NIVMER

The NIVMER projects aims to develop, monitor and maintain the co-located tide gauges and GNSS stations of the ROSAME network as part of the French SONEL Observing Service (accredited as a National Observation Service by INSU and a member of the Coastal Research Infrastructure – IR ILICO) in the scientific frame of the international sea level monitoring GLOSS (Global Sea Level Observing System) program. This program also supports national and international research and monitoring programs using in situ observations of sea level variations in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (processing and validation of satellite altimetry measurements, tsunami warning system, long term sea level change studies, …). The NIVMER measurement sites (Crozet, Kerguelen, St-Paul and Dumont d’Urville) represent France’s contribution in this part of the ocean to the GLOSS core network.