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Component network
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ECVs
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International coordination
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Repeat XBT line network (41 lines) |
Temperature |
JCOMM Ship Observations Team (SOT) |
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Global tropical moored buoy network (~120 moorings) |
Temperature, Salinity, Current, other feasible autonomously observable ECVs |
JCOMM DBCP Tropical Moored Buoy Implementation Panel (TIP)
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data
TAO/TRITON (Pacific)
PIRATA (Atlantic)
(Indian) |
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Reference mooring network (29 moorings) |
all autonomously observable ECVs |
OceanSITES |
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Sustained and repeated ship-based hydrography network |
All feasible ECVs, including those that depend on obtaining water samples |
GO-SHIP
(from a programme initiated in IOCCP and CLIVAR) |
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Argo network |
Temperature, Salinity, Currrent |
Argo |
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Critical current and transport monitoring |
Temperature, heat, freshwater, carbon transports, mass |
CLIVAR, IOCCP , OceanSITES |
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Regional and global synthesis programmes |
inferred Currents, transports
gridded fields of all ECVs |
GODAE, CLIVAR, other national efforts |
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