PROCEEDINGS OF CLIMAR99
WMO Workshop on Advances in Marine
Climatology
Vancouver, Canada, 8-15
September 1999
WMO/TD-No.
1062
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Presentations
SESSION I: INTRODUCTION
I.1 Climate and Marine
Climatology Issues in WMO; Fernando Guzman, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva,
Switzerland
SESSION 1: DATABASE ENHANCEMENTS
1.1 An Overview of the COADS Project; Henry F. Diaz
1.2 Newly Digitized Historical Marine
Data and Metadata Becoming Available for COADS
and the UK Meteorological Office Marine Data Bank; J.D. Elms, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC,
USA; S.D. Woodruff, NOAA/ERL,
Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO, USA; D.E. Parker, Hadley Centre, Met.
Office, Bracknell, UK; S.J. Worley, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, CO, USA
1.3 COADS Updates and the Blend
with the UK Meteorological Office Marine Data Bank; S.D. Woodruff, H.F. Diaz, S.J. Lubker,
NOAA/ERL Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO, USA; S.J. Worley, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA; J.A. Arnott, M. Jackson,
D.E. Parker, Hadley Centre, Met. Office, Bracknell, UK; J.D. Elms, NOAA/NCDC,
Asheville, NC, USA
1.4 The Kobe Collection (Newly
Digitized Japanese Historical Surface Marine Meteorological
Observations); Teruko Manabe, Maritime Meteorological
Division, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan
1.5 An Archive of Underway Surface
Meteorology Data from WOCE; David M. Legler, Shawn R. Smith, James J. O’Brien, Center for
Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL
1.6 The Environmental Working
Group’s Arctic Meteorology Atlas on CD-ROM; Florence Fetterer, Roger Barry, Derek
vanWestrum, The National Snow and Ice Data Center Cooperative Institute for
Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder CO;
Vladimir Radionov, Pavel Svyaschennikov, Sergey Priamikov, The Arctic and
Antarctic Research Center, St Petersburg, Russia
1.7 EGOS: European Group on Ocean Stations; Volker Wagner, German Weather Service
1.8 Global Collecting Centres
as a Focus for Data Dissemination and Data Quality; Volker Wagner, German Weather Service
SESSION 2: CHARACTERISTICS OF DATA FROM IN SITU OBSERVING PLATFORMS
2.1 The Accuracy of Marine Surface
Winds from Ships and Buoys; Peter K. Taylor, Elizabeth C. Kent, Margaret J. Yelland, Ben I.
Moat, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
2.2 The Storm Wind Studies (SWS); S.G.P Skey, Kent Berger-North, Axys
Environmental Systems, Sidney, BC, Canada; V.R. Swail, Environment Canada,
Toronto, ON, Canada and A. Cornett, Canadian Hydraulics centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2.3 Improvements in National
Data Buoy Center Measurements; David B. Gilhousen, National Data Buoy Center
2.4 Climatological Data from the
Western Canadian ODAS Marine Buoy Network; Jim Gower, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC,
Canada; Ron McLaren, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2.5 Some Comparisons of Wave
Measurements from the Norwegian Continental Shelf; Knut A. Iden, The Norwegian
meteorological Institute (DNMI), Oslo, Norway
2.6 MIROS System Evaluation during
Storm Wind Study II;
F.W. Dobson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography,
Dartmouth, NS, Canada; E. Dunlap ASA Consulting Ltd, Halifax, NS, Canada
SESSION 3: DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF NEW MARINE CLIMATE PRODUCTS
3.1 An Intercomparison of Voluntary
Observing, Satellite Data, and Modelling
Wave Climatologies;
P. David Cotton, Satellite Observing Systems, Surrey, UK; Peter G. Challenor,
Lisa Redbourn-Marsh, Godalming, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton,
UK; Sergei K. Gulev, P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia;
Andreas Sterl, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute De Bilt, The
Netherlands; Roman S. Bortkovskii, Main Geophysical Observatory, St.
Petersburg, Russia
3.2 The Joint Calibration of
Altimeter and In Situ Wave Heights; P.G. Challenor, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton,
UK, P.D. Cotton, Satellite Observing Systems Ltd., Surrey, UK
3.3 On the Use of In Situ and
Satellite Wave Measurements for Evaluation of Wave Hindcasts; Andrew T. Cox, Vincent J. Cardone,
Oceanweather Inc. - Cos Cob, CT, Val R. Swail, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON,
Canada
3.4 Scatterometry Data Sets: High Quality Winds Over Water; Mark A. Bourassa, David M. Legler, James
J. O’Brien, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida
State University
3.5 Wave Climate in the Southwest
Pacific from Satellite and Ships’ Observations; Andrew K. Laing, Stephen J. Reid, NIWA,
Wellington New Zealand
3.6 Development of a Sea Ice Motion
Database from 85.5 GHz SSM/I Imagery; Tom Agnew, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
SESSION 4: BIAS ADJUSTMENT IN CLIMATE DATA
4.1 Evaluation of Ocean Winds and
Waves from Voluntary Observing Ship Data; Surgey Gulev, Institut fur Meereskunde, Dusternbrooker
Weg, Kiel, Germany; Vika Grigorieva, Konstantin Selemenov and Olga Zolina, P.P.
