Co-Sponsors and Participating Programmes

 

Co-sponsors

  • ACE CRC: Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (Australia)
  • AGO: Australian Greenhouse Office (Australia)
  • BoM: Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
  • CNES: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (France)
  • CNRS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
  • CSIRO: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
  • DFO: Department of Fisheries & Oceans (Canada)
  • EEA: European Environment Agency
  • ESA: European Space Agency
  • ESF-Marine Board: Marine Board of the European Science Foundation
  • EUMETSAT: European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
  • EU: European Union
  • GEO: Group on Earth Observations
  • GKSS: GKSS Forschungszentrum (Germany)
  • IASC: International Arctic Science Committee
  • IAG: International Association of Geodesy
  • IAPSO: The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans
  • IACMST: Interagency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (UK)
  • ICSU: International Council for Science
  • IFREMER: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (France)
  • IGN: Institut Geographique National (France)
  • IOC of UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  • IPY: International Polar Year
  • IRD: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France)
  • NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
  • NSF: National Science Foundation (USA)
  • NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
  • NERC: Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
  • Rijkswaterstaat (The Netherlands)
  • SCAR: Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research
  • TU Delft: Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
  • UKMO: Meteorological Office (UK)
  • UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • WCRP: World Climate Research Programme
  • WMO: World Meteorological Organization

 

Participating Programmes

  • Argo: International Argo Project
  • CryoSat: ESA’s Ice Mission
  • ENVISAT: Environmental Satellite
  • ERS: European Remote Sensing satellite
  • ESEAS: European Sea Level Service
  • GCOS: Global Climate Observing System
  • GGOS: Global Geodetic Observing System
  • GLOSS: Global Sea Level Observing System
  • GOCE: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer
  • GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System
  • GRACE:  Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
  • ICESat:  Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite
  • IGS:  International GNSS Service
  • Jason: Ocean Surface Topography from Space 
  • MedGLOSS
  • SMOS: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity