Federal Ocean Carbon Observing Landscape Analysis

Kelly, Kyla, J.; Wright-Fairbanks, Liza; O'Brien, Kevin; Keister, Elise; Clevenger, Samantha; Tedesco, Kathy; Larkin, Alyse, A.

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Federal Ocean Carbon Observing Landscape Analysis

2025
By Kelly, Kyla, J. ; Wright-Fairbanks, Liza ; O'Brien, Kevin ; ...
Series: NOAA technical memorandum OAR-GOMO 1

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Personal Author:

Kelly, Kyla, J. ; Wright-Fairbanks, Liza ; O'Brien, Kevin ; Keister, Elise ; Clevenger, Samantha ; Tedesco, Kathy ; Larkin, Alyse, A.
Corporate Authors:

Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (U.S.) ; NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (U.S.) ; Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies. ; University of Southern California. Sea Grant Institutional Program. ; Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. ; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Sea Grant Program. ; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) ; OAP (Ocean Acidification Program) ; Sea Grant ; CICOES (Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies)
Sea Grant Program:

MASGC (Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium) ; WHOI (Woods Hole Sea Grant) ; SCU (Southern California Sea Grant)
Description:

This landscape analysis examined U.S. federal sustained, in situ ocean carbon observing efforts, identifying spatiotemporal gaps in the global coverage of these observations. A range of observational platforms were analyzed, including research vessels, ships of opportunity, moorings, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), and biogeochemical profiling floats. Despite extensive coverage by OAR alone in regions like the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Tropical Pacific, and Tropical Atlantic, notable gaps remain in southern hemisphere oceans, the Indian and Arctic Oceans, and the Laurentian Great Lakes.
Keywords:

Climate Global Ocean Monitoring And Observing Program GOMO NOAA Research OAR Observations Ocean Carbon
Series:

NOAA technical memorandum OAR-GOMO 1
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/v9nx-qf04
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Technical Memorandum
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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