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Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)Contents |
Background
[whole article badly needs updaing and work; all programs below should be links to homepages]
We list below the broadest and most ambitious view of actual and potential "subsystems" of GOOS, which sees it as eventually achieving complete, global integration of ocean observations, analysis and prediction, as seen for many decades already in the weather programs of the WMO. [Included, both for comparison and because they will certainly be cross-integrated, are GOS and WWW, the observations and analysis/product delivery systems, respectively, of WMO.] We do not claim that these programs are, in fact, GOOS components today, but they constitute logical groupings with bona fide components and are best described together.
Selected Systems & Programs
ARGO - A Global Array of Profiling Floats GDP - Global Drifter Program GLOSS - Global Sea-Level Observing System GOS - Global Observing System (of the WMO) GTSPP - Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Project ITSU - Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific OceanSITES - OCEAN Sustained Interdisciplinary Timeseries Environment Observation System SOOP - Ship-of-Opportunity Program Tropical Moored Buoys (TAO, TRITON, PIRATA) VOS - Volunteer Observing Ships WWW - World Weather Watch
GOSIC
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Information about this article
Short title: GOOS
Description: none
Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2009-9-1
Subsection of: Marine Observing Systems
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