COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE IN SUPPORT TO ITALY
U SE CAS E EX A M PL ES COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
MARINE RESOURCES
WEATHER CLIMATE & SEASONAL FORECASTING
MARITIME SAFETY
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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE
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TA B L E O F CO N TE N TS
SEP 2018
PART I .
Supports coastal management and
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
environmental impact assessment
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MARITIME SAFETY
Supports safety at sea and pollution response
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Supports sustainable management of marine resources
MARINE RESOURCES
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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
Supports coastal management and environmental impact assessment
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Copernicus Marine Service
U S E CASES
ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT INDUCED BY OFFSHORE OIL SPILLS
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A methodology for the evaluation of the environmental risk
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induced by accidental oil spills occurring from offshore installations has been developed by University of Bologna, addressing in particular the impact of spills on the sea and on the coastlines. Directive 2013/30/EU on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations has introduced more strict requirements for the protection of both the workers and the environment. The methodology developed here produces specific quantitative risk indexes, based on credible spill events, wind and sea conditions and may support the implementation of remediation strategies. In this context, the marine environment in the area of the installations has to be characterized with the environmental parameters which determine the trajectory and the fate of the spilled oil. These parameters are represented mainly by surface wind and ocean current fields. Suitable data were downloaded from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service which provides 2D 6-hours-averaged wind data and 3D 24-hours-averaged current data; data referring to the year 2015 were considered.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Provide risk assessment methodology compliant with EU
Provision of ocean data for risk index computation
Directive 2013/30/EU
RISK ASSESSMENT OFFSHORE OIL SPILL EU DIRECTIVE NEW METHODOLOGY
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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Copernicus Marine Service
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The European Parliament and Council have published on June 12 2013 the Directive 2013/30/EU on safety of offshore oil and gas operations. The objective of this Directive is to reduce the occurrence of major accidents relating to offshore oil and gas operations and to limit their consequences, thus increasing the protection of the marine environment and coastal economies against pollution. It establishes the minimum conditions for safe offshore exploration and exploitation of oil and gas, limits possible disruptions and improves the response mechanisms in case of an accident.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
Mediterranean Sea Ocean current, surface wind, salinity and temperature data for year 2015 have been used for this study.
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Sarah Bonvicini is a lecturer at University of Bologna, teaching the course on "Loss Prevention in the Process Industry", for Master Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering and Environmental Engineering. Her research activity focus on Industrial Safety and Environmental Sustainability, especially on the assessment of the environmental risk induced by offshore oil spills.
www.unibo.it
Contact Sarah Bonvicini sarah.bonvicini@unibo.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 9
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Copernicus Marine Service
U S E CASES
SUPPORTING BATHING AND AQUACULTURE WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA S E CAS E • UOVERVI EW
The Municipality of Chioggia, a coastal town close to Venice, Italy, represents both an important touristic zone and a fishing port influenced by Urban Waste Water Treatment Plant (UWWTP), the Po river and the mouths of the Venice Lagoon. In order to follow the dynamic of plumes released by the latter, ISPRA and OGS have developed a high resolution model of the Northern Adriatic Sea using the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea reanalysis model as a boundary and initial conditions. They have performed a reanalysis simulation for the period 2006-today of the Northern Adriatic Sea, including the assimilation of UWWTP data. It allows to relate plumes released by UWWTPs and the measured quality of bathing waters. Each source of bacterial pollution is identified by a different passive tracer. An index will then be developed indicating possible bacterial pollution caused by a UWWTP on a bathing water body. It will help local administrations to better qualify bathing waters laying in their jurisdiction. It will also help many aquaculture farms and fishing port in the area.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Better optimization for preventive closure of recreational
beaches for stakeholders
Better planning of aquaculture farm sitting and management. Decison support tool for the implementation of measures in environmental management of coastal areas and aquaculture plants
ADRIATIC SEA SEDIMENT PLUMES WASTE WATERS BATHING WATERS AQUACULTURE PRESSURES AND IMPACTS WATER QUALITY BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODEL
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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Copernicus Marine Service
U S E CASES
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Chioggia is an important seaside town that hosts more than 1,000,000 tourists during the bathing season. In the area, there are 11 bathing zones, 8 of which are classified as excellent and 3 as good. Their profile (as defined by the Bathing Water Directive) identify river mouths and urban waste water treatment plants outflows as potential source of bacterial pollution. In the area (considering both the Venice and Rovigo Provincial Local Administration), there are 41 acquaculture plants. The annual production of mussels and clams adds up to 15,000 tonnes with a revenue of more than 20,000,000 euros.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea biogeochemistry and physics reanalysis products are used as initial conditions for the higher resolution reanalysis product of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Other CMEMS products for ocean colour satellite data and model forecast are also used.
