Descripción
About the roles Modern meteorology and oceanography requires management and analysis of enormous amounts of data, and offers great and exciting professional challenges. Since the institute was established in 1866, Norwegian meteorologists and scientists have played a key role in this development. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) is today an internationally leading operational forecast and research institution with expertise in operational meteorology, oceanography and climate science. The primary area of interest coincides with the national focus area, northern Europe, North Atlantic and the Arctic. The division for Ocean and Ice conducts world class research and operates 24/7 forecasting of storm surge, ocean currents, hydrography, and sea-ice on regional to coastal scales. As well as multi-decadal hindcasts and reanalyses. These models provide input to downstream services such as oil spill drift models and search-and-rescue support. The work is carried out in collaboration with national and international partners. MET Norway utilizes the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) as the dynamic core for our operational forecasting systems, primarily the Norkyst and Barents models. These high-resolution tools provide essential data on ocean currents, storm surges, and sea-ice, supporting diverse marine operations, research, and downstream services like oil spill drift modeling and search-and-rescue. We continuously advance these capabilities through close collaboration with the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) and international partners, with current efforts focused on consolidating our common model code base and developing new high-resolution domains for the Barents Sea and Svalbard. Data-driven methods have a great potential for making our ocean and sea-ice forecasting systems more computationally efficient, and also make them more accessible for cross-disciplinary work relevant to marine ecosystems and the blue economy. We also acknowledge that o