Sentences with phrase «ocean observation network»

Recent ocean heat content (OHC) calculations have shown a dramatic shift during the period 2001 — 2003, which is nearly coincident with a major transition in the ocean observation network from a ship - based system to Argo floats.

It was the first unmanned ocean observation network in Japan's history.

Not exact matches

This demonstrates how longer periods of observation, along with the complete ARGO network, are critical to derive more accurate long - term ocean trends.

Now why would NOAA be setting up an observation network on ocean acidification.

Several estimates of the trend in ocean heat content have been made using the ARGO network of ocean floats, satellite observations of ocean altimetry (Levitus et al., 2000, 2001; Willis et al., 2003), and climate models (Barnett et al., 2001; Crowley et al., 2003).

Using a combination of satellite observations and direct measurements taken by a network of 3,000 floating Argo temperature probes, the NASA team set out to calculate temperature changes and thermal expansion in the deep ocean (below 1.24 miles).