What does GOOS stand for?

Speaking at an international climate change conference in Cape Town, Geoff Brundrit of the Global Ocean Observing System in Africa said even a slight increase in sea levels could wreak havoc on some countries.

For example, ocean observations can be linked to other data being collected about changes on the mainland under the broader NCRIS program, or fed directly into international marine research community efforts, such as the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), or the BlueLINK data assimilation system which uses thousands of Argo robotic reporting floats around the world to give a best estimate of the weekly state of the oceans.

It isn't a first trip for the device, but it will be the longest, a proving effort to show that an undersea glider can take its place in a global ocean observing system.

NOAA is using this system to develop a global array of moored observation systems to determine air-sea flux in support of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).

The conference brought together the global ocean observing systems community to discuss a revolution in ocean data collection.