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ISPRA is the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research. ISPRA gathers skills on coastal numerical modelling, and physical and biogeochemical observations. OGS is the Italian National Institute of Oceanography and Applied
www.bio.isprambiente.it/cadeau
Geophysics. The OGS modelling team has strong expertise in numerical oceanography.
Contact Cecilia Silvestri cecilia.silvestri@isprambiente.it
www.ogs.trieste.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 11
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Copernicus Marine Service
U S E CASES
MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS FOR SURFERS
S E CAS E • UOVERVI EW
MeteoSurf is a free multi-source weather forecasting App designed to provide wind and wave conditions of the Mediterranean Sea. It is an application for smartphones and tablets, built as a Progressive Web App able to supply detailed and updated maps and data showing heights of sea waves in the Central Mediterranean. It is mainly targeted for surfers and wind-surfers. Data can be displayed as animated graphical maps, or as detailed table data. The maps refer to the whole Mediterranean Sea, while the table data is able to provide specific information for any of the major surf spots in the Med Sea. MeteoSurf shows data collected from 3 different forecasting system sources among which the Copernicus Marine Service ocean forecast model. Met-Oceanic conditions are available in the following locations: Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey. Once the surfing spot has been selected, data will be prompted in a table listing the forecast for wave height, wave direction, wind speed and wind direction.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Better preparation at situation at sea
Better understanding of the ocean dynamics
Better understanding of the environmental conditions.
Decision-making support tool
SURFING WIND SURFING MEDITERRANEAN SEA MET OCEANIC CONDITIONS SURFING SPOTS
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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Copernicus Marine Service
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Adventure tourism has been developing tremendously over the past few decades, becoming a constantly growing segment of the broad tourism market. Capacity of the surf industry is large: over 10 million surfers worldwide, increasing at 12%-16% per annum. Information about met-oceanic conditions is mandatory for their safety. Surfers constantly watch the weather as it is bound to change in an instant and they don't want to be stuck way out when a big lightning storm comes through.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
Results come from two different Scientific Services: 1) The EU Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), which provides regular and systematic reference information on the ocean state for the global ocean and the European regional seas 2) The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) Atmospheric Model.
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The MeteoSurf application has been developed by Fabio Marzocca. MeteoSurf is compatible with any iOS or Android device, without the need for any special requirement.
www.marzocca.net/linux/meteosurf_en.html
Contact Marzocca Fabio marzoccafabio@gmail.com
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 13
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Copernicus Marine Service
U S E CASES
DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL MARINE MONITORING
S E CAS E • UOVERVI EW
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.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Faster decision making thanks to START platform in the Apulia
Region
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
• 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.
www.linksmt.it
Contact MARRA Palmalisa palmalisa.marra@linksmt.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 15
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Copernicus Marine Service
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DHI SUPPORTING ARPAL WITH MARINE LITTER AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING S E CAS E • UOVERVI EW
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.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Provision of methodology and tools supporting Environmental
Support to monitoring activities.
Agencies with their mission.
BATHING WATER DIRECTIVE MSFD ARPAL DHI DOWNSCALING EU POLICY ITALY WATER QUALITY MARINE LITTER MED WATER QUALITY
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
The product used is: • Mediterranean Sea Physics Analysis • Forecast of the Mediterranean Monitoring • 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.
