A remarkable marine heatwave,known as the“Blob”,occurred in the Northeast Pacific Ocean from late 2013 to early 2016,which displayed strong warm anomalies extending from the surface to a depth of 300 m.This study em...A remarkable marine heatwave,known as the“Blob”,occurred in the Northeast Pacific Ocean from late 2013 to early 2016,which displayed strong warm anomalies extending from the surface to a depth of 300 m.This study employed two assimilation schemes based on the global Climate Forecast System of Nanjing University of Information Science(NUIST-CFS 1.0)to investigate the impact of ocean data assimilation on the seasonal prediction of this extreme marine heatwave.The sea surface temperature(SST)nudging scheme assimilates SST only,while the deterministic ensemble Kalman filter(EnKF)scheme assimilates observations from the surface to the deep ocean.The latter notably improves the forecasting skill for subsurface temperature anomalies,especially at the depth of 100-300 m(the lower layer),outperforming the SST nudging scheme.It excels in predicting both horizontal and vertical heat transport in the lower layer,contributing to improved forecasts of the lower-layer warming during the Blob.These improvements stem from the assimilation of subsurface observational data,which are important in predicting the upper-ocean conditions.The results suggest that assimilating ocean data with the EnKF scheme significantly enhances the accuracy in predicting subsurface temperature anomalies during the Blob and offers better understanding of its underlying mechanisms.展开更多
The development and application of a regional ocean data assimilation system are among the aims of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment. The ocean data assimilation system in the regions including the Indian ...The development and application of a regional ocean data assimilation system are among the aims of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment. The ocean data assimilation system in the regions including the Indian and West Pacific oceans is an endeavor motivated by this goal. In this study, we describe the system in detail. Moreover, the reanalysis in the joint area of Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the western Pacific Ocean （hereafter AIPOcean） constructed using multi-year model integration with data assimilation is used to test the performance of this system. The ocean model is an eddy-resolving, hybrid coordinate ocean model. Various types of observations including in-situ temperature and salinity profiles （mechanical bathythermograph, expendable bathythermograph, Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography, Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array, conductivity-temperature-depth, station data）, remotely-sensed sea surface temperature, and altimetry sea level anomalies, are assimilated into the reanalysis via the ensemble optimal interpolation method. An ensemble of model states sampled from a long-term integration is allowed to change with season, rather than remaining stationary. The estimated background error covariance matrix may reasonably reflect the seasonality and anisotropy. We evaluate the performance of AIPOcean during the period 1993-2006 by comparisons with independent observations, and some reanalysis products. We show that AIPOcean reduces the errors of subsurface temperature and salinity, and reproduces mesoscale eddies. In contrast to ECCO and SODA products, AIPOcean captures the interannual variability and linear trend of sea level anomalies very well. AIPOcean also shows a good consistency with tide gauges.展开更多
A weakly coupled assimilation system, in which SST observations are assimilated into a coupled climate model （CAS- ESM-C） through an ensemble optimal interpolation scheme, was established. This system is a useful to...A weakly coupled assimilation system, in which SST observations are assimilated into a coupled climate model （CAS- ESM-C） through an ensemble optimal interpolation scheme, was established. This system is a useful tool for historical climate simulation, showing substantial advantages, including maintaining the atmospheric feedback, and keeping the oceanic tields from drifting far away from the observation, among others. During the coupled model integration, the bias of both surface and subsurface oceanic fields in the analysis can be reduced compared to unassimilated fields. Based on 30 model years of ot.tput fiom the system, the climatology and imerannual variability of the climate system were evaluated. The results showed that the system can reasonably reproduce the climatological global precipitation and SLP, bul it still sutters from the double ITCZ problem. Besides, the ENSO footprint, which is revealed by ENSO-related surface air temperature, geopotential height and precipitation during El Nifio evolution, is basically reproduced by the system. The system can also simulate the observed SST-rainfall relationships well on both interannual and intraseasonal timescales in the western North Pacific region, in which atmospheric feedback is crucial for climate simulation.展开更多
An ensemble optimal interpolation(EnOI)data assimilation method is applied in the BCCCSM1.1 to investigate the impact of ocean data assimilations on seasonal forecasts in an idealized twin experiment framework.Pseudoo...An ensemble optimal interpolation(EnOI)data assimilation method is applied in the BCCCSM1.1 to investigate the impact of ocean data assimilations on seasonal forecasts in an idealized twin experiment framework.Pseudoobservations of sea surface temperature(SST),sea surface height(SSH),sea surface salinity(SSS),temperature and salinity(T/S)profiles were first generated in a free model run.Then,a series of sensitivity tests initialized with predefined bias were conducted for a one-year period;this involved a free run(CTR)and seven assimilation runs.These tests allowed us to check the analysis field accuracy against the"truth".As expected,data assimilation improved all investigated quantities;the joint assimilation of all variables gave more improved results than assimilating them separately.One-year predictions initialized from the seven runs and CTR were then conducted and compared.The forecasts initialized from joint assimilation of surface data produced comparable SST root mean square errors to that from assimilation of T/S profiles,but the assimilation of T/S profiles is crucial to reduce subsurface deficiencies.The ocean surface currents in the tropics were better predicted when initial conditions produced by assimilating T/S profiles,while surface data assimilation became more important at higher latitudes,particularly near the western boundary currents.The predictions of ocean heat content and mixed layer depth are significantly improved initialized from the joint assimilation of all the variables.Finally,a central Pacific El Ni?o was well predicted from the joint assimilation of surface data,indicating the importance of joint assimilation of SST,SSH,and SSS for ENSO predictions.展开更多
A four-dimensional variational data assimilation （4DVar） system of the LASG/IAP Climate Ocean Model, version 1.0 （LICOM1.0）, named LICOM-3DVM, has been developed using the three-dimensional variational data assimi...A four-dimensional variational data assimilation （4DVar） system of the LASG/IAP Climate Ocean Model, version 1.0 （LICOM1.0）, named LICOM-3DVM, has been developed using the three-dimensional variational data assimilation of mapped observation （3DVM）, a 4DVar method newly proposed in the past two years. Two experiments with 12-year model integrations were designed to validate it. One is the assimilation run, called ASSM, which incorporated the analyzed weekly sea surface temperature （SST） fields from Reynolds and Smith （OISST） between 1990 and 2001 once a week by the LICOM-3DVM. The other is the control run without any assimilation, named CTL. ASSM shows that the simulated temperatures of the upper ocean （above 50 meters）, especially the SST of equatorial Pacific, coincide with the Tropic Atmosphere Ocean （TAO） mooring data, the World Ocean Atlas 2001 （WOA01） data and the Met Office Hadley Centre＇s sea ice and sea surface temperature （HadISST） data. It decreased the cold bias existing in CTL in the eastern Pacific and produced a Nifio index that agrees with observation well. The validation results suggest that the LICOM-3DVM is able to effectively adjust the model results of the ocean temperature, although it＇s hard to correct the subsurface results and it even makes them worse in some areas due to the incorporation of only surface data. Future development of the LICOM-3DVM is to include subsurface in situ observations and satellite observations to further improve model simulations.展开更多
