Gliders Task Team

Gliders, buoyancy-driven observing platforms, are present in various areas of the European seas, to carry out a large variety of measurements of physical and biogeochemical variables.

The EuroGOOS glider Task Team aims at integrating and leveraging the efforts of the European glider community. EuroGOOS glider Task Team is a highly functioning user group community that advances and optimizes European underwater glider activities to support EuroGOOS strategy and EU initiative on Ocean Observations and technological development. It will act as an expert group to provide high level information to stakeholders and promote the importance of ocean observations under the framework of EOOS.

Key objectives

• Support the coordination of the European glider activities;
• Assist the standardization of glider operations, data and applications;
• Ensure data availability for the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), via the EuroGOOS regional data portals (ROOS) in particular;
• Generate and promote best practices in applications, technologies, data management, and scientific development;
• Jointly contribute to European projects.