Before revision: The Integrated Ocean Observing System ( IOOS) is an organization of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems.
After revision: The Integrated Ocean Observing System ( IOOS) is a national-regional partnership of ocean observing systems that routinely and continuously provide quality-controlled data and observationsUnited StatesU.S.within the United States exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems.