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.

Program and participants (in Norwegian)

Welcoming address

Remaining presentations are unfortunately lost due to disk crash

Program and participants

• 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

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.

• 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.

Circulated invitation

Program (actual)