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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE

COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE IN SUPPORT TO GERMANY

U SE CAS E EX A M PL ES COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT

MARITIME SAFETY

MARINE RESOURCES

WEATHER CLIMATE & SEASONAL FORECASTING

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MARITIME SAFETY

Supports safety at sea and pollution response

PART I V.

Publishes report on the state of the ocean

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& health (with 20 years of historic data) and improves accuracy of seasonal forecasting

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MARITIME SAFETY

Supports safety at sea and pollution response

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AUTOMATED SEA ICE MAPS FOR CARGO SHIPS SAFETY

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With the recent increase of shipping, resource extraction and tourism activities in the Polar regions, the spin-off company Drift+Noise Polar Services was founded in order to offer a new ice map service. The founding of Drift+Noise was also triggered by the availability of open data provided by e.g. the Copernicus programme. Drift+Noise operational ice maps compile different data sources such as radar satellite images, visual satellite images, sea-ice concentration to a comprehensive plot of the current ice situation. Typical users are cargo ships, service ice breakers, expedition cruise ships and research or exploration vessels. First operational ice maps were developed by sea-ice researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute to enhance the ice information level on research expeditions. The sea ice map service relies on the CMEMS Arctic ocean operational models and satellite sea ice products. Users appreciate a near-real time delivery, the 24/7 service, global availability, data sizes for low-bandwidth connections and the flexibility to integrate data into on-board viewing systems or to receive digital map.

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Faster and safer passage through or around the ice

Increased economic and ecological level of polar activities

Time and fuel saving (ice breaker operations cost ~15 000-80

Improved site visit planning on expedition cruises

Polar Code compliance 000 EUR a day)

MARITIME SAFETY ICE COVERED AREAS AUTOMATED SERVICE

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Wind, waves and currents and sea ice cover are crucial factors in choosing a route at sea. Advanced routing systems are being introduced in shipping, one result being that the skipper on board makes the crucial decisions about the route. Avoiding rough weather and having the best possible advance route planning can minimise cargo damage and mean more precise arrival times. Choosing the optimum route also lays the foundation for reducing fuel consumption.

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Operational ice maps incorporate from the operational Arctic Ocean system model the forecasted parameter sea-ice area-fraction, sea-ice thickness and sea-ice velocity on a daily basis. Furthermore, operational ice maps use the OSI-SAF ice drift data for both Polar regions and the DTU Space ice displacement fields obtained by MCC processing of Sentinel-1 SAR images.

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Drift+Noise Polar Services (DNPS) is a spin-off company of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The backbone of DNPS is the On-Site Sea-ice Information Software. It guarantees its users a delivery of ice information in near-real time 7 days a week. The long-term vision is to attach satellite and other environmental data to all maritime indistry information networks.

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Contact Lasse Rabenstein rabenstein@driftnoise.com

MARITIME SAFETY

COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 7

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BACKTRACKING OF MH370 TRAJECTORY FROM LA RéUNION

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In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished in the South Indian Ocean with 239 passengers and crew on board. Debris has since washed up on the East African coast and on Indian Ocean islands, brought there by the ocean currents and winds. Thanks to the location of debris and the knowledge of the ocean currents and winds from numerical models, it is possible to trace their movements back to a possible location for the plane crash. Several research and oceanographer teams from GEOMAR (GER), ECMWF (UK), MERCATOR OCEAN (FR), NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER (UK) and CMCC (IT) have used these calculations to run computer oceanic models back in time, from the time the debris washed up on land back to the time the plane disappeared. These studies were able to come up with a possible location of where the plane had crashed, with a large error bar nevertheless. The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service global ocean model, including data of global surface currents and winds over the past two years, was used in these studies.

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Help to focus the multinational search effort on a reduced area

New method proposing a possible location of where the plane

and save time, effort and money. had crashed, with a large error bar nevertheless.

