Workshop: Observational campaigns for better weather forecasts

For more than 50 years of experience, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has been supporting scientific ballooning, which remains the most cost effective means to access to near space science.
This paper will give a quick overview of the CNES capabilities and services for operational balloon activities: Zero Pressure Balloon, Super Pressure Balloon and Sounding balloons. It will...

Over the past decade, significant progress has been made in the global ocean observing system (GOOS), which is monitoring much of the upper ocean on a global scale in real time with multiple observing platforms. But observation of air-sea fluxes has been relying on fixed surface moored buoys and research and voluntary ships with limited spatial coverage. As a result, the current GOOS is not...