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Facilitating Access to Global Observing Systems Data and Information

Black Sea GOOS
Data Access

Data availability: Data are available on-line. The Black Sea GOOS is a local Association formed by the Black Sea riparian countries in order to foster Operational Oceanography in the region and set up links with other regional and global organizations (with similar objectives).

Black Sea GOOS Program Overview

Updated March 30, 2011

Data Access

  • Ocean Data and Information Network for the Black Sea region (ODINBLACKSEA) (pilot project/no data online)
  • Mnemiopsis leidyi database A database of a small but harmful type of jellyfish, abundant in the Black Sea.
  • Black Sea SCENE Zooplankton and Phytopankton Checklist are being created for marine biologists working with Black Sea plankton. The aims of Black Sea plankton checklists are to be the source of reliable species information, to fill the gaps within global checklists and to serve as the quality control tool for Black Sea plankton data.
  • Black Sea SCENE Common Data Index (CDI) primary objective is to give users a highly detailed insight in the availability and geographical spread of marine data across the different data centres and institutes across Europe.
  • Black Sea SCENE - Search for Data Sets in EDMED Marine and Environmental Dataset catalogue
  • ASCABOS - A Supporting Program for Capacity Building in the Black Sea Region towards Operational Status of Oceanographic Services
  • SeaDataNet (2006-2011) is a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems.
  • A Regional Capacity Building and Networking Programme to Upgrade Monitoring and Forecasting Activity in the Black Sea Basin (ARENA) is a project of Black Sea GOOS. ARENA aims to initiate a co-operative ocean programme to assess and identify the Black Sea resources, the needs for operational oceanography, to formulate a Data-Base Management System and to build capacity through training and improving the communication and other essential facilities, for the monitoring, understanding, modelling/prediction and forecasting for the entire basin.