Black sea GOOS

The Major Aims and Objectives of the Black Sea GOOS are:

• To contribute to international planning and implementation of the GOOS and to promote it at national, regional and global level.
• To identify regional priorities for operational oceanography.
• To develop capacity of the regional countries and promote the level to sustain GOOS activities.
• To provide high quality data and time series, for a better understanding of, the Black Sea ecosystem.
• To assess the economic and social benefits achieved by operational oceanography.