Copernicus Marine Service in support to Coastal Monitoring sector

Copernicus Marine Service in support to

COASTAL MONITORING

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Coastal applications using the scottish shelf model

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Coastal marine safety in costa rica

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Decision support systems for coastal marine monitoring

P. 10 Dhi supporting arpal with marine litter and water quality monitoring P. 12 Environmental control panel app for safer ports P. 14 Focus on coastal sea dynamics with ceaseless project P. 16 High-resolution modeling tool to improve water quality management P. 18 Hydrodynamic downscaling for coastal studies P. 20 Jellyx: a monitoring tool to detect jellyfish swarms P. 22 Met-ocean conditions for port management P. 24 Met-ocean conditions for spanish beaches P. 26 Met-ocean conditions in support to german rwe offshore wind farm operator P. 28 Modeling plastic pollution in the mediterranean sea P. 30 Monitoring and forecasting nearshore water quality P. 32 Monitoring and forecasting nearshore water quality P. 34 Monitoring sea level to sustain ferry connection from island to mainland P. 36 Monitoring sediment plumes during dredging operations P. 38 Msfd-eutro : satellite-based service in support to msfd P. 40 Transitional multi-models tool: Noos-drift P. 42 Mycoast, a transnational coordination of coastal observatories P. 44 Object drift and ocean forecast visualisation: the "present the present" service P. 46 Oil spill drift monitoring in the maltese waters P. 48 Samoa: met-ocean conditions for spanish port authorities P. 50 Supporting noaa oceanwatch monitor P. 52 Supporting port operations in portugal P. 54 Supporting the shipping industry and port operations P. 56 Tailored marine weather information services P. 58 Web service platform for maltese waters

The Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) provides reference data and information on the physical and biogeochemical state, variability and dynamics of the ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional seas. Products are free of charge and open to all, accessible via marine.copernicus.eu.

CMEMS is implemented by Mercator Ocean International on behalf of the European Commission.

Inventory of marine applications developed in the Coastal monitoring sector with the help of Copernicus Marine Service products.

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COASTAL APPLICATIONS USING THE SCOTTISH SHELF MODEL CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The Scottish Shelf Model (SSM) gives a detailed spatial picture of the physical water properties, unobtainable from observation alone. It is a resource that has already been shown to help government and commercial users better plan and protect Scottish Marine Waters. The SSM is a Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM) of Scottish continental shelf waters, nested into Copernicus Marine products. Marine Scotland Science (MSS) are continuing to develop this system and integrate it with their existing FVCOM models. The model covers the Scottish continental shelf at relatively high resolution (up to 1 km node spacing at the coastline) but also covers most of UK waters, the North Sea and the English Channel. The domain extends in latitude from approximately 13° W to 13° E, including the Baltic Sea. In addition to this large domain Scottish Shelf Model, a number of smaller domain sub-models have been developed, covering areas of interest to specific socio-economic sectors such as aquaculture and marine renewable energy. These sub-models have a higher spatial resolution, necessary to adequately understand the complex physical processes within the area.

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Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

COASTAL APPLICATIONS SCOTTISH SHELF MODEL EUROPEAN NORTH WEST SHELVES

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The SSM is a shared resource for the marine science community.

Developments will include the implementation of new high resolution sub-models, new hindcasts, forecast and climatological runs. The model has been used to provide resources for aquaculture, marine renewables and other marine scientists and policy makers, including tidal and wave energy resource maps; connectivity indices between aquaculture finfish farm management areas, and of Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features; the environmental impact of tidal stream energy extraction and other renewable energy technologies.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide reanalysis of 3D ocean currents, temperature and salinity, and sea surface height, for use as boundary conditions from the European North West Shelves product. These products, including time series of up to a year, are downloaded periodically when they are required.

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Marine Scotland Science (MSS) supports the Scottish Government's vision of marine and coastal environments that are clean, healthy, safe, productive, biologically diverse and are sustainably managed. Their purpose is to provide expert advice and services, to provide the evidence to support the policies of the Scottish Government and to perform regulatory and enforcement activities.

Marine Scotland Science www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science

Contact Rory O'Hara Murray Rory.O'HaraMurray@gov.scot

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COASTAL MARINE SAFETY IN COSTA RICA

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The MIO (Oceanographic Information Module) application allows to receive warnings of sea state conditions on the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Costa Rica. Wind forecasts, wave (height, period and direction), sea surface temperature and ocean currents are provided, with warning messages for swimmers and rip currents, sailing boats and docking at ports. This application has been created in June 2011 as a part of the Research Centre in Marine and Limnology Sciences (CIMAR) of the University of Costa RICA (UCR). UCR is the official entity about oceanographic events of the National Commission on Risk Prevention and Emergency Response of Costa Rica. The MIO platform consists in a web page and two applications. According to Google Analytics reports in 2018 the apps report about 9500 users and was installed 10000+ times. The webpage report about 9000 users. One of the products of MIO is the regional forecast in the surroundings of Costa Rica available form the apps and the web, the latter offer Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Currents forecast maps using data provided by the Copernicus Marine Service global forecast model.

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Forecast every 6h 7 days ahead.

Push notification in case of adverse conditions for sea users.

Offline functionality.

Updates automatically User friendly to understand forecasts.

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The MIO CIMAR App and website feature an a automatized local wave and wind forecast that is automatically updated every 6 hours and forecast 7 days ahead, It also features a regional forecast that automatically download data of Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Currents forecast 7 days ahead and is updated every 12 hours.

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MIO CIMAR uses Surface Temperature and Ocean Currents data from global ocean forecast model from the Copernicus Marine Service Product in use 1

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The main objective in MIO CIMAR is provide daily information and forecast about the sea conditions and ocean-meteorological events that may represent a coastal marine threat in Costa Rica.

MIO CIMAR miocimar.ucr.ac.cr

More information here Contact MIO CIMAR mio.cimar@ucr.a.cr

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL MARINE MONITORING CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

LINKS SPA has developed a decision support system for coast and port management in the frame of the START project: Systems for rapid mapping and coastal and marine territory Control. The objective is to develop a new capacity of coastal situational awareness in a given territorial context: the coastal area of Puglia and the main port areas of the Region. It includes a web GIS with a data catalogue (observational, forecast and indicators about the main phenomena like coastal erosion, flooding, overtopping) along the Apulia coasts based on Copernicus data. A technological platform for data collecting and processing has been developed in order to support decision making within Italian ports and harbors.

The targeted end-users are harbor authorities, coastal towns, agencies for environmental protection and public authorities in Italy.

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Faster decision making thanks to START platform in the Apulia Region Reach the needs of many different apoulian public entities Using CMEMS product reduce time for producing high resolution model useful for the final users

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In Italy, many different Apulian public entities have expressed their interest for a decision support system for rapid mapping, coastal and marine monitoring in harbours and port. Entities have participated in the START project experimentation activites such port auhtority for the Adriatic meridional sea, Apulia Region, municipalities of Lecce and Morciano di Leuca, and Consortium of management of Torre Guaceto protected area. The START platform is aiming at a better and easier monitoring and planning of coastal activities within harbors.

