Fifth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

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A Review of the NOPP Ocean-Systems for Chemical, Optical, and Physical Experiments (O-SCOPE) Project

Tommy D. Dickey, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and N. Bates, R. Byrne, F. Chavez, R. Feely, C. Moore, and R. Wanninkhof

The National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) sponsored Ocean-Systems for Chemical, Optical, and Physical Experiments (O-SCOPE) program is focusing on the development and testing of new interdisciplinary instrumentation to improve the variety, quantity, quality, and cost-effectiveness of observations in anticipation of a global network of strategically placed moorings and other platforms. Resulting technologies will be used to quantify 1) trends in biogeochemical and bio-optical variables and 2) seasonal, interannual, and decadal changes in upper ocean biogeochemical and bio-optical variability and carbon fluxes. The O-SCOPE interdisciplinary sensor suites (e.g., pCO2 and pH sensors, nitrate analyzers, and several optical sensors) have been or are being tested at three mooring sites. These include the Bermuda Testbed Mooring 80 km off the island of Bermuda and MBARI moorings in Monterey Bay. In addition, newly developed systems were placed on the NOPP OWS "P" mooring in the fall of 1999. OWS "P" data have been collected, telemetered, and made available via the O-SCOPE website. A program introduction and the two previous workshop reports may be found on the following websites: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/oscope/ http://www.opl.ucsb.edu/oscope.html

Session 1, New Ocean Observing and Data Management Systems (NOPP Special Session)
Monday, 15 January 2001, 8:30 AM-12:30 PM

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