Lack of an international water assessment, similar to those adopted by other global monitoring bodies such as the International Panel on Climate Change, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, and the Stratospheric Ozone Assessment, is a serious impediment to the implementation of ...

The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is a permanent global system for observations, modeling and analysis of marine and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide. GOOS will provide accurate descriptions of the present state of the oceans, including ...

The Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) is an international program conducted under the auspices of the Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). GLOSS aims ...