Second Pacific Islands Training Workshop on Ocean Observations and Data Applications

24 - 27 May 2016,

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Nouméa 101 Promenade Roger Laroque Anse BP A5
98848 Noumea Cedex
New Caledonia



Agenda



0 Opening
1 Assessment of Pacific Island Ocean Observing Capacity, National Reports to include Ocean Observing Requirements & Applications
1.1 New Caledonia’s Ocean Observing System
1.10 Status of the Tropical Pacific Observing System for 2020 TPOS-2020 (TPOS-2020)
1.2 Ocean Observations and Future Requirements for Tonga
1.3 Tuvalu National Report
1.4 Solomon Islands’ Ocean Observing System, Future Requirements for Applications
1.5 Micronesia’s Ocean Observing System 2, Future Requirements for Applications
1.6 Emerging Ocean Observation Networks in the Fiji Islands
1.7 Thailand’s Ocean Observing System, Future Requirements for Applications
1.8 Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) a Decade On
1.9 PacIOOS: Ocean Observing in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands
2 Stakeholders, Societal Applications of Ocean Observations and Models
2.1 Introduction to Waves and Coastal Hazards, Modelling and Forecasting
2.10 A Plan for Coastal Hazards Monitoring in Indonesia’s Small Island: The Ambon Bay Case
2.11 Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) contribution to the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) Pre-Operational Phase (2016-2019)
2.2 Status of Pacific Islands Ocean Observing Networks, TAO-TRITON, XBT, Argo, Gliders, Drifters
2.3 Pacific Island Tide Gauges and the Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS)
2.4 Pacific Sea Level Monitoring and Available Data Products
2.5 Supporting decision-making and Community Resilience with Ocean Information
2.6 Monitoring the Ecological Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs
2.7 Responding to the 2016 Coral Bleaching along the Great Barrier Reef: Observations to Modelling
2.8 Use of Multirotor and Fixed Wing UAV to Assess Impacts of TC Pam in Vanuatu
2.9 Assessment of Inundation Extent and Wave Run Up in Ovalau, Fiji following TC Winston
3 How to Access Available Regional Ocean Observations Data, Ocean Models for Predicting Weather, Ocean State and Climatology
3.1 Introduction of Regional Marine Instrument Center for Asia-Pacific and the Contribution to PI
3.2 Best Practice for Ocean Data management and Service at NMDIS/China
3.3 Brief Introduction of Chinese Observing Systems and the Development of Marine Standards and Metrology System
3.4 JCOMM in-situ Observing Platform Support Centre (JCOMMOPS) - Access to Data
3.5 Accessing real-time and Climate Data from Web Browsers and Desktop Applications
3.6 COSPPac Ocean Portal and Applications in the Pacific
3.7 Availability of Pacific Drifter Data in Support of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and other Applications
4 Conceptualization of a Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System to Enhance Model Predictive Capability for Stakeholders
4.1 Surface Drifter Technology and Examples of Lagrangian Experiments Planning
4.2 Ocean Climate Interactions: What News Before COP22?
4.3 COSPPac Ocean & Tides Capacity
4.4 Discussion: How Best to Serve PI Stakeholders by Strengthening Existing Ocean Observing Systems to Continue Operations and to Help Fill Identified Gaps
4.5 Round-Table to Document
4.6 Workshop Assessment, Action Items and General Discussions
4.7 Workshop Wrap-Up
4.8 Workshop Concluding Remarks
4.9 DBCP’s Second Pacific Islands Training Workshop On Ocean Observations and Data Applications (PI-2) Adjourns