EGOS - European Group on Ocean Stations providing real time buoy observations from data sparse areas of the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas

Within Europe a number of countries have combined their national programmes on drifting and moored buoys into the European Group of Ocean Stations (EGOS). The group was established on December 1, 1988, as a joint operational project for near real-time acquisition of meteorological and oceanographic data in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Group also functions as an Action Group of the Data buoy Co-operation Panel.