AST-12 meeting report posted - Argo

hold a Sea Ice/Oceans Observational Strategy Workshop in 2012. Several AST members
supported this idea. The newly established Southern Ocean Observing System Project Office in
Hobart will be approached to host the workshop.
In the discussion following the presentation, it was suggested that any floats deployed near the
ice zone should have the ice avoidance algorithm which is a free feature of APEX floats. It was
also noted that both the US and German groups are having more trouble in the Arctic region.
7 Demonstrating Argo’s value
7.1 Upcoming science meetings
7.1.1 IUGG
The IUGG meeting will be held in Melbourne, Australia ( 27 June – 8 July 2011) and there will
be a session that will focus on Argo and other ocean observing systems.
7.1.2 WCRP
There is an upcoming WCRP meeting
7.1.3 OSTST
A joint Argo and Altimetry workshop will precede the next Ocean Surface Topography Science
Team Meeting which will be 19-21 October, 2011. The workshop, entitled “Jason and the
Argonauts: Exploiting the Synergy Between Argo and Satellite Altimetry” will be on 18 October,
2011 in San Diego, CA. D. Roemmich asked for volunteers to serve on the science organizing
committee to help with planning and promoting the OSTST/Argo workshop.
Action item 30: Create a science organizing committee to help with planning and
promoting the OSTST/Argo workshop, P-Y LeTraon, B. Owens, P. Polito, AST members.
7.2 Argo bibliography
M. Scanderbeg presented work done in the last year on the bibliography pages on the AST
website. Everyone was reminded that now only the Argo bibliography and the Argo in press
bibliography pages are maintained. A couple different cases were discussed and it was agreed
that papers who use model outputs based on Argo data, but where Argo data are not
specifically mentioned in the paper will not be included in the bibliography. This is mainly to
equally exclude all such papers since it is a large job to find all the papers based on model
outputs where Argo data is used. The second case brought up was where it is mentioned that
Argo data will make future work more feasible. M. Scanderbeg said that these papers were also
excluded from the bibliography. The reasoning here being that the bibliography is meant to
accurately portray the number of papers published using Argo data and not using the possibility
of Argo.
M. Scanderbeg also maintains graphs showing the number of papers published per year and
the numbers of papers published per country as designated by the country of the first author on
the paper. There were almost 90 more papers published in 2010 (202) than in 2009 (114).
About half of these additional papers came from OceanObs’09 plenary papers and from articles
written in languages other than English. It was also noted that maintaining the in press page is
becoming easier as more journals are listing in press citations on their websites.
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