FOO PRIORITIES
To ensure ongoing and effective communication, the Forum agreed to six candidate priority areas.
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 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.
Data Stewardship
Focus includes: data quality, calibration details, data access, and research/government/industry cooperation driven by value.
Consensus Forecasting
Focus includes: Keeping pace with model development, verification, metrics, and international collaboration.
Surface Currents
Focus includes: optimising Bluelink for surface currents; standardising thickness; self-locating datum marker buoy (SLDMB) data; and use of high frequency radar
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
Two of the priorities above have formed into FOO Working Groups. Please visit the pages below for the ongoing work of these groups.