Stimulated by the IUGC in Gothenburg, a new Special Issue of Ocean Science on “Advances in ocean science from underwater gliders” is now open for you to submit papers! Please spread the word in the glider family.
It’s listed here
https://www.ocean-science.net/articles_and_preprints/scheduled_sis.htmla
Here’s the information:
Advances in ocean science from underwater gliders
14 Aug 2024–31 Dec 2025 | Charitha Pattiaratchi (University of Western Australia, Australia), Annunziata Pirro (National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics, Italy), Filipa Carvalho (National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom), Ilker Fer (University of Bergen, Norway), Luc Rainville (University of Washington, United States), and OS editors
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Over the past 25 years autonomous underwater gliders have progressed from experimental vehicles through scientific instruments to operational tools. Observations from gliders are now enhancing our understanding of physical, biogeochemical, and biological oceanographic processes. They represent a mature technology and complement traditional ocean sampling capabilities, especially for sustained real-time oceanographic measurements. They are now used as standard research tools in sustainable ocean observations and process studies, collecting measurements of physical, chemical, and bio-optical ocean variables. Underwater gliders have unique capacities to connect open-ocean and coastal processes and to sample the ocean at regional scales during multi-month missions. Gliders have been routinely deployed to monitor the ocean, for example monitoring continental shelves, boundary currents, and polar regions including in under-ice operations. More recently gliders have contributed to environmental hazard detection such as in the detection of marine heat waves and hurricane prediction.
This special issue has been stimulated by the International Underwater Glider Conference (IUGG) that was held in Gothenburg in June 2024, but submissions are open to everyone regardless of participation in the conference.
We invite papers advancing knowledge on the ocean’s physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem properties and processes by using underwater gliders and/or by their combined use with other observing platforms or numerical models. Contributions on technologicala aspects such as the development of glider sensors are welcome provided they include some ocean science advance.
Contact:
Professor Karen J. Heywood OBE FRS (she/her)
Co-editor-in-chief of open access, not-for-profit EGU journal Ocean Science