Reports of the Ocean Observing System Development Panel (OOSDP)

The Ocean Observing System Development Panel, the forerunner to the OOPC, published a series of reports that are the foundation of the current global ocean observing system for climate.

• OOSDP Background Report No. 1      pdf 5.7 MB: download
  The Role of Models in an Ocean Observing System
  prepared by Neville Smith (1991)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 2    pdf 16.1 MB: download
  Scientific Rationale for Recommending Long-Term Systematic Ocean Observations to Monitor the Uptake of CO2 by the Ocean — Now and in the Future
  prepared by Liliane Merlivat and Alain Vézina (1992)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 3    pdf 8.7 MB: download
  Surface Conditions and Air-Sea Fluxes
  prepared by Robert A. Weller and Peter K. Taylor (1993)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 4    pdf 8.6 MB: download
  The Ocean Freshwater Cycle
  prepared by Raymond W. Schmitt (1994)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 5    pdf 3.1 MB: download
  Monitoring Global Ocean Carbon Inventories
  prepared by Douglas W. R. Wallace (1995)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 6    pdf 6.4 MB: download
  The Role of the Indian Ocean in the Global Climate System: Recommendations Regarding the Global Ocean Observing System
  prepared by J. S. Godfrey, A. Alexiou, A. G. Ilahude, D. M. Legler, M. E. Luther, J. P. McCreary, Jr., G. A. Meyers, K. Mizumo, R. R. Rao, S. R. Shetye, J. H. Toole, S. Wacogne (1995)
• OOSDP Background Report No. 7    pdf 2.4 MB: download
  Sea ice in the Global Climate System: Requirements for an Ocean Observing System
  prepared by Ian Allison and Richard E. Moritz (1995)
• OOSDP Final Report    pdf 23.3 MB: download
  Scientific Design for the Common Module of the Global Ocean Observing System and the Global Climate Observing System: An Ocean Observing System for Climate
  (March 1995)