MH370 MALAYSIA AIRLINES BACKTRACKING PLANE TRAJECTORY INDIAN OCEAN OCEAN CURRENTS GEOMAR ECMWF MERCATOR OCEAN CMCC NOC

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The multinational search effort for the MH370 aircraft was the largest and most expensive in aviation history. The search began in the Gulf of Thailand and the South China Sea, and was soon extended to the Strait of Malacca and Andaman Sea. Backtracking of the MH370 trajectory using debris trajectories and knowledge on ocean currents helped to come up with a possible location of where the plane had crashed, with a large error bar nevertheless.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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GEOMAR (GER), ECMWF (UK), MERCATOR OCEAN (FR), NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER (UK) and CMCC (IT) are world leading institutes in the field of marine sciences. They investigate the chemical, physical, biological processes of the oceans and interaction with atmosphere.

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MARITIME SAFETY

COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 9

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SHIP ROUTING IN ICE COVERED AREAS

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One task of the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) is to support maritime shipping companies with warnings in ice covered areas, such as the northern part of the Baltic Sea. BSH has developed sea-ice models and an ice chartings service, which still need to be improved for parameters such as sea-ice classification, ice hummocks and dangerous ridging zones. BSH takes advantage of the Copernicus Marine Service sea-ice products which help to improve their ice-charting service. The Copernicus Marine Service Sea Ice Charts in the Baltic Sea along with the Copernicus Marine Service Baltic Sea ocean forecast model are used in this application.

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Free and sustained ocean currents and waves provision to feed

High quality information allowing consistent fuel saving and

More accurate planning of arrival time.

ship routing software.

lower CO2 emission. Safer sailing routes for human beings and boat equipment.

BALTIC SEA BSH ICE COVERED AREA SHIP ROUTING BALTIC OCEAN MODEL FORECAST SEA ICE CHARTS

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The Copernicus Marine Service Sea Ice Charts and Ocean model in the Baltic Sea are useful for maritime safety and shipping industry in ice covered area.

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The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH) is an authority in the division of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. BSH provides maritime services in Germany, including maritime security, approvals of offshore installations, hydrographic surveying, environmental protection in maritime shipping and storm surge warning.

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MARITIME SAFETY

Contact Golbeck Inga Inga.Golbeck@bsh.de

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Publishes report on the state of the ocean & health (with 20 years of historic data) and improves accuracy of seasonal forecasting

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DATA.AWI.DE: A ONE-STOP SHOP PORTAL

Over the last 2 decades, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)

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Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research has been continuously committed to develop and sustain an eResearch infrastructure for coherent discovery, view, dissemination, and archival of scientific data and information in polar and marine regions. Most of the data collected by scientists originates from research activities carried out on a wide variety of research platforms operated by AWI (vessels, aircraft, stations, buoys, moorings, insitu ocean floor stations, drones, and ocean floor crawling systems). Archival and publishing in the information system PANGAEA along with DOI assignment to individual datasets is a typical end-of-line for most data producers. AWI has built O2A, a generic and cost-effective framework compliant with OGC standards, assuring interoperability at international level. The AWI DATA Portal is a key component with its one-stop-shop web interface supporting scientists in the discovery of various types of scientific content associated with AWI research platform. Some CMEMS Ocean Wind satellite data are displayed within this interface.

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Graph-based visualization of near real-time and delayed-

Map-based discovery of all research platforms operated by

mode and archived data in PANGAEA

AWI including metadata on all shipborne instrumentation

Map-based visualization of gridded data products Map-based visualization of tracklines for AWI-operated vessels and aircraft and dives for small vehicles

AWI ONE-STOP-SHOP PORTAL SCIENTIFIC DATA ARCHIVE AND INTERFACE POLARSTERN OGC COMPLIANCE

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To date DATA.awi.de brings together metadata on over 1540 expeditions, 1400 sensors, 370000 datasets and data products archived in PANGAEA, 40230 publications and 1740 field reports archived in AWI's publication repository EPIC. In particular, the past expeditions of Polarstern along with the description of the instruments on board are extensively documented.

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The DATA.awi.de portal is currently using the CMEMS data services to access the 6-hourly updated wind products from the 'Global Ocean Wind L4 Near Real Time 6 Hourly Observations'. The wind product is displayed in the collection 'ATM' for atmospheric observations.

