Chapter 17
BLUELINK: LARGE-TO-COASTAL SCALE
OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
Andreas Schiller
1 and Neville Smith
2
1 CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;
2 Bureau of Meteorology Research
Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abstract:
In 2003, the Australian Government, through the Bureau of Meteorology
(BoM), Royal Australian Navy and CSIRO, initiated BLUElink - Ocean
Forecasting Australia, a project to deliver operational short-range ocean
forecasts for the Asian-Australian region by 2006. Global advances in
technologies necessary to observe and simulate the oceans have provided
scientists at CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology with the tools to deliver
near real-time information on ocean behaviour. Central to BLUElink is the
development of a global and nested ocean prediction system. The BLUElink
toforecasts will be updated to include the latest changes in the ocean state and
weather systems, particularly extreme conditions such as from tropical
cyclones. The aim of the project is to generate ocean charts for marine users
similar to weather forecast charts available to the rest of the community. The
BLUElink system will provide information on coastal and open-ocean
currents, surface and subsurface ocean properties, products that impact and are
CSIRO is currently developing a high-resolution, coupled atmosphere-ocean
model predicting out to 3 days which has been specifically designed for
coastal and shelf applications. Standard products of the coastal forecasting
system will be surface winds and sea-surface height, and 3-dimensional fields
of ocean temperature, salinity and currents.
Keywords: Operational ocean forecasting, South-East Asian-Australian region,
Indonesian througflow, nested modeling, ocean reanalysis.
initiative centres on ocean prediction and analysis, and forecasting of dayday variations in ocean currents and temperatures around Australia. Ocean
linked to maritime and commercial operations, defence applications, safetyat-sea, marine environmental sustainability, and regional and global climate.
427
E. P. Chassignet and J. Verron (eds.), Ocean Weather Forecasting, 427-439.
© 2006 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands.
BLUELINK: LARGE-TO-COASTAL SCALE
OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
Andreas Schiller
1 and Neville Smith
2
1 CSIRO Marine Research, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;
2 Bureau of Meteorology Research
Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Abstract:
In 2003, the Australian Government, through the Bureau of Meteorology
(BoM), Royal Australian Navy and CSIRO, initiated BLUElink - Ocean
Forecasting Australia, a project to deliver operational short-range ocean
forecasts for the Asian-Australian region by 2006. Global advances in
technologies necessary to observe and simulate the oceans have provided
scientists at CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology with the tools to deliver
near real-time information on ocean behaviour. Central to BLUElink is the
development of a global and nested ocean prediction system. The BLUElink
toforecasts will be updated to include the latest changes in the ocean state and
weather systems, particularly extreme conditions such as from tropical
cyclones. The aim of the project is to generate ocean charts for marine users
similar to weather forecast charts available to the rest of the community. The
BLUElink system will provide information on coastal and open-ocean
currents, surface and subsurface ocean properties, products that impact and are
CSIRO is currently developing a high-resolution, coupled atmosphere-ocean
model predicting out to 3 days which has been specifically designed for
coastal and shelf applications. Standard products of the coastal forecasting
system will be surface winds and sea-surface height, and 3-dimensional fields
of ocean temperature, salinity and currents.
Keywords: Operational ocean forecasting, South-East Asian-Australian region,
Indonesian througflow, nested modeling, ocean reanalysis.
initiative centres on ocean prediction and analysis, and forecasting of dayday variations in ocean currents and temperatures around Australia. Ocean
linked to maritime and commercial operations, defence applications, safetyat-sea, marine environmental sustainability, and regional and global climate.
427
E. P. Chassignet and J. Verron (eds.), Ocean Weather Forecasting, 427-439.
© 2006 Springer. Printed in the Netherlands.