The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors physical, sedimentological and ecological variables 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.[1] Near real time and recent history sea levels are available to on their web site in map, graph or table format.[1]
Membership
editAs of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.[1][2]
- 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
Further reading
edit- Edited by L.J. Droppert (2001). The NOOS Plan: North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System. Southampton Oceanography Centre. pp. 68 pages. ISBN 0-904175-46-4.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help) - Siek, Michael Baskara Laksana Adi (2011). Predicting storm surges : chaos, computational intelligence, data assimilation, ensembles. London: CRC Press/Balkema. pp. 36–37. ISBN 9780415621021.
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Welcome to the NOOS webpage" (Web). NOOS. November 2006. Retrieved January 20, 2008.
- ^ "NOOS Program Overview". Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC)-(hosted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)). July 2007. Archived from the original (Web) on 2008-07-24. Retrieved January 20, 2008.