The Bermuda Testbed Mooring (BTM) Project: A Community Resource for Science and Technology

该项目的总体目标是继续向海洋学界提供科学和技术研究的重要资源，即深海系泊平台和核心跨学科测量。自1988年以来，百慕大大西洋时间序列研究（BATS）一直有效地用于取得令人兴奋的发现，增加我们对各种海洋过程的知识和理解，并开发和测试模型。BTM计划的目标包括：收集高时间分辨率的跨学科数据，以补充船基BATS数据（以及通过附近的其他专门程序收集的数据;促进研究和加强了解更高频率和偶发现象（中尺度及更大尺度的重力波）在影响上层海洋地球化学、生态和物理变化方面的作用，以及3）向研究人员提供BTM的高频、长期数据集，这些研究人员将开发和测试亚季节、季节和长期学科和跨学科模型，这些模型旨在包括高频和偶发现象。BTM还将成为未来自主全球海洋观测系统平台的典范。技术目标包括：为通过的浮标、漂流器、滑翔器和自主水下航行器（AUV）以及卫星提供可用于地面实况数据的数据，以提供用于测试和利用新兴传感器、仪器和数据通信技术的平台，并且随着新传感器、平台技术和通信系统的上线，减少对基于船的操作的依赖（以及因此的成本）。 BTM计划是多方面的，已经为大量的海洋学家和学生提供服务，从技术人员到观测人员（现场和遥感）到建模人员。BTM计划的继续将用于在海洋知识日益引起社会兴趣和关注的时候加快观测能力。

The overall objective of this project is to continue to provide the oceanographic community with a critical resource for scientific and technological studies, namely a deep-ocean mooring platform and core interdisciplinary measurements. Time-series programs off Bermuda (Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study or BATS) have been effectively used since 1988 to make exciting discoveries, to increase our knowledge and understanding of a variety of ocean processes, and to develop and test models. Objectives of the BTM program include: collection of high temporal resolution, interdisciplinary data, which will complement ship-based BATS data (and data collected through other specialized programs in the vicinity; facilitate studies and enhance understanding of the roles of higher frequency and episodic phenomena (gravity waves to mesoscale and beyond) in affecting the variability of upper ocean biogeochemistry, ecology, and physics, and 3) provide the BTM's high frequency, long-term data sets to investigators who will be developing and testing sub-seasonal, seasonal, and longer-term disciplinary and interdisciplinary models designed to include high frequency and episodic phenomena. BTM will also serve as a model for future autonomous global ocean observatory system platforms. Technological objectives include: supplying data which can be used for groundtruthing data for passing floats, drifters, gliders, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) as well as satellites to provide a platform for the testing and utilization of emerging sensors, instrumentation, and data communication technologies, and reduce dependence on ship-based operations (and therefore cost) as new sensors, platform technologies, and communication systems come on line. The BTM program is multi-faceted and already serves a large number of oceanographers and students ranging from technologists to observationalists (in situ and remote sensing) to modelers. The continuation of the BTM program will be used to accelerate observational capacity at a time when knowledge of the ocean is of growing societal interest and concern.