Jump to content

North West Shelf Operational Oceanographic System

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

[edit]

As of January 2008 NOOS had sixteen full members and four associate members.[1][2]

Further reading

[edit]
  • 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

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d "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.
[edit]