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Proposed adaptation of CMEMS products with focus on coastal zone

monitoring

P.Y. Le TraonScientific DirectorMercator Ocean

Copernicus for Coastal Zone Monitoring & Management, Brussels, 29/06/2017

pace29/06/2016, Copernicus for coastal zone monitoring

and management, Brussels

Outline

Coastal Zone Monitoring: User needs, CMEMS and downstreamservices

CMEMS Service Evolution Strategy and Activities

Evolution of CMEMS products&services wrt coastal applicationsand users

➢ Main outcomes of the CMEMS/CLMS expert coastal workshop

➢ Initial responses of CMEMS



Coastal downstream services and usersa major target for the Copernicus Marine Service

Marine coastal monitoring and forecast services (private / public) are a key

downstream user groups for the CMEMS.

CMEMS is a critical infrastructure to provide data and boundary condition

information, as well as scientific and technical knowledge.



Coastal Zone : a wide range of applications

Aquaculture

Fishery

MSFD

Marine Renewable

Energy

Water quality

Habitats

Pollution monitoring

Maritime safety

Coastal Hazards

Coastal Zone

Management

…

Pressing and increasing needs (e.g. OECD Ocean

Economy in 2030) of monitoring for a sustainable

management and development of the blue economy



CMCMEMS provides today essential services for coastal

zone monitoring and downstream services.

How the CMEMS offer should be improved to better answer

user needs in the coastal area ?

How does CMEMS offer depend on present/future upstream

satellite and in-situ observing capabilities ?

Part of CMEMS Service Evolution Strategy and Activities



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CMEMS Service Evolution - Principles

Users are explicitly and transparently involved:

➢ Users needs drive service evolution,

➢ Work to translate user requirements into achievable service evolution

objectives.

Scientific (satellite and in-situ observations, modelling, data assimilation) and

technological (e.g. computing capabilities, information systems) advances

relevant for the CMEMS are to be fully taken into account.

Need to maintain competitiveness wrt international actors.

Innovation capacity required to attract new users.

Delineation with downstream activities:

➢ The core service focuses on activities best performed at pan-European

scale.

Service evolution R&D activities can be broken down into different categories,

with different time scales and players/actors: short-term or Tier 1 / < 1 year,

mid-term or Tier 2 / 1-2 years, long-term or Tier 3 / 3-10 years.



High level document that will guide CMEMS

Service Evolution for the next 4 years and after.

Seven main strategic thrusts/goals are identified:

Upstream Observations, Data and Products,

Information and Services, Science and

Technology Evolution, Architecture and

Operations, Private and Public Downstream

Services and Users, Capability and Performance.

For each thrust/goal, a number of actions are

identified.

R&D priorities and roadmap, product quality and

MYP strategies are further detailed in specific

documents.

CMEMS High Level Service Evolution Strategy

http://marine.copernicus.eu/science-learning/service-evolution/service-evolution-strategy/



R&D priorities and roadmap

http://marine.copernicus.eu/science-learning/service-evolution/service-evolution-strategy/

The document captures the short,

medium-term and longer-term research

and development needed to maintain

systems at state-of-the-art and respond to

evolving user needs.

Four key areas of innovation and research

are identified:

(i) Ocean circulation and Ocean-wave

and Ocean-ice coupling

(ii) Biogeochemistry and ecosystems in

the marine environment

(iii) Coastal

(iv) Ocean, atmosphere and climate.

New version (V3) in July 2017.



Evolution of CMEMS products &

services wrt coastal applications

and users



Main outcomes of the CMEMS/CLMS coastal workshop

Evolution of Copernicus Marine and Land Services

to better handle the coastal zone

Marine and Land expert workshop

organized by EEA and Mercator Ocean

December 13 – 14, 2016

First step to address the complex issue of users/services in the coastal areas

and interfaces between core/European and downstream services.



➢ Better processing of satellite observations is required to improve the qualityof coastal products. This applies, in particular, to ocean colour products in thecoastal zone.

➢ New satellite products to better characterize the state of the coastal zone (e.g.coastline, coastal erosion) and its evolution should be proposed.

➢ Improved DEMs and Bathymetries are basic core requirements for the coastalzone.

➢ New satellite data/products required for the Regional Seas Conventions andEU policies (MSFD, MSP).

➢ Based on analysis of existing capabilities, need to extend the marine and landservice activities to the monitoring and forecasting of all major EU riversshould be analysed

➢ The monitoring, short and long-term prediction of sea level close to the coastsshould be improved.

Initial short-term/mid-term actions and recommendations

Marine and Land services (1)



➢ Stronger interfaces between CMEMS and downstream coastal marinemonitoring systems should be developed.

➢ Links/interfaces with EMODnet portals and activities (e.g. bathymetry, seabedhabitats, chemistry) should be reinforced.

➢ Products from national/member states coastal monitoring systems could bemade available through CMEMS, CLMS or Copernicus (e.g. DIAS) data portals(coproduction EU & Member States).

➢ Copernicus could include in the longer run core/common/generic coastalactivities to support the development of coastal downstream services andstrong operational interfaces with the Copernicus Marine and Land services(e.g. short-term/mid-term R&D).

➢ Capacity building and development of best practices are also very importantfor the coastal zone monitoring activities developed by member states andlocal authorities. This is an area where a European approach would bebeneficial.

Initial short-term/mid-term actions and recommendations

Marine and Land services (2)



Next 7-year Framework

(2021-2028)

Phase 2

(2018-2020)

Copernicus Marine (CMEMS) and Coastal

Phase 1

(2015-2017)

CMEMS

Current situation

Coastal is downstream;

CMEMS is not coastal

CMEMS is designed to

feed coastal services as

a core and upstream

provider

Same framework, but

opportunities for

improvement

What can be done to

improve CMEMS in these

3 years to better serve the

coastal communities ?

Preparing together the next

MFF period

How should we define the

next Marine Service for what

concerns the Coastal?



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Actions organized as part of our operational production contracts (MFCs, TACs) and CMEMS Service Evolution R&D and User Uptake activities.

CMEMS: core service, focuses on activities best done / or with benefits at a pan-European level.

▪ Improve CMEMS satellite and in-situ products to better serve coastal services and users (e.g.quality and quality assessment, resolution, new sensors) (e.g. ocean color, in-situ/HF radars).

▪ Make the best use of new and unique capabilities offered by the Sentinels (S1/S2/S3) andassessing the impact; provide guidelines for the next generation of Sentinels (e.g. wide swathaltimetry, geo ocean colour).

▪ Improve CMEMS modelling and forecasting systems to better serve downstream coastalforecasting systems (e.g. tides, forcing and river inputs, resolution).

▪ Strengthen links with downstream coastal monitoring systems.

On the longer run an important objective will be to develop operational and much stronger interfaces between CMEMS and downstream coastal monitoring systems incl. standardization

and harmonization. Co-production between CMEMS and member states.

Initial responses and activities of CMEMS

Documents

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