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CMEMS Satellite observations and Models products over the Mediterranean Sea are used by LINKS SPA. Model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents, temperature, salinity updated daily. Satellite observations provide with Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature information.

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LINKS SPA is an italian private company that offers IT consulting services to both private and public sectors including two business unit: banking and financial services, public service and government.

LINKS SPA www.linksmt.it More information here Contact MARRA Palmalisa palmalisa.marra@linksmt.it

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DHI SUPPORTING ARPAL WITH MARINE LITTER AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

ARPAL is an Italian regional public environmental agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment. Its mission includes support to monitoring activities and litter modelling (Directives 2000/60/EC and 2008/56/EC), Bathing Water Quality forecast (Directive 2006/7/EC ), Forecast of river fine sediment plume and oil slicks, Forecast of algal bloom, Monitoring and forecasting of aquaculture pollution. As a support to ARPAL, DHI Italia has recently developed a set of marine water quality applications. The system, based on MIKE by DHI products, adopts a numerical modelling downscaling approach of circulation models. Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution models as forcing conditions.

Starting from the Copernicus Marine Service physical products at Mediterranean basin scale, very high resolution close to the coast is reached (50 meters approximately) through subsequent model nesting, allowing to solve typical coastal dynamics and scales.

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Provision of methodology and tools supporting Environmental Agencies with their mission.

Support to monitoring activities.

BATHING WATER DIRECTIVE MSFD ARPAL DHI DOWNSCALING EU POLICY ITALY WATER QUALITY MARINE LITTER MED WATER QUALITY

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The European context has brought specific interest and increasing quest for attention for a scientific based knowledge on protecting health and marine environment. This was clearly reflected, as an example, in the relatively recent adoption of the EU Bathing Water Directive 2006/7/EC and Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC. Both Directives underline the need for adoption of specific tools, also modelling based, with the purpose of providing better and earlier information to citizens about the quality of their bathing waters, and of protecting more effectively the marine environment across Europe.

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The product used is the Mediterranean Sea Physics Analysis and Forecast of the Mediterranean Monitoring and Forecasting Centre.

The fields specifically used are the 10-day hourly forecast of current, temperature, salinity and sea surface height, delivered on a daily basis.

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ARPAL is an Italian regional public environmental agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment. DHI is a private not for profit organization operating for more than 50 years in the world of water through numerical modelling. DHI delivers consultancy, through a vast set of numerical applications based on MIKE by DHI products to the Oil&Gas sector, Environmental Agencies and more.

ARPAL www.arpal.gov.it/;

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ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL PANEL APP FOR SAFER PORTS

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Forecasts all over Spain are performed for different variables, including ports like Algeciras Bay located in the Mediterranean Sea, Bilbao in the Bay of Biscay and Tenerife in the Atlantic Ocean.

Using Copernicus Marine Service Information data as a starting point, Puertos del Estado in conjunction with the Harbour Authorities has developed several downstream services, consisting in a series of high resolution models. They calculates forecast of different variables at points around the shoreline: significant height of waves, wind, seal level, astronomic tides, currents and water temperature. A user-friendly mobile application has been developed to access and watch environmental events. More : http://cma.nologin.es/

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Accurate and sustained forecast allowing realistic applied results on port managing and monitoring efficiency increase and sustainability and safety improvements

MEDITERRANEAN SEA HARBOR MANAGEMENT PORT SECURITY MOBILE APP NO LOGIN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL PANEL APP FORECAST SPAIN PORT IBI ALERTS

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Ports as links in the logistical and transport chains handle nearly 60% of exports and 85% of imports, which account for 53% of Spanish foreign trade with the European Union and 96% with third countries. In addition, the State port system's activity contributes nearly 20% of the transport sector's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which accounts for 1.1% of the Spanish GDP. Moreover, it generates direct employment of more than 35,000 jobs and around 110,000 indirectly. The aids to manage and control ports can improve the efficiency and safety anticipating the environment events.

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CMEMS Med Sea physics model is used as a boundary and initial conditions for a higher resolution coastal model. The coastal model performs analysis weekly for the previous 15 days. The assimilation cycle is daily producing 10 day forecast. Morover, a coastal wave forecast is run once per day and includes variables such as significant wave height and peak period.

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Nologin Consulting is a Spanish company that is working since 2000 with other companies around the world to store, manage, organize, protect and maintain their most prized assets: the information. Nologin helps companies and service providers to design, implement and evolve their technological infrastructure as

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their businesses grow.

cma.nologin.es/

More information here Contact Sergio Blasco sergio.blasco@nologin.es

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FOCUS ON COASTAL SEA DYNAMICS WITH CEASELESS PROJECT

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The CEASELESS project focuses on coastal sea dynamics using satellite data (Sentinel data from Copernicus), in-situ coastal observations and met-ocean numerical models that consider explicitly the land boundary condition. It will help building the future coastal service of Copernicus. It provides a demonstration in various coastal areas of ad-hoc processing tools, data repositories and fit for purpose merging techniques from various ocean and land sources. It also brings further validation of the existing Copernicus products in coastal areas and provides examples of coastal applications using the Copernicus products and services.

Pilot geographical areas have been chosen for their contrasting met-ocean conditions, including the North Atlantic and Mediterranean offshore domains, the Catalan and North Adriatic Gulf, and the Danish coast and German Bight with freshwater inlets. For example, the CMEMS products have been used for renewable energy applications in the Danish coast, in order to assess the resource and the functional performance of offshore wind turbines. They have also been used in the Catalan coast for water quality applications.

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Higher accuracy coastal products Higher spatial resolution products

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EO data users in coastal areas need high spatial resolution and accuracy products to answer their specific problematic. Regarding accuracy, CEASELESS local forecasts include data assimilation from nearby coastal stations to compensate for coastal errors which, associated to topographic or bathymetric gradients, degrade the performance of meteorological and oceanographic models with respect to those in shelf and ocean waters. Regarding higher spatial resolution, CEASELESS has chosen to focus its models in location of interest, for instance a harbour entrance or access route or an inlet. Both accuracy and resolution have benefited predictions in the chosen pilot areas.

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For example, the Copernicus Marine Service Physics and Wave model products in the European North West Shelf Seas have been used for renewable energy applications in the Danish coast, in order to assess the resource and the functional performance of offshore wind turbines. Other products like the model Wave product in the Mediterranean Sea, the Physics model product in the IBI area or the Med Sea Satellite Chl-a product have also been used in the Catalan coast for water quality applications.

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The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) generates knowledge and transfers it to the production sector to increase businesses' capacity for innovation and competitiveness. In addition, the UPC also specifically attends to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises that want to innovate, by becoming

Universitat politecnica de catalunya

their main technological partner.

Barcelonatech ceaseless.barcelonatechupc.eu/en/ceaseless_project

Contact Agustin Arcilla agustin.arcilla@upc.edu

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HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELING TOOL TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The complex and dynamic coastal areas change at small scales due to coastal interventions, wave storms, or river floods. They host specific physical processes that are not adequately reproduced by basin-scale models, leading to their incomplete description by current numerical systems. For example, there is a need to better reproduce in coastal areas the sediment transport in 3 dimension or the freshwater influence. However, users require accurate prediction and analysis information to solve a variety of problems associated to the use of the coast like for example conflicting tourism and port operations, water quality for aquaculture and bathing, etc..

