Observing the Oceans in Real Time

Part I. Introduction

1. Recent Trends in Ocean Observations
R. Venkatesan, Amit Tandon, Debasis Sengupta, K. N. Navaneeth

Part II. Surface Observations

2. Observing Surface Meteorology and Air-Sea Fluxes
Robert A. Weller

3. Drifter Technology and Impacts for Sea Surface Temperature, Sea-Level Pressure, and Ocean Circulation Studies
Luca R. Centurioni

4. Origin, Transformation and Measurement of Waves in Ocean
P. Chandramohan, M. V. Ramanamurthy, K. Jossia Joseph, Satya Kiran Raju Alluri, D. Shyamala Varthini, K. N. Navaneeth

Part III. Subsurface Observations

5. Oceanographic Floats: Principles of Operation
Eric D’Asaro

6. Measuring Ocean Turbulence
Emily L. Shroyer, Jonathan D. Nash, Amy F. Waterhouse, James N. Moum

7. Underwater Gliders
Craig M. Lee, Daniel L. Rudnick

8. Advances in In-Situ Ocean Measurements
David Murphy, Carol Janzen

Part IV. Remote Sensing

9. Ocean Remote Sensing: Concept to Realization for Physical Oceanographic Studies
Tapan Misra, Rashmi Sharma, Raj Kumar, Pradip K. Pal

10. Near Real-Time Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Natural and Anthropogenic Sounds
Mark F. Baumgartner, Kathleen M. Stafford, G. Latha

11. Data Return Aspects of CODAR and WERA High-Frequency Radars in Mapping Currents
Yonggang Liu, Clifford R. Merz, Robert H. Weisberg, Benjamin K. O’Loughlin, Vembu Subramanian

Part V. Data

12. Sensor Performance and Data Quality Control
Sébastien P. Bigorre, Nancy R. Galbraith

13. Near Real-Time Data Recovery from Oceanographic Moorings
Richard P. Trask, J. Thomas Farrar

14. Managing Meteorological and Oceanographic In Situ Data in theWMO Framework
Etienne Charpentier

Part VI. Societal Applications

15. Applications of Ocean In-situ Observations and Its Societal Relevance
M. Ravichandran, M. S. Girishkumar

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Oceanography, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Environmental Science and Engineering, Meteorology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Engineering Acoustics