Webinars
Upcoming webinars are listed below and login details can be found in the calendar.
Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Webinar Series
This series will feature experts, with a focus on early career researchers, who are working on research topics of interest to the US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis (POS) Panel. The Panel's mission is to improve understanding of climate variations in the past, present, and future, and to develop syntheses of critical climate parameters while sustaining and improving the global climate observing system. The webinars are held on the first Monday of the month @ 1pm ET.
Upcoming Webinars
Ken Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
The US Biogeochemical-Argo program is rapidly moving forward to a target of building a 500 BGC-Argo float array, distributed globally, with 5 or 6 BGC sensors (oxygen, nitrate, pH, chlorophyll, optical backscatter, irradiance). ~350 floats are currently in the water and sending data that is processed and freely available in near realtime. These floats were primarily acquired through the GO-BGC (https://go-bgc.org) and SOCCOM (https://soccom.org) projects funded by the US NSF. They operate in concert with BGC-Argo floats deployed by international partners and as a component of the OneArgo array where they contribute significantly to the global Argo temperature and salinity dataset. We expect to reach the 500 float target in early 2026 using floats that have already been acquired, but not yet deployed, or a set of floats now on order. However, to sustain the array, ~100 BGC floats must be deployed each year to replace units that have expended their batteries. There is no funding currently available to acquire additional new floats to sustain the array. Here, I will review the science that is being done with the current float array and discuss prospects to sustain the system.
Process Study Webinar Series
The Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel hosted webinar series aims to provide feedback to process studies. The goals of this webinar series are 1) to provide feedback on the plans and challenges for individual process studies and 2) to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities. The webinars are typically held on the fourth Tuesday of the month @ 2pm ET.
Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface Webinar Series
This series features experts who are working on research topics of interest to the Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel. The Panel's mission is to foster improved practices in the provision, validation and uses of climate information and forecasts through coordinated participation within the US and international climate science and applications communities. The Panel members act as facilitators, assisting in moving climate science forward. The webinars are held on the third Wednesday of the month @ 2pm ET.