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Water Level and Wave Height Estimates at NOAA Tide Stations from Acoustic and Microwave Sensors.
(NOAA, NOS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, Silver Spring, MD, 2014)The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) is transitioning the primary water level sensor at the majority of tide stations in the ... -
Water Quality Monitoring Field Manual.
(Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council , Science Department, Anchorage, Alaska, 2017)This manual is a reference tool for technicians conducting water sampling under the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council (YRITWC) protocols. The YRITWC protocols were developed using the United ... -
WaterML-WQ - an O&M and WaterML 2.0 profile for water quality data. Version 1.0.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2014)This Best Practice describes how to configure XML documents for single and time series water quality measurements. In addition to stating the rules for using the O&M and WML 2 standards, along with the appropriate content ... -
Wave Energy Measurement Methodologies for IEC Technical Specifications. Open Sea Operating Experience to Reduce Wave Energy Costs Deliverable D5.1.
(University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2016)This document represents deliverable 5.1 (D5.1) of OPERA Work Package 5 (WP5). OPERA is a European Commission funded project that ultimately aims to reduce the time to market and costs of wave energy. OPERA WP5, entitled, ... -
Wave Measurements from Radar Tide Gauges.
(2019)Currently the NOAA Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) is transitioning the primary water level sensor at most NWLON stations, from an acoustic ranging system, to microwave radars. With ... -
Wave Reporting Procedures for Tide Observers in the Tsunami Warning System.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 1988)The purpose of this publication is to provide general information and specific instructions to aid tide observers in reporting tsunamis. The Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific is an international system which makes use ... -
Weather reporting, Volume D: Information for shipping. 2014 Edition (with amendments 29 May 2018)
(World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2018)This Volume includes marine meteorological and other related geophysical information necessary for safe and economic conduct of shipping operations, as well as for fishing and other marine activities. To ensure complete ... -
Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Language Interface Standard. Version 1.0.0.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2009)The OGC® Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) defines a protocol-independent language for the extraction, processing, and analysis of multi-dimensional coverages representing sensor, image, or statistics data. -
Web Feature Service Implementation Specification with Corrigendum. Version 1.1.3.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2016)This document describes the OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) operations. The WFS operations support INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, LOCK, QUERY and DISCOVERY operations on geographic features using HTTP as the distributed computing ... -
Web Feature Service Implementation Specification, Verson 1.1.0.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2005)The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed a member consensus that when software vendors implement their products in compliance with open geospatial web service interface and data encoding specifications, end-users ... -
Web Map Context Documents. Version 1.1.0.
(Open Geospatial Consortium, Wayland, MA, 2005)This document is the result of work begun during the first and second OGC Web Mapping Testbeds in 1999 and 2000 by IONIC Software and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and demonstrated by IONIC ... -
Webenizing Condition Reports: Communicating Data-Driven Ecosystem Indicators in a Visually Engaging and Interactive Online Platform.
(NOAA, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Springs, MD, 2021)The compilation and release of data-driven reports is one of the core functions of natural resource agencies and offices that support scientific investigations. Often, these reports contain data and synthesis related to ... -
Welcome to the Arctic. [Visitor Guidelines]
(Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO), Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 2019)General guidelines for travelers visiting the Arctic. Tourism and cruise activities in the Arctic operate within a comprehensive framework of international and national laws and regulations to ensure safety and preservation ... -
What does the Polar Code mean for ship safety?
(International Maritime Organization, London, UK, 2017)The aim is to provide for safe ship operation and the protection of the Polar environment by addressing risks present in Polar waters and not adequately mitigated by other instruments -
What is Effective Research Communication? Towards Cooperative Inquiry with Nunavut Communities.
(2020)Communication is recognized as the foundation of developing partnerships in science. In this study, we assess the effectiveness of several communication processes, practices, and tools used by wildlife researchers in ... -
White paper on dissolved oxygen measurements: scientific needs and sensors accuracy.
(IFREMER for JERICO, Brest, France, 2013)The objective here is to review the practical accuracy and the precision of the existing oxygen sensors used in oceanography. The idea is to review all oxygen sensors mounted on fixed and lagrangian platforms (mooring, CTD ... -
White Paper on European Polar infrastructure access and interoperability, including an infrastructure implementation plan for the European Polar Research Programme.
(EU-PolarNet, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020)European nations operate world-class research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic, which result from a long history of polar research and significant investments made by national polar programmes. The European Polar ... -
White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission].
(Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture, Greenland, 2012)Within the IWC context, Greenland’s hunt of large whales falls in the category of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling (ASW) together with the whaling of the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and The Grenadines and the USA. For ... -
White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission].
(Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture, Greenland, 2018)Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland is a Self-Governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark with full legislative and executive responsibility in many fields including the management of natural living resources. Foreign policy (including ... -
White Paper on Status of Stakeholder Engagement in Polar Research.
(EU-PolarNet, Bremerhaven, Germany, 2020)Polar stakeholders include both Arctic and Antarctic stakeholders. However, while including both, the White Paper focuses more on the Arctic, as it is inhabited, and hence higher on the European agenda. This white ...