1. COUNTRY
ECUADOR
2. PRINCIPAL NATIONAL CONTACT FOR GOOS
CPNV-EM
Byron Sanmiguel Marín
DIRECTOR
Ave. 25 de
Julio, Base Naval Sur - INOCAR
Guayaquil -
Ecuador
Phone: 5934 - 2481300 ext. 1200
Fax: 5934 - 2485166
E-mail: sub-cientifica@inocar.mil.ec
3. MECHANISM FOR NATIONAL COORDINATION OF GOOS
INOCAR, Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada
del Ecuador
INOCAR, is the Ecuadorian institution in charge
of coordinate the national activities related with GOOS Program, contributing
with automated meteorological, oceanographic and tide gauge stations, regular
oceanographic cruises, and oceanographic data acquisition buoys.
The web site is: (http://www.inocar.mil.ec
ERFEN, The National Committee for the Study of
El Niño Phenomenon
ERFEN is the regional bureau for EL Niño
related studies, the program has national committees in which INOCAR is the
national head coordinator of many research institutions and ministers involved
on El Niño research, forecast, and impacts management.
5. NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO GOOS
IMPLEMENTATION
5.1 CONTRIBUTIONS TO CORE ELEMENTS OF THE OBSERVING SYSTEM
·
INOCAR has deployed 2 oceanographic (0 - 500m)
and meteorological data acquisition buoys which transmit via Argos system.
These buoys are planned to complement the TAO array, by sending data to the
observation program.
·
INOCAR
is in charge of the national network of coastal meteorological stations and
tide gauges deployed along the continental coast and Galapagos Islands. The
whole network components for ocean observing system of Ecuador are listed on
Table 1.
Table 1
|
Number |
Type |
Parameters |
|
2 |
Oceanographic
Buoys |
Oceanographic (0 - 500m) and meteorological |
|
5 |
Automated
Coastal Meteorological stations |
Coastal-Meteorological |
|
7 |
Coastal
meteorological stations |
Coastal-Meteorological |
|
17 |
Tide gauges |
Sea level |
|
3 |
Automated
tide gauges |
Sea level |
|
2 |
Automated
tide gauges |
Sea
level (April 2003) |
|
3 |
Annual
Oceanographic Cruises |
Physical, chemical, biological (0 - 500m) and
meteorological |
·
Time Series Station 10 miles off La Libertad;
·
Time Series Station 10 miles off Manta.
5.3 OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO
GOOS
National Oceanographic Data Center
CENDO, carried out the storage of oceanographic and meteorological data
6. CAPACITY
BUILDING IN SUPPORT OF GOOS OR GOOS-RELATED RESEARCH
There are three institutions
INOCAR, National Meteorology and Hydrology Institute, and National Fisheries
Institute that received funds from the national government in order to increase
the capacity building to achieve monitoring, forecast, and manage the
environmental impacts from El Niño
7.
IMPEDIMENTS TO PROGRESS
Financial Support is the main
obstacle, especially to maintain the observational network, and capacitate
technicians and researchers
8. INDICATIONS
OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO GOOS
8.1 INVESTMENT IN NATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
The government financial support to
increase the building capacity of the three major GOOS realted institutions was
about 10M USD during 2002.
8.2 INVESTMENT IN NATIONAL
COORDINATION
8.3
INVESTMENT (REAL OR POTENTIAL) IN INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION