FOO PRIORITIES
& WORKING GROUPS

FOO PRIORITIES

To ensure ongoing and effective communication, the Forum agreed to six candidate priority areas.

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Surface waves

Focus includes: Source of error in swell set up; combining spectral and phase resolving models; ocean (vs lake) observations to inform source term development; and shallow water bathymetry for nearshore waves.
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Data Products

Focus includes: Industry using global analyses and products rather than raw data; and the opportunity to produce shelf reanalysis products for Australia using additional data now available.
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Data Stewardship

Focus includes: data quality, calibration details, data access, and research/government/industry cooperation driven by value.
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Consensus Forecasting

Focus includes: Keeping pace with model development, verification, metrics, and international collaboration.
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Surface Currents

Focus includes: optimising Bluelink for surface currents; standardising thickness; self-locating datum marker buoy (SLDMB) data; and use of high frequency radar
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Thermal Structure

Focus includes: Getting the physics right remains a key gap in economically important areas (e.g. North West Shelf); and prediction of internal wave extremes; significance for engineering design.

FOO WORKING GROUPS

The Forum has identified priority areas of research, development, and collaboration, to support these products and services in Australia.  Three Working Groups have been established to support the Forum's work in the areas of surface waves, surface currents, and data sharing.

SURFACE WAVES

Active

SURFACE CURRENTS

No longer meeting

DATA SHARING

No longer meeting

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