Date: 9-12 September 2024
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

PRE-REGISTER HERE

*Please note due to limited space you only participants receiving confirmation of attendance will be able to attend in-person. Confirmations will be sent out by July 19th.

Student & ECOP Travel Support Request here

WHAT?

The purpose of this workshop is to understand priority gap areas, develop observational requirements and a draft design of an ocean observing system to better understand key features in the Agulhas Current region that influence critical areas e.g., Tropical Cyclones, Marine Life and Marine Heatwaves. 

WHY?

Boundary currents directly influence the understanding of regional weather systems, significantly impact marine heatwave and tropical cyclones and impacts the local fisheries and aquaculture. The purpose of this workshop is to develop priority gap areas, observational requirements and a resulting design of an ocean observing system to better understand key features in the Agulhas Current region. This workshop will also determine potential overlaps and opportunity for other key features to be considered in the design including Tropical Cyclones, Fisheries and Marine Heatwaves.

WHO?

We highly encourage experts from the intermediary* stakeholder community to participate in this workshop including ocean and atmospheric observationalists, modelers and operational forecasters.

*INTERMEDIARY USERS - are intermediaries to the End Users, entities that integrate the ocean observing data into forecasts, assessments, or other products and services for delivery of information products and services to the end users.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Contacts: Tammy Morris (t.morris@saeon.nrf.ac.za), Ann-Christine Zinkann (ann-christine.zinkann@noaa.gov)