This session was just announced for the next American Geophysical Union “Ocean Sciences” Meeting in February 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Abstract Submissions Deadline : 4 October 2013.
Profiling floats and gliders that are equipped with biogeochemical sensors are a rapidly evolving technology that enables observations throughout the global ocean in synergy with the Argo program. They provide data at scales that cannot be achieved by shipboard observations. Biogeochemical sensors are now available that can monitor key variables such as oxygen, nutrients, pH, chlorophyll, particulate organic carbon and all have been deployed for extended periods from floats and/or gliders. These systems would enable a cost effective global observation system that would greatly reduce the uncertainties in our estimation of elemental (C, N, O) fluxes at the global scale and our ability to detect change in these processes. In this session we welcome presentation related to such an emerging global observation system. These may range from the development of new sensors with the potential of global applications, to the design of observational experimental network through OSSE’s, to science highlights resulting from dataset analysis acquired by float and gliders. Presentations that highlight the combination of remotely acquired in situ and satellite data to develop a 3D/4D vision of the ocean, or the use of these data with biogeochemical models are particularly relevant. Presentations with an education/outreach component are encouraged.
Claustre Hervé , CNRS & UPMC, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche claustre@obs-vlfr.fr
Johnson Kenneth , MBARI johnson@mbari.org