Today, the world's oceans are being observed routinely and systematically by means of satellite and in situ techniques, but the global ocean observations system is changing.

After a decade of work on integrating earth- and satellite-based observing networks, thereby estalbishing new observation methods that have made a tremendous impact on the way climate chane and physical oceanic variability is measured, scientists are once again exploring uncharted waters and looking to set a new course for the fututre at the OceanObs'09 Conference in Venice, Italy, on 21-25 September 2009.

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