Southampton meeting
1. Remind ourselves of timeseries science
2. Broaden OceanSITES community
3. Develop/discuss goals and targets
4. Place in the framework of JCOMM, OCG, FOO
5. Enhance interaction between SC and DMT
6. Enhance data holdings, products
7. Develop users and links to other communities
8. Running of OceanSITES, governance
Site categories:
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Surface met and physical air-sea fluxes (heat, momentum, fresh water)
Physical water column
Deep T/S
Transport
Biogeochemical (carbon, OA, oxygen, particle flux)
Watercolumn ecosystem (chl, acoustic backscatter, nutrients ?)
Benthic ecosystem (life on/in the seafloor)
Remove: geophysical, observatory
Searchable site attributes:
EOV list plus more (also add CF names),
distinguish surface, water column, benthic
1) Physical air-sea fluxes (heat, momentum, fresh water)
2) Upper-ocean currents
3) Deep currents
4) surface T/S
5) Water column T/S
6) Deep T/S
7) Transport
8) Surface CO2
9) Watercolumn pH
10) Watercolumn O2
11) Water column nitrate
12) Watercolumn chl
13) Water column acoustics
14) Particle flux (sediment traps etc)
15) Benthic observatory (life on/in the seafloor)
Disciplinary target maps for:
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Physical air-sea fluxes (heat, momentum, fresh water) (Weller, Cronin)
Physical water column, including deep microcat network (M.Lankhorst)
Transport (U. Send)
OA (A. Sutton)
Chlorophyll (R. Lampitt)