Argo

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Use the Data!

• Fisheries
• Natural Hazards
• Near Term (Storm Surge)
• Long Term (Sea Level Variability)
• Weather and Climate
• Marine Operations
• Public Health
• Marine Ecosystems
• Marine Resources

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Implementation

• Deployments
• Float Provider
• Participate in the Donor Program
• Coordinate Access to Operations in EEZs
• UNCLOS
• Logistics at Embarkation Points
• WMO Information System (WIS)
• Education (K 12)

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EEZs/Law of the Sea/Operational Oceanography
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Courtesy of Howard Freeland
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IOC/ABE-LOS

1. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commissions
   Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea
2. Composed of both marine scientists and law of the
   sea experts
3. Seventh annual meeting in Gabon March 2007

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ABE-LOS TASK (1)

• Draft legal framework for the collection of
  oceanographic data, within the context of the Law
  of the Sea (LOS) Convention
• (IOC Assembly Resolution XXII-12 (2003))

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ABE-LOS TASK (2)

• Develop practical guidelines for
• Deployment of floats on high seas that may drift
  into EEZs
• Deployment of floats and surface drifting buoys
  in EEZs
• Deployment of XBTs by ships of opportunity in
  EEZs
• (IOC Assembly Resolution XXIII-8 (2005))

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Meteorological Data

1. - UNCLOS III decided collection of marine
   meteorological data is not MSR
2. - Analogous is routine collection of ocean
   observations distributed freely and openly, and
   used for monitoring and forecasting ocean state,
   weather (meteorology) and climate

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OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY PROGRAMS

1. All have same characteristics
2. Sustained, systematic, reliable and robust
   mission activities with institutional commitment
   to deliver appropriate, cost-effective products
   and services

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MSR v. OTHER FORMS OF MARINE DATA COLLECTION

1. Although the means of data collection are often
   the same (and may appear indistinguishable from
   MSR), it is the intended use to which the data is
   to be put that distinguishes MSR from surveys,
   operational oceanography, and exploration/exploita
   tion of resources

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SUMMARY

• - Not all methods of collection of data about the
  oceans is MSR regulated by Part XIII
• - Lack of agreed definitions results in
  differences of views on the legal regimes
  governing particular forms of marine data
  collection
• MSR Surveys Operational Oceanography
  Exploration and exploitation of resources
• - Understanding and clarification needed

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OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY

• - Not mentioned in LOS Convention
• - Routine collection of standard data sets
• Temperature, pressure, currents, salinity, wind
• Atmosphere, air-sea interface, oceans
• - Monitoring and Forecasting
• Ocean state estimation
• Weather - Meteorology
• Climate prediction
• - Near real time transmission, near real time
  availability to public

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Benin Mr. George Degbe Representative de Benin
  Gabon Dr Pierre MAGANGA DGDM / Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, Francophony and
Regional Integration Libreville   Kenya Dr
Johnson M. KAZUNGU Kenya Marine Fisheries
Research Institute Mombasa   Morocco/Maroc Prof.
Mohammed MONCEF Université Chouaïb Doukkali El
Jadida
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Republic of Congo/République du Congo H.E. Louis
Marie NOMBO-MAVOUNGOU Mr Jean Claude
MOUNGONDO-NSI MBA Mr Alain Claver BATCHY Mr
Pierre Claver MBOUITI Ministre des Transports
Maritimes et de la Marine Marchande Brazzaville  
Mr Jean Felix MOUTHOUD-TCHIKAYA Direction
Générale de la Marine Marchande Pointe Noire   Mr
Jules NGOMA Ministère des Transports Maritimes et
de la Marine Marchande Pointe Noire   Senegal/Séné
gal Mme Marième Diagne TALLA Ministère de
lEconomie Maritime et des Transports Maritimes
Internationales   Dr Birane SAMB Centre de
recherches océanographiques de Dakar Thiaroye
Dakar
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Togo Dr Adoté Blim BLIVI Université de Lomé
  Tunisia/Tunisie Prof. Chérif SAMMARI Institut
National des Sciences et Technologies de la
Mer Salammbô   United Republic of
Tanzania/République-unie de Tanzanie Dr A.M.
DUBI University of Dar es Salaam Zanzibar
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Upper Ocean Cooling
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Global-scale variability in 2004 2006.
The 2004 2006 global cooling is partly due to
tropical interannual variability and partly due
to isopycnal shoaling in the Atlantic thermocline.
Global Tav 0 1000m
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Gliders for the Edges of the Argo Array
Although slow moving, can maintain arrays in
boundary currents and other localized features
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0-200m
August 2003 Glider Tracks
0-400m
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Scale and Handling
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