Meeting announcement / underway shipboard automated systems
2nd Joint Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) / Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Workshop
Seattle, Washington 10-12 June 2008
A workshop web page, including on-line registration, abstract submittal, and hotel information, will be posted in January 2008. The registration and abstract deadline will be 1 April 2008.
The primary purpose of the workshop is to expand areas of collaboration between the GOSUD project (http://www.ifremer.fr/gosud/) and the SAMOS initiative (http://samos.coaps.fsu.edu/). A new objective will be identifying areas for international collaboration with SAMOS-type initiatives in Europe and Australia and ongoing automated Voluntary Observing Ship programs. Through a series of invited speakers, contributed talks and posters, and panel discussions, workshop participants will continue to stimulate interest in utilizing automated atmospheric and near-surface ocean measurements to further the scientific objectives of the oceanic, atmospheric, and global climate communities.
The workshop is open to anyone (but limited to 45 participants) with an interest in high quality meteorological and near-surface oceanographic observations collected by automated sensors on ships. The organizers are seeking contributions from research and operational data users, marine technicians, vessel operators, and funding agencies. Members of the satellite, modeling, and other user communities are especially encouraged to attend. Past workshops have benefited by having an even mix of scientists, data managers, instrument developers, marine technicians, and governmental representatives.
The workshop will advance international plans to provide high-accuracy, calibrated, quality-controlled, near-surface ocean (GOSUD) and marine meteorological observations (SAMOS) to the scientific community. The observations currently collected by GOSUD and SAMOS are measured by automated underway instrument systems on research and merchant vessels. These research-quality observations are an essential component to the developing ocean observing system. They are an ideal resource to validate satellite sensors, provide benchmarks of air-sea flux fields, and improve our understanding of ocean circulations.
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Maria Hood, Ph.D.
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission UNESCO
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75732 Paris Cedex 15
Tel: +33 (0)1.45.68.40.28
Fax: +33 (0)1.45.68.58.12
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