Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Reports of Meetings of Experts and Equivalent Bodies IOC - WMO - UNEP - ICSU Coastal Panel

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION (OF UNESCO) JOINT WMO/IOC TECHNICAL COMMISSION FOR OCEANOGRAPHY AND MARINE METEOROLOGY ADVANCES IN THE APPLICATIONS OF MARINE CLIMATOLOGY The Dynamic Part of the WMO Guide to the Applications of Marine Meteorology

The World Ocean Database

The World Ocean Database (WOD) is the most comprehensive global ocean profile-plankton database available internationally without restriction. All data are in one well-documented format and are available both on DVDs for a minimal charge and on-line without charge. The latest DVD version of the WOD is the World Ocean Database 2009 (WOD09). All data in the WOD are associated with as much metadat...

The UNESCO-IOC-IODE "Global Oceanographic Data Archeology and Rescue" (GODAR) Project and "World Ocean Database" Project

We document the history and progress of two international ocean data management projects. The “Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue” project was initiated in 1993 under the auspices of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The project has the goal of locating (archaeology) and digitizing or copying to modern electronic media (rescuing) historical (pre-1992) oc...

Indicators of Stress in the Marine Benthos

Proceedings of an International workshop on the promotion and use of benthic tools for assessing the health of coastal marine ecosystems Proceedings of an International workshop on the promotion and use of benthic tools for assessing the health of coastal marine ecosystems Disclaimer The designation employed and the presentation of the material in this document do not imply the expression of an...

IOC-UNEP-WMO-SAREC Planning Workshop on An Integrated Approach to Coastal Erosion, Sea Level Changes and Their Impacts

The overall objective of this paper is to identify coastal zone management problems within Mombasa Diani area. Other objectives included evaluating the effectiveness of the existing control measures and identifying response strategies for the affected areas. The results showed that coastal dunes and beach ridges, cliffed coasts and backshore areas could be developed but with proper set back lin...