• CUMEMS SER 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 www.arpal.gov.it
delivers consultancy, through a vast set of numerical applications based on MIKE by DHI products to the Oil&Gas sector, Environmental Agencies and more.
www.dhigroup.com
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 17
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Copernicus Marine Service
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MONITORING WATER QUALITY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private IT company LINKS SPA and the public CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have combined their respective skills to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "MARINE ENVIRONMENT"(www.marinenvironment.com) is one of the web tools developed, which proposes a web interface for monitoring water quality in the Mediterranean. Satellite ocean colour data are displayed, with chlorophyll maps. Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea Satellite Ocean Colour data provide accurate chlorophyll maps for the Mediterranean and enable us to provide useful Water Quality information to anyone in the area.
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
High quality information allowing realistic applied results.
Service available 24/7
Ready to use expertised ocean products.
Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.
LINKS SPA CMCC MARINE ENVIRONMENT MED SEA WATER QUALITY
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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Water quality is a critical factor for various sectors such as recreational, fishing and aquaculture activities. Harmfull algal bloom, green tides, anoxic conditions, bacteria pollution are some of examples affecting the ocean health. Optimal water quality varies and must be monitored. The quality of the water can significantly affect human and all oceanic organism health. Water quality parameters that are commonly monitored in the aquaculture industry for example include temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, alkalinity, hardness, ammonia, and nitrites.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for the banking sector, the public administrations and enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions.
www.linksmt.it
CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.
www.cmcc.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 19
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Copernicus Marine Service
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MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private IT company LINKS SPA and the public CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have combined their respective skills in order to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "Sea-Conditions" (www.sea-conditions.com) is one of the web tools developed, which proposes a web interface displaying the met-ocean conditions in the Mediterranean Sea. It displays for example the temperature, ocean currents and waves forecasts with the meteorological forecast along the Mediterranean coast. Forecasts refer to a time-span of four and a half days, with a time schedule of 3 hours for the first two and a half days and of 6 hours for the next two days. Giovanni Coppini from CMCC says that "the Copernicus Marine
Service Mediterranean Sea models provide accurate ocean current and wave forecasts for the Mediterranean. CMEMS also provides satellite ocean colour data useful for an initial assessment of met-ocean conditions in the Mediterranean. "
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
High quality information allowing realistic applied results.
Service available 24/7
Ready to use expertised ocean products.
Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.
LINKS SPA CMCC SEA CONDITION MED SEA MET OCEAN DASHBOARD
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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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. The service helps users planning all those activities related to the sea, such us a boat trip, a fishing trip or a surfing session with friends. It is controlled by a group of experts. Service is mainly used during summer by occasional users, 12,000 unique monthly access on average.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for the banking sector, the public administrations and enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions.
www.linksmt.it
CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.
www.cmcc.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 21
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Copernicus Marine Service
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MONITORING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF THE LIGURIAN SEA S E CAS E • UOVERVI EW
ARPAL is an Italian regional public agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment. They have built several modelling tools to monitor for example sediment and mud transport or bathing water quality in the Ligurian Sea. They can also monitor oil drift in the event of an oil spill, and can activate search and rescue tools in case of a man overboard. For all these modelling tools, the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea ocean models are used as boundary conditions for their higher resolution ocean model: dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining, for example, a highresolution local Ligurian Sea model from the lower resolution CMEMS model as forcing conditions. T. Del Giudice and S. Magrì from ARPAL say that "the synergy
between the open Copernicus Marine data, the modelling tools we have developed in-house and other data sources has enabled us to build a robust monitoring system for the Ligurian Sea".
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
High quality information allowing realistic applied results.
Useful, free and sustained information provision for
Ready to use expertised ocean products. downscaling purposes.
ARPAL MED SEA LIGURIAN SEA WATER QUALITY MARINE ENVIRONMENT OIL SPILL SEARCH AND RESCUE DOWNSCALLING
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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ARPAL is an Italian regional public agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment.
www.arpal.gov.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 23
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Copernicus Marine Service
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MONITORING SEDIMENT PLUMES DURING DREDGING OPERATIONS
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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".
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
High quality information allowing realistic applied results.
