Introduction to the Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN-II) program

摘要

Determination of the present and future state of the ocean remains one of the greatest challenges in ocean sciences. Physical and biological processes in the ocean and overlying atmosphere act and interact over a broad range of time and space scales. Direct, simultaneous measurement on all of these scales is beyond the capabilities of even our most advanced observational tools. Numerical simulations can provide insight into ocean behavior on many scales, but are dependent on both approximations for unresolved processes and on imposed surface and boundary conditions of questionable fidelity. These dependencies limit a model's ability to accurately simulate and predict the ocean.