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	MET.NO Norwegian Meteorological Institute
	Organisation References
Name	MET.NO
Full Name	Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Country	Norway
Type of organisation	Ministry or Agency
Address	Meteorologisk Institutt Postboks 43 Blindern N-0313 OSLO NORWAY
Web Site	http://met.no/english/index.html
Organisation Description	The basic function of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute is to contribute to the protection of life and property. The institute is also to provide special meteorological services to customers on a commercial basis. Today met.no has approximately 500 employees. The main office is in Oslo and there are regional offices in Tromsø and Bergen. met.no is the national service for both civil and military weather and ocean forecasting in: Operational weather and ocean forecasting based on local and ECMWF models. Developing and improving operational models, tasks related to environmental emergency Climatological services: Observations, databases and general climatological information. The SST is an important input parameter for these models. A coarse resolution product is used today and an improved analysis product would improve the model output.
Number of Projects	3
Projects	MEDSPIRATION : European service to the GODAE High resolut... GlobAerosol : Global Aerosol from Earth Observation GlobWave : Improving the uptake of satellite-derived ...

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