Regional IOOS Associations Improve Online Access to Data, Info
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, or IOOS?, is a vast, coordinated network of people and technology working together to deliver data on coastal waters, Great Lakes, and oceans. IOOS isn’t just a NOAA program. Our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes are too big for one agency to monitor. Instead, this system consists of partners from federal, regional, private sector, and academic organizations.
IOOS partners collect coastal and marine data – water temperature, water level, currents, winds, waves, and more – using satellites, buoys, tide gauges, radar stations, underwater vehicles, and a bunch of other high-tech tools.
This ocean data is then turned into information that people can use, often in the form of forecasts and products designed to track, predict, manage, adapt, and respond to changes in our marine environment.
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Source: NOAA