Partnerships
Partnerships are essential to the success of the SAMOS initiative.
The initiative thanks those who have already contributed and
continues to seek new expertise and resources.
- User Community: Provides scientific input to establish sampling methods and accuracy targets. SAMOS will continue to engage a wide user community to develop products for both research and operations.
- UNOLS: WHOI is actively participated in the 2005 pilot project. Additional members have provided critical feedback on data exchange methods, metadata standards, etc. and are planning to contribute observations in the near future.
- NOAA OMAO: The NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations has developed a SAMOS data application for the Scientific Computing System (SCS) version 4.0. This application will allow data transmission in SAMOS format from most NOAA vessels and UNOLS vessels using SCS 4.0.
- VOSClim Program: Participants continue to provide expertise to create the SAMOS metadata specification.
- GOSUD: Opened dialog in 2004. The Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) pilot project provided input on data and metadata standards. A joint workshop in 2006 focused on establishing a data exchange whereby the SAMOS DAC will provide data qality evaluation of meteorological data collected by GOSUD and the GOSUD data center will evaluate the near-surface ocean data collected by SAMOS.
- WCRP WGSF: Interested in SAMOS goal to improve marine meteorological observations. SAMOS initiative will provide critical data for benchmarking air-sea flux products. As a joint effort of SAMOS and the WGSF, a "Guide to making climate quality meteorological and flux measurements at sea" was published by NOAA ESRL in Fall 2006 and introduced to the vessel operator community at INMARTECH (October 2006).
- Others: Constructive feedback has been provided by members of JCOMM, SOT, SeaKeepers, and the international research vessel community. The SAMOS initiative welcomes ongoing collaboration with the NOAA Office of Climate Observation (OCO) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).