LIM/UPC aims to fulfil this need by proposing a robust and coherent approach to downscale Copernicus Marine products for high resolution operational modelling of coastal areas. The application focuses on the Fangar Bay, in the Ebro Delta (North East of Spain), an environment that combines aquaculture and tourism, with weak current velocities that interact with a changing domain and seasonal fluxes of freshwater, sediment and nutrients that condition the water dynamics and water quality of the bay.

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Downscaling scheme and tools exportable to other coastal areas Support management options reducing risks on aquaculture waves and water quality forecasting in Fangar Bay

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Discharges from ricefield irrigation canals into Fangar Bay strongly determine the water flows, temperature, salinity and suspended matter concentration within the bay and, thus, the quality of its waters.

Several products from the Copernicus Marine Service are used for the implementation of downscalling services, both from the Mediterranean and the Iberia-Biscay-Irish domains:

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Several products to the forecasting of currents and waves are used for the implementation of this product.

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The Maritime Engineering Laboratory at the Technical University of Catalonia (LIM/UPC) is a non-profit public research center that aims to generate and transfer knowledge and technology, innovate, train highly qualified professionals and researchers in the fields of Maritime Engineering and Marine Sciences. It houses the EU Large Scale Facility and Spanish Singular Research Facility.

Laboratori d'Enginyeria Marítima (LIM/UPC) lim.upc.edu/en/ More information here Contact Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla agustin.arcilla@upc.edu

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HYDRODYNAMIC DOWNSCALING FOR COASTAL STUDIES

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ARTELIA Group develops tools and services for various markets among which are maritime and port engineering, coastal environment and marine energy. In the case of port engineering for example, ARTELIA provides design and construction services for port extensions in various locations around the world. In such contracts, robust knowledge and expertise of the local hydrodynamics is required. CMEMS ocean model products are used to build a statistical analysis of the general and seasonal circulation patterns of the considered area. CMEMS ocean models are also used as boundary conditions for higher resolution ocean models: dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions. Florence Gandilhon from ARTELIA says that "Downscaling the CMEMS regional ocean dynamics enables us to take into account its impact on considered coastal areas. We follow CMEMS product developments closely, as they help us develop new markets and studies".

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaled

Ready to use expertised ocean products. coastal modelling.

ARTELIA PRIVATE COMPANY GLOBAL OCEAN WATER QUALITY COASTAL ENGINEERING RENEWABLE MARINE ENERGY DOWNSCALING CMEMS MODEL PRODUCTS

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Ports, waterways and locks are constantly being extended and adapted in order to meet economic demand. Private companies such as ARTELIA help project developers and government authorities with the design, construction, and servicing of ports.

Their knowledge about waves, morphology, hydrodynamics, water quality and ecology allows to advise clients and to optimise the design of ports. The use of the free and sustained Copernicus Marine Service products is an asset for such private companies.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Model over the Global Ocean is used in this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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Artelia is a private company born from union of Coteba and Sogreah. European leader in engineering, Artelia offers its public and private clients an original approach to Engineering, project management and consulting. Artelia carries out its missions in nine areas of activity: building, water, environment, energy, maritime, city, transport, industry, multi-sites.

ARTELIA www.arteliagroup.com/ More information here

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JELLYX: A MONITORING TOOL TO DETECT JELLYFISH SWARMS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

Pollution, climate change and marine habitats degradation are affecting ocean-based industries worldwide. Increasing events of jellyfish outbreaks that can reach hundreds of individuals per cubic metre are harmful to marine ecosystems and human health, with severe impacts on fisheries, tourism and aquaculture. For instance, jellyfish outbreaks are responsible for major farmed fish kills, causing profit losses for the global marine aquaculture industry.

ColomboSky is addressing this issue by offering JellyX, an advanced web mapping tool for large scale monitoring of jellyfish swarms and their drift, based on oceanographic data provided by Copernicus Marine Service. Users can access JellyX online portal for a real-time update on the risk of jellyfish swarm presence. Our solution combines remote sensing data with in-situ ground-truth and oceanographic models, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques.

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Effective risk management using a jellyfish bloom warning service

Improved knowledge-based decision-making for the environmental management of coastal areas Improved understanding of jellyfish outbreaks dynamics and environmental forcing

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Jellyfish swarms interfere with human activities and generate several issues, such as the collapse of fisheries, clogging of industrial seawater cooling systems, injuries of bathers and fish kills in aquaculture plants. Jellyfish outbreaks are estimated to have caused 40,000 cases of stings along Italian coasts during the 2007-2011 period, with associated healthcare costs of approximately 2 million euros per year. With high estimation accuracy of jellyfish presence/absence, JellyX provides managers with tools for predicting and preventing the economic and societal impacts of jellyfish outbreaks.

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JellyX focuses on the Mediterranean basin, therefore the Copernicus Marine Service products used in the context of this work are limited to the Mediterranean Sea and are represented by satellite datasets and biogeochemical models.

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ColomboSky develops remote sensing products for ocean and coastal monitoring. Through the study of innovative optimization processes, ColomboSky exploits remote sensing information to address the needs of key ocean industries, such as marine aquaculture, tourism and energy, reducing risks and economic losses.

ColomboSky

More information here

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Contact ColomboSky info@colombosky.com

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MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS FOR PORT MANAGEMENT

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The ports suffer extreme events of essential physical variables, especially wind, waves and sea level. These affects the installations during all phases of the harbor life, from design to operation. To respond to these complex needs, in the framework of the SAMPA series of projects, launched by the Algeciras Bay Port Authority and PUERTOS DEL ESTADO, a tailor-made software application, entitled SAMPA-CMA, is dedeloped to provide customized access to met-ocean information, and advanced viewing services, such as a user alert system (e-mail and SMS).

Available operational oceanographic products and existing ocean-meteorological information are delivered, and fully adapted to meet the Port Authority needs. In the framework of SAMPA, new high-resolution forecast models were developed (for atmosphere, waves and circulation) in order to improve the regional met-ocean forecast solutions available for the Algeciras Bay and the nearby Gibraltar Strait area. The SAMPA ocean forecast system, developed by the University of Malaga and Puertos del Estado, was configured as a downscaling from the CMEMS IBI model.

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling

Ready to use expertised ocean products. purposes.

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The Strait of Gibraltar is the natural connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and a choke point of the world ocean. The area is characterized by very strong currents and very complex dynamics representing an important challenge for the operational oceanographic services. Furthermore, the Strait of Gibraltar supports very intense maritime traffic. All these facts emphasise the necessity for having efficient operational oceanographic services to monitor and forecast these waters. The SAMPA Services has a widespread use within the ABPA: The Port Authority has granted SAMPA CMA access to more than 200 users, including private companies related to the harbor activities.

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The CMEMS NRT Analysis and Forecast Physical Model product for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea (IBI) is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes. It is used as initial and boundary condition for the high resolution SAMPA Ocean Forecast Service.

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Puertos del Estado (depending of the Ministry of Public Works), is in charge of coordination and efficiency control of the State-owned Spanish Port System. This includes 46 ports of general interest (managed by 28 Port Authorities).

