Ocean Weather Forecasting

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Perspectives from the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment

      • Neville Smith

      Pages 1-17

3. Modeling

   1. Some Ocean Model Fundamentals

      • Stephen M. Griffies

      Pages 19-73

   2. Models of the Ocean: Which Ocean?

      • Anne Marie Treguier

      Pages 75-108

   3. On the Use of Hybrid Vertical Coordinates in Ocean Circulation Modeling

      • Rainer Bleck

      Pages 109-126

   4. Nesting Ocean Models

      • Eric Blayo, Laurent Debreu

      Pages 127-146

4. Oceanographic observations and atmospheric forcing

   1. Satellite Measurements for Operational Ocean Models

      • Ian Robinson

      Pages 147-189

   2. In-Situ Observations: Platforms and Techniques

      • Uwe Send

      Pages 191-206

   3. In-Situ Observations: Operational Systems and Data Management

      • Sylvie Pouliquen

      Pages 207-227

   4. Surface Fluxes for Practitioners of Global Ocean Data Assimilation

      • William B. Large

      Pages 229-270

5. Data assimilation

   1. Ocean Data Assimilation Using Sequential Methods Based on the Kalman Filter

      • Pierre Brasseur

      Pages 271-316

   2. What Is Data Assimilation Really Solving, and How Is the Calculation Actually Done?

      • Ichiro Fukumori

      Pages 317-342

   3. Importance of Data: A Meteorological Perspective

      • Florence Rabier

      Pages 343-360

   4. The ECMWF Perspective

      • David Anderson, Magdalena Balmaseda, Arthur Vidard

      Pages 361-379

6. Systems

   1. Mercator Ocean Global to Regional Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting

      • Pierre Bahurel, MERCATOR Project Team

      Pages 381-395

   2. The Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (Foam) System

      • Michael J. Bell, Rosa Barciela, Adrian Hines, Matt Martin, Alistair Sellar, David Storkey

      Pages 397-411

   3. Ocean Prediction with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

      • Eric P. Chassignet, Harley E. Hurlburt, Ole Martin Smedstad, George R. Halliwell, Patrick J. Hogan, Alan J. Wallcraft et al.

      Pages 413-426

   4. Bluelink: Large-To-Coastal Scale Operational Oceanography in the Southern Hemisphere

      • Andreas Schiller, Neville Smith

      Pages 427-439

   5. Operational Oceanography: A European Perspective

      • Jean-François Minster

      Pages 441-447

   6. Mersea: Development of a European Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting System

      • Yves Desaubies

      Pages 449-453

Progress in a wide range of ocean research and applications depends upon the prompt and dependable availability of ocean information products. The field of physical oceanography has matured to a point where it is now conceivable to combine numerical models and observations via data assimilation in order to provide ocean prediction products on various spatial and time scales. As a result, many nations have begun large-scale efforts to provide routine products to the oceanographic community. The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) provides a framework for these efforts, i. e. , a global system of observations, communications, modeling, and assimilation that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans, in a way that will promote and engender wide utility and availability of this resource for maximum benefit to the community. The societal benefit will be an increased knowledge of the marine environment and ocean climate, predictive skills for societal, industrial, and commercial benefit and tactical and strategic advantage, as well as the provision of a comprehensive and integrated approach to the oceans. We therefore considered it timely, given the international context, to bring together leading scientists to summarize our present knowledge in ocean modeling, ocean observing systems, and data assimilation to present an integrated view of oceanography and to introduce young scientists to the current state of the field and to a wide range of applications.

• Coast
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Scale
• Weather
• Weather forecasting
• marine
• meteorology
• climate change
• ecotoxicology

• University of Miami, USA

  Eric P. Chassignet

• LEGI, CNRS, Grenoble, France

  Jacques Verron

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