The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors real-time sea level

Sea level

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s for the North Sea

North Sea

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 area. NOOS is operated by partners from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and European North West Shelf; Belgium

Belgium

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, Ireland

Ireland

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, Netherlands

Netherlands

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, Norway

Norway

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, Sweden

Sweden

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, and United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Working collaboratively to develop and implement ocean observing systems in the area. Near real time and recent history sea levels are available to on their web site in map

Map

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, graph

Chart

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 or table

Table (information)

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 format.

Membership

As of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.

• Full Members:
  • Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
    
    
  • Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
    Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
    The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...
    
     (CEFAS), UK
  • Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA), Denmark
  • Danish Meteorological Institute
    Danish Meteorological Institute
    The Danish Meteorological Institute is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Transport and Energy. The institute makes weather forecasts and observations for Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands....
    
     (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 Meteorolologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands
  • Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Belgium
  • Marine Institute, Ireland
  • Met Office
    Met Office
    The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a trading fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
    
    , UK
  • National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Rijkswaterstaat (RIKZ), Netherlands
  • Norwegian Meteorological Institute
    Norwegian Meteorological Institute
    Norwegian Meteorological Institute is the Norwegian national institute for weather forecasts.The three main offices are located in Oslo, Bergen and Tromsø. The Institute has around 500 employees and keeps around 650 paid observers of various kinds around the country...
    
     (Met.no), Norway
  • Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
    Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
    The former Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory is based in Brownlow Street, Liverpool, England. In April 2010, POL merged with the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton to form the National Oceanography Centre National Oceanography Centre...
    
     (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

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