The Southern Ocean
Observing System
Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations
Facilitating and Enhancing Global Southern Ocean Observations
Thanks to COVID, this year’s annual meeting of the SOOS Data Management Sub-Committee was held online and the minutes are available here. Major topics of discussion in the meeting include the new metadata portal, improvements to SOOSmap, the challenges that COVID is creating for forecasting expeditions in DueSouth, SOOS’ data contributions to the UN Decade on Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and the new SOOS Implementation Plan.