Useful, free and sustained information provision for
Ready to use expertised ocean products. downscaling purposes.
DHI COASTAL ENGINEERING DREDGING HARBOR MANAGEMENT DOWNSCALLING MODEL LA SPEZIA MED SEA
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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.
www.dhigroup.com
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE 25
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Copernicus Marine Service
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RHETICUS MARINE IN SUPPORT TO EU MARINE STRATEGY
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Rheticus® Marine is an innovative, high-performing geo-information service for monitoring coastal water quality. Rheticus® Marine is fueled by streams of information from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), and serves customers in the Mediterranean Sea region. The use of streamlined satellite data, processed to a high level (Level 3) by CMEMS, is part of what makes Rheticus® so fast. Rheticus® Marine uses specialized regional algorithms to deliver a wider range of water quality parameters, which can be compared with local data collected by regional authorities. Maps and statistics on eutrophication (i.e. chlorophyll, turbidity and transparency) are provided both automatically and on-demand. With a near real time coastal water quality monitoring at 1km resolution, Rheticus® Marine ensures a steady flow of data for rapid responses to pollution events or algal blooms. Easy visualization and mapping allows displaying water quality parameters thanks a user-friendly web interface with time travel and customized area selection. A cloud-based geo-information service automates complex processing chains to deliver services regularly,
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Supports national and regional authorities for EU directive implementation
WATER QUALITY MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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Copernicus Marine Service
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Rheticus® Marine is devoted to monitor coastal water quality and eutrophication status, and pinpointing problematic areas. • It helps customers in the public sector to implement environmental policies from local to international level, meeting the requirements in the field of marine environment policy (e.g. MSFD, WFD). • It assists authorities in charge of environmental monitoring to drive specific hot-spot field surveys, anticipate risky situations and/or prevent illegal sewage discharge. • It supports private actors involved in marine resource exploitation activities such as desalination, fisheries, aquaculture, offshore drilling, waste water treatments, tourism.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
The Rheticus Marine downstream service exploits the CMEMS products such as satellite chlorophyll, sea surface temperature and other optical water parameters in order to provide Near Real Time (NRT) water quality products linked to eutrophication for a routinely monitoring (on a daily basis) of Italian and Greek coastal areas, and temporal statistics.
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Planetek Italia is an Italian SME established in 1994. • It provides solutions to exploit the value of geospatial data through all phases of data life cycle from acquisition, storage, management up to analysis and sharing. • It operates in many application areas ranging from environmental and land monitoring to open-government and smart cities as well as scientific missions and planetary exploration
Contact Daniela Iasillo daniela@planetek.it
www.planetek.it
COASTAL & MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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MARITIME SAFETY
Supports safety at sea and pollution response
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SHIP ROUTING A CRUISE FERRY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The Italian Ship company " Grandi Navi Veloci" has entrusted La
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Superba's safe routing to the Operational Oceanography Group of the Institute for the Marine and Coastal Environment (IAMC/CNR) in Oristano. The M/V La Superba is a cruise ferry, one of the world largest and fastest luxury cruise ferries which can house close to 3000 passengers. La Superba connects Genoa to Palermo every day, crossing 800 km in the eastern Ligurian Sea, the Corsica Channel and the entire Tyrrhenian Sea. IAMC Researchers of the Operational Oceanography Group run numerical models to simulate the behaviour of various environmental parameters, providing to the Captain of La Superba daily forecasts for ocean characteristics and circulation, as well as waves along the transect. Downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from the lower resolution Copernicus Marine Service model as forcing conditions. IAMC uses CMEMS products as boundary and initial conditions to force two sub-regional 3D hydrodynamic models for the Western (seas around Sardinia) and Central Mediterranean Sea (Sicily Channel), and Sardinian Seas.
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
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.
