*********** 020993A.OAC *********** Country: Japan A news item translated by Prof. T. Yamamoto from the Japan Economic News. It reports that JAMSTEC will announce its support of GOOS (Global Ocean Observation System) at the GOOS meeting in Paris starting 16 February. JAMSTEC will install two transceivers 1000Km apart for their Acoustic Tomographic System in support of GOOS. The original net will look at a 1000 square km. area with a vertical resolution and horizontial resolution of 50 to 100 meters for temperature, salinity and velocity. Eventually the net will be expanded to look at broader oceanic features such as the Kuroshio Current, and features in the Equatorial Pacific and the Arctic Oceans. ************** END Msg. A.OAC **************