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.23
- 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
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