International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
European Way
Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Phone: +44-2380 596777
Fax: +44-2380 596204
Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk
CLIVAR/GOOS Indian Ocean Panel
Participants of the CLIVAR/GOOS Indian Ocean Panel meeting, 3-5 June 2009, La Reunion FRANCE
Sponsors
The Indian Ocean Panel is co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization through the IOC's Perth Regional Progamme Office, Western Australia, and by the World Climate Research Project - Climate Variability and Predictability Programme.
News and Highlights
Two community white papers by Indian Ocean panel members were presented at OceanObs'09:
McPhaden, M.J., et al., 2009: The Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array.
Masumoto. Y., et al., 2009: Observing Systems in the Indian Ocean.
The Bulletin of the American Meteorology Society (issue 90) has published the article "The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction" ( McPhaden et al., 2009).
The 7th Session of the CLIVAR/GOOS IOP will be held in Perth, Australia during the week of July 12th, 2010. The meeting will be held in conjunction with meetings of the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS) panel, the Indian Resources Forum (IRF) and the Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) project.
The 6th Session of the CLIVAR/GOOS IOP was held in La Reunion FRANCE on 3-5 June 2009. Presentations from the meeting can be found here.
EOS transactions (issue 90(7)) has published the article "Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions During Cyclone Nargis" ( McPhaden et al., 2009) based on data collected with IndOOS
The journal Review of Geophysics has just published a paper on Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability, by Fritz Schott, Shang-Ping Xie and Jay McCreary. This is also available for downloading by following the link
Visit the new webpage of the Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS)