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5.4 Asia and Oceania Applications
Lead author: Jiang Zhu (IAP/CAS)
Authors/co-authors: Jiang Zhu1, Toshiyuki Awaji2, Gary B. Brassington3, Norihisa Usuii4, Naoki Hirose5, Young Ho Kim6, Qinzheng Liu7, Jun She8, Miyazawa Yasumasa9, Tatsuro Watanabe10 and M.Ravichandran 11
1Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, jzhu@mail.iap.ac.cn
2Kyoto University, Japan,awaji@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
3Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Bureau of Meteorology, g.brassington@bom.gov.au
4Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan,nusui@mri-jma.go.jp
5Kyushu University, Japan, hirose@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp
6KORDI, Korea, yhkim@kordi.re.kr
7National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, China, qzliu@nmefc.gov.cn
8Denmark Meteorological Institute, Denmark, js@dmi.dk
9JAMSTEC, Japan, miyazawa@jamstec.go.jp
10 JSNFRI, Fisheries Res. Agency, Japan, tatsuro@fra.affrc.go.jp
11Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), India, ravi@incois.gov.in
Abstract
During the GODAE period, some coastal and regional systems for short-range ocean forecasts in the Asia-Oceania have been developed. This paper first provides an overview of these operational forecast systems and some pre-operational systems developed by Australia, China, Denmark, India, Japan and Korea in the terms of model domain, resolutions, models, data inputs and data assimilation schemes. These systems cover some key ocean areas in Asia-Oceania. Then services, products, users and feedbacks provided by these systems are shown briefly. Some operational ocean analyses and forecasts support both data products and online graphical public services. Some systems such as the Bluelink ocean forecasting system of Australia have proved skilful in forecasting, coastally trapped waves, coastal upwelling, offshore ocean state and currents of the Australia's boundary currents. As evidence of the utility of these regional systems, some highlighted examples as also given. For example, some Japanese systems successfully predicted the Korushio large meander in 2004; an operational system provided service for the 2008 Olympic sailing events; a Japan Sea/East Sea forecasting system has been used for successful reproduction and prediction of large numbers of giant jellyfishes in Japan/Sea Sea. All these systems are strongly connected with the GODAE products. The Argo and GHRSST datasets are essential inputs for initialization of these forecast systems. The Indian Ocean is relatively less covered by these regional systems. However, GOOS-CLIVAR's effort in establishing Indian Ocean Observing system will improve the situation and some of its progresses are highlighted. Some future plans are also briefly outlined.
Keywords: Ocean forecasting, Asia, Oceania, GODAE
(Last Updated: 13-10-2008)