6th XBT science team workshop

19 - 20 April 2018,

UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7

8400 Oostende
Belgium



Agenda



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)