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Japan Marine Science and Technology Center
Training and Education Service
; a total of students attended. And the second
was from March to , ; a total of students
attended. (Fig. )
() Training Program for Asia-Western Pacific Ocean
Research Network
JAMSTEC has held a training program from
FY for establishing an oceanographic observation
network in the Asia and Western Equatorial Regions
with the financial assistance of the Nippon Foundation.
This program is an initiative to share the knowledge on
the past and current ENSO events as well as data on
the ocean and atmosphere among participating countries,
and enable them to predict such events and
implement the necessary countermeasures.
In FY, the workshop was held from October
to December , ( weeks) at Yokosuka
Headquarters, MIO and the Global Oceanographic
Data Center (GODAC) in Nago, Okinawa. Six scientists
and engineers attended from Solomon Islands,
Samoa, Nauru, Micronesia, Vanuatu, and Tuvalu.
The training workshop focused on the technologies
for oceanic and atmospheric observations, especially
on maintaining TRITON buoy system (oceanographic
observation buoys deployed in the tropical regions by
JAMSTEC). (Fig. , , )
Fig. 6 Discussion among participants on the "Asia-Western
Pacific Ocean Network Program".
Fig. 7 Participants with TRITON buoys that will be deployed
around their countries.
Fig. 8 Oceanographic observation training using XBT.
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