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Toward an Interdisciplinary Ocean Observing System in 2025--Eric D'Asaro
Pages 141-143

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... A crucial development behind physical oceanography's switch from water sampling to electronic sensors has been Seabird Electronics sustained efforts to honestly meet the WOCE standards for CTD accuracy. As a result, relatively inexpensive temperature and salinity measurements can be made by *
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... The current technology of Argo floats is quite mature; gliders are rapidly maturing. Given the potentially large number of biogeochemical sensors, there is probably a need for vehicles with a larger payload capability than the current Argo floats.
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... The new sensors will allow physics and biogeochemistry to be sampled on the same space and time scales and thus lead to large advances the understanding their interconnections. Just as the observational tools of physical oceanography applied to geophysical fluid dynamics resulted in today's observational system, we can hope that the new biogeochemical tools applied to rigorously test and improve today's primitive biogeochemical models will also result in a system for understanding and predicting the ocean's biogeochemistry.
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