The first version of the Brazilian Oceano- graphic Modeling and Observation Network （REMO） ocean data assimilation system into the Hybrid Coordi- nate Ocean Model （HYCOM） （RODAS H） has recently been constructed ...The first version of the Brazilian Oceano- graphic Modeling and Observation Network （REMO） ocean data assimilation system into the Hybrid Coordi- nate Ocean Model （HYCOM） （RODAS H） has recently been constructed for research and operational purposes. The system is based on a multivariate Ensemble Optimal Interpolation （EnOI） scheme and considers the high fre- quency variability of the model error co-variance matrix. The EnOl can assimilate sea surface temperature （SST）, satellite along-track and gridded sea level anomalies （SLA）, and vertical profiles of temperature （T） and salinity （S） from Argo. The first observing system experiment was carried out over the Atlantic Ocean （78°S-50°N, 100°W-20°E） with HYCOM forced with atmospheric reanalysis from 1 January to 30 June 2010. Five integra- tions were performed, including the control run without assimilation. In the other four, different observations were assimilated： SST only （A SST）; Argo T-S profiles only （AArgo）; along-track SLA only （A_SLA）; and all data employed in the previous runs （A_All）. The A_SST, A_Argo, and A_SLA runs were very effective in improv- ing the representation of the assimilated variables, but they had relatively little impact on the variables that were not assimilated. In particular, only the assimilation of S was able to reduce the deviation of S with respect to ob- servations. Overall, the A_All run produced a good analy- sis by reducing the deviation of SST, T, and S with respect to the control run by 39%, 18%, and 30%, respectively, and by increasing the correlation of SLA by 81%.展开更多
The Argo(Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data from 1998 to 2003 were used in the Beijing Climate Center-Global Ocean Data Assimilation System(BCC-GODAS). The results show that the utilization of Argo glo...The Argo(Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data from 1998 to 2003 were used in the Beijing Climate Center-Global Ocean Data Assimilation System(BCC-GODAS). The results show that the utilization of Argo global ocean data in BCC-GODAS brings about remarkable improvements in assimilation effects. The assimilated sea surface temperature(SST) of BCC-GODAS can well represent the climatological states of observational data. Comparison experiments based on a global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model(AOCGM) were conducted for exploring the roles of ocean data assimilation system with or without Argo data in improving the climate predictability of rainfall in boreal summer. Firstly, the global ocean data assimilation system BCC-GODAS was used to obtain ocean assimilation data under the conditions with or without Argo data. Then, the global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model(AOCGM) was utilized to do hindcast experiments with the two sets of the assimilation data as initial oceanic fields. The simulated results demonstrate that the seasonal predictability of rainfall in boreal summer, particularly in China, increases greatly when initial oceanic conditions with Argo data are utilized. The distribution of summer rainfall in China hindcast by the AOGCM under the condition when Argo data are used is more in accordance with observation than that when no Agro data are used. The area of positive correlation between hindcast and observation enlarges and the hindcast skill of rainfall over China in summer improves significantly when Argo data are used.展开更多
近些年城市大气污染问题尤为突出,其中PM2.5、PM10等污染物是引起雾霾天气的重要因素.本文基于2007—2016年10年中全国主要城市SO2、NO2、PM10等污染物因子的年平均浓度变化,利用Ocean Data View软件分析主要城市大气污染主控因子(二氧...近些年城市大气污染问题尤为突出,其中PM2.5、PM10等污染物是引起雾霾天气的重要因素.本文基于2007—2016年10年中全国主要城市SO2、NO2、PM10等污染物因子的年平均浓度变化,利用Ocean Data View软件分析主要城市大气污染主控因子(二氧化硫、氮氧化物以及颗粒物)的排放特征及其成因.结果表明:各污染物的区域性分布明显,污染物浓度变化的总体趋势北方高于南方,SO2、NO2、PM10年平均浓度北方分别高于南方108.15%、7.60%、48.36%;从大气污染组分来看,颗粒物的增长速度最快,石家庄2007—2016年PM10增速为28.10%;而SO2的污染物浓度在下降,乌鲁木齐的降速为84.10%.展开更多
A new data insertion approach is applied to the Derber and Rosati ocean data assimilation (ODA) system, a system that uses a variational scheme to analyze ocean temperature and provide ocean model corrections continuo...A new data insertion approach is applied to the Derber and Rosati ocean data assimilation (ODA) system, a system that uses a variational scheme to analyze ocean temperature and provide ocean model corrections continuously. Utilizing the same analysis component as the original system, the new approach conducts analyses to derive model corrections intermittently at once-daily intervals. A technique similar to the Incremental Analysis Update (IAU) method of Bloom et al. is applied to incorporate the corrections into the model gradually and continuously. This approach is computationally more economical than the original.A 13-year global ocean analysis from 1986 to 1998 is produced using this new approach and compared with an analysis based on the original one. An examination of both analyses in the tropical Pacific Ocean shows that they have qualitatively similar annual and interannual temperature variability. However, the new approach produces smoother monthly analyses. Moreover, compared to the independent展开更多
INTRODUCTION.Crustal velocity model is crucial for describing the subsurface composition and structure,and has significant implications in offshore oil and gas exploration and marine geophysical engineering(Xie et al....INTRODUCTION.Crustal velocity model is crucial for describing the subsurface composition and structure,and has significant implications in offshore oil and gas exploration and marine geophysical engineering(Xie et al.,2024).Currently,travel time tomography is the most commonly used method for velocity modeling based on ocean bottom seismometer(OBS)data(Zhang et al.,2023;Sambolian et al.,2021).This method usually assumes that the sub-seafloor structure is layered,and therefore faces challenges in high-precision modeling with strong lateral discontinuities.展开更多
A major challenge in analysis of huge amounts of ocean data is the complexity of the data and the inherent complexity of ocean dynamic processes.Interactive visual analysis serves as an efficient complementary approac...A major challenge in analysis of huge amounts of ocean data is the complexity of the data and the inherent complexity of ocean dynamic processes.Interactive visual analysis serves as an efficient complementary approach for the detection of various phenomena or patterns,and correlation exploring or comparing multiple variables in researchers daily work.Firstly,this paper presents a basic concept of the ocean data produced from numerous measurement devices or computer simulations.The characteristics of ocean data and the related data processing techniques are also described.Secondly,the main tasks of ocean data analysis are introduced.Based on the main analysis tasks in the field of oceanography,the survey emphasizes related interactive visualization techniques and tools from four aspects:visualization of multiple ocean environmental elements and multivariate analysis,ocean phenomena identification and tracking,patterns or correlation discovery,ensembles and uncertainties exploration.Finally,the opportunities are discussed for future studies.展开更多
