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Under the aegis of Rym Benzina (President of La Saison Bleue) and Pascal Lamy (President of the Forum), the 5th edition of the Forum Mondial de la Mer (World Sea Forum) in Bizerte, Tunisia has taken an unprecedented turn that…

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…

On 8 September 2022, the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) officially awarded Dr. Babette Tchonang this year’s Kostas Nittis Medal for her outstanding contribution to operational oceanography. During her doctoral research at Mercator Ocean International (MOi), Babette demonstrated that…

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…

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…