Puertos del Estado www.puertos.es/en-us

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MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS FOR SPANISH BEACHES

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INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA (IEO) has developed a web-service to visualise ocean and meteorological forecast data at Iberian Atlantic beaches (http://playas.ieo.es/). The web service provides real time data and forecasts as well as statistics of the met-ocean conditions at specific beaches along Spain Atlantic coast. For example, maps and graphs of ocean currents, sea surface temperature, and tide potential are shown to inform the general public hoping to enjoy the Spanish beaches about the general environmental sea and weather conditions. Pablo Otero from IEO says that "the Copernicus Marine Service Iberian-Biscay-Irish Sea model provides accurate ocean current forecasts along the Spanish Atlantic coast that are useful for tourists visiting our beaches."

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Ready to use expertised ocean products.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

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A decision support system is a computer-based information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities, typically resulting in ranking, sorting, or choosing from among alternatives. It serves the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help people make decisions about problems that may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance. Decision support systems can be either fully computerized, human-powered or a combination of both.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) was created by Royal Decree in 1914. It is a public research organization dedicated to research in marine sciences, especially in relation to scientific knowledge of the oceans, the sustainability of Fishery resources and the marine environment. IEO depends on the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the State Secretariat of Research.

More information here IEO www.ieo.es/en/home

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MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS IN SUPPORT TO GERMAN RWE OFFSHORE WIND FARM OPERATOR CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

Planet OS, provider of big data infrastructure for data driven energy, delivers Powerboard, a data intelligence solution that helps wind farm operators to boost power output and reduce costs. Powerboard provides wind farm operators with a rich easy-to-use data visualization experience enabling them to significantly streamline daily operations and maintenance, leading to increased profitability. The cloud-based solution combines real-time operational and industrial data with a growing programmatic catalog of open and commercial data from external data providers. Many offshore wind farm operators are interested in Copernicus Marine Service data, which are included in Powerboard. The result is a visually rich, interactive analysis tool that permits detailed optimization of a wind farm and replaces rooms full of distracting monitors that are lacking integration.

German energy giant RWE Innogy is currently using Powerboard in production at Gwynt y Môr, their largest offshore wind farm, to help increase power output and improve operational efficiency.

RWE International SE is currently implementing Powerboard across their entire fleet of wind farms globally.

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Improve safety, forecasting, trading: recognize not completed past work orders due to weather factors and reduce future incomplete

work orders and improve worker safety.

Increase power production.

Use predictive analytics to optimize forecasts and energy trading decisions.

PLANET OS DASHBOARD MET OCEAN CONDITIONS POWER BOARD OCEAN ENERGY OFFSHORE WIND FARM ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING WIND

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Ocean energy technology is rapidly being developed to help meet Europe?s energy needs and reduce its fossil fuel footprint. Several technologies have emerged to harness the energy of the seas.

The Copernicus Marine Service ocean models provide key input for such technologies, as they can be used to estimate the ocean energy resources available, to help minimize the risks for operations at sea, and to help with the mandatory environmental monitoring of offshore ocean and wind energy sites.

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CMEMS Satellite Wind observations are used in this application.

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Planet OS is a private company that provides big data infrastructure for the energy industry to help them transform the way data-driven decisions are made. With specialized applications to easily integrate, exchange, and visualize their proprietary as well as third party data, renewable energy can become more competitive.

More information here Planet OS www.planetos.com

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MODELING PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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Plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea poses considerable risk to ecosystems and human health, causing adverse economic impacts on coastal communities. What are the main trajectories of plastics at sea? Where do plastics come from, and where do they accumulate? A research realized in the framework of AMAre project and lead by CMCC researcher Svitlana Liubartseva identified the transport and fate of plastic marine debris in the Mediterranean Sea with the aim to find solutions to this key issue.

An ensemble of more than 10 billion virtual particles has been tracked to understand the transport and fate of plastic marine debris in the Mediterranean Sea, embracing its three environmental compartments: the sea surface, the coastlines, and the sea bottom. Anthropogenic sources, such as coastal cities, rivers and shipping lanes are taken into consideration. Monte Carlo technique is developed to compute the beaching and sedimentation of plastics. Plastic particles are forced by the high-resolution sea surface kinematics provided by the Copernicus Marine Service model in the Mediterranean Sea over 2013-2017.

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First basin-scale vision of plastics at the sea surface on the coastlines and in the seabed

Inverse source identification stresses the importance of coastal management at a national level Understanding of substantial accumulation of plastics on the coastlines and sea bottom

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Plastics mainly accumulate on the coastlines and sea bottom and the former sink greatly dominates the latter one: terrestrial plastics (from coastal human populations and rivers) reside for 7 days at the sea surface, while the plastics from shipping lanes have a mean residence time of 80 days, not allowing any long-term accumulation at the sea surface. The coastlines with the highest plastic fluxes include the Cilician sub-basin (Turkey), the Catalan Sea (Spain), Israel, the Po River Delta area (Italy). Also, highly polluted local patches in the vicinity of sources with limited circulation are identified.

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The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea daily analysis datasets provided by a coupled hydrodynamic-wave (NEMO-WW3) modeling system are used. The system is implemented for the Mediterranean Sea at a 1/16° (6.5 km) horizontal resolution forced by ECMWF atmospheric fields at a 1/8°(12.5 km) horizontal resolution.

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The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is a non-profit research institution established to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment. This study is performed in the framework of the AMAre Project funded by Interreg MED Programme 2014-2020.

cmcc www.cmcc.it/ More information here Contact Svitlana Liubartseva svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it

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MONITORING AND FORECASTING NEARSHORE WATER QUALITY CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The SUEZ center RIVAGES PRO TECH develops tools and services for real-time monitoring and forecasting of the nearshore environment for empowered decision making. For example, local authorities in charge of bathing water quality and coastal waters as well as beach users benefit from RIVAGES PRO TECH services.

RIVAGES PRO TECH collects data, runs detailed ocean models and provides synthetic indicators for decision making support.

Matthias Delpey from RIVAGES PRO TECH says that "Downscaling the CMEMS regional ocean dynamics model enables us to account for its impact in coastal and nearshore regions. CMEMS ocean models are used as boundary conditions for higher resolution ocean models: dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions".

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Ready to use expertised ocean products.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaled coastal modelling.

RIVAGES PRO TECH SUEZ GLOBAL OCEAN WATER QUALITY COASTAL ENGINEERING DOWNSCALING CMEMS MODEL PRODUCTS

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Microbial organisms, also referred to as pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses in water bodies can make waters unsafe for humans. Swimming and other recreational activities in water contaminated with pathogens can make people ill. Hence monitoring the microbial organisms in water bodies helps local authorities to protect human health.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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RIVAGES PRO TECH from SUEZ is a center of technical and scientific expertise specialized in the management of aquatic environments in response to the needs of local authorities.

