Pacific islands call for coordinated regional approach to ocean observing
Pacific islands call for coordinated regional approach to ocean observing
Experts unite at Pacific Islands Ocean Workshop to enhance meteorology and ocean data applications for regional strategy and stakeholder engagement.
Representatives from 14 Pacific island country meteorological services and other ocean observing agencies met last week during a 4-day Pacific Islands Workshop on Ocean Observations and Data Applications.
This workshop, the fifth in a series that started in early 2015, was hosted by the Pacific Community (SPC) in collaboration with the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel, a joint initiative of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
Following the event, two important decisions were made by the participants: a call for a regional strategy to optimise future ocean sensor deployments and a request to support more national ocean stakeholder engagement activities.