Co-Chairs: Joaquin Tintore, Sung Yong Kim, Urmas Lips
Working Group 1 (WG1) fosters a fit-for-purpose, continually improving ocean observing system co-designed by users and developers to support Digital Twins of the Ocean. By enabling a positive feedback loop – where digital twin insights help optimise observing networks, and those networks, in turn, enhance the twins – the group also explores opportunities for joint activities, coordinated testing, and international pilot projects to accelerate global progress in ocean digital twins.
Collaborating with national and regional partners, WG1 aims to identify gaps in ocean observing data sharing and establish strategies to address them, standardize data formats using consistent quality-control procedures, and ensure that observation systems and modelling communities are closely aligned. This WG further establishes links with sectors such as offshore energy, shipping, mariculture, and tourism, and promotes citizen science to broaden access to relevant ocean data.
