Ocean-Lab Operational Oceanography Laboratory for coastal forecasting and on climate change impacts part of the ''Numerical Applications and Scenarios'' Division of Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
CMCC CMCC (www.cmcc.it) is a non-profit research institute established in 2005. Six consortium members: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Università del Salento, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Centro Italiano di Ricerche Aerospaziali, Università Cà Foscari Venezia. Six research Divisions work together in an interdisciplinary manner: Numerical Applications and Scenarios (ANS); Climate Impacts and Policies. An Economic Assessment (CIP); Impacts on Soil and Coast (ISC); Impacts on Agriculture, Forest, and Natural Ecosystems (IAFENT); Scientific Computing and Operations (SCO); Climate Services Division (SERC). The ANS division focuses on the study of climate variability, the physical-biogeochemical interactions in the climate system, and the implementation of a operational oceanography systems for short-term ocean forecasting, especially through numerical simulations.
Ocean-Lab (ANS-CMCC) CMCC operational oceanography team (Ocean-Lab) established in 2012 is expert in operational research for the development and production of short term ocean forecasts (Adriatic Forecasting System), and modeling and applications in the field of maritime safety (i.e. sea situational awareness, search and rescue, ship routing, oil spill modeling), coastal modelling (i.e. sediment transport) and climate impacts assessment in the coastal area.
The team Scientific Management and administration 1. Giovanni Coppini 2. Nadia Pinardi 3. Walter Merico 4. Marina Calò 5. Arianna Acierno Researchers 6. Elena Shchekinova 7. Esam Awad 8. Gianandrea Mannarini 9. Giorgia Verri 10. Ivan Federico 11. Stefania Ciliberti Operational group 12. Marco Mancini 13. Mariabarbara Galati 14. Emanuele Calcagnile 15. Rita Lecci 16. Josué Mosés Polanco Martínez (coming) 17. Yogesh Kumar (coming) Ionio project Scientific leader: Paolo Oddo
1 Gb/s firewall CMCC supercomputing Center and Ocean-Lab Cluster DMZ Internet services web server TDS server Private LAN IBM idataplex Cluster ATHENA Storage1 Storage2 IBM idataplex DX360M4 Dual Xeon E5 2670 (8-core, 2.6 Ghz) 482 Computational Nodes 7712 Computational Cores Memory Per Core 4GB Peak Performance 160 TeraFlop Switch Infiniband FDR Storage1 (DDN SFA 10K) 300 TeraBytes Aggregate Performance: 6GB/s Storage2 (DDN SFA 10K) 300 TeraBytes Aggregate Performance: 6GB/s Infiniband FTP server IBM Cluster Okeanos IBM Cluster Dual Xeon E5 2670 (8-core, 2.6 Ghz) 11 Computational Nodes 176 Computational Cores Memory Per Core 4GB Peak Performance 3,7 TeraFlop Switch Infiniband FDR
The research and operational activities - operational modelling and climate impacts Adriatic Forecasting System (2km resolution) (Operational) New Adriatic -Ionian Model under development Coastal Puglia-Calabria model (SANI area) 2 km grid resolution 100-300 m grid resolution at the coasts
The research and operational activities - Services Situational Sea Awareness Data warehouse Sea- Conditions Oil spill and hazard mapping Ship routing Search and rescue Early warning Environ. quality Optimal route A B
Projects Sviluppo di TEcnologie per la 'Situational Sea Awareness http://tessa.linksmt.it/ Training course on Oceanografia operativa e Tecnologie Informatiche per la sicurezza Marittima) http://www.cmcc.it/ottima/ European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters http://icm.eionet.europa.eu/ IONian Integrated marine Observatory http://www.ionioproject.eu/ MyOcean2: OCEAN MONITORING AND FORECASTING www.myocean.eu ADRICOSM-STAR II (ADRICOSM INTEGRATED RIVER BASIN AND COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Montenegro coastal ARea and Bojana river catchment-ii) ORIENTGATE: a network for the integration of climate knowledge into policy and planning http://orientgate.rec.org/
International cooperation MONGOOS (Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System) ADRICOSM parnteship ETC-ICM and the cooperation with EEA JCOM through the Expert Team on Maritime Safety Services (ETMSS) GODAE COSS-TT MEDSLIK-II consortium?