Posts by Gratianne Quade

The CNES-NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite lifted off with SpaceX launch services from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday December 16th. Mercator Ocean International was at the launch event at Cité de l’espace in…

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Mercator Ocean International and NMEFC, the Chinese National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre. On November 28, a new 2-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Chinese National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center…

The final conference of the Blue Cloud pilot project will take place 8th December at The Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi, 155 · Wetstraat, 155, Brussels (Belgium). This final conference will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn about…

November 6th marked the launch of the Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP27), which brings together the signatory nations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and numerous climate stakeholders. For the first time at the UNFCCC…

On June 16, Angelique Melet, Head of Scientific Evolution of Copernicus Marine Service at Mercator Ocean International, participated in the International Workshop on Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change. Gathering more than thirty European and Mediterranean institutions, the workshop was organised…

On October 19, the paper Past and Future Ocean Warming[i], published in the Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. It provides new information about how much the planet has warmed and what warming we may expect in the coming decades. This…

Following a summer of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, Mercator Ocean International oceanographers have been monitoring their analogue in the ocean. They have examined and analysed the sea surface temperature in the Mediterranean Sea over a series of summers and found…

Eric Dombrowsky is one of the founders of Mercator Ocean and was its scientific and technical director until 2014. He entered oceanography in 1988 with his PhD on data assimilation, and over the next 25 years he contributed directly to…