OceanMAPS Heat Content for the Australian Region
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OceanMAPS Routine Heat Content Analysis and Monitoring for the Australian Region

OceanMAPS Ocean Modelling, Analysis and Prediction System was developed at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Bureau of Meteorology, is part of the BLUElink project and produces routine forecasts of ocean conditions around Australia.

The BLUElink ocean data assimilation system (BODAS) is used to produce both a behind and near real-time analysis of the three dimensional global ocean state between 5-10 days behind real time. BODAS assimilates observations such as sea-level data from ENVISAT, JASON1 and JASON2 altimeters, sea-surface-temperature from AMSR-E microwave sensors and in-situ profiles from the ARGO array and XBTs. Information from the analyses is introduced into the prediction system and twice weekly 7 day forecasts are generated.

This web site uses this information to provide an analysis and forecast of upper ocean heat content variability around Australia which is important for weather, climate and marine ecosystems. For details about the heat content measures click here. To see some visual examples click here

Please note that information presented on this web site is research material

The following links go to the latest available analysis fields



Notes

  • Upper ocean heat content measures are relative and their exact quantites can be difficult to interpret. Their anomalies provide more useful information, therefore, these are what are shown.

  • The links above go to the latest available behind real-time analysis fields. Selecting NEXT from these fields goes to the latest near-real time analysis and subsequently into the latest forecast. For more information on the analysis-forecast cycle click here

  • Links to the other quantities for the same time are provided at the top of the figures so the measures can be compared. The same set of links at the bottom of the figures are to animations of the latest availble 40 day sequence through the analysis-forecast cycle.


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