Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Annual Reviews for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Annual Review of Marine Science 1 (2009): 279-302, doi:10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163801.
Description:
Time-series observations form a critical element of oceanography. New interdisciplinary efforts
launched in the past two decades complement the few earlier, longer-running time series in
building a better, though still poorly-resolved, picture of lower-frequency ocean variability, the
climate processes driving it, and its implications for foodweb dynamics, carbon storage and
climate feedbacks. Time-series also enlarge our understanding of ecological processes and are
integral for improving models of physical-biogeochemical-ecological ocean dynamics. The
major time-series observatories go well beyond simple monitoring of core ocean properties,
although that important activity forms the critical center of all time-series efforts. Modern ocean
time series have major process and experimental components, entrain ancillary programs and
have integrated modeling programs for deriving better understanding of the observations and the
changing, three-dimensional ocean in which the observatories are embedded.
Description:
HWD was supported by NSF grant OPP-0217282. SCD was supported by the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research
and Education (C-MORE; NSF CCF-424599). DKS was supported by NSF grant OCE-0628444.
Keywords:
Climate change
;
Biogeochemistry
;
Plankton ecology
;
Carbon cycle
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
