Ship-Based Contributions to Global Ocean, Weather, and Climate Observing Systems.

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2019Author
Smith, Shawn R.
Alory, Gaël
Andersson, Axel
Asher, William
Baker, Alex
Berry, David I.
Drushka, Kyla
Figurskey, Darin
Freeman, Eric
Holthus, Paul
Jickells, Tim
Kleta, Henry
Kent, Elizabeth C.
Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas
Kramp, Martin
Loh, Zoe
Poli, Paul
Schuster, Ute
Steventon, Emma
Swart, Sebastiaan
Tarasova, Oksana
de la Villéon, Loic Petit
Vinogradova-Shiffer, Nadya
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The role ships play in atmospheric, oceanic, and biogeochemical observations is
described with a focus on measurements made near the ocean surface. Ships include
merchant and research vessels; cruise liners and ferries; fishing vessels; coast guard,
military, and other government-operated ships; yachts; and a growing fleet of automated
surface vessels. The present capabilities of ships to measure essential climate/ocean
variables and the requirements from a broad community to address operational,
commercial, and scientific needs are described. The authors provide a vision to expand
observations needed from ships to understand and forecast the exchanges across the
ocean–atmosphere interface. The vision addresses (1) recruiting vessels to improve both
spatial and temporal sampling, (2) conducting multivariate sampling on ships, (3) raising
technology readiness levels of automated shipboard sensors and ship-to-shore data
communications, (4) advancing quality evaluation of obser.....
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceVolume
6Issue
Article 434Page Range
26pp.Document Language
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10.3389/fmars.2019.00434Citation
Smith, S.R., et al (2019) Ship-Based Contributions to Global Ocean, Weather, and Climate Observing Systems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:434, 26pp. DOI 10.3389/fmars.2019.00434Collections
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