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The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is primarily active in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Working together with numerous national and international partners, AWI is actively involved in unravelling the complex processes at work in the Earth System. AWI coordinates the German polar research efforts, while also

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conducting research in the North Sea and adjacent coastal regions in Germany

Contact Roland Koppe Roland.Koppe@awi.de

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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 15

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NAVIGATION AND SCIENTIFIC PLANNING ONBOARD RV POLARSTERN

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RV Polarstern is a German research icebreaker of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven. RV Polarstern is used to conduct research in polar waters as well as for the logistical support of the Antarctic Research Station Neumayer. To aid navigation and scientific planning in sea ice covered areas, a new charting system was developed. The system visualizes satellite and model data provided from various sources in near real-time. The charting system is used for strategic planning of the ship route, tactical planning: Finding the optimal way through sea ice, monitoring sea ice during ice stations, identify suitable floes for experiments and recovery of sensor deployments. Data from various sources are made available in the charting system, among which the 10-days sea ice motion, concentration and thickness forcast from the CMEMS Arctic ocean model. Postprocessing and delivery on board is done by the company DriftNoise.com. Forecast data is for example used to assess the accessibility of certain areas or the development of the ice edge within the next couple of days.

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Better knowledge and preparation for exploration missions at sea

Better understanding of the environmental conditions.

Better planning of scientific experiments and sampling

Decision-making support tool Free and sustained information about many ocean parameters.

REASEARCH VESSEL POLARSTERN ARCTIC OCEAN SCIENCE OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISE NAVIGATION AID SCIENTIFIC PLANNING

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The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982, the Polarstern has since logged more than 1.5 million nautical miles, or roughly 2.7 million kilometres (as of 2014). The Polarstern operates an average of 310 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March and pursuing research in the Arctic during the summer months. In the process, she covers ca. 50,000 nautical miles every year, the equivalent of two trips around the Equator. The research icebreaker can even operate in the pack ice zone and can even overwinter in the ice of the polar seas.

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The 10-days sea ice motion, concentration and thickness forcast from the CMEMS Arctic TOPAZ4 model are made available in the charting system. Data is accessible via CMEMS service. Download, subsetting, format conversion and delivery on board is done by DriftNoise.com.

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As the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) is primarily active in the cold and temperate regions of the world. Working together with numerous national and international partners, they are actively involved in unravelling the complex processes at work in the Earth System. Polar and marine research is research into the future.

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Contact Thomas Krumpen Thomas.Krumpen@awi.de

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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 17

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PROVIDING FORECAST UNCERTAINTIES WITH A MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE

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Several forecast products of operational ocean forecasting models, including the Copernicus Marine Service Baltic and North West Shelf models are available for the North Sea and Baltic Sea serving as input for a so-called Multi-Model Ensemble (MME), developed by the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH). The MME is a supporting tool to assess forecast uncertainties, adding considerable value to the users of the single-model forecasts. Currently, there are 13 operational forecasting models providing 48h-forecasts of the following parameters: • 2D salinity and temperature at the sea surface and at the bottom, 2D sea-surface currents, • daily vertically integrated water transport across pre-defined transects, • sea-surface height at 24 stations in the Baltic Sea. Ensemble statistics, such as MME mean and standard deviation and differences between each ensemble member and the MME are provided on the NOOS and BOOS (i.e. North West Shelf and Baltic Operational Oceanographic System) website. Further, validation is performed using Copernicus Marine Service SST and in-situ data.

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Free and sustained information about many ocean parameters. Multi model ensembles provide the users of single-ocean model

forecasts with added value in the form of ocean forecast uncertainties. The estimation of ensemble oceanic forecast uncertainties based on the independent forecast models of the Copernicus Marine and other Services can be computed for each parameter.

NOOS MULTI MODEL ENSEMBLE BALTIC EUROPEAN NORTH WEST SHELF BSH NORTH SEA FORECAST ERROR

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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.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physical models covering the European North West Shelf and Baltic Sea are used in this application.

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Contact Golbeck Inga Inga.Golbeck@bsh.de

COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 19

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