NSF Initiatives Some subsurface programs of interest to
NSF Initiatives: Some subsurface programs of interest to ICOMM A) B) C) D) 0 Depth (m) 0. 20 CDOM 0. 40 F) E) 12 202 Julian Day 214
Why?
RESEARCH OBSERVATORIES OPERATIONAL OBSERVATORIES These systems provide great opportunities for the community and a seamless marriage of the two is absolutely required to achieve the potential of integrated system.
Net CO 2 flux (Takahashi et al 1995) Science issues included CO 2 uptake by the ocean, biological productivity, biomass, ecosystem variables and fluxes, air-sea fluxes, thermohaline changes, water mass transformation, rapid or episodic changes, mass/heat transports, geophysics Thanks to Uwe Send & Robert Weller
REGIONAL ARRAYS Will provide sustained power and 2 -way communication to support instrumentation for time-series measurements and real-time adaptive sampling.
COASTAL OOI • Long-term moored-buoys, robots, electro-optic crossshelf arrays for long term time series. “Endurance arrays” • Re-locatable spatial networks of moorings-radars to support focused on process studies. “Pioneer arrays”
NSF Mid-Size Initiatives (MSI) Chaired by Daniel Rudnick and Mary Jane Perry
ROBOTS ARE OPERATIONAL TOOLS Total Number of Glider Days (out 426 days total) Flown: 404 Total Kilometers Flown: 11876 Northeast United States 16 -Sep-2004 15: 00: 53 - 23 -Sep-2004 11: 57: 27 10 30 50 70 90 110 NJSOS ENDURANCE LINE Temperature 10 30 50 70 90 110 bb 532 Hurricane Ivan 10 30 50 70 90 110 bb(532)/c(532) 74: 10 74: 00 73: 50 73: 40 73: 30 73: 20 73: 10
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