Overview 

Members of EuroGOOS co-operate to establish a concerted European approach to the following:

  • Identifying European priorities for operational oceanography, promoting the development of the scientific, technology and computer systems for operational oceanography, and its implementation, assessing the economic and social benefits from operational oceanography
  • Contributing to international planning and implementation of GOOS and promoting it at national, European and global level 

EuroGOOS activities are designed to collaborate with and maximise the benefits from existing activities in operational oceanography, promoting the integration of these activities within the framework of GOOS. Members of EuroGOOS collaborate and support the following groups of activities:

  • Advancing European operational oceanography in GOOS
  • Promoting development of European regional and local operational oceanography
  • Promoting development of common European operational data procedures and services, including data quality control and data management for operational oceanography.
  • Promoting research and pre-operational research which will solve problems relating to operational oceanography.
  • Promoting pilot studies in GOOS operations, local, regional, or global.
  • Promoting development of common European operational oceanographic services and products of maximum value to European Governments and Agencies, furtherance of European industries and service companies, and the protection of the environment and health in the European coastal and shelf seas.