Regional Associations
(shown in the figure below).The coastal component consists of Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (RCOOSs) nested in a National Backbone of coastal observations. From a coastal perspective, the global ocean component is critical for providing data and information on basin scale forcings (e.g., ENSO events), as well as providing the data and information necessary to run coastal models (such as storm surge models).
Alaska Ocean Observing System AOOS
Central California Ocean Observing System CeNCOOS
Great Lakes Observing System GLOS
Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System GoMOOS
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System GCOOS
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System PacIOOS
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association MACOORA
Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems NANOOS
Southern California Ocean Observing System SCCOOS
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association SECOORA
Caribbean Integrated Ocean Observing System CarICOOS
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