More information here iopr.pol.fr/?RIVAGE-PRO-TECHLYONNAISE-DES-EAUX

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MONITORING AND FORECASTING NEARSHORE WATER QUALITY CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The Estonian Marine Systems Institute (MSI) develops tools and services for real-time monitoring and forecasting of the nearshore environment for empowered decision making. For example, local authorities in charge of bathing water quality and coastal waters, as well as beach users, benefit from MSI services. MSI collects data, runs detailed ocean models. Downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from the lower resolution Copernicus Marine Service Baltic model as forcing conditions. MSI provides synthetic indicators for decision making support extracted from their detailed ocean models forced by the Copernicus Marine Service boundary conditions.

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Ready to use, global coverage, expertised ocean products.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

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Microbial organisms, also referred to as pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses in water bodies can make waters unsafe for humans. Swimming and other recreational activities in water contaminated with pathogens can make people ill. Hence monitoring the microbial organisms in water bodies helps local authorities to protect human health.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents, temperature, salinity and sea ice parameters updated daily. Models over the Baltic sea are used in this application.

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Estonian Marine Institute is one of many Tallin University of Technology (TTU) contemporary scientific institutions. The main purpose of Estonian Marine Institute is marine research and promotion of the given sphere in Estonia and the Baltic region.

More information here

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MONITORING SEA LEVEL TO SUSTAIN FERRY CONNECTION FROM ISLAND TO MAINLAND CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

Sea level needs to be monitored in the Baltic Sea especially in shallow areas in order to sustain all ferry connections between island and mainland. In October 2016, the sea level at the eastern part of the Baltic Sea was extremely low for an unusually long period causing problems for the ferry traffic between the islands and the mainland in Estonia. Sea level at Rohuküla harbor fell below critical limit for large ferries on 5th of October 2016 and mostly stayed below that level until 25th of October 2016. The lowest sea level within that period was reached on 22th of October when large areas of the Estonian coastline were dried out. Strong economic activities are associated to the daily island-mainland ferry connections: for example tourism, perishable food suppliers and fish factories delivery. The Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology (MSI) was contacted by the ferry operator in order to forecast sea level between the Rohuküla harbor and Hiiumaa island. The Copernicus Marine Service Baltic Sea Physics analysis and forecast product was used to provide 60-hour sea level forecast updated twice a day to the end-user.

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Better planning of ferry connection Better understanding of the ocean dynamics

Free and sustained information about Baltic Sea oceanic conditions.

Sustained sea level monitoring

LOW SEA LEVEL MONITORING FERRY CONNECTION ISLAND TO MAINLAND TRANSFER ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AT RISK

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Hiiumaa is a second largest island of Estonia. Its population (about 9000 residents) needs continuous ferry traffic from the island to mainland. The ferry channel (i.e. Rukki channel) is dredged regularly to enable ferry connection to the island as the sea is very shallow in this area. Nevertheless, in case of very low sea level events, the channel might not be deep enough and the ferry connection can totally cease. In October 2016, the sea level at the eastern part of the Baltic Sea was extremely low for an unusually long period which caused problems for the ferry traffic between the islands and the mainland in Estonia. The event had significant economic effect to the local businesses.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model in the Baltic Sea provide with 60-hour forecast of 3D ocean parameters updated twice a day. Physics and bio-geochemical models over the Baltic Sea are used in this application. They provide hydrodynamic and biogeochemical data for the study.

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Marine Systems Institute is part of the Tallinn University of Technology. It gathers oceanographic research and development and provides operational marine observations and forecasts.

MSI

Contact Lagemaa Priidik priidik.lagemaa@msi.ttu.ee

www.ttu.ee/en/?id=147569

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MONITORING SEDIMENT PLUMES DURING DREDGING OPERATIONS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

DHI is a worldwide non-profit private organisation with its head office in Denmark. Its area of expertise ranges from coastal and marine engineering to the energy, aquaculture and agriculture sectors among others. For example, it develops tools for monitoring harbour sedimentation. For the harbour of La Spezia, Italy, in particular, it has developed a model to follow the dispersion and fate of the fine sediment plume during dredging operations. DHI has developed a downscaling modelling suite where the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea model is used to provide boundary conditions for a higher resolution ocean model. Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions. Andrea Pedroncini from DHI says that "Downscaling the Copernicus Marine Service regional model ocean dynamics enables us take its impact on coastal and nearshore regions into account".

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Ready to use expertised ocean products.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

DHI COASTAL ENGINEERING DREDGING HARBOR MANAGEMENT DOWNSCALLING MODEL LA SPEZIA MED SEA

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Ports, waterways and locks are constantly being extended and adapted in order to meet economic demand. Private companies such as DHI help project developers and government authorities with the design, construction, and servicing of ports. Their knowledge about waves, morphology, hydrodynamics, water quality and ecology allows to advise clients and to optimise the design of ports. The use of the free and sustained Copernicus Marine Service products is an asset for such private companies.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Model over the Mediterranean sea is used in this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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DHI is a private company that offers research and consultancy services. Their expertise spans all water environments from rivers and reservoirs, to oceans and coastlines, to cities and factories.

They provide services for Aquaculture and agriculture, Energy, Climate change, Coast and marine, Surface and groundwater, Urban water, Industry, Environment and ecosystems.

DHI Group www.dhigroup.com/

More information here

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MSFD-EUTRO: SATELLITE-BASED SERVICE IN SUPPORT TO MSFD CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

MSFD-Eutro is a free and interactive web-mapping service for chlorophyll indicator based on satellite data. MSFD-Eutro facilitates the use and interpretation of ocean colour data for public authorities working on the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). MSFD Descriptor 5 aims at monitoring eutrophication in coastal waters. Phytoplankton is a proxy for eutrophication and can be monitored by satellite.

Favourable conditions for phytoplankton development are mixing or water column stratification, increase in light availability, water temperature and/or nutrient level increase. Phytoplankton is also grazed and is at the base of the aquatic food web, providing an essential ecological function for all aquatic life. Variations and changes in the chlorophyll concentrations (CHL) are relevant for the study of the ecology and health of the sea. The Copernicus Marine Service delivers satellite chlorophyll-a products which are combined with standard satellite Chlorophyll-a products for turbid waters. Statistics (such as multi-year mean and maximum) as well as trend analysis of CHL are performed to help with the MSFD reporting.

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Allow interactive evaluation of assessment levels.

Facilitate the use and appreciation of ocean colour satellite data

by public authorities working on the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive Foster international harmonisation of assessment levels and methods

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Recognising both the ecological and economic importance of European seas, the EU has put in place a range of policies and measures, related to planning and regulating the sustainable use of European seas covering a number of activities such as fisheries, offshore energy production, and protection of marine biodiversity.

The Marine Strategy Framework Directive, adopted in 2008, aims to ensure coherence between such EU policies and sets three goals for European seas: to be productive, healthy, and clean.

These efforts are also aligned with the EU's Blue Growth agenda.

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Satellite products, particulary of Copernicus Marine Service chlorophyll products are used in this application.

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Deltares is an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface. Throughout the world, they work on smart solutions, innovations and applications for people, environment and society. Their main focus is on deltas, coastal regions and river basins. They work closely with governments, businesses, other research institutes and universities at home and abroad.

