GOOS: The Global Ocean Observing System

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.

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GOOS is being implemented by national and international facilities and services, and is sponsored by
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Global maps showing implementation: 

        examples (JCOMMOPS maps, GLOSS map)

        dynamic maps

GOOS Products & Services Bulletin

On-Line Data Products and Services Directory

Electronic JCOMM Products Bulletin

Documents & Reports

Publications indexed

by GOOS document #

by theme (see under relevant item)

Newsletter

Capacity Building

The state of the art

Principles for GOOS Capacity Building

GOOS Capacity Building Implementation Strategy

The GOOS Capacity Building Panel

The JCOMM Capacity Building Strategy

The GOOS Capacity Building Action Plan

The Capacity Building site in Brazil

Business Partnerships / Users' Needs / Cost Benefit Studies

Requirements of the US Recreation and Tourism Industry for Climate, Weather, and Ocean Information
by Dr Mary G. Altalo, Project Director, Corporate Vice President, Science Applications International Corporation, and Monica Hale, Senior Sustainability Specialist, Orestes Anastasia, Senior Climate Change Analyst, Harry Alverson, Communications Specialist. 

Concept of Industry Trials as a means of matching supply push with demand pull. These trials are generic, and can be used in any industry sector (not just marine), and indeed in government as well as industry. 
(paper in press in the Proceedings of the 3rd EuroGOOS Conference on Operational Oceanography, Athens, Greece, 2-6 December 2002) 

Critical use of environmental information in industry operational decision aids and scenario building, by Mary G Altalo

The Potential Economic Benefits of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems: The Gulf of Maine

Defining the Requirements of the U.S. Energy Industry for Climate, Weather, and Ocean Information, by Mary G. Altalo

The economics of sustained ocean observations (Dr Weiher, NOAA)

Dividends from Investing in Ocean Observations: A European Perspective (N. Fleming, Southampton Oceanographic Laboratory)

Improving El Niņo Forecasting: the Potential Economic Benefits (Rodney F. Weiher, Editor, NOAA)

There was a Proposal for methodology for addressing costs and benefits presented at GSC-III (May 2000) by Nic Flemming

The first GOOS Users' Forum (Costa Rica, Nov. 2000)

The EuroGOOS analysis of the need for operational ocean remote sensing


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Updated: 24 January 2005