Strengthening international cooperation to improve marine forecasting capacity

Strengthening international cooperation to improve marine forecasting capacity

Mr. Hoang Duc Cuong, Deputy Administrator of the Viet Nam Meteorological and Hydrological Administration, said that in the past time, with the cooperation and support of the Norwegian Meteorological Agency, the sea forecasting capacity of marine forecasters at the Administation has been gradually improved.

Among them, the ROMS3D marine forecasting model, the DIANA software, the Wavymini model that tests wave prediction by satellite products and recently the ocean model, the ocean orbit model developed and transfered by the Noweign Meteorological Agency, training in use has been put into operation at the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting and expanded to use at all regional hydrometeorological stations.

At the workshop, the participants exchanged and shared issues related to marine forecasting such as: Introduction to marine weather forecasting and storm surge forecast in Norway; dynamic scale reduction model of DNORA wave forecast; testing wave prediction using satellite data, applying ROMS 2D and Open Drift models in Viet Nam; OpenDrift ocean orbit model.

According to Mr. Nguyen Ba Thuy, Deputy Director of the National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting, in order to do better marine forecasting, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation with relevant sectors, world meteorological organizations and at the same time, strengthen cooperation with relevant sectors and international meteorological organizations, as well as strengthen marine hydrographic observation stations; synchronization of hydrometeorological data.

K.Linh