Use Cases

In addition, implementing an All-Atlantic Ocean Observing System, the AtlantOS program is supporting several ocean observing use cases with specific thematic foci that showcase the added value of a more integrated ocean observing system:

Mitigating Impacts of Sargassum on Coastal Communities in the Tropical Atlantic, in partnership with GEO Blue Planet, MBON, US IOOS, IOCARIBE, and many others.
Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation (AMOC) provides basin-scale information by combining AMOC observing networks OSNAP, RAPID, PIRATA and SAMOC.
Ocean Carbon Uptake identifies sources and sinks of carbon by connecting several ongoing projects at national, regional, and international level.
Ecosystems Based Management for Fisheries in Atlantic Upwelling Regions, focusses on the eastern and tropical upwelling regions in the South and North Atlantic along the west coast of Africa.
Linking networks to predict and explain Marine Animal Movements in a changing environment, in collaboration with various regional Ocean Tracking Networks.

AtlantOS use cases. ©Leonard Ermel

The AtlantOS approach to working on these cases are

To build upon existing data and observing infrastructures.
To help building community / capacity exchange.
To work towards needed services not presently available.
To create a prototype component of the final system.
To contribute to the implementation of international activities like GOOS Strategy 2030, OceanObs’19 follow up process, and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021 – 2030).

We openly encourage and invite other use case initiatives to self-organize themselves within the frame of AtlantOS. If you would like to suggest another use case topic please get in contact with us.