SHIP ROUTING CRUISE FERRY MED SEA OCEAN CURRENTS DOWNSCALING
MARITIME SAFETY
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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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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 Institute for Marine Environment at the National Research Council (IAMC-CNR) consists of 6 sections and a marine biology laboratory that traditionally deals with marine science issues, notably in biology, chemistry, Physics and geology, and studies on renewable resources (fisheries and aquaculture) and marine technologies.
www.iamc.cnr.it
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Copernicus Marine Service
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EARLY WARNING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private IT company LINKS SPA and the public CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have combined their respective skills in order to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "EARLY WARNING"(www.marine-ew.com) is one of the web tools developed, which proposes a web interface showing parameters useful for raising an environmental warning for anywhere in the Mediterranean. It displays forecasts for the next few days of hydrodynamical parameters such as wave height, and also early warning indicators such as sea level trends. The Copernicus Marine Service models provide several estimates of such parameters as heat content and sea level trends in the Mediterranean, thus enabling the EARLY WARNING tool to provide useful decision-support parameters to anyone in the Mediterranean.
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
Better knowledge and preparation to situation at sea.
boats. More secure operations at sea.
Lower risk for human beings on board offshore platforms or
Service avalaible 24/7
LINKS SPA CMCC OIL SPILL MONITORING MED SEA OIL SPILL FORECAST
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Extreme environmental conditions could have severe impacts in the Mediterranean basin. It is therefore crucial to provide decision makers, stakeholders, private companies and general public with trustworthy Decision Support System based on the environmental monitoring, state-ofthe-art modeling and innovative technology platforms.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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.
• CUMEMS SER
Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for: • the banking sector • the public administrations • enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions.
www.linksmt.it
CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.
www.cmcc.it
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SHIP ROUTING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private company LINKS MT s.p.a and the CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have combined their respective skills to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "VISIR: Discovering Safe and Efficient Routes"(www.visirnav.com) is one of the web tools developed, which proposes a web interface for ship routing in the Mediterranean. The optimization regards total navigation time, taking into account safety of navigation. Both motorboats and sailboats are considered. The VISIR service is available in both a FREE and a PREMIUM version. The operator enters the ship departure and arrival locations (from point A to point B) and the web tool then computes several possible oceanic routes (optimal versus geodetic routes) and displays them on a map together with the respective journey time (in hours) and distance (in nautical miles). The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea models provide accurate ocean wave forecasts in the Mediterranean Sea that enable the VISIR tool to provide useful ship-routing advice to anyone sailing in the Mediterranean.
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
Free and sustained ocean currents, sea ice and waves provision
High quality information allowing consistent fuel saving and
More accurate planning of arrival time.
to feed ship routing software.
lower CO2 emission. Safer sailing routes for human beings and boat equipment.
LINKS SPA CMCC VISIR SHIP ROUTING MED SEA OCEAN CURRENTS
MARITIME SAFETY
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Wind, waves and currents 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. The user-interface of VISIR is available in 8 languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Russian, and Arabic. According to Google Analytics, www.VISIR-nav.com got in the timeframe May 2016- June 2017 more than 900 users.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for the banking sector, the public administrations and enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions. CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which
www.linksmt.it
mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.
www.cmcc.it
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Copernicus Marine Service
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SEARCH AND RESCUE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private IT company LINKS SPA and the public CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have combined their respective skills in order to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "OCEAN-SAR SEARCH AND RESCUE" decision support system (www.ocean-sar.com) is one of the web tools developed, which offers a web interface allowing search and rescue simulations and operations in the Mediterranean Sea. If the "last known position" of an object or a person in water is entered, the web tool computes the overall search area where the object or person in the water is most likely to be found. The mean trajectory from the last known position to the most likely current position is also drawn as a curved line. The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea models provide accurate ocean currents and wave forecasts in the Mediterranean Sea which enable the OCEAN-SAR SEARCH and RESCUE tool to provide useful simulations to recover human being or objects lost at sea.
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
Better knowledge and preparation to situation at sea.
Higher chances to find endangered person in water.
Service available 24/7
Faster and more secure search operations.
Lower risk at sea for search and rescue staff.
LINKS SPA CMCC SEARCH AND RESCUE MED SEA OCEAN CURRENTS
MARITIME SAFETY
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Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include air-sea rescue over water to search for and recover survivors of aircraft downed at sea as well as sailors and passengers of sea vessels in distress.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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.