Deltares www.deltares.nl/en/ Contact Marieke Eleveld marieke.eleveld@deltares.nl

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TRANSNATIONAL MULTI-MODELS TOOL: NOOS-DRIFT

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Drift models are multi-purpose tools that can forecast the drift trajectory of any objects, substances or resources drifting at the sea surface or in the water column. Typically activated several hundreds of times per year and per country, drift models are among the most valuable tools in the day to day management of the coastal and marine environment, marine resources and maritime safety. Designed as a one-stop-shop service, NOOS-Drift is a distributed transnational multi-models ensemble system to assess and improve drift forecast accuracy in the European North West Continental Shelf. With a unique demand submitted either through a web application or through a machine-to-machine API, NOOS-Drift users can get access to, visualize and download an ensemble of drift trajectories produced by different national drift forecast services connected to the NOOS-Drift system. The analysis tool provides an estimate of the ensemble spread as well as the likely impacted areas.

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A quick and easy way to intercompare different model trajectories results

A straightforward identification of areas at risk

Easily integrate NOOS-Drift results in their own system Standard files format and protocols

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The multi Model Ensemble approach is a common approach in weather forecast meteorology and climate studies, and relatively new in oceanography. Because of incomplete understanding of the physics of the earth system, different models representing weather/climate/ocean processes in different ways are developed providing a source of uncertainty in forecasts. In order to address this source of uncertainty, single projections from several models are used to generate the Multi Model Ensemble.

With NOOS-Drift, they could activate a similar transnational mechanism in a single click and receive analysis results within 15 minutes.

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Each model service provider connected to NOOS-Drift must execute at least two drift simulations per request using the model native met-ocean forcing and the CMEMS NWS-MFC met-ocean forcing, respectively. This strategy allows to assess both the uncertainty inherent to the met-ocean forcing spread, and the uncertainty inherent to the models differences. Simulation with other CMEMS products can also be done in order to extend the size of the NOOS-Drift ensemble.

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NOOS is EuroGOOS regional operational oceanographic system for the North West European Continental Shelf. Operated by 24 institutes from the nine countries bordering the extended North Sea and the Atlantic Approach, NOOS develops online operational marine data and information services for the NWS area and contributes to major initiatives such as EMODnet, CMEMS IN-SITU TAC, NWS-MFC, EOOS, etc.

More information here NOOS - North West Shelf Operational

Contact Sébastien Legrand slegrand@naturalsciences.be

Oceanographic System noos.eurogoos.eu/

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MYCOAST, A TRANSNATIONAL COORDINATION OF COASTAL OBSERVATORIES CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

MyCOAST will contribute in filling the gap between the output of large scale European programmes and the end-users through the transnational coordination of coastal observatories.

The synergy created in the regional cooperation framework of IBI-ROOS will allow deploying and capitalizing innovative and standardized tools in the risk management systems applied mainly to extreme weather events leading to flooding, maritime safety and coastal pollution.

MyCoast is gathering intermediate users capabilities from five countries and from existing cross-border cooperations, promoting information sharing and interoperability between coastal observatories and the European data infrastructures, in order to strengthen the use and the dissemination of downstream applications of the Copernicus Marine Service.

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Better response against coastal pollution incidents information and tools adapted for the coastal risks management Safer coastal area

COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY HIGH RESOLUTION IN SITU OBSERVATIONS NUMERICAL OCEAN MODELS ATLANTIC OCEAN

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Long term collaboration of 15 intermediate and end users (http://mycoast-project.org/partnership/).

Optimization, validation and intercomparison of 9 forecasting coastal and local tools connected to the Marine Copernicus service.

16 Policy, strategy and operational instruments (cost-benefit analysis, High Frequency radars performance methodology, analysis on user needs, methodology for coastal nesting, forecast integrated product, guideline and handbook etc).

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In Situ observation and model products in the Iberian-Biscay-Irish Sea area will be used. MyCOAST is integrating observing products and model forecast for feeding and validating coastal models and local tools.

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AZTI is a private non-for-profit technological and research organization. Since 1981 its activities have been focused on developing sustainable products, services and business initiatives aimed at transforming science into sustainable and healthy development for society today and for the future.

More information here AZTI

Contact Julien Mader jmader@azti.es

www.azti.es

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OBJECT DRIFT AND OCEAN FORECAST VISUALISATION: THE "PRESENT THE PRESENT" SERVICE CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The 'PRESENT THE PRESENT' service targets environmental service and tourism industry by providing object drift and oceanographic forecast visualisation over the Baltic coast using model, in situ and observation ocean products. It is a service designed for public marine policies, state authorities and public or private sea end-users. This service has been developed as a free service demonstration. A dedicated webpage has been developed to raise awareness about this service, and the launch has been synchronised with 100 years anniversary of Latvia state and University of Latvia in November 2019.

The service offers: -operational oceanographic forecast visualization for the Baltic Sea -free object drift modelling functionality -climatic representation of the sea surface temperature and water level anomalies (in comparison with the mean values for the period 2004-2019).

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Planned visualizations of the pollution drift are going to raise awareness of environmental issues in the Baltic Sea (marine litter

issues addressed in the demonstration)

Prevention of pollution in marine environment Strengthening marine data literacy in society of Latvia

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End users are: Marine Search and Rescue Coordination Centre Riga (under Latvian Coast guard), Hydrometeorology and Geoinformation department of HQ of Latvian Armed Forces, HQ of Latvian Ground Force, HQ of Latvian Air Force, HQ of Latvian Navy, Fleet of Latvian Navy. The service includes operational modeling of waters of Latvian jurisdictions, regular delivery of forecasts, visualisation, animation, decision support in resource allocation, route planning, search and rescue operations. It includes module for modeling of the fate of marine pollution (oil, chemical) and floating objects for decision support in search and rescue operations and combat of oil/chemical pollution in the Baltic sea.

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The following Copernicus Marine products from the Baltic Sea (Satellite, In-situ and model) are used : Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3 Product in use 4 Product in use 5

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Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling of Environmental and Technological Processes (LMMETP) of Faculty of Physics, mathematics and optometry, develops modelling traditions in the field of operational oceanography since 1994. LMMETP was present in various projetcs such as MyOcean and in regional alliance of operational oceanography Baltic Operational

University of Latvia

Oceanography System (BOOS).

www.lu.lv More information here Contact Cepite-Frisfelde Daiga daiga.cepite-frisfelde@lu.lv

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OIL SPILL DRIFT MONITORING IN THE MALTESE WATERS

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The Mediterranean Sea experiences an increased marine traffic with many cargo ships and tankers in transit at any given time arounf the Malta Island. The University of Malta has developed a forecasting tool to assist decision makers and stakeholders in the event of an oil spill around the Malta Island. They have developed a modelling suite, ranging from low resolution Copernicus Marine hydrodynamic models to higher resolution local models, and finally to oil drift models. The high-resolution hydrodynamic model is downscaled from the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea model. Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution Copernicus Marine models as forcing conditions. University of Malta provides for example useful, very high-resolution ocean current forecasts for oil spill risk management.

