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The GOOS-Africa Program
GOOS-Africa is a coordination committee established in July of 1998 for the purpose of promoting the development of GOOS in Africa. With the help of the GOOS-Africa Coordination Committee, the IOC organized a MedGOOS workshop for the countries of North Africa and the Mediterranean in 1999.
GOOS-Africa has also worked with the countries of West Africa to encourage participation in the PIRATA project which relies on buoys in the tropical Atlantic to detect and forecast climate changes in Brazil and West Africa.
Priorities for GOOS-AFRICA are:
- To form an Africa wide network of National Ocean Data Centers
- To upgrade the African network of GLOSS sea level stations
- To encourage access to and capability in Ocean Remote Sensing in Africa
- To facilitate Internet access and data transfer mechanisms.
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Contact Information
Kwame KORANTENG (Current Chairman)
Marine Fisheries Research Division
P. O. Box BT-62
Tema, Ghana
Tel: (223) 22 20 80 48
Fax +(233) 22 20 30 66
Email: kwamek@africaonline.com.gh
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