Ocean Observation, Assessment and Prediction (OOAP): Research Areas
- Contribute to the "Bluewater" and regional components of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System;
- Complementary deep-sea and satellite observations for climate change studies in the Australian and Antarctic regions, and the deployment of satellite observations for the marine analysis and initialisation of marine forecasting and analysis;
- Datasets and analyses for the oceans surrounding Australia;
- Knowledge and understanding of key processes that are integral to air-sea interaction and climate modeling such as the subduction rates of key water masses, the strength of ocean mixing processes and the ocean's role in ENSO;
- Ocean measurement, modeling, forecasting, reanalysis and knowledge for coastal prediction systems and related ecosystem research;
- Accurate thermodynamic descriptions of all the thermophysical properties of seawater and suitable algorithms for the incorporation of these descriptions into numerical ocean models.
- The development and implementation of ocean prediction systems that include the assimilation of ocean observations for mesoscale ocean prediction and reanalysis;
- The development and implementation of coupled ocean-atmosphere regional prediction systems;
- Research relating to tsunamis, including the development of tools for tsunami forecast and warning;
- Research and development associated with marine meteorological analysis and forecast systems, particularly in regard to surface waves and fluxes