The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is an international programme for a
permanent global framework of observations, modelling and analysis of ocean
variables that are needed to support operational services around the world. The
EuroGOOS strategy has two streams: the first is to improve the quality of marine
information in European home waters, and the second is to collaborate with
similar organisations in other continents to create a new global ocean observing
and modelling system that will provide the open ocean forecasts needed to
achieve the best possible performance by local marine information services
everywhere.
EuroGOOS held its second international conference in The Hague in 1999. Here,
the