Data availability is of vital importance for marine and oceanographic research but most of the European data are fragmented,not always validated and not easily accessible.In the countries bordering the European seas,m...Data availability is of vital importance for marine and oceanographic research but most of the European data are fragmented,not always validated and not easily accessible.In the countries bordering the European seas,more than 1000 scientific laboratories from governmental organisations and private industry collect data using various sensors on board of research vessels,submarines,fixed and drifting platforms,aeroplanes and satellites to measure physical,geophysical,geological,biological and chemical parameters,biological species and others.SeaDataNet is an Integrated Research Infrastructure Initiative(I3)(2006-2011)in the EU FP6 framework programme.It is developing an efficient distributed Pan-European marine data management infrastructure for managing these large and diverse data sets.It is interconnecting the existing professional data centres of 35 countries,active in data collection and providing integrated databases of standardised quality on-line.This article describes the architecture and the features of the SeaDataNet infrastructure.In particular it describes the way interoperability is achieved between all the contributing data centres.Finally it highlights the on-going developments and challenges.展开更多
In this paper, we have preliminarily studied the application of ARGO (Arrayfor Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data to the Global Ocean Data Assimilation System ofNational Climate Center of China (NCC-GODAS), whic...In this paper, we have preliminarily studied the application of ARGO (Arrayfor Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data to the Global Ocean Data Assimilation System ofNational Climate Center of China (NCC-GODAS), which mainly contains 4 sub-systems such as datapreprocessing, real-time wind stress calculating, variational analysis and interpolating, and oceandynamic model. For the sake of using ARGO data, the relevant adjustment and improvement have beenmade at the corresponding aspects in the subsystems. Using the observation data from 1981 to 2003including the ARGO data of 2001 to July. 2003, we have performed a series of numerical experimentson this system. Comparing with the corresponding results of NCEP, It is illustrated that using ARGOdata can improve the results of NCC-GODAS in the region of the Middle Pacific, for instance SST,SSTA (SST anomalies), Nino index, sea sub-surface temperature, etc. Furthermore, it is obtained thatNCC-GODAS benefits from ARGO data in the other regions such as Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, andextratropical Pacific Ocean much more than in the tropical Pacific.展开更多
Massive ocean data acquired by various observing platforms and sensors poses new challenges to data management and utilization.Typically,it is difficult to find the desired data from the large amount of datasets effic...Massive ocean data acquired by various observing platforms and sensors poses new challenges to data management and utilization.Typically,it is difficult to find the desired data from the large amount of datasets efficiently and effectively.Most of existing methods for data discovery are based on the keyword retrieval or direct semantic reasoning,and they are either limited in data access rate or do not take the time cost into account.In this paper,we creatively design and implement a novel system to alleviate the problem by introducing semantics with ontologies,which is referred to as Data Ontology and List-Based Publishing(DOLP).Specifically,we mainly improve the ocean data services in the following three aspects.First,we propose a unified semantic model called OEDO(Ocean Environmental Data Ontology)to represent heterogeneous ocean data by metadata and to be published as data services.Second,we propose an optimized quick service query list(QSQL)data structure for storing the pre-inferred semantically related services,and reducing the service querying time.Third,we propose two algorithms for optimizing QSQL hierarchically and horizontally,respectively,which aim to extend the semantics relationships of the data service and improve the data access rate.Experimental results prove that DOLP outperforms the benchmark methods.First,our QSQL-based data discovery methods obtain a higher recall rate than the keyword-based method,and are faster than the traditional semantic method based on direct reasoning.Second,DOLP can handle more complex semantic relationships than the existing methods.展开更多
In marine seismic exploration,ocean bottom cable technology can record multicomponent seismic data for multiparameter inversion and imaging.This study proposes an elastic multiparameter lease-squares reverse time migr...In marine seismic exploration,ocean bottom cable technology can record multicomponent seismic data for multiparameter inversion and imaging.This study proposes an elastic multiparameter lease-squares reverse time migration based on the ocean bottom cable technology.Herein,the wavefield continuation operators are mixed equations:the acoustic wave equations are used to calculate seismic wave propagation in the seawater medium,whereas in the solid media below the seabed,the wavefields are obtained by P-and S-wave separated vector elastic wave equations.At the seabed interface,acoustic–elastic coupling control equations are used to combine the two types of equations.P-and S-wave separated elastic migration operators,demigration operators,and gradient equations are derived to realize the elastic least-squares reverse time migration based on the P-and S-wave mode separation.The model tests verify that the proposed method can obtain high-quality images in both the P-and S-velocity components.In comparison with the traditional elastic least-squares reverse time migration method,the proposed method can readily suppress imaging crosstalk noise from multiparameter coupling.展开更多
It is widely recognized that assessments of the status of data-poor fish stocks are challenging and that Bayesian analysis is one of the methods which can be used to improve the reliability of stock assessments in dat...It is widely recognized that assessments of the status of data-poor fish stocks are challenging and that Bayesian analysis is one of the methods which can be used to improve the reliability of stock assessments in data-poor situations through borrowing strength from prior information deduced from species with good-quality data or other known information. Because there is considerable uncertainty remaining in the stock assessment of albacore tuna（Thunnus alalunga） in the Indian Ocean due to the limited and low-quality data, we investigate the advantages of a Bayesian method in data-poor stock assessment by using Indian Ocean albacore stock assessment as an example. Eight Bayesian biomass dynamics models with different prior assumptions and catch data series were developed to assess the stock. The results show（1） the rationality of choice of catch data series and assumption of parameters could be enhanced by analyzing the posterior distribution of the parameters;（2） the reliability of the stock assessment could be improved by using demographic methods to construct a prior for the intrinsic rate of increase（r）. Because we can make use of more information to improve the rationality of parameter estimation and the reliability of the stock assessment compared with traditional statistical methods by incorporating any available knowledge into the informative priors and analyzing the posterior distribution based on Bayesian framework in data-poor situations, we suggest that the Bayesian method should be an alternative method to be applied in data-poor species stock assessment, such as Indian Ocean albacore.展开更多
Methods for studying oceanic circulation from hydrographic data are reviewed in the context of their applications in the South China Sea. These methods can be classified into three types according to their different d...Methods for studying oceanic circulation from hydrographic data are reviewed in the context of their applications in the South China Sea. These methods can be classified into three types according to their different dynamics as follows: (1) descriptive methods, (2) diagnostic methods without surface and bottom forcing, and (3) diagnostic methods with the above boundary forcing. The paper discusses the progress made in the above methods together with the advancement of study in the South China Sea circulation.展开更多
Understanding the ocean＇s role in the global carbon cycle and its response to environmental change requires a high spatio-temporal resolution of observation.Merging ocean color data from multiple sources is an effect...Understanding the ocean＇s role in the global carbon cycle and its response to environmental change requires a high spatio-temporal resolution of observation.Merging ocean color data from multiple sources is an effective way to alleviate the limitation of individual ocean color sensors（e.g.,swath width and gaps,cloudy or rainy weather,and sun glint） and to improve the temporal and spatial coverage.Since the missions of Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor（Sea Wi FS） and Medium-spectral Resolution Imaging Spectrometer（MERIS） ended on December 11,2010 and May 9,2012,respectively,the number of available ocean color sensors has declined,reducing the benefits of the merged ocean color data with respect to the spatial and temporal coverage.In present work,Medium Resolution Spectral Imager（MERSI）/FY-3 of China is added in merged processing and a new dataset of global ocean chlorophyll a（Chl a） concentration（2000–2015） is generated from the remote sensing reflectance（Rrs（λ）） observations of MERIS,Moderate-resolution imaging spectra-radiometer（MODIS）-AQUA,Visible infrared Imaging Radiometer（VIIRS） and MERSI.These data resources are first merged into unified remote sensing reflectance data,and then Chl a concentration data are inversed using the combined Chl a algorithm of color index-based algorithm（CIA） and OC3.The merged data products show major improvements in spatial and temporal coverage from the addition of MERSI.The average daily coverage of merged products is approximately 24% of the global ocean and increases by approximately 9% when MERSI data are added in the merging process.Sampling frequency（temporal coverage） is greatly improved by combining MERSI data,with the median sampling frequency increasing from 15.6%（57 d/a） to 29.9%（109 d/a）.The merged Chl a products herein were validated by in situ measurements and comparing them with the merged products using the same approach except for omitting MERSI and Glob Colour and MEa SUREs merged data.Correlation and relative error between the new merged Chl a products and in situ observation are stable relative to the results of the merged products without the addition of MERSI.Time series of the Chl a concentration anomalies are similar to the merged products without adding MERSI and single sensors.The new merged products agree within approximately 10% of the merged Chl a product from Glob Colour and MEa SUREs.展开更多
In marine seismic exploration, ocean-bottom cable techniques accurately record the multicomponent seismic wavefield; however, the seismic wave propagation in fluid–solid media cannot be simulated by a single wave equ...In marine seismic exploration, ocean-bottom cable techniques accurately record the multicomponent seismic wavefield; however, the seismic wave propagation in fluid–solid media cannot be simulated by a single wave equation. In addition, when the seabed interface is irregular, traditional finite-difference schemes cannot simulate the seismic wave propagation across the irregular seabed interface. Therefore, an acoustic–elastic forward modeling and vector-based P-and S-wave separation method is proposed. In this method, we divide the fluid–solid elastic media with irregular interface into orthogonal grids and map the irregular interface in the Cartesian coordinates system into a horizontal interface in the curvilinear coordinates system of the computational domain using coordinates transformation. The acoustic and elastic wave equations in the curvilinear coordinates system are applied to the fluid and solid medium, respectively. At the irregular interface, the two equations are combined into an acoustic–elastic equation in the curvilinear coordinates system. We next introduce a full staggered-grid scheme to improve the stability of the numerical simulation. Thus, separate P-and S-wave equations in the curvilinear coordinates system are derived to realize the P-and S-wave separation method.展开更多
This paper reviews the current achievements of the China Argo project. It considers aspects of both the construction of the Argo observing array, float technology, and the quality control and sharing of its data. The ...This paper reviews the current achievements of the China Argo project. It considers aspects of both the construction of the Argo observing array, float technology, and the quality control and sharing of its data. The developments of associated data products and data applications for use in the fields of ocean, atmosphere, and climate research are discussed, particularly those related to tropical cyclones （typhoons）, ocean circulation, mesoscale eddies, turbulence, oceanic heat/salt storage and transportation, water masses, and operational oceanic/atmospheric/climatic forecasts and predictions. Finaliy, the challenges and opportunities involved in the long-term maintenance and sustained development of the China Argo ocean observation network are outlined. Discussion also focuses on the necessity for increasing the number of floats in the Indian Ocean and for expanding the regional Argo observation network in the South China Sea, together with the importance of promoting the use of Argo data by the maritime countries of Southeast Asia and India.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 42030605]the National Key R&D Program of China [grant number 2020YFA0608004]。
文摘A remarkable marine heatwave,known as the“Blob”,occurred in the Northeast Pacific Ocean from late 2013 to early 2016,which displayed strong warm anomalies extending from the surface to a depth of 300 m.This study employed two assimilation schemes based on the global Climate Forecast System of Nanjing University of Information Science(NUIST-CFS 1.0)to investigate the impact of ocean data assimilation on the seasonal prediction of this extreme marine heatwave.The sea surface temperature(SST)nudging scheme assimilates SST only,while the deterministic ensemble Kalman filter(EnKF)scheme assimilates observations from the surface to the deep ocean.The latter notably improves the forecasting skill for subsurface temperature anomalies,especially at the depth of 100-300 m(the lower layer),outperforming the SST nudging scheme.It excels in predicting both horizontal and vertical heat transport in the lower layer,contributing to improved forecasts of the lower-layer warming during the Blob.These improvements stem from the assimilation of subsurface observational data,which are important in predicting the upper-ocean conditions.The results suggest that assimilating ocean data with the EnKF scheme significantly enhances the accuracy in predicting subsurface temperature anomalies during the Blob and offers better understanding of its underlying mechanisms.
