The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors physical, sedimentological and ecological variables for the

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

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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),

** Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK **

Danish Maritime Safety Administration The Danish Maritime Safety Administration (DaMSA) ( da, Farvandsvæsenet) was a department of the Danish Ministry of Defence with administration located in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. DaMSA operated throughout Denmark as part of the Danish Search ...

(DaMSA), Denmark **

Danish Meteorological Institute The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI; da, Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut) is the official Danish meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate. The institute makes weather forecasts and observa ...

(DMI), Denmark ** Flemish Authorities - MD&K Coastal Division, Belgium ** French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), France **

Institute of Marine Research The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research ( no, Havforskningsinstituttet) is a national consultative research institute which is owned by the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. The institute performs research and provides advisory service ...

(IMR), Norway ** Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands ** Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Belgium ** Marine Institute, Ireland **

Met Office The Meteorological Office, abbreviated as the Met Office, is the United Kingdom's national weather service. It is an executive agency and trading fund of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is led by CEO Penelop ...

, UK ** National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Rijkswaterstaat (RIKZ), Netherlands **

Norwegian Meteorological Institute The Norwegian Meteorological Institute ( no, Meteorologisk institutt), also known internationally as MET Norway, is Norway's national meteorological institute. It provides weather forecasts for civilian and military uses and conducts research in m ...

(MET Norway), Norway **

Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory The former Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL) is based in Brownlow Street, Liverpool, England. In April 2010, POL merged with the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) to form the National Oceanography Centre. The Liverpool lab ...

(POL), UK ** Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (SHOM), France **

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute ( sv, Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut, abbreviated SMHI) is a Government agency in Sweden and operates under the Ministry of the Environment. SMHI has expertise within the a ...

(SMHI), Sweden *Associate Members ** GKSS Forschungszentrum (GKSS), Germany ** Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC), Norway **

Norwegian Institute for Water Research The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is an environmental research organisation which researches, monitors, assesses and studies freshwater, coastal and marine environments and environmental technology. Services and research NIVA's a ...

(NIVA), Norway **

University of Oldenburg The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (german: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) is a university located in Oldenburg, Germany. It is one of the most important and highly regarded educational facilities in northwestern German ...

(Uni-Oldenburg), Germany

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