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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

"The revolution in global ocean forecasting
GODAE: 10 years of achievement"

Final Symposium on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment


12-15 November 2008
Nice, Palais des Congrès, France


GODAE is an initiative which aims to make ocean monitoring, analysis, and prediction a routine activity akin to NWP analysis and weather forecasting. Its vision is of a global system of observations, communications, modelling and assimilation that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans that will have wide utility for the public good. GODAE started in 1997 and will be brought to a close in 2008.

The Final GODAE Symposium will provide an opportunity to review the key achievements of the last 10 years, to celebrate the outstanding successes, to critically examine the outcomes, and to discuss the future of operational ocean analysis and forecasting and proposals for its international coordination. Presentations will demonstrate the feasibility of global ocean analyses and forecasts, illustrate the impact of observations and describe the scientific assessments of analysis and forecast quality. Other presentations will review achievements in the development of the observing system, forecasting systems and the product servers and the development of useful applications and services.

Expected Participation:
The symposium is being designed to appeal to a wide audience. Those developing or supporting the observing systems, ocean analysis and prediction systems, forecasters, service providers, the user community, decision and policy makers, researchers and programme managers from both the public and private sectors are all warmly encouraged to attend.

Structure of Symposium:
The symposium will consist of multi-author plenary review papers and poster sessions over a 3-day period. It will follow a 2.5 day Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) conference (November 10-12). The symposium is organised by CNES with support from the GODAE Project Office.

 

(Last Updated: 06-05-2008)