Marine Science National Capability
The NOC provides the bulk of the UK’s capability to meet the needs of the country’s marine research community.
National marine capability provided by the NOC includes Royal Research Ships, RRS James Cook and RRS Discovery (which is due for replacement in 2014), deep submersibles, including the Autosub autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), advanced ocean sensors and other instruments.
Across its two sites, the National Oceanography Centre is responsible for the global mean sea level data archive, the UK’s sea level monitoring system for flood warning and climate change, the national archive of subsea sediment cores (BOSCORF), the National Oceanographic Library, which houses the nationally important RRS Discovery and HMS Challenger archives, and the UK’s main facility for holding and distributing data concerning the marine environment.
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