Process to adopt new GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)

Summary

This document describes the steps that lead to the inclusion of a EOV in the GOOS EOV list and identifies who is in charge of each part of the process.

GOOS Steering Committee in its Online Intersessional meeting on 30 January 2024 approved the “Process to adopt new GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)”. The process can be reviewed and re-submitted for approval to GOOS SC as required.

Doc Type Reference Document
Status Published on 08 Apr 2026
Notes

A first version (30 January 2024 - V1.0) was presented to the GOOS SC at their intersessional virtual meeting in January 2024 and a few edits were suggested at the meeting. The version V1.0 here presented includes those edits.

This version was superseded by V2.0, which is the one included in the EOV paper.

Keywords Essential Ocean Variables, adoption, observing system
This document is used in the event(s): GOOS Steering Committee Meeting (Virtual)

Created at 14:13 on 08 Apr 2026 by Laura Stukonyte
Updated at 14:13 on 08 Apr 2026 by Laura Stukonyte