Data management update for the integrated ocean observing system (IOOS®)

The US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS
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) is a collaboration between Federal, State, Local, Academic and Commercial partners to manage and/or provide access to a wide range of ocean observing assets and data feeds, including in-situ buoys, drifters, gliders, radar, satellite data, and numerical models and meet the needs of the ocean data community. This paper provides a discussion on the evolution of DMAC within IOOS, shows how the evolved DMAC will de-centralize ocean observing and enable the RAs to establish operational observing systems and create new forecast products supporting ocean, coastal, and estuarine interests and provides an update on the status of the current system.