Priorities & Working Groups
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.
Data Stewardship
Focus includes: data quality, calibration details, data access, and research/government/industry cooperation driven by value.
Surface Currents
Focus includes: optimising Bluelink for surface currents; standardising thickness; self-locating datum marker buoy (SLDMB) data; and use of high frequency radar.
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.
Consensus Forecasting
Focus includes: Keeping pace with model development, verification, metrics, and international collaboration.
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
