Evolving and sustaining ccean best practices and standards for the next decade

The oceans play a key role in global issues such as climate change, food security, and human health. Given their vast dimensions and internal complexity, efficient monitoring and predicting of the planet's ocean must be a collaborative effort of both regional and global scale. A first and foremost requirement for such collaborative ocean observing is the need to follow well-defined and reproducible methods across activities: from strategies for structuring observing systems, sensor deployment and usage, and the generation of data and information products, to ethical and governance aspects when executing ocean observing. To meet the urgent, planet-wide challenges we face, methods across all aspects of ocean observing should be broadly adopted by the ocean community and, where appropriate, should evolve into "Ocean Best Practices." While many groups have created best practices, they are scattered across the Web or buried in local repositories and many have yet to be digitized. To reduce this fragmentation, we introduce a new open access, permanent, digital repository of best practices documentation (oceanbestpractices.org ) that is part of the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS). The new OBPS provides an opportunity space for the centralized and coordinated improvement of ocean observing methods. The OBPS repository employs user-friendly software to significantly improve discovery and access to methods. The software includes advanced semantic technologies for search capabilities to enhance repository operations. In addition to the repository, the OBPS also includes a peer reviewed journal research topic, a forum for community discussion and a training activity for use of best practices. Together, these components serve to realize a core objective of the OBPS, which is to enable the ocean community to create superior methods for every activity in ocean observing from research to operations to applications that are agreed upon and broadly adopted across communities. Using selected ocean observing examples, we show how the OBPS supports this objective. This paper lays out a future vision of ocean best practices and how OBPS will contribute to improving ocean observing in the decade to come.

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Author Pearlman, Jay
Bushnell, Mark
Coppola, Laurent
Karstensen, Johannes
Buttigieg, Pier Luigi
Pearlman, Francoise
Simpson, Pauline
Barbier, Michele
Muller-Karger, Frank E.
Munoz-Mas, Cristian
Pissierssens, Peter
Chandler, Cyndy
Hermes, Juliet
Heslop, Emma
Jenkyns, Reyna
Achterberg, Eric P.
Bensi, Manuel
Bittig, Henry C.
Blandin, Jerome
Bosch, Julie
Bourles, Bernard
Bozzano, Roberto
Buck, Justin J. H.
Burger, Eugene F.
Cano, Daniel
Cardin, Vanessa
Llorens, Miguel Charcos
Cianca, Andrés
Chen, Hua
Cusack, Caroline
Delory, Eric
Garello, Rene
Giovanetti, Gabriele
Harscoat, Valerie
Hartman, Susan
Heitsenrether, Robert
Jirka, Simon
Lara-Lopez, Ana
Lantéri, Nadine
Leadbetter, Adam
Manzella, Giuseppe
Maso, Joan
McCurdy, Andrea
Moussat, Eric
Ntoumas, Manolis
Pensieri, Sara
Petihakis, George
Pinardi, Nadia
Pouliquen, Sylvie
Przeslawski, Rachel
Roden, Nicholas P.
Silke, Joe
Tamburri, Mario N.
Tang, Hairong
Tanhua, Toste
Telszewski, Maciej
Testor, Pierre
Thomas, Julie
Waldmann, Christoph
Whoriskey, Fred
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Suggested Citation Pearlman, Jay, Bushnell, Mark, Coppola, Laurent, Karstensen, Johannes, Buttigieg, Pier Luigi, Pearlman, Francoise, Simpson, Pauline, Barbier, Michele, Muller-Karger, Frank E., Munoz-Mas, Cristian, Pissierssens, Peter, Chandler, Cyndy, Hermes, Juliet, Heslop, Emma, Jenkyns, Reyna, Achterberg, Eric P., Bensi, Manuel, Bittig, Henry C., Blandin, Jerome, Bosch, Julie, Bourles, Bernard, Bozzano, Roberto, Buck, Justin J. H., Burger, Eugene F., Cano, Daniel, Cardin, Vanessa, Llorens, Miguel Charcos, Cianca, Andrés, Chen, Hua, Cusack, Caroline, Delory, Eric, Garello, Rene, Giovanetti, Gabriele, Harscoat, Valerie, Hartman, Susan, Heitsenrether, Robert, Jirka, Simon, Lara-Lopez, Ana, Lantéri, Nadine, Leadbetter, Adam, Manzella, Giuseppe, Maso, Joan, McCurdy, Andrea, Moussat, Eric, Ntoumas, Manolis, Pensieri, Sara, Petihakis, George, Pinardi, Nadia, Pouliquen, Sylvie, Przeslawski, Rachel, Roden, Nicholas P., Silke, Joe, Tamburri, Mario N., Tang, Hairong, Tanhua, Toste, Telszewski, Maciej, Testor, Pierre, Thomas, Julie, Waldmann, Christoph, Whoriskey, Fred. (2019). Evolving and sustaining ccean best practices and standards for the next decade. UCAR/NCAR - Library. http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7sq93gf. Accessed 31 January 2025.

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