North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System
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
As 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
- 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.
 - 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
- 1 2 3 4 "Welcome to the NOOS webpage" (Web). NOOS. November 2006. Retrieved January 2008.
 - ↑ "NOOS Program Overview" (Web). Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC)-(hosted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)). July 2007. Retrieved January 2008.
 
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