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5 DEVELOPING GOOS IN THE SPIRIT OF PARTNERSHIP
Pages 60-65

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... report, Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships, the United States is faced with many pressing problems that would benefit from increased cooperation among government agencies, academia, and the private sector. The most commonly cited example of such a cross-cutting problem is global climate change.
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From page 61...
... For example, Ocean Routes, Inc., uses wind fields to estimate wave heights and those wave heights, and winds are used to determine optimum rates for commercial shipping. Surface winds in the tropical Pacific provide another example; they are one of the key inputs to ENSO prediction models whose products, as discussed in Chapter 4, would benefit public and private sectors.
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... The data collected by these additional scientists while conducting their independent research supplements the standard CalCOFI data set. Consequently, ship resources are maximized to produce a detailed and robust description of the CalCOFI study area.
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... The local county government established a biweekly water quality monitoring program in the affected areas that has been operating now for 11 years. Various more specialized research activities have been supported at regional universities in order to gain understanding of the conditions and organisms responsible for the blooms.
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... determining local ecological causes (eutrophication) and global factors (warm sea surface temperatures)
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