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OAS project Detail for JAFOOS
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| projects_id: | 540 |
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| Code: | 614 |
| Acronym: | JAFOOS |
| Name: | Joint Australian Facility For Ocean Observing Systems |
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| Funding Organization (deprecated): | CSIRO BMRC |
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| Country (deprecated): | Australia |
| Comments: | http://www.ioc.unesco.org/goos/ms/rpts/Austr_WAGOOS.htm
The Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS) was born out of the recognition that only through the scientific design and development of ocean observing systems will Australia have the capacity to successfully monitor, predict, utilise and protect its vast marine environment. Our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is the third largest in the world; but the influence of the Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans on Australia extends thousands of miles beyond those artificial boundaries. In 1998, the CSIRO Division of Marine Research (CMR) and the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC) created the Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems (JAFOOS). This facility specialises in the scientific design of ocean observing systems relevant to Australia's needs, and is an effort to maximise available, although limited, resources to ensure the best regional outcomes from scientific research and environmental monitoring. Much more needs to be done to expand our present ocean observing systems to adequately monitor our marine environment. In keeping with the Federal Government's Marine Science & Technology Plan and Ocean Policy requirements, JAFOOS builds on the extensive research and development capabilities of both CSIRO and BMRC to assist in the implementation of operational marine systems and baseline ocean monitoring networks. It will support and enhance Australia's overall marine monitoring capacity, and especially the operational marine observations program of the Bureau of Meteorology. Dedicated to developing and improving the Australian Ocean Observing System (AOOS), JAFOOS also supports the design and development of other intimately related monitoring and prediction systems, including those of the: Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS), World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE). |
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| Metadata version: | 2 |
| Keydate: | 2008-04-24 18:22:46.510168+00 |
| Editdate: | 2008-05-06 14:02:22+00 |