The SAMOS web pages were developed by the Research Vessel Surface Meteorology Data Center at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies. Primary funding for SAMOS activities at COAPS are provided by the NOAA Office of Climate Observation (OCO) through an Applied Research Center administered by the NOAA Office of Global Programs. Additional support from OCO is administered by CICOR at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The SAMOS Data Assembly Center wishes to acknowledge the contributions of our pilot project partners at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Our partners have been instrumental in developing routine, automated ship-to-DAC transfers of SAMOS observations. The DAC also thanks members of the U.S. and international research vessel community for their continued contributions to the SAMOS initiative.

Success of the SAMOS initiative is possible due to a wide range of partnerships between atmospheric, climate, and ocean scientists, marine technicians, U.S. and international panels and committees, and program managers at NOAA and the National Science Foundation. The SAMOS DAC specifically acknowledges contributions from members of the University-National Oceaonographic Laboratory System, Voluntary Observing Ship Climate (VOSClim) Program, Global Ocean Surface Underway Data Pilot Project, and World Climate Research Program Working Group on Surface Fluxes.