The National Oceanography Centre

Tidal predictions for UK ports for the next 30 days can be found here http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/tidalp.html

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), a marine research laboratory wholly owned by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), brings together NERC’s Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory and the NERC-owned elements of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. Working in partnership with the UK marine community, it forms a new national research organisation, delivering integrated marine science and technology from the coast to ocean.

NOC’s research, alongside activities of surveying, monitoring, data management and forecasting, provides strategic support for the wider mission of the NERC.

NOC is based at Liverpool and Southampton.

The Liverpool branch is a leading world centre in global sea level science and modelling & forecasting shelf sea dynamics. Its world-class research includes:

• physics of estuarine, coastal and shelf sea circulation
• wind wave dynamics & sediment transport processes
• global sea level science and geodetic oceanography
• marine technology & operational oceanography

It also runs the Irish Sea Observatory which aims to integrate real-time measurements with coupled models into a pre-operational coastal operational system.

The National Oceanography Centre: http://noc.ac.uk/

Irish Sea Observatory: http://cobs.pol.ac.uk/