Mercator Ocean international is committed in international frameworks and scientific working groups to 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. This map is a first step into building a relevant catalogue. It is at this point not exhaustive and any center that is not included can send us information to be added by filling the form below.
The map below shows centers providing two different types of ocean products: observations or models. Filters can help you selecting established services and services that are being developed in the current moment.
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)
Mercator ocean
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 following PDF provides more details about the criteria and the Operational Oceanography and Marine Forecast centers selected:
If you have questions about the map or if you are a center under construction wanting to be added, you can contact us with the following form:
