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Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Hamburg and Rostock 
(Federal Maritime and Hydrographie Agency) 
BSH-P2 Climate related monitoring in the North Atlantic 
GOOS related activity 
Module 
Research / 
operational 
Measuring data / products 
Users 
Measuring techniques 
(a) Long-term fluctuations in meridional 
heat and substance transports 
1 
Operational 
Transatlantic hydrographic section; 
temperature, salinity, currents, oxygen, 
nutrients. 
Interpretation of the measuring results, 
scientific publications 
Ocean climatol. 
services, 
authorities, 
universities, the 
public 
Research vessel: CTD, XBT, 
hydrographic series, floats, 
moored current meters, remote 
sensing 
(b) Ship-of-opportunity programme 
1,5 
Operational 
Measuring data from the ocean surface 
layer along two sections in the Atlantic; 
temperature, salinity. 
Input data for numerical models, scientific 
publications 
Oceanographic and 
meteorol. services, 
universities 
Two commercial shipping lines 
from Europe to South and North 
America, respectively; research 
vessels with bathythermographs 
(XBT) and thermosalinographs, 
ferries with contact thermometers