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Useful, free and sustained information provision.

user-friendly interface allows to obtain quick simulation of the spill drift Using CMEMS product reduce time for producing high resolution model useful for the final users

OIL SPILL COMBAT MALTA MEDITERRANEAN SEA COASTAL MODELING

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Oil spills can have disastrous consequences for society, economically, environmentally, and socially. As a result, oil spill accidents have initiated intense media attention and political uproar and actions have been taken to reduce their impact, including oil spill monitoring.

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Copernicus Marine Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Model over the Mediterranean sea is used in this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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The University of Malta is the highest teaching institution in Malta.

It is publicly funded and is open to all those who have the requisite qualifications. The supreme governing bodies of the University are the Council and the Senate. There are some 11,500 students including over 1000 international students from 92 different countries.

university of malta www.um.edu.mt/

Contact Aldo Drago aldo.drago@um.edu.mt

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SAMOA: MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS FOR SPANISH PORT AUTHORITIES CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

Ports suffer from extreme events related to essential physical variables, especially wind, waves and sea level. These affects port installations during all phases of the harbor life, from design to operation. To respond to these complex needs, the SAMOA initiative (Sistema de Apoyo Meteorológico y Oceanográfico de la Autoridad Portuaria or Meteorological and Oceanographic Support System of the Port Authority) was born, co-financed by Puertos del Estado and the Port Authorities. SAMOA is a revolution in the way Puertos del Estado (the Spanish Holding of Harbours) is providing solutions to the Operational Oceanography needs of the Port Authorities. The main objective of the system is to make available to each Port Authority customized ocean-meteorological information, fully adapted to their needs. In the project, led by Puertos del Estado, a total of 18 port authorities are participating.

The service consists of several modules (improved instrumentation and new forecast systems), which are accompanied by value added systems that allow a better exploitation of the data. CMEMS model products are used as boundary conditions to local coastal models.

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Aids for pilot operations

Fight against oil spills in the interior of harbours

Control of water and air quality

planning of Ro-Ro operations) Provision of information for knowledge based operation of infrastructures (i.e. forecast of Port closing due to extreme events)

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Approximately 85% of total imports and 60% of Spanish exports are channeled through ports, a fact that speaks for itself of the vital role they play in the national economy. A total of 10 new high-resolution atmospheric models (1 km resolution, based on Harmonie), 10 wave models (5 meters, mild slope model) and 8 circulation models (40 meters, ROMS) have been developed and operationally implemented. In terms of instrumentation, SAMOA improved the already existing large network of Puertos del Estado by means of 13 new meteorological stations and 3 GNSS associated to the tide gauges. 25 Ports from 18 Port Authorities will benefit from these new modeling and monitoring advances.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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Puertos del Estado (depending of the Ministry of Public Works), is in charge of coordination and efficiency control of the State-owned Spanish Port System. This includes 46 ports of general interest (managed by 28 Port Authorities).

Puertos del Estado www.puertos.es/

More information here Contact Enrique Alvarez Fanjul enrique@puertos.es

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SUPPORTING NOAA OCEANWATCH MONITOR

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NOAA CoastWatch was established in 1987 in response to two significant environmental events. CoastWatch portfolio has now expanded to providing a variety of environmental satellite data (Sea Surface Temperature, ocean color, salinity, sea surface altimetry and winds) from several different satellite platforms covering all U.S. coastal waters, including Hawaii and Alaska. It provides easy access for everyone to global and regional satellite data products for use in understanding, managing and protecting ocean and coastal resources and for assessing impacts of environmental change in ecosystems, weather, and climate.

Scientific validation of NOAA CoastWatch portfolio is done by the OceanWatch Monitor system. The OceanWatch Monitor is designed to address the need for monitoring and validation of satellite-based all ocean products and make the diagnostics available online. Currently, it is a stand-alone system and serves as a companion website to NOAA CoastWatch and will be selectively integrated in the future. It uses a number of products from Copernicus Marine Service as a first guess to monitor stability and consistency of various NOAA CoastWatch data record

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An easy way to the CoastWatch users to assess the state of the

Flexible to accommodate newer products for existing

available products under one URL environmental data records

SENTINEL NOAA COASTWATCH NOAA OCEANWATCH MONITOR SATELLITE PRODUCTS

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Today, NOAA CoastWatch sea surface temperature maps support meteorological weather predictions and also support commercial and recreational activities (e.g., fishing). Biologists also utilize ocean color radiometry data and derived chlorophyll-a and total suspended matter/turbidity products to identify runoff plumes and blooms and also predict Harmful Algae Blooms. Moreover, sailors and commercial shipping pilots use ocean surface vector winds for safe navigation.

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A number of products from Copernicus Marine Service are used as an independant first guess to monitor stability and consistency of various data records and allows to make a relative performance assessment. The ones obtained from Copernicus Marine Service include satellite-based or model-based products from Ocean color, sea surface height, sea surface salinity and sea surface wind.

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The US NOAA CoastWatch/OceanWatch provides easy access for everyone to global and regional satellite data products for use in understanding, managing and protecting ocean and coastal resources and for assessing impacts of environmental change in ecosystems, weather, and climate. It distributes free of charge, high quality oceanic satellite data for the benefit of users, and educate and train them.

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Contact Prasanjit Dash prasanjit.dash@noaa.gov

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SUPPORTING PORT OPERATIONS IN PORTUGAL

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APDL (Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, SA) in Portugal is responsible for the administration of the sea ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo and the Douro River Waterway. They have developed a mobile application METEODOPS, used by their pilots and operational managers for real time port operations. The METEODOPS application relies on the AQUASAFE system developed by HIDROMOD. The AQUASAFE system is based on a suite of hydrodynamical models, meteorological models, wave models and in-situ observations.

The AQUASAFE high-resolution hydrodynamical model is downscaled from the Copernicus Marine Service model.

Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions. The METEODOPS mobile application provides port managers with real-time met-ocean information to support them in their day-to-day decision making.

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling

Ready to use expertised ocean products. purposes.

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Ports, waterways and locks are constantly being extended and adapted in order to meet economic demand. The APDL administration in Portugal responsible for several sea ports needs help for the design, construction, and servicing of ports. Tools such as the mobile application METEODOPS help them with a better knowledge about waves, morphology, hydrodynamics, water quality and ecology of ports.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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APDL (Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, SA) in Portugal is a private company responsible for the administration of the sea ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo and the Douro River Waterway.

APDL www.apdl.pt/header

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SUPPORTING THE SHIPPING INDUSTRY AND PORT OPERATIONS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

HIDROMOD has developed the AQUASAFE system, which provides products and services to the shipping industry and port operations. The AQUASAFE system is based on a hydrodynamical modelling suite, meteorological models, wave models and in-situ observations. The AQUASAFE system uses various products from many sources as input, including those from the Copernicus Marine Service. The AQUASAFE high-resolution hydrodynamical model is downscaled from the Copernicus Marine Service model.

Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions. The AQUASAFE system provides for example a dashboard in the Pilotage control room in Santos, Brazil, or a mobile application for operations in the ports of Leixoes and Setubal, Portugal.

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results.

Ready to use expertised ocean products.

Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

SHIPPING PORT OPERATIONS HIDROMOD AQUASAFE PORTUGAL DOWNSCALING

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Ports, waterways and locks are constantly being extended and adapted in order to meet economic demand. Private companies such as HIDROMOD help project developers and government authorities with the design, construction, and servicing of ports.

