The Southern Ocean
Observing System
Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations
Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations
This task team was a joint project with SOFLUX and Observing Systems Design Capability Working Groups.
The Big Ring has been proposed, which consists of a widely spaced array of moorings. These offer the prospect of giving ground truth to estimates of air-sea fluxes. Where should these be deployed to best constrain these fluxes? There is also the SOTS mooring (Australian), Southern Ocean OOI mooring (US), and a proposed Brazilian SOOS Flux Buoy. This work is aimed at SOOS coordinating and organizing these efforts, along with other flux measurement efforts.