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Observations are essential to explore and discover the ocean, to reveal new processes or trends, and to contribute to reducing the uncertainties for a wide range of physical, chemical and biological processes. However, the ocean remains critically under-observed. Progress in our understanding of the ocean and of its role in a changing environment thus rely deeply on an increase in coverage and resolution in space and time of high-quality observations. Ocean Observation, a specialty section of Frontiers in Marine Sciences, aims to promote these statements at a time when a revolution is under way in ocean observation, progressively leaving behind the era of scarce data. Indeed, thanks to ongoing technological developments, some of them now achieving maturity, we are entering a new period of cost-effective observation acquisition, in large part based on remote techniques. Long-term and sustained observations are now becoming a reality as a result of improved data management procedures and efficient international networking and coordination. The specialty section welcomes studies presenting new technologies (sensors, platforms) and methods for increasing the quantity and quality of measurements in the various fields of oceanography (physics, optics, acoustics, chemistry, biology, biogeochemistry, biodiversity, ecosystem studies). Ocean Observation primarily targets the open ocean with a broad spatio-temporal domain, from the local to the global scale and from the diurnal to the decadal scale. We welcome studies not only dedicated to the analysis of specific datasets acquired by specific observation platforms such as satellites (sea surface temperature and salinity, ocean color, altimetry), autonomous platforms (floats, gliders, drifters, moorings, instrumented and tagged animals), or ships (transects, underway measurements), but also integrated studies combining datasets from various origins (e.g. satellite and in situ) and from various disciplines (e.g. physics and biogeochemistry). In this context, and with the ultimate aim of producing datasets with the required quality for climate studies, Ocean Observation encourages innovative insights into the development of data quality-control procedures and methods allowing datasets from different sources to be interoperable. Ocean Observation also welcomes studies dedicated to integration of observations with numerical models to provide context, spatial and temporal estimates, or observing system simulation experiments that may span physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem dimensions. This specialty section should also be considered a forum for the growing research community, focusing on all aspects of ocean observation including operational oceanography and management applications in a context of increasing societal demand. We welcome reviews and perspectives.Indexed in: Scopus, DOAJ, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Proquest ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
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Ocean Observation welcomes submissions of the following article types: Book Review, Brief Research Report, Correction, Data Report, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis and Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Policy and Practice Reviews, Policy Brief, Protocols, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge, Systematic Review and Technology Report.
All manuscripts must be submitted directly to the section Ocean Observation, where they are peer-reviewed by the Associate and Review Editors of the specialty section.
Articles published in the section Ocean Observation will benefit from the Frontiers impact and tiering system after online publication. Authors of published original research with the highest impact, as judged democratically by the readers, will be invited by the Chief Editor to write a Frontiers Focused Review - a tier-climbing article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article impact analytics of original research published in all Frontiers specialty journals and sections. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it into a broader context, and aim to address the wider community across all of Marine Science.
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