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Ocean winds and waves monitoring with GNSS-Reflectometry

Source: NOC website A user consultation workshop on new spaceborne capabilities for improved ocean surface wind and wave monitoring with reflected signals from Global Navigation Satellite Systems is organised on 5 March, 2015 at the UK National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. GNSS-Reflectometry is an innovative Earth Observation technique that exploits satellite navigation signals such as… Read more »

47th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics

47th International Liege Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics, Marine Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Prediction, 4 -8 May 2015 Source: University of Liege The aim of the colloquium is to bring together scientists in order to identify the most critical scientific improvements to be brought to these modelling and monitoring systems for marine environmental predictions and assessments…. Read more »

Season’s Greetings from EuroGOOS

We would like to thank our Members and Colleagues across the globe for a very fruitful year and hope for more cooperation in the years to come. Very best wishes for the holidays from EuroGOOS!

News on Horizon 2020 proposal submission

EuroGOOS is very excited that two proposals we are part of have been invited for Grant Agreement Preparation. AtlantOS and COLUMBUS have been favourably evaluated by the European Commission after submission on 26 June 2014. We wish to congratulate the coordinators and partners for the efforts and look forward to further fruitful collaboration! A few… Read more »

HF Radar special session at the EGU 2015

Deadline for abstracts is 7 January 2015. EMODnet Physics in collaboration with EuroGOOS and AZTI are organising a session on HF Radar to showcase advances in applications for coastal observation and ocean currents, which shall take place in Vienna, Austria, in the event of the EGU General Assembly 2015 (12-17 April 2015). High Frequency Surface… Read more »

Mercator Ocean signs delegation agreement with EC for the implementation of the Copernicus Marine Service

Source: Mercator Ocean website, DG Enterprise news The European Commission and Mercator Ocean, the French centre for analysis and forecasting of the global ocean and a EuroGOOS member, have signed on 11 November 2014 an Agreement to implement and manage the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service. The existing pre-operational Service has been under development since… Read more »

A successful European HF Radar meeting takes place in Lisbon

A European HF Radar meeting was held as a side event to the EuroGOOS Conference on 27th October. 55 participants, 21 presentations ranging from local, regional to global scale and besides European representatives also representatives from US IOOS and from the major HF Radar manufacturers (CODAR, WERA) contributed to a very successful and highly appreciated… Read more »

7th EuroGOOS Conference: full programme out now

The Organising Committee of the 7th EuroGOOS Conference “Operational Oceanography for Sustainable Blue Growth” has published the full conference programme, which can be viewed/downloaded . Registration is now closed, if you wish to attend please contact the Conference Secretariat. A number of side events and billateral project meetings shall take place at the Hydrographic Institute… Read more »

The Mediterranean Sea Reanalysis: pre-event at the 7th EuroGOOS Conference

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) of Italy invites you to attend the side event “The Mediterranean Sea Reanalysis: the past history of the Mediterranean Sea from observations and model”. The event will be held before the 7th EuroGOOS Conference in Lisbon, on 27 October 2014, 14:30 – 18:00 at the Portuguese Hydrographic… Read more »