DRAFT After several years of cooperation, today Mercator Ocean and EuroGOOS are officializing their partnership by signing a contract that will contribute greatly to the European marine community. Together in the years to come, they will collect information, build assessment reports, design priority and action plans, and promote them for enhancing a long-term beneficial technical relation between the EU CMEMS and its Member States national counterparts. Mercator Ocean can rely on EuroGOOS’ expertise so both entities can work jointly on the upstream in situ observation infrastructure and the downstream marine systems national elements as a single Copernicus voice for the marine community towards EU stakeholders.
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Mercator Ocean
With its R&D activities, operations, expert forecasters and the services it provides to users, Mercator Ocean covers the entire value chain of a highly-advanced, operational oceanography centre by means of complex ocean simulation systems.
It provides a service of general interest to France and Europe as a whole. The organisation was founded and is funded by the five major French institutions involved in operational oceanography: CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research), Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea), IRD (Institute of Research for Development), Météo-France and SHOM (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the French Navy).
CMEMS
COPERNICUS is the European Earth observation and monitoring programme (formerly called GMES/Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). This is one of the two major European programmes along with GALILEO.
It aims to:
- give the European Union autonomous and operational capability in space-based observation facilities (see the Sentinel missions) and in situ (measurements in the atmosphere, in the ocean and on the ground),
- operate six interlinked environmental monitoring services for the oceans, the atmosphere, territorial development, emergency situations, security and climate change
EuroGOOS
EuroGOOS identifies priorities, enhances cooperation and promotes the benefits of operational oceanography to ensure sustained observations are made in Europe’s seas underpinning a suite of fit-for-purpose products ans services for marine and maritime end-users.
EuroGOOS is a pan-European ocean observing network operating within the context of the Global Ocean Observing System of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC GOOS).