Welcome to the Black Sea Global Ocean Observing System

The Black Sea GOOS is a local Association formed by the Black Sea riparian countries in order to foster Operational Oceanography in the region and set up links with other regional and global organizations (with similar objectives).

Major Aims and Objectives
Policy of the Black Sea GOOS
Black Sea Operational Oceanography
Black Sea GOOS Ad Hoc Steering Committee
History of the Black Sea GOOS
Memorandum of Understanding of the Black Sea GOOS  
Projects:
   ARENA
News & Events:
The 3-rd Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee Meeting, Kiev, June 2004
Protocol for collaboration with ARENA project signed.
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Members:
Evaluation of the Questionnaire
Contact Information

 

The 3-rd Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee Meeting, (Kiev, 15-16 June 2004)

AGENDA

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee Session

     09:00-09:15       Eremeev V.(academy representative), Opening remarks

Reports of National Black Sea GOOS activity and future planning, with emphasis of the improvement of open-sea and coastal observing systems (National Black Sea GOOS coordinators).
     09:15-09:30       Bulgaria
     09:30-09:45       Georgia
     09:45-10:00       Romania
     10:00-10:15       Russia
     10:15-10:30       Ukraine

     11:00-11:20       Korotaev G.K., GRA

     11:20-11:40       Korotaev G.K., GOOS Regional Council

     11:40-12:00       Discussion

Joint Session of the Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee and ARENA TT5

     14:00-14:30       Slabakov H., ARENA project: current state and plans

Nowcasting/forecasting system for the Black Sea (associated with ARENA Modeling Team Meeting)
     14:30-15:10 High Resolution Weather Forecasting (Bulgaria, Romania)
     15:10-15:30 Near Operational Nowcasting of the Black Sea circulation (Ukraine)

Nesting Approach at the Black Sea Basin:
     16:00-16:30     Experience of coupling POM and MHI model
   Current state of the regional models
     16:30-16:45     Burgas Bay, Bulgaria
     16:45-17:00     Poti Area, Georgia

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Nesting Approach at the Black Sea Basin (continue)
     09:00-09:15     Danube Mouth (Romania)
     09:15-09:30     Novorossiysk Area
     09:30-09:45     Western Crimea
     09:45-10:00     North-Western Shelf

     10:00-10:30     Basin-Scale Ecosystem Nowcasting/Forecasting: Current State and Prospects

     11:00-11:30     Oil Spill Dynamics Models (Bulgaria, Russia, Sweden)

     14:00-14:20     HOPS as a Tool of Region-Oriented Ecosystem Prediction

     14:20-14:45     Discussion

     Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee Session

     14:45-15:00     Report of the Black Sea GOOS Executive Secretary

     15:00-15:15     Black Sea GOOS office report

     15:15-15:30     National report of Turkey National Coordinator

     16:00–16:15     Besiktepe S., Executive Secretary of the Black Sea GOOS, GRAND project activity

     16:15-16:45     General Discussion

     16:45-17:00     Closure of the Black Sea GOOS Steering Committee Meeting

Thursday, June 17, 2004

ARENA TT5 meeting

Discussion of the WP5 plans for the next year.

Intercomaparison of the basin scale models.
     Preliminary results with POM (MHI/IMS)
     Georgian basin-scale model
     Model of Russian Hydrometeocenter
     DieCast model (Shirshov institute, Russia)
     Initial and boundary conditions for the intercomaparison.

Coupling of the atmospheric and basin-scale circulation models.
     Romania – Aladin
     Bulgaria MM5

Nesting model training
     Distribution of initial and boundary conditions by e-mail
     Preliminary simulations
     Near-operational training

Coupling of the circulation with wave model.

Planning of the pilot operation of the nowcasting/forecasting system

Dissemination of the modeling opportunities