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The ODASI consortium is an activity of NOAA's CDEP. The consortium is focused towards improving ocean data assimilation methods and their implementation in support of forecasts with coupled general circulation models. Consortium activities will leverage off and coordinate individual consortium member plans for:
  • assimilation development,
  • model sensitivity experiments,
  • routine assimilation product generation,
  • the conduct of forecast experiments, and
  • routine real-time forecasts
so as to accelerate our progress in improving coupled model forecast skill.

Participants
  COLA   COLA: Jim Kinter, Ed Schneider, Ben Kirtman, Bohua Huang
  GFDL   GFDL: Tony Rosati, Matthew Harrison, Andrew Wittenberg, Shaoqing Zhang
  IRI   IRI: Steve Zebiak, Michael Tippett
  LDEO   LDEO: Mark Cane, Alexey Kaplan, Dake Chen
  NCEP   NCEP: Dave Behringer
  NSIPP   GMAO: Michele Rienecker, Robin Kovach, Christian Keppenne, Chaojiao Sun, Jossy Jacob


Activities
The consortium activities will be coordinated across 4 themes:
  Activity 1   1) ODA product intercomparisons
  Activity 2   2) Development of observational data streams
  Activity 3   3) Model Sensitivity experiments
  Activity 4   4) Validation of assimilation products in forecast experiments


Model and Assimilation Configuration
The ODASI Consortium will use a common set of ocean surface forcing and a common set of ocean data input to the assimilation products.
  COLA Model   COLA   GFDL Model   GFDL   IRI Model   IRI   LDEO Model   LDEO   NCEP Model   NCEP   GMAO Model   GMAO


Metrics
The ODASI Consortium metrics will focus on the equatorial oceans and be designed to discriminate between products.


Assimilation Products
  COLA   COLA   GFDL   GFDL   IRI   IRI   LDEO   LDEO   NCEP   NCEP   GMAO   GMAO