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Monitoring Systems| |The vastness of the global oceans, the
amount of information they contain and their relevance to
society qualify them as an international research priority.
Furthermore, current issues such as inter alia: global climate
change and sea-level rise, marine ecosytem degradation -
including the collapse of several fisheries around the world and
pollution, and the occurrance of extreme events such as tsunamis
and El Niño/Southern Oscillation - requires not only a
scientific understanding the global oceans and its systems, but
also a knowledge of and familiarity with its patterns over time.
To meet this need there are numerous international efforts to
promote programmes for various monitoring and obse