The Copernicus Marine Environment and Monitoring Service Pierre Bahurel, Mercator Ocean Marine data and information powering Blue Growth European Maritime Day, Athens, 28-29 May 2015 Search & Rescue in the Gibraltar Straits with Copernicus Marine Salvamento Marítimo provides the public service of Search and Rescue in Spain. They assessed the Copernicus Marine Service. courtesy of : Salvamento Marítimo 1
Search & Rescue in the Gibraltar Straits with Copernicus Marine «Resultados muy satisfactorios!» José C. Maraver Romero, SaseMar controller in Tarifa June 2013, assessment of the reliability of Copernicus MyOcean forecast during a SAR exercice The EU Copernicus Marine Service = free and open data for monitoring and forecasting the world ocean 2
The Copernicus Marine Service REANALYSES 10 to 45 years REAL TIME Daily, hourly FORECAST 2 to 10 days ESSENTIAL MARINE VARIABLES TEMPERATURE CURRENTS SALINITY SEA ICE DISCOVER SEA LEVEL VIEW DOWNLOAD Open & Free SEA WIND BIOGEO CHEMISTRY Combining space obs, in situ obs and models for a 3D ocean Combining observations from space and from in situ with ocean assimilative models Assessing carefully the information content and accuracy with state-of-the art science 3
http://marine.copernicus.eu The EU Copernicus Marine Service = now operational and sustained after a successful 6-year demonstration 4
Copernicus, EU program with a strong marine component SATELLITES IN SITU SERVICES MARINE ATMOSPHERE LAND SECURITY EMERGENCY CLIMATE 2007 2013 GMES DEVELOPMENT PHASE 2014 2020 COPERNICUS OPERATIONAL PHASE The Copernicus Marine Service, prepared with and invented by the marine community : 60 partners / 28 countries 5
Securing production & service at a pan-european level SPACE DATA COMPUTING DATA REQUIREMENT TABLE IN SITU DATA v0 v1 v2 v3 v4 INTEROPERABILITY PROTOCOLS A successful demonstration 2009-2015, a solid assest for the operational phase RELIABLE USEFUL 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 Nb of users Every month +30 000 requests +8 Tb of data downloaded Reliability > 97% 5000+ users registered in more than 100 countries ~120 every month 6
The EU Copernicus Marine Service = serving a generic core information to blue growth applications A new source of information for a wide range of blue growth applications Climate Marine Resources Coastal Environment Cyclones Marine Safety Marine Pollution Research Naval operations Sea Campaigns Offshore energy Extreme events Races and regattas New Services Marine areas Expeditions Marine policies and management public information 7
Reacting in case of a pollution (example of Fukushima) Immediate overview of the pollution drift Public Authorities Exploring new sources of energy (example of OTEC) Industry 8
Building value-added expert information (example of smartphone app) New Services Conclusion A Copernicus Marine Service, now operational, delivering fully assessed information on the ocean state le for titre supporting blue growth applications. marine.copernicus.eu Pierre.Bahurel@mercator-ocean.fr A close collaboration between Emodnet, Copernicus Marine, EuroGOOS, research, industry and services for building conditions of sustainability and fostering Blue Growth. 9