基金supported by the 973 Program (Grant No.2010CB950401)the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Project"Western Pacific Ocean System:Structure,Dynamics and Consequences"(Grant No.XDA11010405)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41176015)
文摘The development and application of a regional ocean data assimilation system are among the aims of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment. The ocean data assimilation system in the regions including the Indian and West Pacific oceans is an endeavor motivated by this goal. In this study, we describe the system in detail. Moreover, the reanalysis in the joint area of Asia, the Indian Ocean, and the western Pacific Ocean （hereafter AIPOcean） constructed using multi-year model integration with data assimilation is used to test the performance of this system. The ocean model is an eddy-resolving, hybrid coordinate ocean model. Various types of observations including in-situ temperature and salinity profiles （mechanical bathythermograph, expendable bathythermograph, Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography, Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array, conductivity-temperature-depth, station data）, remotely-sensed sea surface temperature, and altimetry sea level anomalies, are assimilated into the reanalysis via the ensemble optimal interpolation method. An ensemble of model states sampled from a long-term integration is allowed to change with season, rather than remaining stationary. The estimated background error covariance matrix may reasonably reflect the seasonality and anisotropy. We evaluate the performance of AIPOcean during the period 1993-2006 by comparisons with independent observations, and some reanalysis products. We show that AIPOcean reduces the errors of subsurface temperature and salinity, and reproduces mesoscale eddies. In contrast to ECCO and SODA products, AIPOcean captures the interannual variability and linear trend of sea level anomalies very well. AIPOcean also shows a good consistency with tide gauges.
基金supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2015M571095)the Chinese Academy of Sciences Project“Western Pacific Ocean System:Structure,Dynamics and Consequences”(Grant No.XDA10010405)
文摘A weakly coupled assimilation system, in which SST observations are assimilated into a coupled climate model （CAS- ESM-C） through an ensemble optimal interpolation scheme, was established. This system is a useful tool for historical climate simulation, showing substantial advantages, including maintaining the atmospheric feedback, and keeping the oceanic tields from drifting far away from the observation, among others. During the coupled model integration, the bias of both surface and subsurface oceanic fields in the analysis can be reduced compared to unassimilated fields. Based on 30 model years of ot.tput fiom the system, the climatology and imerannual variability of the climate system were evaluated. The results showed that the system can reasonably reproduce the climatological global precipitation and SLP, bul it still sutters from the double ITCZ problem. Besides, the ENSO footprint, which is revealed by ENSO-related surface air temperature, geopotential height and precipitation during El Nifio evolution, is basically reproduced by the system. The system can also simulate the observed SST-rainfall relationships well on both interannual and intraseasonal timescales in the western North Pacific region, in which atmospheric feedback is crucial for climate simulation.
基金The National Key Research and Development Program of China under contract Nos 2016YFA0602102 and2016YFC1401702the Key Special Project for Introduced Talents Team of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou)under contract No.GML2019ZD0306+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No.41306005CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program Startup Fund by South China Sea Institute of Oceanology under contract No.Y9SL011001。
文摘An ensemble optimal interpolation(EnOI)data assimilation method is applied in the BCCCSM1.1 to investigate the impact of ocean data assimilations on seasonal forecasts in an idealized twin experiment framework.Pseudoobservations of sea surface temperature(SST),sea surface height(SSH),sea surface salinity(SSS),temperature and salinity(T/S)profiles were first generated in a free model run.Then,a series of sensitivity tests initialized with predefined bias were conducted for a one-year period;this involved a free run(CTR)and seven assimilation runs.These tests allowed us to check the analysis field accuracy against the"truth".As expected,data assimilation improved all investigated quantities;the joint assimilation of all variables gave more improved results than assimilating them separately.One-year predictions initialized from the seven runs and CTR were then conducted and compared.The forecasts initialized from joint assimilation of surface data produced comparable SST root mean square errors to that from assimilation of T/S profiles,but the assimilation of T/S profiles is crucial to reduce subsurface deficiencies.The ocean surface currents in the tropics were better predicted when initial conditions produced by assimilating T/S profiles,while surface data assimilation became more important at higher latitudes,particularly near the western boundary currents.The predictions of ocean heat content and mixed layer depth are significantly improved initialized from the joint assimilation of all the variables.Finally,a central Pacific El Ni?o was well predicted from the joint assimilation of surface data,indicating the importance of joint assimilation of SST,SSH,and SSS for ENSO predictions.
基金Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank Mr. R. W. Reynolds for providing the guess error variance of the OISST data. All computations of this work were completed on IAP1801 computer. This work was supported jointly by the Key Direction Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Knowledge Innovation Program （Grant No. KZCX-SW-230）, the 973 Project （Grant No. 2005CB321703）, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant No. 40221503）.
