Organisation’s vision:

Organisation’s mission:

Mercator Ocean International is a non profit company employing a team of 75 people dedicated to global ocean monitoring and forecasting. Between observation infrastructures and users, MOI ensures the continuity from research to oceanographic operational services. Since 2017, MOI has nine European research and operational governmental shareholders. MOI delivers worldwide marine core services based on its high resolution global ocean and European seas capacity for real time monitoring and forecasting, its work on ocean multi-year reanalyses and the strong expertise of its oceanographers. Eddy-resolving ocean modelling, multi-data assimilation, product quality assessment, multi-year variability, expertise on physical ocean & ice, biogeochemistry, data management and core service to users are the main fields of expertise. Over the last 15 years, Mercator Ocean has been playing a leading role in operational oceanography at international level and European level. After having successfully coordinated the European MyOcean-1/2 and follow on projects, Mercator Ocean was officially appointed by the European Commission on November in 2014 to define, manage, implement and operate the "Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service" (CMEMS) (as part of the European Earth observation programme, Copernicus) on its current multi-annual financial framework 2014-2020.

Organisation’s objectives (if different from the Mission):

Keywords

• data assimilation
• global
• ocean experts
• ocean forecasting
• user services

Activities

• Conducting research and/or observations
• Data management, interoperability, sharing, access, open data policies
• Provision of (ocean) information services