observing network, improving services to users and gaining scientific and technical efficiencies by bringing together related science communities. The basis for the discussion will consist of the Community White Papers relevant to Ocean, Weather, and Climate Forecasting, including reanalysis, S2S predictions, and OSE/OSSEs.
Expected Outcomes/Recommendations:
Develop in partnership with t,he observational community a framework to perform observational impacts studies.
Enable a regular ocean observation impact forum for all applications, including user/sector needs.
Align strategies of groups along ocean obs value chain:eg GOOS, OceanPredict, and BluePlanet.
Related CWPs
Integrated Ocean and Coastal Networks for Improved Tsunami, Earthquake and Other Hazards for Warning, Forecast, Research and Planning
Multidisciplinary Global In-Situ Observations of Essential Climate and Ocean Variables at the Air-Sea Interface in Support of Climate Variability and Change Studies and to Improve Weather Forecasting, Pollution, Hazard and Maritime Safety Assessments
Activities
TBD