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. {{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
  1. "Welcome to the NOOS webpage" (Web). NOOS. November 2006. Retrieved January 20, 2008.
  2. "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.
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