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6 Relationship of the Ocean Observatories Initiative to Other Observatory Efforts
6 Relationship of the Ocean Observatories Initiative to Other Observatory Efforts
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE AND INTEGRATED AND SUSTAINED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM Current operational observatories consist principally of sea level sites, the various national weather sites (for example, the U.S. National Data Buoy Center's coastal weather buoys and shore weather stations)
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In addition, real-time data from OOI observatories will allow "interactive" ocean science; observational resources can be rapidly Redeployed in response to detection of major events such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, harmful algal blooms, or debris flows. Archival data will be required for scientific analyses involving both the original purposes for which the data were gathered, as well as unforeseen applications, carried out by both the original investigator and a broader community that will use the products of the OOI observatories.
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While the OOI and the IOOS have been described separately above, the hypothesis-driven basic research conducted at OOI observatories and the development of operational oceanography through the IOOS program are, in fact, critically interdependent, with each program supplying ingredients essential to the other and academic researchers playing pivotal roles in both. This degree of interdependence implies that mechanisms should be sought to make the planning and operation of both programs equally interdependent, starting in the present planning stages for both programs.
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The Importance of the Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System to the Ocean Observatories Initiative The planned observational backbone of IOOS will provide the OOI research community with important benefits as well, primarily by providing the broader observational context for OOI systems (Box 6-2~. These IOOS data streams will relieve researchers of the need to collect this essential background information themselves, allowing them to focus on resolving poorly known ocean processes and developing new technologies.
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Both contributions would improve the success rate and return-on-investment of OOI research experiments. "Complimentarily" and Synergy Between the Ocean Observatory Initiative and the Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System Both the OOI and the IOOS are presently scheduled to commence in FY 2006, reducing opportunities for each program to contribute to the other during the intervening period.
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However, research scientists continue to use TAO moorings as platforms for testing new instrumentation and the TAO array itself as a coarse-scale grid in which to embed finer-scale process studies. The results of such process studies, combined with the multi-year archived TAO data set, allow other researchers to improve and test theories and models of the equatorial ocean and its atmospheric teleconnections, consequently driving improvements in the operational models used for E1 Nino predictions.
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Given the costs of both the IOOS and the OOI, and the likely participation of the research community in both, it is crucial that the coastal components of these two programs be fully coordinated in all stages of development and operation. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE AND OTHER NATIONAL OCEAN AND EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS The NSF-supported OOI will have close ties to ocean and Earth observing systems supported by other agencies including NOAA, NASA, USACE, the U.S.
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. PO.DAAC scientists are also involved in data management issues associated with a pilot Southern California GIS Data Center collaboration with regional coastal planning agencies, the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE)
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coastline upon which a physical, biological, and chemical understanding of Earth processes can be built and referenced. The USGS operates various time-series observational programs that may be of direct value to the OOI, including the national network of stream flow gauges, volcano observatories, and the coastal mapping of temporal changes in shoreline and bluff locations and subaqueous bottom substrate.
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The OHP network includes island stations and seafloor observatories making seismic, electromagnetic, and geodetic measurements, including three broadband seismometers installed in the ODP drill holes in the western Pacific. lapanese scientists are currently conducting a feasibility study of a nextgeneration submarine cable network around the Japanese Islands known as the Advanced Real-Time Earth monitoring Network in the Area (ARENA)
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OOI will be joined by other national commitments to the global ocean observatory infrastructure, perhaps in the same fashion that many nations have partnered to field the global array of profiling Argo floats. The scientific planning, management, and operational structure of the OOI needs to be organized in such a manner as to leverage these various national efforts into what will eventually evolve into a truly international ocean observatory program.
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