文摘A four-dimensional variational data assimilation （4DVar） system of the LASG/IAP Climate Ocean Model, version 1.0 （LICOM1.0）, named LICOM-3DVM, has been developed using the three-dimensional variational data assimilation of mapped observation （3DVM）, a 4DVar method newly proposed in the past two years. Two experiments with 12-year model integrations were designed to validate it. One is the assimilation run, called ASSM, which incorporated the analyzed weekly sea surface temperature （SST） fields from Reynolds and Smith （OISST） between 1990 and 2001 once a week by the LICOM-3DVM. The other is the control run without any assimilation, named CTL. ASSM shows that the simulated temperatures of the upper ocean （above 50 meters）, especially the SST of equatorial Pacific, coincide with the Tropic Atmosphere Ocean （TAO） mooring data, the World Ocean Atlas 2001 （WOA01） data and the Met Office Hadley Centre＇s sea ice and sea surface temperature （HadISST） data. It decreased the cold bias existing in CTL in the eastern Pacific and produced a Nifio index that agrees with observation well. The validation results suggest that the LICOM-3DVM is able to effectively adjust the model results of the ocean temperature, although it＇s hard to correct the subsurface results and it even makes them worse in some areas due to the incorporation of only surface data. Future development of the LICOM-3DVM is to include subsurface in situ observations and satellite observations to further improve model simulations.
基金financially supported by the Brazilian State oil company Petróleo Brasileiro S. A. (Petrobras) and Agência Nacional de Petróleo (ANP), Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis, Brazil, via the Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Network (REMO)support of the Coordenao de Aperfeioamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Ministry of Education of Brazil (Proc. BEX 3957/13-6)
文摘The first version of the Brazilian Oceano- graphic Modeling and Observation Network （REMO） ocean data assimilation system into the Hybrid Coordi- nate Ocean Model （HYCOM） （RODAS H） has recently been constructed for research and operational purposes. The system is based on a multivariate Ensemble Optimal Interpolation （EnOI） scheme and considers the high fre- quency variability of the model error co-variance matrix. The EnOl can assimilate sea surface temperature （SST）, satellite along-track and gridded sea level anomalies （SLA）, and vertical profiles of temperature （T） and salinity （S） from Argo. The first observing system experiment was carried out over the Atlantic Ocean （78°S-50°N, 100°W-20°E） with HYCOM forced with atmospheric reanalysis from 1 January to 30 June 2010. Five integra- tions were performed, including the control run without assimilation. In the other four, different observations were assimilated： SST only （A SST）; Argo T-S profiles only （AArgo）; along-track SLA only （A_SLA）; and all data employed in the previous runs （A_All）. The A_SST, A_Argo, and A_SLA runs were very effective in improv- ing the representation of the assimilated variables, but they had relatively little impact on the variables that were not assimilated. In particular, only the assimilation of S was able to reduce the deviation of S with respect to ob- servations. Overall, the A_All run produced a good analy- sis by reducing the deviation of SST, T, and S with respect to the control run by 39%, 18%, and 30%, respectively, and by increasing the correlation of SLA by 81%.
基金National Program on Key Basic Research Project of China(2012CB955203,2013CB430202)National Natural Science Foundation of China(40231014,41175065)+1 种基金China Meteorological Administration R&D Special Fund for Public Welfare(meteorology)(GYHY201306021)National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(2010AA012404)
文摘The Argo(Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data from 1998 to 2003 were used in the Beijing Climate Center-Global Ocean Data Assimilation System(BCC-GODAS). The results show that the utilization of Argo global ocean data in BCC-GODAS brings about remarkable improvements in assimilation effects. The assimilated sea surface temperature(SST) of BCC-GODAS can well represent the climatological states of observational data. Comparison experiments based on a global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model(AOCGM) were conducted for exploring the roles of ocean data assimilation system with or without Argo data in improving the climate predictability of rainfall in boreal summer. Firstly, the global ocean data assimilation system BCC-GODAS was used to obtain ocean assimilation data under the conditions with or without Argo data. Then, the global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model(AOCGM) was utilized to do hindcast experiments with the two sets of the assimilation data as initial oceanic fields. The simulated results demonstrate that the seasonal predictability of rainfall in boreal summer, particularly in China, increases greatly when initial oceanic conditions with Argo data are utilized. The distribution of summer rainfall in China hindcast by the AOGCM under the condition when Argo data are used is more in accordance with observation than that when no Agro data are used. The area of positive correlation between hindcast and observation enlarges and the hindcast skill of rainfall over China in summer improves significantly when Argo data are used.
文摘近些年城市大气污染问题尤为突出,其中PM2.5、PM10等污染物是引起雾霾天气的重要因素.本文基于2007—2016年10年中全国主要城市SO2、NO2、PM10等污染物因子的年平均浓度变化,利用Ocean Data View软件分析主要城市大气污染主控因子(二氧化硫、氮氧化物以及颗粒物)的排放特征及其成因.结果表明:各污染物的区域性分布明显,污染物浓度变化的总体趋势北方高于南方,SO2、NO2、PM10年平均浓度北方分别高于南方108.15%、7.60%、48.36%;从大气污染组分来看,颗粒物的增长速度最快,石家庄2007—2016年PM10增速为28.10%;而SO2的污染物浓度在下降,乌鲁木齐的降速为84.10%.
基金This research was supported bythe National Science Foundation (ATM-9321354) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA46-GP0217), and computing resources were provided by the National Center for Atmospheric Research Scientific Computin
文摘A new data insertion approach is applied to the Derber and Rosati ocean data assimilation (ODA) system, a system that uses a variational scheme to analyze ocean temperature and provide ocean model corrections continuously. Utilizing the same analysis component as the original system, the new approach conducts analyses to derive model corrections intermittently at once-daily intervals. A technique similar to the Incremental Analysis Update (IAU) method of Bloom et al. is applied to incorporate the corrections into the model gradually and continuously. This approach is computationally more economical than the original.A 13-year global ocean analysis from 1986 to 1998 is produced using this new approach and compared with an analysis based on the original one. An examination of both analyses in the tropical Pacific Ocean shows that they have qualitatively similar annual and interannual temperature variability. However, the new approach produces smoother monthly analyses. Moreover, compared to the independent
基金financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2023YFF0803404)the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.LY23D040001)+4 种基金the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Engineering Geophysical Prospecting and Detection of Chinese Geophysical Society(No.CJ2021GB01)the Open Re-search Fund of Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute(No.CKWV20221011/KY)the ZhouShan Science and Technology Project(No.2023C81010)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41904100)supported by Chinese Natural Science Foundation Open Research Cruise(Cruise No.NORC2019–08)。
文摘INTRODUCTION.Crustal velocity model is crucial for describing the subsurface composition and structure,and has significant implications in offshore oil and gas exploration and marine geophysical engineering(Xie et al.,2024).Currently,travel time tomography is the most commonly used method for velocity modeling based on ocean bottom seismometer(OBS)data(Zhang et al.,2023;Sambolian et al.,2021).This method usually assumes that the sub-seafloor structure is layered,and therefore faces challenges in high-precision modeling with strong lateral discontinuities.
