Ocean Prediction Networking (OPNet)

Welcome to the Ocean Prediction Networking wiki.

The objevtive of these pages is to inform about the project and to make the presentations delivered at the various OPNet seminars available to participants and others.

Objectives

The overall objective is to strengthen and formalize collaboration among Norwegian institutes actively involved in research and development related to marine forecasting. The collaboration is through organization of a series of formal seminars in which all partners are required to attend and to give contributions. The latter involves discussion, and to some degree also development, of methods, tools and systems whereby forecasts of physical and biogeochemical variables can be evaluated, forecast skills measured, and avenues whereby improvements can be made recommended.

Specific objectives are:

To monitor and discuss existing forecast products and their performance to help improving the tools and the methods used to produce the ocean forecasts

To develop common validation tools that can be run to provide measures of the forecast skill

To develop our understanding of the strength and weaknesses of the different model modules used by the partners

To implement and operate a web-page for dissemination of forecasts, and forecast performance, e.g. skill measures

We emphasize that we do not propose research as such within this project. However, we strongly believe that by organizing the proposed seminars, weaknesses and problems in the predictions system will come to the forth, and methods or avenues that may be explored to solve them can be recommended. We envisage that this will result in research as a direct spin-off of the project as it progresses.

Kick off and 1st seminar April 17-18, 2007, Geilo

Program

Program and participants (in Norwegian)

Presentations

Welcoming address

Remaining presentations are unfortunately lost due to disk crash

2nd seminar November 6-7, 2007, Geilo

Program

Program and participants

Presentations

Harald Engedahl, met.no: Operational wave and ocean models at met.no - Status and future plans (in Norwegian)HE

Einar Svendsen, IMR et al.: Operational oceanography and the ecosystem approach ES_1

Laurent Bertino, NERSC, Knut Arild Lisæter and Goran Zangana, NERSC: The TOPAZ operational system at NERSC LB

Jon Albretsen, met.no, Jørn Kristiansen and Morten Køltzow, met.no: Atmosphere models at met.no JA

Cecilie Hansen, NERSC and Annette Samuelsen, NERSC: Hycom-Norwecom: Results and future plans CH

Arne Melsom, met.no: Validation of a 4km model ensemble AM

Pål Erik Isachsen, met.no: A 0.5×0.5 degree hydrographic montly climatology in the northern North Atlantic based on HdroBase2 (presentation not available)

Henning Wehde, NIVA, Dominique Durand, Pierre Jaccard and Kai Sørensen (NIVA): Update on Ferrybox - Improvement of process understanding through the use of high frequent Ferrybox observations HW

Arild Sundfjord, NIVA: Vertical mixing in the marginal ice zone in the Barents Sea (in Norwegian) AS

Bjørn Ådlandsvik, IMR: How important is the open boundary for the modeling of the North Sea (in Norwegian) BÅ

Johnny A. Johannessen, NERSC: Update and status of MyOcean including evaluation results (in Norwegian) (presentation not available)

Kjell Arne Mork, IMR and Einar Svendsen, IMR/BCCR: Argo Norway ES_2

3rd Seminar May 14-15, 2008

Program and attendees

Program

List of Participants

Special guest were:

Dr. Pierre Bahurel, Mercator Ocean, France. Pierre is Head of Mercator Ocean and Coordinator of MyOcean

MSc. Kjersti Bruserud, Statoil, Norway. Representative of the metocean group at Statoil.

Presentations

Lars Petter Røed, met.no: Welcoming address: Challenges ahead LPR

Pierre Bahurel, Mercator Ocean: Mercator Ocean and the MyOcean Project (presentation not available)

Kjersti Bruserud, Statoil: Metocean in StatoilHydro (presentation not available)

Pål Erik Isachsen, met.no: Implementation of the TOPAZ ocean prediction system at met.no (presentation not available)

Laurent Bertino, NERSC: Recent assessments and improvements of the TOPAZ ocean prediction system

Pavel Sakov, NERSC: Assimilation of ARGO profiles in the TOPAZ ocean prediction system

Ingunn Burud, met.no: Tests of the SEIK assimilation method

Ana Carrasco, met.no: Status operational models at met.no

Bruce Hackett, met.no: Oil drift emergency services: Some examples from MERSEA

Arild Sundfjord, NIVA: Discharges from rivers and land – what can NIVA provide for operational models AS

Henning Wedhe, NIVA: INTERRISK services: Results and discussion of a user query HW

Bjørn Ådlandsvik, IMR: Towards operational larvae drift predictions BÅ

Einar Svendsen, IMR: Monitoring using the IMR ARGO buoys, and ICES focus on opearational oceanography ES ===== 4th Seminar November 6-7, 2008, Geilo ===== ==== Program ==== ==== Presentations ==== ===== 5th Seminar May 27-28, 2009, Geilo ===== ==== Program ==== ==== Presentations ==== * Kai H. Christensen, met.no, Gøran Brostrøm (met.no) and Jan Erik Weber (UiO): Improved description of air-sea momentum fluxes and upper ocean currents. Download here. Additional animations in zip-file here. * Jon Albretsen (met.no) and Lars Petter Røed (met.no): Validation of decadal simulations of mesoscale structures in the North Sea and Skagerrak. Download here. ===== 6th Seminar May 27-28, 2010, Geilo ===== ==== Program ==== ==== Presentations ==== ===== 7th Seminar December 4-5, 2010, Oslo ===== ==== Program ==== ==== Presentations ==== ===== OPNet Final Seminar May 11-12, 2011 ===== === Invitation === Circulated invitation === Program === Program (actual) === Presentations === == Day 1 == * Lars Petter Røed, met.no: Welcome Day 1 * Øystein Hov, Research Director, met.no: Welcoming address * Pierre Bahurel, Mercator Ocean, France: Mercator Ocean, experience & perspectives in ocean prediction PB * Nadia Pinardi, INGV & University of Bologna, Italy: The Mediterranean Ocean Forecasting System – the last 10 years of development NP * Mike Bell, UK Met Office, UK: The current accuracy of FOAM forecasts and future priorities MJB * Scott Glenn, Rutgers University, USA: The Mid Atlantic Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System – From observations to forecasting SG == Day 2 == * Lars Petter Røed, met.no: Welcome Day 2 * Colin Grant, BP, UK: Ocean predictions and the oil and gas industry – room for improvement CG * Lars Anders Breivik, met.no: Why we need fine scale ocean predictions LAB * Johnny Johannessen, NERSC, B. Chapron, F. Collard, and V. Kudryavtsev: Framework for consistent interpretations of multi-sensor satellite data – future possibilities and needs JAJ * Morten D. Skogen, IMR: Does operational oceanography really address the needs of fisheries and applied environmental scientists? MDS * Kenneth Johannessen Eik, Statoil: Metocean at Statoil KJE * Karen-Helen Doublet, met.no: Ocean Forecasting Practice KHB * Hilde Dolva, NCA, Horten: Oilsspill incidents and the need for improved coastal predictions * Øyvind Sætra and Kai H. Christensen, met.no: MyWave – towards a new pan-European GMES wave forecast service * Jan-Kristian Jensen, NDE**: Military applications of ocean models JKJ