Abstract
The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) for Climate, Ocean Health, and Operational Services. It brings together marine scientists and engineers operating gliders around the world: (1) to observe the long-term physical, biogeochemical, and biological ocean processes and phenomena that are relevant for societal applications; and, (2) to contribute to the GOOS through real-time and delayed mode data dissemination. The OceanGliders program is distributed across national and regional observing systems and significantly contributes to integrated, multi-scale and multi-platform sampling strategies. OceanGliders shares best practices, requirements, and scientific knowledge needed for glider operations, data collection and analysis. It also monitors global glider activity and supports the dissemination of glider data through regional and global databases, in real-time and delayed modes, facilitating data access to the wider community. OceanGliders currently supports national, regional and global initiatives to maintain and expand the capabilities and application of gliders to meet key global challenges such as improved measurement of ocean boundary currents, water transformation and storm forecast.
Highlights
The ocean is an important component of the global earth system influencing the global/regional climate, weather, ecosystems, living resources and biodiversity
It is implemented through Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Regional Alliances and supported by a wide range of bodies, such as the Committee on Earth Observing Satellites (CEOS), the Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO) and the GEO Blue Planet initiative
To provide scientific leadership to promote and strengthen the glider community and facilitate their sustained use globally in order to respond to the integrated requirements of the Global Ocean Observing system (GOOS)
Summary
The ocean is an important component of the global earth system influencing the global/regional climate, weather, ecosystems, living resources and biodiversity. Developed in the 1980–1990s (Lee and Rudnick, 2018), they arose from the vision that a network of small, intelligent, mobile and cheap observing platforms could fill sampling gaps left by the other ocean observing platforms (Stommel, 1989). This idea was first discussed at OceanObs’ (see Conference Statement1), when the technology was immature, and further developed at OceanObs’, when the technology was still maturing but poised to make a substantial contribution to global ocean observing (Testor et al, 2010). It was agreed that gliders could fill important gaps left by other observing systems and greatly enhance the GOOS if fully integrated into the system, and recommendations were made for the decade
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