The Ocean Observations and Process Team

We have continued our investigations of Indian Ocean subsurface anomalies that propagate from the West Australian coast across the entire Indian Ocean. These features modify the upper ocean structure and upon reaching the African coast have the ability to modify the equatorial Indian Ocean subsurface ocean. We are currently finalising a manuscript for submission to an international journal.

The Decadal Climate Forecasting Project (DCFP) has also embarked on building a “big data” climate science platform to address the opportunities and challenges in the large ensemble datasets generated by our models. Thomas Moore has been co-leading our efforts, including: https://research.csiro.au/dfp/get-involved-in-the-csiro-data-science-community-of-practice-in-2019/ CSIRO Community of Practice events focused on PANGEO- inspired geoscience workflows and an eResearch collaboration with CSIRO Scientific Computing staff to benchmark architecture options.

We have also been involved in a project-wide effort to build a robust and efficient data workflow to move, restructure, and archive the large output dataset generated by the DCFP CAFE-88 reanalysis currently underway on the National Computational Infrastructure supercomputer.

Members of the team attended and presented overview talks at the recent water mass transformation workshop host by the University of New South Wales. Our particular interest is the coupling between the ocean and atmosphere that result in the transfer of surface water into the ocean interior.