Study of the upper ocean structureits variationprediction basedthe global ocean
Under the great care and push by a couple of famous Chinese scientists in marine and atmospheric sciences including academicians Cao Jiping, Su Jilan, Yuan Yeli, Hu Dunxin, Huang Ronghui, Li Chongyin and Ding Yihui and specially suggested by the Department of Science and Technology, SOA and fully supported by Forth Advisor Group of the 973 Program and the Department of Basic Research, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the project name “Study of the upper ocean structure and its variation and prediction based on the global ocean real-time observation program (Argo) proposed by 25 scientists from 10 units of SOA, China Meteorological Administration, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education with Prof. Chen Dake, Director of the state key laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics of SIO, SOA in the lead got the financial support for 2007 from the State Major Basic Research Development Program (973) . This marked the entering into an all-round development stage of data application study from the construction of ocean observation array for China Argo Program.
To take the critical area of the Northwestern Pacific and the Indian-Pacific Tropical Ocean that influence the marine environment and climate system of our country as a whole and the formation mechanism and variational characteristics of the upper ocean structure and its predictability and weather–climate effect as the central point, the project will be carried out on five subjects as follows:
1. Assimilation of Argo data and reanalysis of data from multi resources.
2. Formation and variation of the upper ocean structure subtropical Pacific Ocean.
3. Heat and salt exchange between the Pacific western boundary current and the coastal seas of China.
4. Seasonal and interannual variation of the upper ocean of tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans.
5. Study of the marine environment of the Northwestern Pacific and predictability of tropical short-term climate.
A number of originally innovative results are to be made on the upper ocean structure of Northwestern Pacific and tropical ocean and its predictability and effect in the prediction of typhoon and El Nino, so as to provide scientific bases for the forecast of regional marine environment and short-term climate prediction and help to raise the level of ocean and climate observation and prediction of our country.