GCOS requirements and international observing standards: Oceanic Domain The following tables for the oceanic domains cover in situ measurements of the surface, subsurface and water column of the sea. Information on GCOS climate observing requirements is taken from OSCAR (see Box 3). The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors GCOS, GOOS and the WCRP. Details of instrumentation and supporting documentation for the measurement of ECVs can be sourced through the websites and contacts provided for the contributing networks. These are provided on the OOPC website (see extracts below copyright: © 2005-6 IOC/UNESCO) Subsurface composite network: Component ECVs International coordination provided by: network Reference mooring all autonomously observable ECVs network (29 moorings) Sustained and repeated All feasible ECVs, including those that ship-based depend on obtaining water samples (from a programme initiated in and hydrography network Argo Temperature, Salinity, Currrent network Repeat XBT line network Temperature JCOMM (SOT) (41 lines) Critical current and Temperature, heat, freshwater, , , transport carbon transports, mass monitoring Dated: 25/10/2013 Surface composite network: Component network ECVs International coordination provided by: Global surface drifting SST, SLP, Current buoy array with 5° (based on position JCOMM (DBCP) resolution (1250 total) change)
GCOS requirements and international observing standards: Oceanic Domain The following tables for the oceanic domains cover in situ measurements of the surface, subsurface and water column of the sea. Information on GCOS climate observing requirements is taken from OSCAR (see Box 3). The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors GCOS, GOOS and the WCRP. Details of instrumentation and supporting documentation for the measurement of ECVs can be sourced through the websites and contacts provided for the contributing networks. These are provided on the OOPC website (see extracts below copyright: © 2005-6 IOC/UNESCO) Subsurface composite network: Component network ECVs International coordination provided by: Reference mooring network (29 moorings) all autonomously observable ECVs Sustained and repeated ship-based hydrography network All feasible ECVs, including those that depend on obtaining water samples (from a programme initiated in and Argo network Temperature, Salinity, Currrent Repeat XBT line network (41 lines) Temperature JCOMM (SOT) Critical current and transport monitoring Temperature, heat, freshwater, carbon transports, mass , , Dated: 25/10/2013 Surface composite network: Component network ECVs International coordination provided by: Global surface drifting buoy array with 5° resolution (1250 total) SST, SLP, Current (based on position change) JCOMM (DBCP)
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