ࡱ> []Z#` [6bjbjmm 4X-BBBBBBBV8Lf4V#^N"p |=#?#?#?#?#?#?#$%h4(xc#BNNc#BB4x#&444BB=#$=#44 BB! 2?|Dd! #4#<#!(&(4!!&(B!$(6<rxc#c#X#VVdd VV VVVBBBBBB INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (of UNESCO)WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONUNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMMEINTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE Fourth Session of the Global Ocean Observing System Regional Alliances Forum (GRF-IV) 25-27 November 2008 - Guayaquil, Ecuador WAGOOS strategic plan and recent Australian ocean observing and application developments by Dr Nick DAdamo, Officer in Charge, UNESCO IOC Perth Regional Programme Office, Dr Ray Steedman, Chair, Western Australian Global Ocean Observing System Dr Gary Meyers, Director, Australian Integrated Marine Observing System Dr Peter Dexter, Co-President JCOMM; Ocean Services Section, Climate and Ocean Services Branch, Bureau of Meteorology This talk presents recent developments in respect to the UNESCO IOC Perth Regional Programme Office, the key elements of WAGOOSs strategic priorities, and an overview of Australias Integrated Marine Observing System and related ocean forecasting developments. The UNESCO IOC Perth Regional Programme Office, established in 1999, was formally renewed in 2008 through a five year agreement which will maintain the Office as an IOC regional focal point under sponsorship from the Western Australian State Government, UNESCO IOC and Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). The UNESCO IOC Perth Office is hosted by BoM in its West Perth offices, Western Australia, and co-located with the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Coordinating Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System, which it helped establish in Perth during 2005/06. Nick DAdamo coordinated a formal review of the Office in November 2007, involving progress reporting and a proposed way forward beyond the previous MoU, which expired in July 2008. The Review Panel was chaired by Professor John Zillman (Chair, GCOS) and comprised sponsors representatives Dr Patricio Bernal (UNESCO IOC), Professor Lyn Beazley (Western Australia) and Dr Neville Smith (BoM). The Panel endorsed the Offices performance and recommended its continuance for a further five years. The UNESCO IOC Perth Office services its partners objectives across the broad range of ecological and socio-economic imperatives that map onto IOC key priority areas specified by the 24th IOC Assembly. The Office works mainly through the four regional alliances it helped establish and supports: Western Australia GOOS (with which the Office also provides regional/global linkages between the IOC and many Western Australian and national Australian ocean observing and marine science initiatives); Indian Ocean GOOS, South East Asia GOOS and Pacific Islands GOOS. The Office provides regional linkages and facilitation of international programmes, such as the Census of Marine Life, and also works to establish sponsorship for the alliances and associated programmes within its purview. An update on WAGOOS is presented herein. IOGOOS, SEAGOOS and PIGOOS are the subject of other presentations of the GRA4 Forum. WAGOOS has over 40 members, including Western Australian government agencies, universities and major offshore oil and gas and other maritime companies, and key national government agencies. The Chair of WAGOOS is Dr Ray Steedman and the University of Western Australia, through Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, provides the Secretariat. WAGOOS provides a coordinating mechanism that brings together an oceanographic community as relevant to advancing GOOS within and surrounding Western Australia, and also provides national linkages. WAGOOS has coordinated a Pacific Indonesian Throughflow (PIT) project which brought together locally based marine industry and agencies in two workshops to form a collaborative effort which advanced, through improved measurements, analyses and basic research, the oceanographic understanding of the Timor Sea region with strong relevance to Indonesian through flow, measurement and modelling of internal waves, measurement and modelling of tropical cyclone effects, engineering design of subsea infrastructure, environmental protection and management. WAGOOS places a high priority on holding more PIT workshops and promoting further studies through coordinating the interests and resources of the WAGOOS community for oceanographic research of the Arafura/Timor seas. WAGOOS recently coordinated, in conjunction with the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), an analysis of the economic return to the Australian community of investment in ocean observations, based on just four benefiting sectors (oil/gas, iron ore, agriculture and fishing). The WAGOOS/ATSE (2006) report (available through the www.ioc-goos.org website) indicates that a return of better than 1:20 results for these four sectors assessed. A WAGOOS priority is to further that analysis through the incorporation of a broader spectrum of benefiting sectors and a widening of the geographic study domain through potential collaboration with neighbouring GRAs. WAGOOS maintains strong links with Australias newly initiated Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and the Western Australian based Indian Ocean Climate Initiative (comprising the Western Australian State Government, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and Australian Bureau of Meteorology). WAGOOS is a formal partner in the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI:  HYPERLINK "http://www.wamsi.org.au" www.wamsi.org.au) and members are actively involved in Node 6 of WAMSI which has important ocean observing components in conjunction with the Western Australian component of IMOS. WAGOOS also plays an important role in facilitating, coordinating or supporting ocean science meetings and conferences in Western Australia, such as the Indian Ocean Marine Environment