The data life cycle management at SOCIB: responding to science and societal needs

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Evolving and sustaining ocean best practices and standards for the next decade

The oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security, and human health. Given their vast dimensions and internal complexity, efficient monitoring and predicting of the planet’s ocean must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. A first and foremost requirement for such collaborative ocean observing is the need to follow well-defined and reproducible methods across activities: from strategies for structuring observing systems, sensor deployment and usage, and the generation of data and information products, to ethical and governance aspects when executing ocean observing. To meet the urgent, planet-wide challenges we face, methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean community and, where appropriate, should evolve into “Ocean Best Practices.” While many groups have created best practices, they are scattered across the Web or buried in local repositories and many have yet to be digitized. To reduce this fragmentation, we introduce a new open access, permanent, digital repository of best practices documentation (oceanbestpractices.org) that is part of the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The new OBPS provides an opportunity space for the centralized and coordinated improvement of ocean observing methods. The OBPS repository employs user-friendly software to significantly improve discovery and access to methods. The software includes advanced semantic technologies for search capabilities to enhance repository operations. In addition to the repository, the OBPS also includes a peer reviewed journal research topic, a forum for community discussion and a training activity for use of best practices. Together, these components serve to realize a core objective of the OBPS, which is to enable the ocean community to create superior methods for every activity in ocean observing from research to operations to applications that are agreed upon and broadly adopted across communities. Using selected ocean observing examples, we show how the OBPS supports this objective. This paper lays out a future vision of ocean best practices and how OBPS will contribute to improving ocean observing in the decade to come

JERICO-S3 Integrated Innovative Technologies for Coastal Monitoring

JERICO RI, the Joint European Research Infrastructure for Coastal Observatories is an integrated pan-European multidisciplinary/multiplatform research infrastructure dedicated to an interdisciplinary appraisal of the coastal marine system environment. It is the coastal component of the future European Ocean Observing System. This Research Infrastructure is designing the future of coastal observation technology for harmonization and interoperability, advanced functionalities, cost efficiency and reliability. The technological developments of the JERICO-S3 EU project aim to strengthen and expand the infrastructure of the European network of coastal observatories. This objective will be achieved with new observing systems and platforms equipped with new technologies for interoperability, innovative sensor packages for multidisciplinary ecosystem monitoring, coupling physics, chemistry and biology. The planned technological developments consist in adapting interoperability standards, inter alia from the NeXOS and EMSODev European projects, developing on- board and on-server smart solutions for adaptive sampling, integrating technologies into dedicated sensor packages, further developing a capacity for high-frequency measurement of low trophic-level biological diversity and contaminants; hence filling critical gaps in the observation of the coastal ocean. An e-infrastructure is being developed and proof tested to integrate digital components (tools), best practices and documentation, from observation data and data products, to methods and coastal observation  service

JERICO-S3 D.5.5 - WP5 - Report on the functional homogenization tools that will support the implementation of best practices within the JERICO-RI. Version 1.0.

This document describes a series of functional tools available for the JERICO-RI community supporting the harmonized management of mature coastal observing platforms as described in JERICO-S3 D5.2, namely Mooring, FerryBox, High Frequency Radar, Underwater Glider. They include tools entirely designed and realized within JERICO-S3 and tools that have received a substantial contribution from JERICO-S3 discussions, deliverables, workshops, and have been developed in a collaborative framework with other projects. Tools span from software routines for data management and data Quality Control to web applications for joint management of platform issues to methods and guidelines for structuring practices documentation and assessing their maturity level. After the introduction, a main section contains the descriptions of each tool according to a uniform scheme. First, a table is provided summarizing key information like the tool’s purpose, scope of applicability, the link to the tool itself and to its documentation. Then, the tool and its features are described with a minimum level of detail. A second paragraph highlights the added value and contribution deriving from actual and/or previous work in JERICO projects, aimed at supporting the tool development. The contribution could be in terms of best practices, deliverables, workshops, surveys, etc. The last paragraph is dedicated to the foreseen and potential use of the tool in a wider context and/or as a component or framework for other tools

Mesoscale and sub-mesoscale vertical exchanges from multi-platform experiments and supporting modelling simulations: anticipating SWOT launch (PRE-SWOT)

