Our Decade Action will consist of a Core Project that will achieve the following outcomes and outputs:

1. Observe and predict natural extreme events in the global coastal ocean on due time and with the appropriate accuracy so that impacts on natural and human resources and assets will be minimized.
2. Augment the integrated and comprehensive knowledge and prediction capabilities of the global coastal ocean for short time scale events.
3. Define and deliver advance and innovative integrated coastal observing and forecasting systems, complementing the open ocean ones for selected coastal areas.
4. Develop and consolidate the citizen science observing capacities.
5. Improved, multidisciplinary and short term predictive capabilities for the coastal zone.
6. Support through the new predictive capability the innovative and sustainable applications for coastal solutions/services.
7. Consolidated collaborative scientist/stakeholders and society context for coastal prediction.
8. Operational prediction systems in places and tested at the identified Pilot areas.
9. Identification of frameworks (e.g. institutional, private) and recurrent funding for the operational prediction activities expected as the legacy of the Project beyond the Ocean Decade.
10. Engage coastal societies in designing, co-develop and test the ocean observing and forecasting systems.
11. Compile and make accessible best practices for coastal observing and forecasting systems (including in under-resourced countries).
12. Create responsive, co-designed observing and forecasting programs that are reasonably cheap to run and don’t require expensive equipment and HPC resources.
13. Sustainably train and capacitate people in under-resourced countries to use observing equipment, implement and run forecasting systems and analyse samples and data.
14. Develop Standard Operating Procedures to ensure interoperability on key coastal essential variables globally.