NOPP Project for GODAE
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), a collaboration of fifteen federal agencies, has funded the first of two projects provided as a US contribution to the international Global Ocean Data Experiment (GODAE). The project, 'Global Ocean Prediction with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model', will be led by Dr Eric P. Chassignet of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. Chassignet's project is the first of two awards planned to demonstrate the utility of near-time ocean data for such areas as marine transportation and safety, fisheries management, navy applications, management of offshore and coastal areas, and climate and seasonal forecasting. An announcement of a second award is anticipated early in the next fiscal year, beginning October 1st. GODAE envisions a global observing system feeding near-real-time data into an associated modelling and assimilation capability that will deliver regular, comprehensive information on the state of the oceans, making ocean monitoring and prediction a routine activity similar to that which currently exists for operational weather forecasting.
