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Oceanography in 2025: Responding to Growing Populations on a Rapidly Changing Planet--Scott Glenn
Pages 17-21

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... • Despite significant investments in ocean science, applications and observational infrastructure, the ocean is and will remain vastly undersampled. Our prized glimpses of the well-sampled times and locations will continue to inform model development.
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From page 18...
... • Interest in observatory datasets, scientific understanding, and the resulting predictive models has grown well beyond the scientific community. The same data and forecasts used by the scientists benefit government agencies and private industry.
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From page 19...
... Key is the development of new algorithms for ocean color, new active radar satellite sensors, and sustained coastal HF radar networks. Like ships of opportunity, inexpensive remote sensing systems will be deployed on aircraft of opportunity.
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From page 20...
... • Communications are key to adaptive sampling, assimilation, and the development of collaborative communities. The inter net on land, improved two-way global satellite communications, broader shore-based cell phone networks, and research on under water communications will continue to develop into a ubiquitous communication grid.
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From page 21...
... Specific development projects will focus on improved parameterizations for the unresolved mixing scales, and the interdisciplinary ocean model components, of the coupled atmosphere-ocean-land models. And, as with the other transformational technologies, you will no longer need to be an ocean modeler to use ocean models.
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Key Terms

  • autonomous platforms
  • ocean observatories
  • coastal countries
  • transformational technology
  • interdisciplinary science

  • growing populations
  • transformational technologies
  • coastal ocean
  • physical ocean
  • observed changes

  • ocean modeler
  • resulting predictive
  • inexpensive remote
  • wind farms
  • partnership program

  • energy sources
  • coordinated fleets
  • cell phone
  • oceanographic models
  • human population

  • locally generated
  • broader funding
  • populations require
  • growing global
  • observatory datasets

  • satellite sensors
  • phone networks
  • circulation models
  • global energy
  • regional forecasts


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