AOOS

The Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) is one of 11 regional systems across the US coast that represent NOAA's Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), a national-regional partnership working to use ocean data and information products in innovative ways to improve maritime safety, enhance the economy, and protect our environment. The data are available in real time, near-real time, or retrospectively. Easier and better access to this information is improving our ability to understand and predict coastal events such as storms, wave heights, sea levels, and ecosystem change. Such knowledge is needed for everything from blue economy businesses such as commercial fishing and aquaculture to subsistence use to coastal planning... AOOS works collaboratively to identify and fill gaps in ocean information and provide accurate and reliable data, applications and services for decision making... AOOS works with agencies and other organizations to provide coastal and ocean data and information..

Also known as: Alaska Ocean Observing System

Primary location: Anchorage United States