FIRST MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
"The revolution in global ocean forecasting -
GODAE: 10 years of achievement"
Final Symposium on the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
12-15 November 2008
Nice, Palais des Congrès, France
GODAE is an initiative which aims to make ocean monitoring, analysis, and
prediction a routine activity akin to NWP analysis and weather forecasting. Its vision
is of a global system of observations, communications, modelling and assimilation
that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans that
will have wide utility for the public good. GODAE started in 1997 and will be brought
to a close in 2008.
The Final GODAE Symposium will provide an opportunity to review the key
achievements of the last 10 years, to celebrate the outstanding successes, to
critically examine the outcomes, and to discuss the future of operational ocean
analysis and forecasting and proposals for its international coordination.
Presentations will demonstrate the feasibility of global ocean analyses and forecasts,
illustrate the impact of observations and describe the scientific assessments of
analysis and forecast quality. Other presentations will review achievements in the
development of the observing system, forecasting systems and the product servers
and the development of useful applications and services.
Expected Participation - The symposium is being designed to appeal to a wide
audience. Those developing or supporting the observing systems, ocean analysis
and prediction systems, forecasters, service providers, the user community, decision
and policy makers, researchers and programme managers from both the public and
private sectors are all warmly encouraged to attend.
Structure of Symposium - The symposium will consist of multi-author plenary
review papers and poster sessions over a 3-day period. It will follow a 2.5 day Ocean
Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) conference (November 10-12). The
symposium is organized by CNES with support from the GODAE Project Office.
Organizing Committee: S. Coutin-Faye, Y. Menard (co-chairs), E. Thouvenot, A.M.
Laborde, N. Bellefond, K. Wilmer-Becker, M. Bell, P.Y. Le Traon.
Scientific Committee: M. Bell, P.Y. Le Traon (co-chairs), P. Bahurel, C. Donlon, F.
Davidson, Y. Menard, P. De Mey, L.L. Fu, H. Hurlburt, M. Kamachi, T. Lee, N.
Pinardi, R. Rayner, D. Roemmich, N. Smith, J. Verron, S. Wilson.
For more information see http://www.godae.org