GOOS

Coordination

Decisive, the project is coordinated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of San Diego in the United States.

Global Drifter

Currently driving a total of 1250 buoys across the oceans. These are called Global Drifter. They have the size of a ball. You enter the water temperatures and salinity. The data transmission by satellite.

Argo Floats

These buoys are a further development of the Global Drifter are about two meters long and 30 kilograms. The Argo floats up to 2000 meters deep diving and hereby determine the water temperature, pressure and salinity. For the purpose of data transmission via satellite dunk every ten days on again. The dipping operation is controlled by an artificial air-bladder. Until the end of October 2007 3000 Copies of this measurement buoys were deployed.

Objective

The data should benefit the Marine and Climate Research. In Germany, the data obtained from the German Weather Service in Offenbach am Main are evaluated. The numerous buoys drifting in the zones of the oceans where ships rarely go. Thus, the buoys provide huge amounts of data to complement the climate models and the creation of better weather reports. The GOOS monitoring network is one of the subregions of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The results, in turn, will then be published as well as in the network ( UNEP -GRID ) of the United Nations Environment Programme.