Conference 2005, the recent (2007) Western Australian Bluelink Users Forum (Bluelink is Australias ocean forecasting system:  HYPERLINK "http://www.bom.gov.au/bluelink" www.bom.gov.au/bluelink) and the forthcoming GOOS Scientific Steering Committee XII meeting and associated workshop in Perth (23-27 February 2009). Through its recently initiated Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), Australia significantly enhances its contribution to the IOCs global and coastal GOOS pursuits. IMOS is a nationwide collaborative program designed to observe the oceans around Australia and can be considered a major step forward in providing the observing system needed to resolve key oceanographic phenomena that bring oceanic waters to and from the Indian Ocean, South East Asian, Pacific and Southern Ocean margins around Australia. IMOSs observing framework has also been designed to capture the dynamics of the inter-connecting chain of coastal boundary currents that embrace Australia. IMOS will provide data to support research on many of the critical marine issues facing Australia, including climate change and sustainability of ecosystems. The IMOS program is an initiative of the Australian Government being conducted as part of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, through which $AUD55 million was released to support an initial 5-year program of acquisition, deployment and maintenance of ocean observing infrastructure, and associated data management. The philosophy of the IMOS funding strategy is that the cash injection would enable the creation of sustained oceanographic data sets that could then be taken up by the marine science community under the GOOS principles of free, open and timely sharing of information. IMOSs oceanographic observing infrastructure is centralised and curated within nine national facilities, located at respective focal points around the country. Each facility is responsible for acquiring, maintaining and delivering specific types of observing infrastructure to selected localities in Australias marine environs. Each of the facilities therefore provides instrumentation around Australia according to regularly updated national IMOS Business Plans. Four geographically focussed nodes of observations have also been established around Australia, within which IMOSs infrastructure is deployed in its most geographically intensive fashion. Two complementary data management facilities manage and provide access to the data and enhanced data products, one for data collected in-situ and a second for remotely sensed satellite data. The observing facilities include three for open ocean (Argo Australia; Enhanced Ships of Opportunity; and the Southern Ocean Time Series station), three facilities for coastal currents and water properties (Moorings; Ocean Gliders; and HF Radar) and three for coastal ecosystems (Acoustic Tagging and Tracking (linking with the global Ocean Tracking Network); Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; and a biophysical sensor network on the Great Barrier Reef). The value from this infrastructure investment lies in the coordinated deployment of a wide range of equipment aimed at deriving critical data sets that serve multiple applications, including supporting operational modelling development and applications. IMOS is driven by the needs of the marine community to deliver information and access to key data streams in support of marine research, industry and management activities. IMOS has brought together the broad Australian marine science community in a collaborative mode, where the Federal Governments cash injection has been matched at least on a 1:1 basis by a broad spectrum of IMOS partners spanning public institutions, industry and academic sectors. The UNESCO IOC Perth Office is also actively engaged in IMOS at both tactical and strategic levels. Further information is available through  HYPERLINK "http://www.imos.org.au" www.imos.org.au or through the IMOS office (imos@imos.org.au). BLUElink is the Australian Governments newest investment in ocean forecasting research. In 2002, three of Australias leading organisations involved in oceanography (CSIRO, Bureau of Meteorology, and the Royal Australian Navy) formed a unique partnership to initiate Project BLUElink. The first phase of the project was completed in mid-2007 and has delivered an ocean forecasting system that provides seven-day forecasts of the oceans around Australia. This system will be validated and enhanced in the next phase of the project, BLUElinkII, which will end in 2010, with BLUElinks geographical coverage extending well into the Indian Ocean, South East Asian and SW pacific regions. The major forecasting component of BLUElink is a global ocean modelling and assimilation system, OceanMAPS. In the Asian-Australian region it has a resolution of 0.1o (~10 km), which allows the model to resolve ocean eddies and other key dynamic features. The initial suite of BLUElink graphical products that are freely and easily available to the general public includes seven-day forecasts of sea level anomaly, temperature, salinity and currents, accessible through the internet link:  HYPERLINK "http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/forecasts" www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/forecasts. The underlying dynamical outputs of the models behind BLUElink comprise information in 3D to significant depths. BLUElinks publically available products have the potential to be developed and applied for Indian Ocean, South East Asian and Pacific Island countries in areas such as fisheries support, coastal area management, coastal protection, environmental management and maritime safety. Consideration is being given to the implementation of pilot projects in these GRA regions to demonstrate this potential. Further information on BLUElink can be found at  HYPERLINK "http://www.bom.gov.au/bluelink" www.bom.gov.au/bluelink.     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