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AN: OS23H-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The U. S. Contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS)
AU: * Spinrad, R W
EM: richard.spinrad@noaa.gov
AF: Assistant Administrator NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, SSMC3 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
AB: The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is the U.S. contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). Currently, efforts are underway to build the North American GOOS Regional Association, which would include the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The global component of IOOS contributes to GOOS through a number of different systems including the Global Tide Gauge Network, the Global Surface Drifting Buoy Array, the Tropical Moored Buoy Network, and the Argo Profiling Float Array. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking the U.S. federal government lead for IOOS. NOAA has begun the work needed to integrate and make interoperable five core variables for IOOS: temperature, salinity, sea level, surface currents, and ocean color. These five variables were chosen because they are critical for a number of ocean modeling efforts (consistent with NOAA's mission objectives) including hurricane intensity, coastal inundation, harmful algal bloom forecasts, and assessment of complex ecosystems. NOAA will continue to support the development of U.S. IOOS Regional Associations. There are currently 11 regions defined that are contributing to IOOS. The Regional Associations and the Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (RCOOS) data are important components of a fully implemented U. S. IOOS and already contribute a significant data stream to IOOS activities.
DE: 4262 Ocean observing systems
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly