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COST Action ES0904, to be published in International Innovation |
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Scientific program
Underwater gliders are intelligent and affordable platforms useful for long term multi parameter marine observations. They play an important role for present and planned marine observation networks. Deployed in swarms, they provide near real-time high spatial and temporal resolution data that will efficiently fill the gaps left by existing in-situ observation networks based on other marine platforms such as the profiling floats in the ARGO network. This will be beneficial for both academic oceanographic research and operational oceanography systems on which a large number of marine activities now rely. However, the deployment of swarms of gliders requires highly skilled operators and a sophisticated level of cooperation. The objective of the “European Gliding Observatories” proposal for this COST Action is to build international cooperation and capacities at the technological, scientific, and organizational levels, for sustained observations of the oceans with gliders.
