Event Announcement: The Agulhas Current Observing System Design Workshop will take place as a hybrid event in Cape Town, South Africa from 9-12 September 2024.

Boundary currents directly influence the understanding of regional weather systems, significantly impact marine heatwave and tropical cyclones and impacts the local fisheries and aquaculture.

The purpose of this workshop is to develop priority gap areas, observational requirements and a resulting design of an ocean observing system to better understand key features in the Agulhas Current region. This workshop will also determine potential overlaps and opportunity for other key features to be considered in the design including Tropical Cyclones, Fisheries and Marine Heatwaves.

AGENDA OVERVIEW (Draft)

• Day 1: Defining the backbone of the Agulhas Current Observing System and prioritise gaps
• Day 2: Introduction into setting Requirements with breakout sessions on observing requirements and data and modeling scheme assessment
• Day 3: Establishing links to societal impacts (e.g., extreme weather, search and rescue, fisheries) and multi platform approaches
• Day 4: Draft design review and stakeholder assessment

The organisers highly encourage experts from the intermediary* stakeholder community to participate, including ocean and atmospheric observationalists, modelers and operational forecasters.

*Intermediary users - are intermediaries to the End Users, entities that integrate the ocean observing data into forecasts, assessments, or other products and services for delivery of information products and services to the end users.

Pre-register through the link below!

*Please note due to limited space you only participants receiving confirmation of attendance will be able to attend in-person. Confirmations will be sent out by July 19th.