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Projects
GODAE develops through prototype systems, pilot projects, directed tasks and working groups. These systems are designed to test and promote the end-to-end system (i.e. from the observing system through to the end users) globally and at regional scales. The main objective is to gain experience on real-time data flow aspects and to begin product design and product distribution in response to user specifications. Each GODAE Pilot Project develops capacity by engaging a section of the community in an activity that contributes in a non-trivial way to GODAE.
Argo
Argo was initiated as a pilot project by GODAE and CLIVAR (Research Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability). Argo is an international project that is working towards a global array of finally 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats. These floats measure the temperature, salinity and velocity of the upper 2000m of the ocean and allow, for the first time, continuous monitoring of these quantities, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within hours after collection.
GHRSST- PP
(GODAE Global High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature - Pilot Project)
The purpose of the GHRSST - PP is to develop an operational demonstration system that will deliver a new generation of global coverage high-resolution (better than 10 km and ~6 hourly) SST data products. GHRSST-PP data products will be derived by combining readily available satellite and in situ observations in real time to improve spatial coverage, temporal resolution, cross-sensor calibration stability and SST product accuracy.
(Last Updated: 12-06-2008)