This dataset includes published and unpublished in-situ data collected during the PRE-SWOT multi-platform experiment. For details see readme file and cruise report (hdl.handle.net/10261/172644 dx.doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/8584).The PRE-SWOT experiment was conducted onboard R/V García del Cid between 5 and 17 May 2018 in the southern region of the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean Sea). PRE-SWOT aimed at anticipating the daily high-resolution 2D SSH fields that Surface Water & Ocean Topography (SWOT) will provide during the fast sampling phase after launch in selected areas of the global ocean. This experiment is a contribution to the preparatory SWOT cal/val activities and was coordinated with the PROTEUS-SWOT cruise (R/V Beautemps-Beauprè). The PRE-SWOT project (CTM2016-78607-P) is funded by the Spanish Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund (AEI/FEDER, UE).Spanish Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund (AEI/FEDER, UE).Peer reviewe

CIRCE: The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) is a near-infrared (1-2.5μm) imager, polarimeter and low-resolution spectrograph operating as a visitor instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) 10.4-m telescope. It was designed and built largely by graduate students and postdocs, with help from the University of Florida (UF) astronomy engineering group, and is funded by the UF and the US National Science Foundation. CIRCE is intended to help fill the gap in near-infrared capabilities prior to the arrival of Especrografo Multiobjecto Infra-Rojo (EMIR) to the GTC and will also provide the following scientific capabilities to compliment EMIR after its arrival: high-resolution imaging, narrowband imaging, high-time-resolution photometry, imaging polarimetry, and low resolution spectroscopy. In this paper, we review the design, fabrication, integration, lab testing, and on-sky performance results for CIRCE. These include a novel approach to the opto-mechanical design, fabrication, and alignment. © 2018 World Scientific Publishing Company.CIRCE was developed with support of the University of Florida and the National Science Foundation (NSF grant AST-0352664). The CIRCE team gratefully acknowledges the collaborative support of the Gran Telescopio Canarias management and staff in this endeavor - both the current staff and, in particular, the long-standing support of the previous Director Pedro Alvarez and the previous Project Scientist J. M. Rodriguez

FLAMINGOS-2: the facility near-infrared wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph for Gemini

We report on the design, on-sky performance, and status of the FLAMINGOS-2 instrument - the fully-cryogenic facility near-infrared imager and multi-object spectrograph for the Gemini 8-meter telescopes. FLAMINGOS-2 has a refractive all-spherical optical system providing 0.18-arcsecond pixels and a 6.2-arcminute circular field-of-view on a 2048x2048-pixel HAWAII-2 0.9-2.4 \u3bcm detector array. A slit/decker wheel mechanism allows the selection of up to 9 multi-object laser-machined plates or 3 long slits for spectroscopy over a 6x2-arcminute field of view, and selectable grisms provide resolutions from 3c1300 to 3c3000 over the entire spectrograph bandpass. FLAMINGOS-2 is also compatible with the Gemini Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics system, providing multi-object spectroscopic capabilities over a 3x1-arcminute field with high spatial resolution (0.09-arcsec/pixel). We review the designs of optical, mechanical, electronics, software, and On-Instrument WaveFront Sensor subsystems. We also present the on-sky performance measured during acceptance testing in 2009, as well as current status of the project and future plans.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye

CIRCE: The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment for the Gran Telescopio Canarias

The Canarias InfraRed Camera Experiment (CIRCE) is a near-infrared (1–2.5μm) imager, polarimeter and low-resolution spectrograph operating as a visitor instrument for the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) 10.4-m telescope. It was designed and built largely by graduate students and postdocs, with help from the University of Florida (UF) astronomy engineering group, and is funded by the UF and the US National Science Foundation. CIRCE is intended to help fill the gap in near-infrared capabilities prior to the arrival of Especrografo Multiobjecto Infra-Rojo (EMIR) to the GTC and will also provide the following scientific capabilities to compliment EMIR after its arrival: high-resolution imaging, narrowband imaging, high-time-resolution photometry, imaging polarimetry, and low resolution spectroscopy. In this paper, we review the design, fabrication, integration, lab testing, and on-sky performance results for CIRCE. These include a novel approach to the opto-mechanical design, fabrication, and alignment