基金wish to acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41706010,U1706218,41576011)the Major Research plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2018ZB0852).
文摘A major challenge in analysis of huge amounts of ocean data is the complexity of the data and the inherent complexity of ocean dynamic processes.Interactive visual analysis serves as an efficient complementary approach for the detection of various phenomena or patterns,and correlation exploring or comparing multiple variables in researchers daily work.Firstly,this paper presents a basic concept of the ocean data produced from numerous measurement devices or computer simulations.The characteristics of ocean data and the related data processing techniques are also described.Secondly,the main tasks of ocean data analysis are introduced.Based on the main analysis tasks in the field of oceanography,the survey emphasizes related interactive visualization techniques and tools from four aspects:visualization of multiple ocean environmental elements and multivariate analysis,ocean phenomena identification and tracking,patterns or correlation discovery,ensembles and uncertainties exploration.Finally,the opportunities are discussed for future studies.
文摘Data availability is of vital importance for marine and oceanographic research but most of the European data are fragmented,not always validated and not easily accessible.In the countries bordering the European seas,more than 1000 scientific laboratories from governmental organisations and private industry collect data using various sensors on board of research vessels,submarines,fixed and drifting platforms,aeroplanes and satellites to measure physical,geophysical,geological,biological and chemical parameters,biological species and others.SeaDataNet is an Integrated Research Infrastructure Initiative(I3)(2006-2011)in the EU FP6 framework programme.It is developing an efficient distributed Pan-European marine data management infrastructure for managing these large and diverse data sets.It is interconnecting the existing professional data centres of 35 countries,active in data collection and providing integrated databases of standardised quality on-line.This article describes the architecture and the features of the SeaDataNet infrastructure.In particular it describes the way interoperability is achieved between all the contributing data centres.Finally it highlights the on-going developments and challenges.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 40231014.
文摘In this paper, we have preliminarily studied the application of ARGO (Arrayfor Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography) data to the Global Ocean Data Assimilation System ofNational Climate Center of China (NCC-GODAS), which mainly contains 4 sub-systems such as datapreprocessing, real-time wind stress calculating, variational analysis and interpolating, and oceandynamic model. For the sake of using ARGO data, the relevant adjustment and improvement have beenmade at the corresponding aspects in the subsystems. Using the observation data from 1981 to 2003including the ARGO data of 2001 to July. 2003, we have performed a series of numerical experimentson this system. Comparing with the corresponding results of NCEP, It is illustrated that using ARGOdata can improve the results of NCC-GODAS in the region of the Middle Pacific, for instance SST,SSTA (SST anomalies), Nino index, sea sub-surface temperature, etc. Furthermore, it is obtained thatNCC-GODAS benefits from ARGO data in the other regions such as Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, andextratropical Pacific Ocean much more than in the tropical Pacific.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant No.2018YFB0203801the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.61702529 and 61802424.
文摘Massive ocean data acquired by various observing platforms and sensors poses new challenges to data management and utilization.Typically,it is difficult to find the desired data from the large amount of datasets efficiently and effectively.Most of existing methods for data discovery are based on the keyword retrieval or direct semantic reasoning,and they are either limited in data access rate or do not take the time cost into account.In this paper,we creatively design and implement a novel system to alleviate the problem by introducing semantics with ontologies,which is referred to as Data Ontology and List-Based Publishing(DOLP).Specifically,we mainly improve the ocean data services in the following three aspects.First,we propose a unified semantic model called OEDO(Ocean Environmental Data Ontology)to represent heterogeneous ocean data by metadata and to be published as data services.Second,we propose an optimized quick service query list(QSQL)data structure for storing the pre-inferred semantically related services,and reducing the service querying time.Third,we propose two algorithms for optimizing QSQL hierarchically and horizontally,respectively,which aim to extend the semantics relationships of the data service and improve the data access rate.Experimental results prove that DOLP outperforms the benchmark methods.First,our QSQL-based data discovery methods obtain a higher recall rate than the keyword-based method,and are faster than the traditional semantic method based on direct reasoning.Second,DOLP can handle more complex semantic relationships than the existing methods.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41904101,41774133)Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2019QD004)+1 种基金Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.19CX02010A)the Open Funds of SINOPEC Key Laboratory of Geophysics(Nos.wtyjy-wx2019-01-03,wtyjywx2018-01-06)
文摘In marine seismic exploration,ocean bottom cable technology can record multicomponent seismic data for multiparameter inversion and imaging.This study proposes an elastic multiparameter lease-squares reverse time migration based on the ocean bottom cable technology.Herein,the wavefield continuation operators are mixed equations:the acoustic wave equations are used to calculate seismic wave propagation in the seawater medium,whereas in the solid media below the seabed,the wavefields are obtained by P-and S-wave separated vector elastic wave equations.At the seabed interface,acoustic–elastic coupling control equations are used to combine the two types of equations.P-and S-wave separated elastic migration operators,demigration operators,and gradient equations are derived to realize the elastic least-squares reverse time migration based on the P-and S-wave mode separation.The model tests verify that the proposed method can obtain high-quality images in both the P-and S-velocity components.In comparison with the traditional elastic least-squares reverse time migration method,the proposed method can readily suppress imaging crosstalk noise from multiparameter coupling.