Their knowledge about waves, morphology, hydrodynamics, water quality and ecology allows to advise clients and to optimise the design of ports. The use of the free and sustained Copernicus Marine Service products is an asset for such private companies.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models for the Iberia Biscay Irish sea is used for this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.

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HIDROMOD is a private portuguese company which creates and provides practical solutions, based on numeric modelling in various areas of the hydrological cycle, covering different sectors.

HIDROMOD www.hidromod.com/

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TAILORED MARINE WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

Sea related operations management requires the best possible knowledge about the factors that impact them. In the recent years, Earth Observation products and services have become more widely available and reliable. The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) represents one data source which can provide important efficiency and safety gains for different operations in the marine environment. Taking advantage of these data sets HIDROMOD is daily producing derived downstream services providing user fitted information which include high resolution model forecasts and local real-time observations.

Different coastal activities such as navigation, seaport operations, aquaculture, sea pollution control services, search and rescue missions, etc., are already benefiting from these services and by this way improving their efficiency and safety. HIDROMOD is making use of different Copernicus Marine Service data sets either for high resolution models validation (mostly satellite data) or for high resolution models operation (CMEMS regional forecasts to provide initial and boundary conditions to high resolution models).

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Be notified in time in case of critical situation Get access to all the required information through a single access

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Get access to models validation reports

Get information instead of data Receive daily reports with information on selected parameters

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Although the exact quantification of the benefits is difficult, it is a fact that the return in efficiency for operations related to ports or aquaculture are translated into thousands of Euros a year. In practice the recognition by the users of the added value translates in their willing to pay for the provided services. It already represents about 25% of HIDROMOD annual turnover. Examples of clients are 5 major ports in Portugal, 1 in Spain and 1 in Brazil, 2 water utilities, 2 electric utilities in Portugal and 1 major aquaculture operation in Portugal. New pilots are starting in operations related with offshore renewables and aquacultures.

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HIDROMOD is making use of different Copernicus Marine Service data sets either for high resolution models validation (mostly satellite data) or for high resolution models operation (CMEMS regional forecasts to provide initial and boundary conditions to high resolution models).

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HIDROMOD is a Portuguese SME established in 1992 as a technology company in the field of Computational Modelling of Aquatic Environments. Its core business is the use of models complemented with advanced data mining techniques, to support project and planning or to provide operational services in water related projects or operations.

HIDROMOD, Lda www.hidromod.com/ More information here Contact Adelio Silva adelio@hidromod.com

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WEB SERVICE PLATFORM FOR MALTESE WATERS

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University of Malta has developed a web platform including a dashboard presenting daily information on key marine parameters in the Maltese coastal areas from observations and numerical models. The Malta CMEMS Service Platform was created to serve local users with online access to dedicated products and services derived from the Copernicus Marine data. It targets to serve both specialised users, such as the local responsible entities (Armed Forces of Malta, Environment and Resources Authority, Transport Malta, Malta Meteorological Office and others), professional service providers and also the general public.The products and services are free of charge and cover the marine domain close to the Maltese Islands. Users have access to the information in a user-friendly system that allows the browsing, viewing, selection and extraction of information (such as statistical metrics) by direct elaboration online.

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Browsing / viewing /selection and extraction of information

Free of charge platform that covers the marine domain close to the Maltese Islands Promote the application of the Copernicud Marine products to the benefit of Maltese users

MALTA SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OCEAN COLOUR DASHBOARD WATER QUALITY

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The Maltese Islands are situated in an area of very heavy shipping and the threat from recurrent oil spillages in the surrounding seas is very high. The provision of accurate nowcasts and forecasts covering as large a marine area as possible from multiple sources and their use in state-of-the-art oil spill models constitute an important element towards the protection of marine economic resources. The University of Malta acts as a local broker to promote the application of the Copernicus Marine Service to the benefit of Maltese users, as well as to make use and transform marine regional scale data into added value products and services at the local scale.

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Copernicus Marine Service Satellite and Model data are used to display the Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Colour parameter in the Maltese area.

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The University of Malta is the highest teaching institution in Malta.

It is publicly funded and is open to all those who have the requisite qualifications. The supreme governing bodies of the University are the Council and the Senate. There are some 11,500 students including over 1000 international students from 92 different countries.

university of malta um.edu.mt/CMEMS_Malta/ index.php/welcome/ dashboard/41/1/0 Contact Aldo Drago aldo.drago@um.edu.mt

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MARKETS

Copernicus Marine Service supports all sectors of the Blue Economy.

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POLAR E NVI RONME NT M ONI TORI NG

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The Copernicus Marine Service polar environment products allow users to assess environmental safety in both poles. These products are used by national sea ice services to serve many user groups like:  National authorities  Research institutes  Shipping companies

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We provide scientists with many products to conduct their environmental, climate and oceanographic research. They can rely on:  The Ocean Monitoring  The Ocean State Indicators (OMIs) Report, a flagship scientific publication

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We provide public authorities and governments with key parameters to support the monitoring of habitats within conservation areas.

Many variables can be monitored by each European Member State using the Copernicus Marine Service, such as:  Sea water eutrophication 

Ocean noise

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WATE R QUALI TY

SOCIET Y & EDUCAT ION

We develop ocean literacy tools for the general public, teachers, decision-makers etc. They are used to raise awareness about the multifaceted environmental pressures on the ocean:  Climate change  Overfishing  Plastic pollution

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M ARI NE NAVI GATI ON

We provide products contributing to safer ship routing (can reduce fleet navigation risks in ice-covered areas) and more ecological and efficient marine navigation (by lowering fuel consumption):  Ocean current  Sea ice  Wave

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Our ocean models provide key inputs to estimate ocean energy resources to:  Monitor  Evaluate ocean offshore sites energy resources These data are used by businesses researchers and decision-makers.

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COASTAL M O NITO R IN G

The modelling method called “Downscaling” allows the Copernicus Marine Service data to be used to develop high resolution coastal models, useful for coastal management.

Using our products, each European Member State can:  Monitor sea water  Notably sea water quality in line with eutrophication in the European Marine areas impacted by Strategy Framework harmful algae blooms Directive (MSFD)

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Our products and services are used to model fish habitats with variables like chorophyll and sea surface temperature, for example. These contribute to the sustainable management of:  Fisheries 

Aquaculture farms

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Our daily forecast ocean model provides inputs for:  Search and rescue  Meteo-ocean software dashboards The ocean current model can be used for drift forecasting of oil spills that help government agencies to better plan emergency response operations.

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Free and sustained ocean data provision for downscaling and coastal modelling High scientiďŹ c quality of the ocean information

Governmental & public agencies

Data available in the past, present, and future with 10-day forecast

EN VI RO N MEN TAL & S OC IETAL IMPACT S

Private companies

Support the development of downscaling applications to manage ports in real-time Environmental agencies, NGOs

Support decision-making and meteo-ocean dashboards for safer operations in coastal areas Support water quality monitoring tools for cleaner coastal waters

Copernicus Marine Service provides key data that can be used to develop high resolution coastal models to manage and monitor coastal areas.

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