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia
4.2 Utilizing Sea State
in Modeling Air-Sea Interaction; Mark A. Bourassa, David M. Legler, James J. O’Brien, Center for
Ocean-Atmospheric Studies (COAPS), Florida State University, Florida, USA
4.3 A Methodology for
Homogenizing Wind Speeds From Ships and Buoys; Bridget Thomas, Environment Canada,
Dartmouth, NS, Canada; Val R. Swail, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
4.4 A Climate Jump and a Modulation of
Decadal Variability in Sea Surface Temperature Field in the North Pacific; Y. Tanimoto, Institute for Global Change
Research, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan; S. Nakai,
Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Japan,; N.
Iwasaka, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Tokyo, Japan
4.5 Development of the Hadley
Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature Data
Sets (HadISST); D.E. Parker, N.A. Rayner, E.B. Horton,
C.K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met. Office, Bracknell, UK
4.6 Examination of Corrected
Historical SST Data Using Long-Term Coastal SST
Data Taken Around Japan; Kimio Hanawa, Sayaka Yasunaka, Department of Geophysics,
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Teruko Manage,
Maritime Meteorological Division, Japan Meteorological Agency, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, Japan; Naoto Iwasaka, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Koto-ku,
Tokyo Japan
SESSION 5: REANALYSIS
5.1 Evaluation of NCEP Reanalysis
Surface Marine Wind Fields for Ocean Wave Hindcasts; Vincent J. Cardone, Andrew T. Cox,
Oceanweather Inc., Cos Cob, CT; Val R. Swail, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON,
Canada
5.2 Quantifying Uncertainties in NCEP
Reanalysis Using High-Quality Research Vessel Observations; Shawn R. Smith, David M. Legler,
Kathleen V. Verzone, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL
5.3 NCEP SST Reanalysis for
November 1981 to Present; Diane C. Stokes, Wanqiu Wang, National Centers for Environmental
Prediction, Camp Springs, Maryland; Richard W. Reynolds, National Climatic Data
Center, Camp Springs, Maryland
SESSION 6: CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE
6.1 Analysis of Multidecadal
Climate Variability in Global Marine Data; C.K. Folland, D.E. Parker, T.A. Basnett, Hadley Centre,
Met. Office, Bracknell, UK; R.J. Allan, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Melbourne,
Australia; M.E. Mann, Dept., of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; S.B. Power, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia; B. Mullan, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric
Research, Wellington, New Zealand
6.2 The Instrumental Record of
ENSO Variability, 1855 to 1995; Todd P. Mitchell, John M. Wallace, University of Washington, WA,
USA; Tracy Basnett, Hadley Centre, United Kingdom Meteorological Office,
Bracknell, UK
6.3 Comparison of Decadal Trends in
Surface Temperature in Different Data Sets; H.F. Diaz, X.-W. Quan, J.K. Eischeid,
S.D. Woodruff, S.J. Lubker, NOAA-CIRES, CDC, Boulder, Colorad, USA; T.P.
Barnett, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California,
USA
6.4 Analysis of Wave Climate Trends
and Variability; Val
R. Swail, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; Andrew T. Cox, Vincent J.
Cardone, Oceanweather Inc., Cos Cob, CT, USA
SESSION 7: CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE
7.1 Outlier Detection in Gridded
Ship Datasets; Pascal
Terray, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Université
Paris 7, Paris, France
7.2 A Methodology for
Integrating Wave Data from Different Sources Permitting a Multiscale Description of Wave Climate Variability; G.A. Athanassoulis, ChN. Stefanakos,
National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Naval Architecture &
Marine Engineering, Athens, Greece; S.F. Barstow, OCEANOR, Ocenaographic
Company of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
7.3 Reduced Space Approach to the
Optimal Analysis of Historical Marine Observations: Accomplishments,
Difficulties, and Prospects; A. Kaplan, M.A. Cane, Y. Kushnir, Lamont Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA
7.4 Problems of Adequacy of
Oceanographic and Meteorological Data and their
Assimilation for Long-Term Climate Variability Study; Alexander B. Polonsky, Marine
Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, the CRIMEA
SESSION 8: METADATA AND DATA QUALITY
8.1 Improving Global Flux
Climatology: The Role of Metadata; Elizabeth C. Kent, Peter K. Taylor,
Simon A. Josey, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
8.2 Establishing More Truth in True
Winds; Shawn R.
