UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7
8400 Oostende
Belgium
| 1. | OPENING OF THE MEETING |
| 2. | OCEAN HEAT CONTENT SESSION |
| 2.1. | Understanding the contribution of XBT bias correction to OHC uncertainty in the EN4 dataset |
| 2.2. | Examining the uncertainty in components of sea level budget: reduction of uncertainty related to XBT bias |
| 2.3. | Current status of global heat content estimates and its XBT contribution. |
| 3. | DISCUSSION: UNDERSTANDING XBT BIASES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH |
| 4. | OCEAN TEMPERATURE AN HEAT TRANSPORT |
| 4.1. | Seasonal variability of temperature inversions in the Tropical Indian Ocean - A view from XBT and Argo |
| 4.2. | TBD |
| 4.3. | TS relationship studies for XBT currents and meridional heat transport assessments |
| 5. | XBT ERRORS AND BIASES AND PROCESSING |
| 5.1 | XBT fall rate experiments for different probe weights, launch heights and ship speeds. |
| 5.2. | An assessment of the XBT Fall-Rate Equation in the Southern Ocean |
| 5.3. | Managing XBT data in the global temperature-salinity profile program (GTSPP) database |
| 5.4. | Update to T5 corrections and Examining T10 biases. |
| 5.5. | Digitization of XBT profiles |
| 5.6. | Hands-on demonstration of an Expert QC system |
| 6. | DISCUSSION OF IMPROVEMENT OF XBT DATA QUALITY |
| 7. | OCEAN CURRENTS |
| 7.1. | SOCIB Glider endurance line science and the emerging global glider boundary current monitoring network |
| 7.2. | Gulf Stream studies |
| 7.3. | Variability of the oceans around South Africa, from seasonal to inter-annual and how it all started with XBTs |
| 7.4. | Estimating the velocity and transport of western boundary current systems: A case study of the East Australian Current near Brisbane |
| 7.5. | The Brazil current |
| 8. | DISCUSSION: DEVELOPING SUSTAINED ARRAYS IN BOUNDARY CURRENTS FROM VARIOUS PLATFORMS. HOW TO INTEGRATE VARIOUS OBSERVATIONAL PLATFORMS THAT MONITOR BOUNDARY CURRENTS WITH DIFFERENT TIME AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION> HOW TO ENTRAIN OTHER OCEAN OBSERVING COMMUNITIES? |
| 9. | DISCUSSION: OUTLONE OF OCEANOBS 2019 WHOTE XBT PAPER AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS |
| 10. | ACTION ITEMS FROM 5TH XBT SCIENCE MEETING |
| 11. | STATUS OF XBT OBSERVATIONS AND LINE/TRANSECTS, DISCUSSION OF PRIORITIZATION OF LINES |
| 12. | SOOPIP REPORT |
| 13. | INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AND REPORTS |
| 14. | MEETING WARP-UP, ACTION ITEMS AND CONCLUSIONS |
| 15. | XBT REVIEW PAPER (BY INVITATION) |