The North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System (NOOS) monitors physical, sedimentological and ecological variables for the North Sea area. 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. Near real time and recent history sea levels are available to on their web site in map, graph or table format.
Membership As of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.
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.
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