Smith, Mark A. Bourassa, Ryan J. Sharp, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction
Studies, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
8.3 In-Situ Marine Observations
Available Within Operational Time Frames; Jean Gagnon, Paul-André Bolduc, Department of Fisheries
and Oceans, Marine Environmental Data Service Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada
8.4 Quality Control in Recent and
Pending COADS Releases; K. Wolter, S.J. Lubker and S.D.
Woodruff, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO
8.5 Comparison of Ship-Observed Sea
Surface Temperature with Measurements from Drifting
Buoys and Expendable Bathythermographs:
1980-95;
Xiao-Wei Quan, Henry Diaz, Scott Woodruff, Sandy Lubker, Jon Eischeid,
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, Colorada, USA
SESSION 9: USER REQUIREMENTS FOR CLIMATE INFORMATION
9.1 Offshore Industry Requirements
and Recent Metocean Technology Developments; C.J. Shaw, Chairman OGP Metocean
Committee, and Shell EP Technology, Netherlands
9.2 Specific Contributions to the
Observing System: Sea Surface
Temperatures; Richard
W. Reynolds, National Climate Data Center, NESDIS, Camp Springs Maryland, USA
9.3 Climate Information and
Prediction Services for Fisheries:
The Case of Tuna Fisheries; Jean-Luc Le Blanc, School of Ocean and Earth Science,
Southampton Oceanographic Centre, UK; Francis Marsac, HEA-IRD, Montpellier,
France
9.4 Use of an Operational Global
Model to Define Wave Climate at a South Atlantic
Location; J.S. Hopkins, UK Met. Office, Bracknell,
UK
SESSION 10: CLIMATE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION
10.1 Importance of Marine Data to
Seasonal Forecasting in Australia; Scott Power, Australia’s National
Climate Centre, Melbourne, Australia
10.2 Tropical Pacific Warm and
Cold Events, 1946-93;
D.E. Harrison, N.K. Larkin; Pacific Marine Environmental Lab., Seattle, WA, USA
10.3 ENSO Signals in relation to
Aspects of Ocean Characteristics along the Gulf of Guinea Coast; R.A. Folorunsho, S.O. Ojo and L.F.
Awosika, Nigerian
Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, Lagos, Nigeria
POSTERS
P.1 Sea Surface Temperature
Analyses from In Situ Data At East Mole Offshore
Station, Lagos;
Ernest A. Afiesimama, Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Laboratory, Nigerian
Meteorological Services, Lagos, Nigeria
P.2 Impacts of the 1997/8 El-Nino and
1998/1999 La-Nina Phenomena on the
Tidal Level Over Sarawak, Malaysia; Alui Bahari, Malaysian Meteorological Service, Jalan
Sultan, Malaysia
P.3 A Media to Improve Safety
Navigation at the Rio de la Plata; S. Barreira, C. Rössler, S. Alonso,
Argentine Navy Meteorological Service, Buenos Aires, Argentina
P.4 Some Experiments with
Drifting Buoy in the Smara Numerical Weather Prediction
System; S. Barreira,
S.M. Alonso, Argentine Navy Meteorological Service, Buenos Aires, Argentina
P.5 Digitizing and Quality Control of U.S.
Marine Meteorological Journal; Fengyi Guo, National Marine Data and Information Service,
Tianjin, China
P.6 Maritime Meteorological Ship-Based
Observation in the Adriatic and its Comparison
to the Climatological Island-Based Observation; Milan Hodzic, Marine Meteorological
Centre, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia
P.7 Wind and Sea In Mediterranean Sea; Ahmed Abdel Khalek Ahmed Ismail,
Alexandria Weather Forecasting Center, Meteorological Authority of Egypt
P.8 Climatology and Susceptibility of the
Selected Major Ports of Entry to Meteorological
Disasters in the Philippines; Carina G. Lao, Atmospheric, Geophysical and Space Sciences
Branch, Philippines; Juan D. Cordeta, Climatology and Agrometeorology Branch,
Philippines
P.9 An SST Index for Peru; Sara Regina Purca, University of
Concepcion, Chile
P.10 Trends and Periodicities in the
Annual Frequency of Cyclonic Disturbances Over
the North Indian Ocean;
O.P. Singh, SAARC Meteorological Research Centre (SMRC), Bangladesh
P.11 The Costa Rica Experience with Trial
Implementation of a Wave Model; Norman Vega, National Meteorological Institute of Costa
Rica; Omar Lizano, Center for
Geophysical Research, University of Costa Rica
P.12 The Characteristics of Sea-Surface
Temperature (SST) in the Continental Shelf of Viet Nam; Nguyen Thanh Vinh, Hydrometeorological
Service of Viet Nam
P.13 Data and Information Strategies
for Coastal Zone Management; D.N. Wambura, Directorate of Meteorology, Dar es Salaam,
Tanzanian