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Validation and Intercomparison of Ocean Color Algorithms for Estimating Particulate Organic Carbon in the Oceans.
(2017)Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) plays a vital role in the ocean carbon cycle. Though relatively small compared with other carbon pools, the POC pool is responsible for large fluxes and is linked to many important ocean ... -
Validation of Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature Retrievals Using Infrared SST Autonomous Radiometer Measurements
(2023)This study has evaluated five years (2016–2020) of Himawari-8 (H8) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Level 2 Pre-processed (L2P) data produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Bureau) against shipborne radiometer SST ... -
Value chains in public marine data: A UK case study. A joint OECD Working Paper in collaboration with the UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) and the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) in the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.
(OECD Publishing, Paris, France, 2021)Marine data play a crucial role for many scientific disciplines, as well as for very diverse operational services such as fisheries management, environmental planning, marine conservation, weather forecasting, or port ... -
Variability of Tidal Datums and Accuracy in Determining Datums from Short Series of Observations.
(NOAA, NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, Silver Spring, MD, 1974)Tidal datum planes are used to determine the positions of boundaries, as planes of reference for maps and charts, in the design of coastal structures, and to delineate the extent of land uses in coastal areas. Even ... -
Variational interpolation of high-frequency radar surface currents using DIVAnd.
(2021)DIVAnd (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis, in n-dimensions) is a tool to interpolate observations on a regular grid using the variational inverse method. We have extended DIVAnd to include additional dynamic constraints ... -
Verification of operational global and regional wave forecasting systems against measurements from moored buoys.
(WMO & IOC, Geneva, 2006)The purpose of this JCOMM Technical Report is to document the global wave model verification activity, giving details of the working mechanism and file formats so that modeling centres not yet engaged may judge whether or ... -
Verification Statement for the YSI 6-series sonde with model 6560 Salinity Sensor.
(Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT), Solomons, MD, 2008)Instrument performance verification is necessary so that effective existing technologies can be recognized, and so that promising new technologies can become available to support coastal science, resource management, and ... -
A versatile marine modelling tool applied to arctic, temperate and tropical waters.
(2020)The improved understanding of complex interactions of marine ecosystem components makes the use of fully coupled hydrodynamic, biogeochemical and individual based models more and more relevant. At the same time, the ... -
Vessel Response Plan: COVID-19. Rev 1.4.
(Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, 2021)The purpose of this document is to provide policies, recommendations and procedures for safely conducting sea-going science on Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) vessels as it relates specifically to the prevention ... -
Vessel-based ocean monitoring with applications to R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen surveys. [TRAINING COURSE]
(2022)The course has two main objectives: (i) to develop skills among marine environmental scientists participating in the EAF-Nansen Programme to perform onboard duties during surveys concerning the quality control, post-processing ... -
Video demonstrating how to set-up, deploy and operate a Baited Remote Underwater Video System. [Training Video]
(Octopi Africa (Pty) Ltd and Array Media (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021)Baited remote underwater stereo-video systems, or stereo-BRUVs, are minimally invasive sampling tools used to collect data on the diversity, abundance and size of fishes as well as information on the benthic habitat where ... -
Video demonstrating how to set-up, deploy and operate a shallow-water drop camera system. [Training video]
(Octopi Africa (Pty) Ltd and Array Media (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021)Drop cameras are simple frame-deployed systems of various configurations that are designed to take photographic still images or videos of the seafloor. These tools are non-destructive and can go to beyond SCUBA depths, ... -
Video demonstrating how to set-up, deploy and operate a Ski-Monkey III towed benthic camera system. [Training Video]
(Octopi Africa (Pty) Ltd and Array Media (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa, 2021)The Ski-Monkey III benthic camera system is a passive, towed camera mounted on a squat, stainless steel frame, resting on two 10 cm wide skis. It consists of an underwater module, containing pressure housings that are ... -
Video monitoring framework in support of sargassum management,
(2019)The waters off Caribbean islands have seen large amounts of Sargassum seaweed during the last years (Wang and Hu, 2016). This record-breaking events of algae blooms and mass stranding started in earnest in 2011, then ... -
Visibility Sensors Implementation Plan.
(NOAA, NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, Silver Spring, MD, 2009)The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has used visibility sensors at major airports for many years, but the requirement within the maritime industry came in 1980, when the MV Summit Venture hit the Sunshine Skyway ... -
A vision for FAIR ocean data products.
(2021)The ocean is mitigating global warming by absorbing large amounts of excesscarbon dioxide from human activities. To quantify and monitor the ocean carbonsink, we need a state-of-the-art data resource that makes data ... -
Visions for a Sea change: Report of the First International Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the Man and the Biosphere Programme UNESCO Headquarters. Paris, France. 8-10 November 2006.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2007)1 Introduction to the Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning 7 2 Introduction to Ecosystem-based, Sea Use Management 15 3 Ecosystem-based, Sea Use Management and Marine Spatial Planning 23 4 Key Scientific Issues for ... -
Volume 0: Primer for the OGC CDB Standard: Model and Physical Data Store Structure. Version 1.1.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2018)The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, “versionable,” virtual representation of the earth. A CDB structured data store provides for a geospatial content and model definition repository ... -
Volume 10: OGC CDB Implementation Guidance, Version 1.1.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2018)This document provides detailed implementation guidance for developing and maintaining a CDB compliant data store. The CDB standard defines a standardized model and structure for a single, versionable, virtual representation ... -
Volume 11: OGC CDB Core Standard Conceptual Model. Version 1.0.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2017)This Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard defines the conceptual model for the OGC CDB 1.0 Standard. The objective of this document is to provide an abstract core conceptual model for a CDB data store (repository). ...