The Global Ocean Observing System : Users, Benefits, and Priorities.

THE GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- OVERARCHING THEMES -- INTERNATIONAL GOOS -- GOOS IN THE UNITED STATES -- USERS AND BENEFITS OF GOOS -- DEVELOPING GOOS IN THE SPIRIT OF PARTNERSHIP -- PRIORITIES FOR U.S. GOOS ACTIVITIES -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- GOOS OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH -- THE GOOS MODULES -- Climate Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction -- Assessment and Prediction of the Health of the Ocean -- Monitoring and Assessment of Living Marine Resources -- Coastal Zone Management and Development -- Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Services -- U.S. GOOS -- NRC COMMITTEE FOR THE GLOBAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM -- 2 INTERNATIONAL GOOS -- INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL PLANNING BY MODULE -- Climate Monitoring, Assessment, and Prediction -- Assessment and Prediction of the Health of the Ocean -- Monitoring and Assessment of Marine Living Resources -- Coastal Zone Management and Development -- Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic Operational Services -- Overall Status of Module Planning at the International Level -- Importance of Time Series -- RELATIONSHIP OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS TO GOOS -- 3 GOOS IN THE UNITED STATES -- U.S. GOOS INFRASTRUCTURE -- U.S. GOOS Interagency ad Hoc Working Group -- U.S. GOOS Interagency Project Office -- Relationship to the Integrated Global Observing Strategy -- Relationship to International GOOS -- Review and Advice -- U.S. PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTATION -- EDUCATION -- 4 USERS AND BENEFITS OF GOOS -- EXAMPLES OF POTENTIAL GOOS APPLICATIONS -- Surface Winds Over the Ocean -- Data Users, Products, and Benefits -- Strategy for Improving System -- Sea Surface Temperature -- Data Users, Products, and Benefits -- Strategy for Improving System -- Coastal Hazard Prediction and Warnings -- Data, Users, and Products -- Ultimate Users and Benefits.

Implementation Strategy -- Improved Navigational Systems -- Data, Users, and Products -- Ultimate Users and Benefits -- Strategies for Improving the System -- Improved Fish Stock Assessments -- Data, Users, and Products -- Benefits and Ultimate Users -- Strategy for Improving System -- Prediction of Algal Blooms in Coastal Regions -- Data, Users, and Products -- Ultimate Users and Benefits -- Climate Forecasts and Health Warnings -- Data, Users, and Products -- Ultimate Users and Benefits -- COST-BENEFIT STUDIES -- Enso Effects On Agribusiness -- Amnesiac Shellfish Poisoning: Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1987 -- Coastal Forecasts -- 5 DEVELOPING GOOS IN THE SPIRIT OF PARTNERSHIP -- THE CONCEPT -- EXAMPLES -- Surface Winds -- Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems (Ports) -- The California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations -- Algal Blooms -- 6 PRIORITIES FOR U.S. GOOS ACTIVITIES -- PRIORITIES FOR OBSERVATIONS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIXES -- APPENDIX B Committee Roster -- APPENDIX C Acronyms.

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