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Several expert oceanographers in Mercator Ocean International’s team made important advances in the study of marine heatwaves (MHW), defined as extreme rises in ocean temperature for an extended period of time. Their scientific paper Decrease in air-sea CO2 fluxes caused…

From the Balearic Sea to Sardinia, as well as east of Corsica and throughout the Tyrrhenian Sea, exceptional surface temperatures of between 28 and 30°C can be observed through the Mercator Ocean International digital ocean grid. The surface temperature anomaly…

Introduction On the 1st of July at the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and its Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems (ETOOFS) announced the release of a Guide on “Implementing Operational Ocean…

The second much awaited United Nations Ocean Conference took place last week (June 27th – July 1st) in Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference gathered ocean stakeholders from all over the world, including Heads of Governments, leaders from the private sector, the…

On Thursday 30 June, the “Ocean Decade Forum: Launch of the Decade Collaborative Centre for Ocean Prediction” took place in the backdrop of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon. The United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) announced…

Mercator Ocean International (MOi) hosted the first Digital Ocean Forum in Paris on the 20th to 21st of April, 2022. It was organized by MOi under the auspices of the European Commission and the French Ministry of the Sea in the context…

Marine & Oceans has published a new issue with a special feature on Mercator Ocean International. 2022 is again a key year for Mercator Ocean International, why? Ms von der Leyen announced the creation of the European digital twin at…

EUMETSAT, in partnership with Mercator Ocean International, IOC-UNESCO, IODE and the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) invites applications to attend the upcoming Supporting Marine Earth Observation Educators (SMEE) workshop which will be held from 30 May to 17 June 2022.…

Mercator Ocean International offers state-of-the-art expertise and services for ocean analysis and forecasting. Recently, it developed a high-resolution regional system covering the Caribbean, designed to improve the forecasting of Sargassum seaweed beachings for the French government.  The overabundance and beaching…