基金The Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission under contract No.14ZZ147the Opening Project of Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources(Shanghai Ocean University),Ministry of Education under contract No.A1-0209-15-0503-1
文摘It is widely recognized that assessments of the status of data-poor fish stocks are challenging and that Bayesian analysis is one of the methods which can be used to improve the reliability of stock assessments in data-poor situations through borrowing strength from prior information deduced from species with good-quality data or other known information. Because there is considerable uncertainty remaining in the stock assessment of albacore tuna（Thunnus alalunga） in the Indian Ocean due to the limited and low-quality data, we investigate the advantages of a Bayesian method in data-poor stock assessment by using Indian Ocean albacore stock assessment as an example. Eight Bayesian biomass dynamics models with different prior assumptions and catch data series were developed to assess the stock. The results show（1） the rationality of choice of catch data series and assumption of parameters could be enhanced by analyzing the posterior distribution of the parameters;（2） the reliability of the stock assessment could be improved by using demographic methods to construct a prior for the intrinsic rate of increase（r）. Because we can make use of more information to improve the rationality of parameter estimation and the reliability of the stock assessment compared with traditional statistical methods by incorporating any available knowledge into the informative priors and analyzing the posterior distribution based on Bayesian framework in data-poor situations, we suggest that the Bayesian method should be an alternative method to be applied in data-poor species stock assessment, such as Indian Ocean albacore.
基金supported by the National key program for Derelop-ing Basic Sciences(G 1999043805 and G19999043810)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40076009)the Chinese Academny of Sciences(KZCX1-SW-01-16).
文摘Methods for studying oceanic circulation from hydrographic data are reviewed in the context of their applications in the South China Sea. These methods can be classified into three types according to their different dynamics as follows: (1) descriptive methods, (2) diagnostic methods without surface and bottom forcing, and (3) diagnostic methods with the above boundary forcing. The paper discusses the progress made in the above methods together with the advancement of study in the South China Sea circulation.
基金The National Key R&D Program of China under contract No.2016YFA0600102the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41506203,41476159,41506204,41606197,41471303 and 41706209the Cooperation Project of FIO and KOIST under contract No.PI-2017-03
文摘Understanding the ocean＇s role in the global carbon cycle and its response to environmental change requires a high spatio-temporal resolution of observation.Merging ocean color data from multiple sources is an effective way to alleviate the limitation of individual ocean color sensors（e.g.,swath width and gaps,cloudy or rainy weather,and sun glint） and to improve the temporal and spatial coverage.Since the missions of Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor（Sea Wi FS） and Medium-spectral Resolution Imaging Spectrometer（MERIS） ended on December 11,2010 and May 9,2012,respectively,the number of available ocean color sensors has declined,reducing the benefits of the merged ocean color data with respect to the spatial and temporal coverage.In present work,Medium Resolution Spectral Imager（MERSI）/FY-3 of China is added in merged processing and a new dataset of global ocean chlorophyll a（Chl a） concentration（2000–2015） is generated from the remote sensing reflectance（Rrs（λ）） observations of MERIS,Moderate-resolution imaging spectra-radiometer（MODIS）-AQUA,Visible infrared Imaging Radiometer（VIIRS） and MERSI.These data resources are first merged into unified remote sensing reflectance data,and then Chl a concentration data are inversed using the combined Chl a algorithm of color index-based algorithm（CIA） and OC3.The merged data products show major improvements in spatial and temporal coverage from the addition of MERSI.The average daily coverage of merged products is approximately 24% of the global ocean and increases by approximately 9% when MERSI data are added in the merging process.Sampling frequency（temporal coverage） is greatly improved by combining MERSI data,with the median sampling frequency increasing from 15.6%（57 d/a） to 29.9%（109 d/a）.The merged Chl a products herein were validated by in situ measurements and comparing them with the merged products using the same approach except for omitting MERSI and Glob Colour and MEa SUREs merged data.Correlation and relative error between the new merged Chl a products and in situ observation are stable relative to the results of the merged products without the addition of MERSI.Time series of the Chl a concentration anomalies are similar to the merged products without adding MERSI and single sensors.The new merged products agree within approximately 10% of the merged Chl a product from Glob Colour and MEa SUREs.
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41774133)the Open Funds of SINOPEC Key Laboratory of Geophysics(No.wtyjy-wx2017-01-04)National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2016ZX05024-003-011)
文摘In marine seismic exploration, ocean-bottom cable techniques accurately record the multicomponent seismic wavefield; however, the seismic wave propagation in fluid–solid media cannot be simulated by a single wave equation. In addition, when the seabed interface is irregular, traditional finite-difference schemes cannot simulate the seismic wave propagation across the irregular seabed interface. Therefore, an acoustic–elastic forward modeling and vector-based P-and S-wave separation method is proposed. In this method, we divide the fluid–solid elastic media with irregular interface into orthogonal grids and map the irregular interface in the Cartesian coordinates system into a horizontal interface in the curvilinear coordinates system of the computational domain using coordinates transformation. The acoustic and elastic wave equations in the curvilinear coordinates system are applied to the fluid and solid medium, respectively. At the irregular interface, the two equations are combined into an acoustic–elastic equation in the curvilinear coordinates system. We next introduce a full staggered-grid scheme to improve the stability of the numerical simulation. Thus, separate P-and S-wave equations in the curvilinear coordinates system are derived to realize the P-and S-wave separation method.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation under contract No.41621064the Science and Technology Basic Work of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under contract No.2012FY112300the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean under contract No.201005033
文摘This paper reviews the current achievements of the China Argo project. It considers aspects of both the construction of the Argo observing array, float technology, and the quality control and sharing of its data. The developments of associated data products and data applications for use in the fields of ocean, atmosphere, and climate research are discussed, particularly those related to tropical cyclones （typhoons）, ocean circulation, mesoscale eddies, turbulence, oceanic heat/salt storage and transportation, water masses, and operational oceanic/atmospheric/climatic forecasts and predictions. Finaliy, the challenges and opportunities involved in the long-term maintenance and sustained development of the China Argo ocean observation network are outlined. Discussion also focuses on the necessity for increasing the number of floats in the Indian Ocean and for expanding the regional Argo observation network in the South China Sea, together with the importance of promoting the use of Argo data by the maritime countries of Southeast Asia and India.
