North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System

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The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors physical, sedimentological and ecological variables for the North Sea area. NOOS is operated by partners from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and European North West Shelf; Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and United Kingdom. Working collaboratively to develop and implement ocean observing systems in the area. Near real time and recent history sea levels are available to on their web site in map, graph or table format.

Membership

As of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.

Full Members:

Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Germany

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK

Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA), Denmark

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark

Flemish Authorities - MD&K Coastal Division, Belgium

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), France

Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway

Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands

Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Belgium

Marine Institute, Ireland

Met Office, UK

National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Rijkswaterstaat (RIKZ), Netherlands

Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), Norway

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), UK

Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (SHOM), France

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden

Associate Members

GKSS Forschungszentrum (GKSS), Germany

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Norway

Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway

University of Oldenburg (Uni-Oldenburg), Germany

References

North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System Wikipedia

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