Report of the 1st Indian Ocean Panel & 6th Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel Joint Meeting
18-20 February 2004, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
Contents
Action List
Background
1. Opening Remarks
2. Joint Sessions
2.1. IOC/GOOS and CLIVAR Activities
2.2. Joint Issues
2.3. Monsoon Monitoring and Process Studies
2.4. Science Talks
3. IOP Sessions
3.1. Terms of Reference, Short and Long Term Goals
3.2. Elements of the observing system and forward plans
3.3. Data Management
3.4. Outline Implementation Plan/Writing Assignments
4. AAMP Sessions
4.1. Simulating and Predicting the AA monsoon: Daily, intraseasonal, interannual and decadal timescales
4.2. Applications and impacts of monsoon predictability, variability and change
4.3. Coordinating with GEWEX and other monsoon studies
4.4. Discussion on other panel issues and agreement on future actions
Appendix 1: Attendee List
Appendix 2: Agenda
Appendix 3. IO Modeling and the CLIVAR modeling panels
Appendix 4. Discussion paper on Tide Gauge Data and Storm Surge Prediction
Appendix 5. Acronyms
Action List
Action from AAMP5: Webster/Schiller write a letter to the Argo Science Team with a copy to the GODAE Steering Team to summarizing the Panel's ongoing effort to develop recommendations of how to deploy the floats in order to efficiently monitor intra-seasonal oscillation in the tropical oceans.
Action 1: AAMP and IOP (McCreary, Slingo, Hendon, Schiller) will organize an Indian Ocean Modeling Workshop preliminarily planned for November/December 2004. They will work with relevant experts to decide dates, venue, funds and foci of the workshop.
Action 2: The IOP (McPhaden assisted by members) will design a tropical mooring array including measurements of Indonesian Through-flow and western boundary currents and including surface flux sites for calibration of basin scale products.
Action 3: The IOP/AAMP (Meyers/Schiller) will promote and help plan further OSSE's to set sampling guidelines for an integrated observing system that will include Argo floats, the tropical mooring array and other measurement platforms. Initial results will be reported at the Indian Ocean Modelling Workshop mentioned above.
Action 4: The IOP (Chair) will write OOPC recommending the review of global XBT sampling, and participate in the review if required.
Action 5: The IOP chair will contact IBPIO to discuss how the IOP can help find resources to complete the drifter array.
Action 6: The AAMP will communicate to Vasco/Cirene to promote the case for a detailed field experiment on the suppressed MJO phase. (At the time of publishing this meeting report, communication to the Vasco/Sirene group had been initiated through the ICPO. Jean Philippe Duvel, one of the leading scientists of the project, confirmed that the group planned to carry out 30-day cruises, which will therefore hopefully cover both active and suppressed phases of MJO.)
Action 7: AAMP (Kumar Kolli) will be represented in SASCOM and to contribute to long term planning of MAIRS. There is a need to develop formal programme linkages between AAMP and MAIRS, to be initiated by a formal letter from the panel co-hairs to the coordinator MAIRS and the START Deputy Director.
Action 8: Kolli and Yan will investigate the possibility of a joint meeting between MAIRS and AAMP, by contacting the coordinator MAIRS and the START Deputy Director.
Action 9: Register strong concern about lack of dialogue with GEWEX CIMS project. Ask JSC to provide guidance (co-chairs, ICPO)
IOP Implementation Plan writing assignments: Details are in Section 3.4
Background
A. The Asian-Australian Monsoon Panel (AAMP) is a part of the CLIVAR organization. It plays a primary role in the development of CLIVAR's research programme for monsoons in the Asian-Australian sector extending from the western Pacific Ocean to Africa. The programme includes investigations of the annual monsoon cycle, and intraseasonal through interannual to longer-term variability of the entire monsoon system. Its terms of reference are to: