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Program Management
The Baltic Operational Oceanographic System(BOOS), founded in 1999, is a collaboration between national government agencies of the nine countries surrounding the Baltic Sea (Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark). BOOS provides information such as data modeling products and forecasts for the marine industry, the public and other end users. BOOS is a EuroGOOS regional project.
BOOS was initiated by the EuroGOOS Baltic Task Team, which is a formal body of EuroGOOS. The highest authority of BOOS is a board of representatives from Baltic EuroGOOS members and BOOS associated institutions. The EuroGOOS Baltic Task Team and BOOS are both chaired by Dr. Erik Buch from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).
Within the BOOS program, 9 projects are presently planned and for each project a project coordinator will be nominated and will be responsible to BOOS for the successful implementation of the project. Each project will be divided in a number of work packages. The work packages will be carried out by experts from the BOOS member institutions and if necessary supplemented with expert from other organizations. Each work package is lead by a project leader. The project coordinators and the project leaders form the project management.
Boos goals:
- Improve and further establish services to meet the requirements of environmental and maritime user groups
- Co-ordinate, improve and harmonize observation and information systems
- Increase the quality of and harmonize user-oriented operational products.
- Decrease the production costs of public products and services by sharing the workload
- Co-operate with HELCOM and other relevant bodies with the aim to avoid duplication of work and to maximize mutual assistance.
- Identify new customers for operational oceanographic products.
- Further develop the market for operational oceanographic products
- Develop BOOS pursuant to the GOOS principles
- Provide high quality data and long time series required to advance the scientific understanding of the Baltic Sea
- Provide data and forecasts to protect the marine environment, conserve biodiversity, and monitor climate change and variability.
Program Development
From 1999 to 2003, BOOS concentrated on the development and implementation of a prototype data analysis information system for the Baltic Sea, which will focus on the physical condition in the Baltic Sea. This system, called InfoBOOS, will provide online data delivery, graphs, maps, and data products such as data analysis models. GOSIC will provide information about InfoBOOS once it becomes available.
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USERS
- Managers of coastal defense
- Ports and harbors
- Coastal civil engineering
- Fisheries and fish farming
- shell fish farming
- Shipping and ship routing
- Offshore oil and gas industry
- Cable and pipe-laying
- Recreation and tourism
Contact Information
Dr. Erik Buch
Danish Meteorological Institute
Lyngbyvej 100
2100 Copenhagen 0
Denmark
Phone: +45 (39) 15 75 00
Fax: +45 (39) 27 10 80
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