# Presentation: 158514

## Use the Data!

-   Fisheries
-   Natural Hazards
- 	Near Term  (Storm Surge)
- 	Long Term (Sea Level Variability)
-   Weather and Climate
-   Marine Operations
-   Public Health
-   Marine Ecosystems
-   Marine Resources

## Implementation

-   Deployments
-   Float Provider
-   Participate in the Donor Program
-   Coordinate Access to Operations in EEZs
- 	UNCLOS
-   Logistics at Embarkation Points
-   WMO Information System (WIS)
-   Education (K – 12)

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## EEZs/Law of the Sea/”Operational Oceanography”

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## Courtesy of Howard Freeland

***Courtesy of Howard Freeland***

## IOC/ABE-LOS

**Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea **
**Composed of both marine scientists and law of the sea experts**
**Seventh annual meeting in Gabon March 2007**

## ABE-LOS TASK (1)

**Draft legal framework for the collection of oceanographic data, within the context of the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention**
** ****(IOC Assembly Resolution XXII-12 (2003))**

## ABE-LOS TASK (2)

**Develop practical guidelines for**
- Deployment of floats on high seas that may drift into EEZs
- Deployment of floats and surface drifting buoys in EEZs
- Deployment of XBTs by ships of opportunity in EEZs
- (IOC Assembly Resolution XXIII-8 (2005))

## Meteorological Data

**- UNCLOS III decided collection of marine meteorological data is not MSR**
**- Analogous is routine collection of ocean observations distributed freely and openly, and used for monitoring and forecasting ocean state, weather (meteorology) and climate**

## OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY PROGRAMS

**All have same characteristics:**
**Sustained, systematic, reliable and robust mission activities with institutional commitment to deliver appropriate, cost-effective products and services**

## MSR v. OTHER FORMS OF MARINE DATA COLLECTION

**Although the means of data collection are often the same (and may appear indistinguishable from MSR), it is the **_***intended use***_** to which the data is to be put that distinguishes MSR from surveys, operational oceanography, and exploration/exploitation of resources**

**Notes:**
Primary difference between MSR and military marine data collection/hydrographic surveys is the use to which the data is to be put.

Although the means of data collection are often the same (and to the coastal state may appear indistinguishable from marine scientific research), it is the intended use to which the data is to be put that distinguishes operational oceanography, military marine data collection, hydrographic surveys and exploration/exploitation of resources from marine scientific research.

## SUMMARY

**- Not all methods of collection of data about the oceans is MSR regulated by Part XIII**
**- Lack of agreed definitions results in differences of views on the legal regimes governing particular forms of marine data collection:**
- MSR – Surveys – Operational Oceanography – Exploration and exploitation of resources
**- Understanding and clarification needed**

## OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY

**- Not mentioned in LOS Convention**
**- Routine collection of standard data sets**
- Temperature, pressure, currents, salinity, wind
- Atmosphere, air-sea interface, oceans
**- Monitoring and Forecasting**
- Ocean state estimation
- Weather - Meteorology
- Climate prediction
**- Near real time transmission, near real time availability to public**

## Benin

- Mr. George Degbe
- Representative de Benin
**Gabon**
- Dr Pierre MAGANGA
- DGDM / Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, Francophony and Regional Integration
- Libreville
**Kenya**
- Dr Johnson M. KAZUNGU
- Kenya Marine & Fisheries Research Institute
- Mombasa
**Morocco/Maroc**
- Prof. Mohammed MONCEF
- Université Chouaïb Doukkali
- El Jadida

## Republic of Congo/République du Congo

- H.E. Louis Marie NOMBO-MAVOUNGOU
- Mr Jean Claude MOUNGONDO-NSI MBA
- Mr Alain Claver BATCHY
- Mr Pierre Claver MBOUITI
- Ministre des Transports Maritimes et de la Marine Marchande
- Brazzaville
- Mr Jean Felix MOUTHOUD-TCHIKAYA
- Direction Générale de la Marine Marchande
- Pointe Noire
- Mr Jules NGOMA
- Ministère des Transports Maritimes et de la Marine Marchande
- Pointe Noire
**Senegal/Sénégal**
- Mme Marième Diagne TALLA
- Ministère de l’Economie Maritime et des Transports Maritimes Internationales
- Dr Birane SAMB
- Centre de recherches océanographiques de Dakar Thiaroye
- Dakar

## Togo

- Dr Adoté Blim BLIVI
- Université de Lomé
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**Tunisia/Tunisie **
- Prof. Chérif SAMMARI
- Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer
- Salammbô
**United Republic of Tanzania/République-unie de Tanzanie**
- Dr A.M. DUBI
- University of Dar es Salaam
- Zanzibar

## Upper Ocean Cooling

## Global-scale variability in 2004 – 2006.

**Global-scale variability in 2004 – 2006.**

**Global T****av****: 0 – 1000m**

**The 2004 – 2006 global “cooling” is partly due to tropical interannual variability and partly due to isopycnal shoaling in the Atlantic thermocline.**

## Gliders for the Edges of the Argo Array

**Although slow moving, can maintain arrays in boundary currents and other localized features**

## August 2003

**August 2003**
**Glider Tracks**

**0-400m**

**0-200m**

## Scale and Handling

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