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

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
s for the North Sea
North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
 area. NOOS is operated by partners from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and European North West Shelf; Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, and United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. 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 in map
Map

A map is a visual representation of an area?a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as Object , regions, and topic-comment....
, graph
Chart

and A chart is a visual representation of data, in which the data are represented by symbols such as bars in a bar chart or lines in a line chart....
 or table
Table (information)

A table is both a mode of visual communication and a means of arranging data. The use of tables is pervasive throughout all communication, research and data analysis....
 format.








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

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
s for the North Sea
North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
 area. NOOS is operated by partners from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and European North West Shelf; Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
, Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
, Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, and United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. 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 in map
Map

A map is a visual representation of an area?a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as Object , regions, and topic-comment....
, graph
Chart

and A chart is a visual representation of data, in which the data are represented by symbols such as bars in a bar chart or lines in a line chart....
 or table
Table (information)

A table is both a mode of visual communication and a means of arranging data. The use of tables is pervasive throughout all communication, research and data analysis....
 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 country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    • Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), UK
    • Danish Meteorological Institute
      Danish Meteorological Institute

      The Danish Meteorological Institute is the official Denmark meteorological institute, administrated by the Ministry of Transport and Energy of Denmark....
       (DMI), Denmark
    • Flemish Authorities - MD&K Coastal Division, Belgium
    • Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography
      Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography

      The Danish Maritime Safety Administration is the approving authority for navigation systems and buoyage in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands....
       (RDANH), Denmark
    • French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), France
    • Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
    • Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorolologisch Instituut (KNMI), Netherlands
    • Marine Institute, Ireland
    • Met Office
      Met Office

      The Met Office , is the United Kingdom's national weather service, and a subsidiary of the Ministry of Defence . Part of the Met Office headquarters at Exeter in Devon is the Met Office College, which handles the training for internal personnel and many forecasters from around the world....
      , UK
    • Norwegian Meteorological Institute
      Norwegian Meteorological Institute

      Norwegian Meteorological Institute is the Norway national institute for weather forecasts.The three main offices are located in Oslo, Bergen and Troms? and the organization has around 500 employees and keeps around 650 paid observers of various kinds around the country....
       (Met.no), Norway
    • Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM), Belgium
    • Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
      Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

      The Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory is based in Brownlow Street, Liverpool, England. Its scientific research focuses on oceanography encompassing global sea-levels and geodesy, numerical modelling of continental shelf seas and coastal sediment processes....
       (POL), UK
    • National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, Rijkswaterstaat (RIKZ), Netherlands
    • 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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