GOOS is a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide. GOOS will provide accurate descriptions of the present state of the oceans, including living resources; continuous forecasts of the future conditions of the sea for as far ahead as possible; and the basis for forecasts of climate change.	NEWS ITEMS CALENDAR SEARCH
		GOOS is being implemented by national and international facilities and services, and is sponsored by

The GOOS 

JCOMM : Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

Ocean Ops 04 : a scientific workshop focusing on the operational needs of environmental managers, in terms of operational metocean products and services in Support of maritime safety and environmental management (Organized by JCOMM and Météo-France - Centre International de Conférences, Météo-France, Toulouse, France - 10-15 May 2004)

JCOMMOPS : JCOMM in situ Observing Platform Support centre

DBCP : Data Buoy Co-operation Panel

SOOP : Ship-of-Opportunity Programme

GLOSS : Global Sea Level Observing System

TIP : Tropical Moored Buoys Implementation Panel

TAO : Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project

TRITON : Triangle Trans-Ocean buoy Network

PIRATA : Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic

CPR : Continuous Plankton Recorder Programme

GCRMN : Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network

Associated systems/bodies

The International SeaKeepers Society

GOOS Pilot Projects

GODAE  :   Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment

        The French MERCATOR Project

        The US Fleet Numercial Server in Monterey

Argo : "Observing the global ocean in real time"

The Argo Science Team

The Argo Information Centre

A presentation of the Argo project in Spanish

GEO : Global Eulerian Observations

RAMP : Rapid Assessment of marine pollution

 

General

The 1st Regional GOOS Forum (Athens, December 2002)

The 2nd Regional GOOS Forum (Nadi, Fiji, February 2004):

• report of the meeting
• regional reports
• PowerPoint presentations

GOOS regional policy (as adopted by I-GOOS-VI, Paris, March 2003)

The GOOS Regional Groups (update as on June 2003)

EuroGOOS

BOOS : Baltic Operational Observing System

NOOS : Northwest Shelf Operational observing System

MedGOOS : Mediterranean GOOS

Black Sea GOOS

GOOS-AFRICA

NEAR-GOOS : North-East Asian Regional GOOS

Pacific Islands GOOS   (ex-PacificGOOS)

IOGOOS : Indian Ocean GOOS

Coastal GOOS initiatives in the Indian Ocean

The West Indian Ocean Marine Applications Programme (WIOMAP)  

IOCARIBEGOOS : Caribbean GOOS

SEAGOOS : South-East Asia GOOS

SEACAMP: South-East Asian Centre for Atmospheric and Marine Prediction

 

What countries can do

GOOS National Committees

National commitments  

• Report of the Initial GOOS Commitments Meeting (Paris, 5-6 July 1999)
  
• GOOS National Commitments/Activities Summaries
  
• Status of national GOOS commitments as on January 2003

Consolidated list of GOOS national contacts

GOOS national activities and reports

Specific examples of national developments

The French project MERCATOR

The French project CORIOLIS

The Mediterranean Forecasting System: Towards Environmental Prediction (MFSTEP)

The Canadian Atlantic Zone Monitoring Project (AZMP).

Peruvian Observing Programme for "El Niño" (NAYLAMP)

An Ocean Observing System for U.S. Coastal Waters - First Steps

The U.S. Coastal Observing Systems

The Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS)

The Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS)

The Rutgers New Jersey Obs system

Western Australian Global Ocean Observing System (WAGOOS)

A maritime information gateway provided by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, United Kingdom: