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