Ocean Model Intercomparison Project
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Description
OMIP provides standard protocols and diagnostics for ocean models, while offering a forum and a technical framework to promote their common assessment and improvement. Simulated results from OMIP will be exploited to contribute to its effort to study basic CMIP6 science questions on the origins and consequences of systematic model biases.OMIP will compare solutions of the same ocean models when forced with reanalysis data versus when integrated within fully coupled Earth System Models.
OMIP contributes to the Grand Challenges of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) by providing fundamental information needed to improve estimates of regional sea-level change, near-term climate prediction, carbon feedbacks in the climate system, as well as changes in ocean carbon uptake and storage, acidification, deoxygenation, and marine productivity.
Meteorology Dept., Penn. State University, USA
LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France
PMEL/NOAA, Seattle, Washington, USA
NCAR, USA
Marine Chem. & Geochem., WHOI, USA
NOAA GFDL, USA
Physics, Imperial College, UK
Climate and Environmental Physics, Univ. of Bern, Switzerland
Institut fuer Umweltphysik, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Germany
Astrophysics, Geophysics and Oceanography Dept., Univ. Liege, Belgium
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
Columbia Univ., USA
NASA-Goddard, USA
Alfred Wegener Inst., Bremerhaven, Germany
EOES, Univ. of Liverpool, UK
National Oceanographic Centre, UK
PCMDI, LLNL, USA
COAPS, Florida State Univ., USA
Rutgers Univ., USA
Geophysical Institute, Univ. Bergen, Norway
DEEPS, Brown Univ., USA
Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
Inst. Comput. Engineering and Science, Univ. Texas Austin, USA
Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
New York Univ., USA
JAMSTEC, Japan
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia
Centro Euromediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Italy
University of New South Wales, Australia
Universit Paris Saclay, France
Abdus Salam Institute for Theoretical Physics, Italy
First Inst. of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale, IFREMER, France
MRI, Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Univ. Reading, UK
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
SDG 14 targets covered
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 14.3 | Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels |
| 14.a | Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries |
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Dr. Mike Sparrow , Officer in Charge, World Climate Research Programme, WMO Polar Focal Point