Lisa M Beal, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL, United States, Jérôme Vialard, LOCEAN-IPSL, Paris cedex 05, France, Roxy Mathew Koll, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Center for Climate Change Research, Pune, India and Authors of the CLIVAR-GOOS IndOOS-2 report