Mercator Ocean international is committed to helping international institutions and scientific working groups set up international standards to monitor the ocean and develop operational oceanography. The first step is to defining where and how new capacities are needed by making an inventory of the operational oceanography and ocean forecasting services. The map below shows two categories of centers: operational oceanography centers and marine forecasting centers providing data for operations at sea. Filters can selects crtieria to be displayed according to the viewer interest: the scale of the data provided and the level of achievement of the service provided.
Marine Meteorological and Forecast centers and Operational Oceanography Centers can be distinguished with the variables they analyse.
- Marine Meteorology and Forecast mainly present the interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean surface as well as other types of forecasts that refer to special elements and phenomena, such as waves, storm surges, sea ice and ice accretion.
- Operational Oceanography measures and provides daily and long-term physical, biogeochemical and sea ice information about the surface and sub-surface of the ocean.
Agence nationale de l’aviation civile et de la météorologie
Dakar (Senegal)
BlueLink (CSIRO)
Crawley WA (Australia)
Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e Hidrográficas
Cartagena (Colombia)
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Lecce (Italia)
Collecte Localisation Satellites
Ramonville-Saint-Agne (France)
CMEMS (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service)
Ramonvile-saint-agne (France)
Danish Meteorological Institute
Copenhaguen (Denmark)
ECMWF
Reading (United Kingdom)
Environment and Climate Change Canada
North York (Canada)
Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency
Hamburg (Germany)
Finnish Meteorlogical Institute
Helsinki (Finland)
Fisheries and Ocean Canada
St John's (Canada)
Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre
Anavyssos (Greece)
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
Sgonico (Italy)
Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
Telengana (India)
Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science
Tehran (Iran)
Japan meteorology agency
Minato City (Japan)
Korean hydrographic and oceanographic agency
Busan (South Korea)
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Ramonvile-saint-agne (France)
Meteo France
Toulouse (France)
UK National Oceanographic Center
Southampton (United Kingdom)
MetOcean
New Plymouth (New Zealand)
MetOffice
Exeter EX1 3PB (United Kingdom)
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
Bergen (Norway)
National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center
Beijing (China)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Silver Spring (United-States of America)
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Oslo (Norway)
OceanPact
Glória, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere
Algés (Portugal)
Puertos del Estado
Madrid (Spain)
Rede de Modelagem e Observacao Oceanografica
SODEXAM
Abidjian (Côte d'Ivoire)
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Norrköping (Sweden)
University of Cape Town
Cape Town (South Africa)
University of Penambuco
Recife (Brazil)
Disclaimer: this content has been produced according to the reputation and with a set of documents from the websites of each of the operational oceanography and marine forecasting centres. None of the identified centres have been formally contacted and some may have been overlooked.
The PDF below gives you an overview which criteria have been analysed and how the classification has been elaborated:
