Economic Considerations in the Design of Ocean Observing Systems [PDF]
Recent work on the potential economic value of improved coastal ocean observing capabilities suggests that aggregate values of better ocean observing system information for all US waters could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Hauke L. Kite-Powell
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An Innovative Approach to Design and Evaluate a Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
Comprehensive and objective evaluation of all observing assets, tools, and services within an ocean observing system is essential to maximize effectiveness and efficiency; yet, it often eludes programs due to the complexity of such robust evaluation.
Chris E. Ostrander +3 more
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Characterizing the Natural System: Toward Sustained, Integrated Coastal Ocean Acidification Observing Networks to Facilitate Resource Management and Decision Support [PDF]
Coastal ocean ecosystems have always served human populations—they provide food security, livelihoods, coastal protection, and defense. Ocean acidification is a global threat to these ecosystem services, particularly when other local and regional ...
Simone R. Alin +9 more
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Mesoscale variability and water mass transport of the Caribbean Current revealed by high-resolution glider observations [PDF]
The Caribbean Through-Flow (CTF) provides a key pathway linking the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre and the upper limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Yet, its internal structure and variability remain poorly resolved.
J. C. Gradone +4 more
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Observations of Rogue Seas in the Southern Ocean [PDF]
We report direct observations of surface waves from a stereo camera system along with concurrent measurements of wind speed during an expedition across the Southern Ocean in the austral winter aboard South African icebreaker S.A.~Agulhas~II. Records include water surface elevation across a range of wave conditions, spanning from early stages of wave ...
A. Toffoli +8 more
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Ocean Meteorological Observations [PDF]
I PRESUME that anyone looking at the chart on page 43 of this week's NATURE, or reflecting on the circumstances under which barometric observations at sea are ordinarily taken, will agree with me that it would be wiser to give only two places of decimals, and not indicate a degree of refinement which the observations do not warrant.
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Observations of Sargassum carbon influx and biogeochemical impact in La Parguera Marine Reserve
The massive influx of pelagic Sargassum spp. species, also known as Sargassum inundation events (SIEs), first arrived at the Caribbean’s coastal waters in 2011. These events have been linked to hypoxia, among other ecological disturbances.
Priscilla N. Molina-Cora +7 more
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Stratified coastal ocean interactions with tropical cyclones
Accurate forecasts of hurricane intensity remain problematic. Here, using an ocean observing network to inform ocean and atmospheric model simulations, the authors show that consideration of ahead-of-eye cooling improves intensity forecasts.
S. M. Glenn +8 more
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Estimating Argo Float Trajectories Under Ice
Since the Argo program began, 568 floats returned almost 31,000 profiles, at high‐southern latitudes, with no measured position. These data are either disseminated with positions linearly interpolated between known positions, or with no geographic ...
Peter R. Oke +3 more
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Hurricane-Induced Oceanic Carbon Changes in the Upper Ocean
Changes in marine carbon cycling due to hurricanes with different intensity and translation speeds have not been systematically investigated. This study uses an idealized coupled physical-biogeochemical model and a suite of model sensitivity analyses to ...
Laura McGee, Ruoying He
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