Recent Publications

Publications about GOOS from the GOOS community
1 Ocean Observing Co-Design Progress Report: Achievements and Updates 2025 (29/01/2026)
Document to provide a narrative report to WMO on...
2 GOOS Virtual Steering Committee Meeting Report (2025 December) (19/12/2025)
3 GOOS-310 : Global Ocean Observing System Status Report 2025 (27/11/2025)
Explore the interactive digital version of the GOOS...
4 GOOS Virtual Steering Committee Meeting Report (2025 September) (26/11/2025)
5 GOOS Phenomena List (17/11/2025)
6 GOOS-304 : Ocean Observing Co-Design Programme 2025 Strategy and Planning Meeting Report (21/03/2025)
7 GOOS-299 : GOOS 13th Session of the Steering Committee (SC-13) Report (06/01/2025)
8 GOOS-288 : Dialogues with Industry: Synthesis Report (10/07/2023)
This document provides a synthesis of the content...
9 1st Report of the Tropical Pacific Observing System, TPOS 2020 Project (30/12/2016)
10 GOOS-215 : 1st Report of the Tropical Pacific Observing System, TPOS 2020 Project (30/12/2016)
11 Deep Ocean Observing Strategy - A Global Ocean Observing System Project Report (20/03/2014)
The objective of this report is to develop a statement...
12 GOOS-195 : First Meeting of the Global Ocean Observing System Steering Committee (GOOS SC-1) (11/12/2012)
An executive...
13 GOOS-196 : Summary Report of the sixth Expert Workshop of IOC/WESTPAC SEAGOOS Pilot Project on Monsoon Onset and its Social & Ecosystem Impact (MOMSEI-VI) (27/10/2012)
14 GOOS-190 : The International Thermodynamic Equation of Seawater - 2010: A scientific summary for policy makers (29/06/2011)
An approachable summary of the TEOS-10, with history,...
15 GOOS News (11/04/2011)
GOOS Newsletter, 1 April 2011
16 Why Monitor the Arctic Ocean: Services to society from a sustaned ocean observing system (08/11/2010)
The case for an Arctic Ocean Observing System is made...
17 GOOS Gorick Poster Explained (14/05/2010)
18 The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) - A Summary for Policy Makers (13/11/2009)
What is oceanography and what is a sustained long-term...
19 Filling the Gaps in GOOS (07/11/2008)
20 Economics of Australia's sustained ocean observation system, benefits and rationale for public funding (02/10/2008)
21 Sustained Arctic Observations: A Legacy of the Polar Year (26/09/2008)
22 The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) (09/09/2008)
23 Progress made by the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (09/09/2008)
24 Scientific and technical support for coastal hazard forecasting systems: JCOMM symposium on storm surges (09/09/2008)
25 Status and Progress of the International Polar Year (01/09/2008)
26 The Global Sea Level Observing System (08/08/2008)
27 The Group on Earth Observations - Ministerial Summit (08/08/2008)
28 Slow but steady progress in open-ocean observations as the issue of climate change climbs the political ladder (08/08/2008)
29 Sustaining an Arctic Ocean observing system as a legacy of the International Polar Year (08/08/2008)
30 Argo: Global ocean observing array reaches milestone and faces challenges (08/08/2008)
31 Overview of 2007 - Ocean observations and services (15/07/2008)
32 Real-time Coastal Observing Systems for Marine Ecosystem Dynamics and Harmful Agal Blooms: Theory, Instrumentation and Modelling (10/07/2008)
33 Implementing the Global Ocean Observing System (18/04/2008)
34 The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) (17/04/2008)
Hydro International, April 2008, Pg 32-33.
35 Why GLOBEC Scientists and Fishermen both Benefit from the Global Ocean Observing System (19/03/2008)
36 Arctic Sea Ice a Record Low (02/01/2008)
Summer sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to a record...
37 Ocean Observing Flotilla Hits 3000 Mark (02/01/2008)
Seven years after the launch of the first robotic Argo...
38 The Green Ocean - Observations of Marine Biodiversity (28/11/2007)
A chapter from The Full Picture, published for the...
39 Why the World needs a Global Ocean Observing System (28/11/2007)
A Chapter of The Full Picture, published for the GEO...
40 TheBlue Planet - Observations of the Global Ocean (28/11/2007)
A Chapter of The Full Picture, published for the GEO...
41 Observing the polar oceans during the International Polar Year and beyond (07/11/2007)
WMO Bulletin 56 (4) October 2007 pp271-284
42 Observing the Polar Oceans during the International Polar Year and Beyond (31/10/2007)
43 Why the World needs a Global Ocean Observing System (29/10/2007)
But could GOOS be in danger of being a patchwork rather...
44 Taking the Pulse of the Oceans (11/01/2007)
Editorial published in Science on 15 December 2006. It...
45 Watching Over the World's Oceans (03/03/2005)
46 The Global Ocean Observing System (01/03/2005)
IGBP: Global Change Newsletter No. 61 March 2005
47 GOOS-202 : Sixteenth Session of the GCOS-GOOS-WCRP Ocean Observations Panel for Climate
48 Provisional Time Table TT SC Meeting
49 GOOS-309 : Report of the 27th Session of the Ocean Observations Panel for Physics and Climate (OOPC-27)
50 GOOS-311 : Dialogues with Industry Summary Report