Apr 2, 2009

Global Ocean Observing local victims seek

Institute of Oceanology, State Oceanic Administration of the second satellite marine environment National Key Laboratory of Dynamics researcher Xu Jianping 

With economic development, scientific and technological progress, mankind should not only intensify the study of natural disasters, and try to predict the day, week, month, year or even the weather conditions, but also a prediction a few years, dozens of years disasters to happen so that mankind can advance on disaster prevention at the source. And to accurately forecast the weather still need to be large-scale and even global, regional and long-term accumulation of observational data, but also the need to enhance maritime disasters caused by weather or the awareness of anomaly. In fact, the development of marine science, especially in the business of ocean and climate forecasting technology, on the ocean wide (the size of the Earth accounts for 71%%) large-scale, quasi-synchronous and deep-seated lack of survey data has been restricted bottlenecks in their development. The advent of the 20th century 90's section of the Argo buoys, and in 2000 launched the international Argo program to bring ocean and atmospheric scientists a rare opportunity, so that depth of human understanding and knowledge of the sea real-time large-scale changes in weather conditions improve and marine forecasting accuracy, effectively prevent the worsening global weather and marine disasters, the desire will become a reality. The frequency of natural disasters the world is at the call of human need to strengthen the global ocean observing real-time. 

With the international Argo program on an international series of newly developed high-tech marine technology, such as Argo Profiling Float, satellite communications systems and data processing technology in the global ocean at the creation of a real-time, high-resolution and fully automated monitoring system so that Express, accurate, large-scale gathering of the global upper ocean temperature and salinity of the water profile information, help people deepen their understanding of ocean temperature and salinity vertical structure, circulation and energy, as well as understanding the process of water balance and to reveal the sea ─ ─ the mechanism of interaction, to further improve the model initial fields and improve the air-sea coupled model, thereby enhancing the long-term weather forecasting and the ability of short-term climate prediction, including with the ENSO-related events (such as floods, droughts, etc.) of the forecast capacity and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and other re-recognize. 

North of the Pacific, this region not only has the world's oceans and borders in the West most ─ ─ Kuroshio flow, as well as the global ocean and climate system, the largest inter-annual changes ─ ─ El Nino phenomenon, but also across the Pacific and Indian Oceans have great Warm Pool, as well as precipitation with the world's largest ─ ─ Pacific ITCZ, which is an international marine scientific research has been the hot waters, there are many issues to be dealt with major scientific frontier, much-needed strength to carry out exploration and research organizations. However, the ocean environment observation data, especially long-term, large-scale and real-time ocean observing a serious lack of information, the impact of China's marine and atmospheric scientist at the forefront of research hot areas of the outcome of the driving force for innovation. 

To this end, in the next few years, our country should be increased in the North Pacific and East Indian Ocean buoy deployment efforts. This is not only because Argo observations on the current international Nets are the only real-time of a global ocean observing system, and its observation and the accumulation of information on the marine and atmospheric science and the development of major scientific significance; but also for our country suffering from such a marine and the impact of climate disasters, maritime power, especially during the last long-standing close to the ocean off the coast of our country and not enough emphasis on the Global Ocean Observing observed a serious shortage of information on the accumulation of the countries involved in Argo real-time global ocean observing network is more important practical significance.

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