OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean
There is a wide consensus within the polar science, meteorology, and oceanography communities that more in situ observations of the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice are required to further improve operational forecasting model skills. Traditionally, the volume of such measurements has been limited by...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/24574 2023-05-15T18:18:22+02:00 OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean Rabault, Jean Nose, Takehiko Hope, Gaute Müller, Malte Breivik, Øyvind Voermans, Joey Hole, Lars Robert Bohlinger, Patrik Waseda, Takuji Kodaira, Tsubasa Katsuno, Tomotaka Johnson, Mark Sutherland, Graig Johansson, Anna Malin Kristin Christensen, Kai Haakon Garbo, Adam Jensen, Atle Gundersen, Olav Marchenko, Aleksey Babanin, Alexander 2022-02-26 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24574 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12030110 eng eng MDPI Geosciences FRIDAID 2005841 https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12030110 2076-3263 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24574 openAccess Copyright 2022 The Author(s) Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2022 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12030110 2022-03-30T22:58:17Z There is a wide consensus within the polar science, meteorology, and oceanography communities that more in situ observations of the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice are required to further improve operational forecasting model skills. Traditionally, the volume of such measurements has been limited by the high cost of commercially available instruments. An increasingly attractive solution to this cost issue is to use instruments produced in-house from open-source hardware, firmware, and postprocessing building blocks. In the present work, we release the next iteration of the open-source drifter and wave-monitoring instrument of Rabault et al. (see “An open source, versatile, affordable waves in ice instrument for scientific measurements in the Polar Regions”, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2020), which follows these solution aspects. The new design is significantly less expensive (typically by a factor of 5 compared with our previous, already cost-effective instrument), much easier to build and assemble for people without specific microelectronics and programming competence, more easily extendable and customizable, and two orders of magnitude more power-efficient (to the point where solar panels are no longer needed even for long-term deployments). Improving performance and reducing noise levels and costs compared with our previous generation of instruments is possible in large part thanks to progress from the electronics component industry. As a result, we believe that this will allow scientists in geosciences to increase by an order of magnitude the amount of in situ data they can collect under a constant instrumentation budget. In the following, we offer (1) a detailed overview of our hardware and software solution, (2) in situ validation and benchmarking of our instrument, (3) a fully open-source release of both hardware and software blueprints. We hope that this work, and the associated open-source release, will be a milestone that will allow our scientific fields to transition towards open-source, community-driven instrumentation. We believe that this could have a considerable impact on many fields by making in situ instrumentation at least an order of magnitude less expensive and more customizable than it has been for the last 50 years, marking the start of a new paradigm in oceanography and polar science, where instrumentation is an inexpensive commodity and in situ data are easier and less expensive to collect. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Geosciences 12 3 110 |
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There is a wide consensus within the polar science, meteorology, and oceanography communities that more in situ observations of the ocean, atmosphere, and sea ice are required to further improve operational forecasting model skills. Traditionally, the volume of such measurements has been limited by the high cost of commercially available instruments. An increasingly attractive solution to this cost issue is to use instruments produced in-house from open-source hardware, firmware, and postprocessing building blocks. In the present work, we release the next iteration of the open-source drifter and wave-monitoring instrument of Rabault et al. (see “An open source, versatile, affordable waves in ice instrument for scientific measurements in the Polar Regions”, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2020), which follows these solution aspects. The new design is significantly less expensive (typically by a factor of 5 compared with our previous, already cost-effective instrument), much easier to build and assemble for people without specific microelectronics and programming competence, more easily extendable and customizable, and two orders of magnitude more power-efficient (to the point where solar panels are no longer needed even for long-term deployments). Improving performance and reducing noise levels and costs compared with our previous generation of instruments is possible in large part thanks to progress from the electronics component industry. As a result, we believe that this will allow scientists in geosciences to increase by an order of magnitude the amount of in situ data they can collect under a constant instrumentation budget. In the following, we offer (1) a detailed overview of our hardware and software solution, (2) in situ validation and benchmarking of our instrument, (3) a fully open-source release of both hardware and software blueprints. We hope that this work, and the associated open-source release, will be a milestone that will allow our scientific fields to transition towards open-source, community-driven instrumentation. We believe that this could have a considerable impact on many fields by making in situ instrumentation at least an order of magnitude less expensive and more customizable than it has been for the last 50 years, marking the start of a new paradigm in oceanography and polar science, where instrumentation is an inexpensive commodity and in situ data are easier and less expensive to collect. |
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Rabault, Jean Nose, Takehiko Hope, Gaute Müller, Malte Breivik, Øyvind Voermans, Joey Hole, Lars Robert Bohlinger, Patrik Waseda, Takuji Kodaira, Tsubasa Katsuno, Tomotaka Johnson, Mark Sutherland, Graig Johansson, Anna Malin Kristin Christensen, Kai Haakon Garbo, Adam Jensen, Atle Gundersen, Olav Marchenko, Aleksey Babanin, Alexander |
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Rabault, Jean Nose, Takehiko Hope, Gaute Müller, Malte Breivik, Øyvind Voermans, Joey Hole, Lars Robert Bohlinger, Patrik Waseda, Takuji Kodaira, Tsubasa Katsuno, Tomotaka Johnson, Mark Sutherland, Graig Johansson, Anna Malin Kristin Christensen, Kai Haakon Garbo, Adam Jensen, Atle Gundersen, Olav Marchenko, Aleksey Babanin, Alexander OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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Rabault, Jean Nose, Takehiko Hope, Gaute Müller, Malte Breivik, Øyvind Voermans, Joey Hole, Lars Robert Bohlinger, Patrik Waseda, Takuji Kodaira, Tsubasa Katsuno, Tomotaka Johnson, Mark Sutherland, Graig Johansson, Anna Malin Kristin Christensen, Kai Haakon Garbo, Adam Jensen, Atle Gundersen, Olav Marchenko, Aleksey Babanin, Alexander |
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OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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OpenMetBuoy-v2021: An Easy-to-Build, Affordable, Customizable, Open-Source Instrument for Oceanographic Measurements of Drift and Waves in Sea Ice and the Open Ocean |
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openmetbuoy-v2021: an easy-to-build, affordable, customizable, open-source instrument for oceanographic measurements of drift and waves in sea ice and the open ocean |
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