The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors real-time sea levels for the North Sea area.^[1] 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.^[2] Near real time and recent history sea levels are available to on their web site in map, graph or table format.^[2]

Membership

As of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.^[2][3]

• Full Members:
  • Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Germany
  • Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK
  • Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Denmark
  • Flemish Authorities - MD&K Coastal Division, Belgium
  • Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography (RDANH), Denmark
  • French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea(IFREMER), France
  • Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
  • Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorolologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands
  • Marine Institute, Ireland
  • Met Office, UK
  • Norwegian Meteorological Institute (Met.no), Norway
  • Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Belgium
  • Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), UK
  • National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Rijkswaterstaat (RIKZ), Netherlands
  • 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

Further reading

References

External links

• http://www.noos.cc/