• CUMEMS SER
Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for the banking sector, the public administrations and enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions. CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which
www.linksmt.it
mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.
www.cmcc.it
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Copernicus Marine Service
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"COSTA CONCORDIA" ACCIDENT: MONITORING POTENTIAL OIL SPILLS
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A joint team from Italy National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV), the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, CMCC) and the University of Bologna have developed a downstream application for the Italian Coast Guards (i.e. oil spill forecast) which relies on Copernicus Marine Service products. When the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off the Italian coast in January 2012, the Italian Coast Guard Operational Centre was supplied with reliable daily ocean current forecasts for the Mediterranean Sea. These forecasts, modelled by Copernicus Marine Service, were combined with the oil spill model MEDSLIK-II to simulate possible transport and dispersion scenarios of the oil in the sea. This forecasting analysis of oil spill drift efficiently complements other European services (e.g. oil spill detection and monitoring from EMSA, the European Maritime Safety Agency).
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
Free and sustained information provision for dashboard tool
development.
High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Provision of sustained and accurate ocean currents for reliable drift forecast.
COSTA CONCORDIA OIL SPILL ACCIDENT MED SEA INGV CMCC UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA MEDSLIK OIL SPILL FORECAST
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In January 2012, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. This tore open a 50 m gash on the port side of her hull, which soon flooded parts of the engine room resulting in power losses. Despite the gradual sinking of the ship, an order to abandon ship was not issued until over an hour after the initial impact. The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours and not all passengers were evacuated. Of the 3229 passengers and 1023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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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INGV is the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV).
www.ingv.it
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Copernicus Marine Service
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MONITORING OIL SPILLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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The private IT company LINKS SPA and the public CMCC foundation (Fondazione CMCC- Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici) have joined forces to develop sea situational awareness services for users in various sectors. "WITOIL - Where Is The OIL" (www.witoil.com) is one of the web tools they have developed, which proposes a web interface for monitoring the drift of oil slicks in the Mediterranean. An operator only needs to enter the date, location and type of the spill and it displays the possible oil spread on a map after a short computer simulation. The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea models provide accurate forecasts concerning ocean currents and waves in the Mediterranean Sea for computing oil spill drift forecasts. This tool is freely available to anyone in the Mediterranean area.
EFI TS • BEN FOR U SER
Free and sustained information provision for dashboard tool
High quality information allowing realistic applied results.
development.
Provision of sustained and accurate ocean currents for reliable
Service available 24/7
drift forecast.
LINKS SPA CMCC OIL SPILL MONITORING MED SEA OIL SPILL FORECAST
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An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. 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.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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.
• CUMEMS SER
Links MT s.p.a. is a consulting company, providing services and Information Technology solutions for the banking sector, the public administrations and enterprises, making use of emerging technological solutions. CMCC Foundation is a non-profit research institution which
www.linksmt.it
mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment
www.cmcc.it
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Supports sustainable management of marine resources
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SUPPORT TO MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE
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Effective marine spatial planning needs tools that enable different end users to access directly to marine environmental and conservation data-sets. At this end, CIMA foundation presents a web based application called Seawetra. Seawetra is a near real-time integrated system for Mediterranean marine ecosystem monitoring and conservation with 2 objectives: 1) to collect, archive, visualize and share geographical information coming from multiple sources over a large spectrum, in an interoperable format and according to an international standard, 2) to provide stakeholders and different end users with dedicated tools. Data, including some of the CMEMS portfolio, are inserted and managed within the platform, taking into account their diverse space-time scales and degrees of uncertainty and reliability. The Seawetra platform architecture is based on open-source software and open-data and is compliant with standard OGC (WXS) and INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC). The application provides, through a graphical interface, a high-resolution and continuously updated information, allowing the user to monitor environmental conditions of the marine realm.
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Direct access to oceanographic / environmental datasets EU
High quality information ready in near real-time allwowing
Specific tools designed for users needs
INSPIRE Directive and OGC compliant standards.
effective scenario analysis User Friendly access to dynamic and static layers
MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING CIMA FOUNDATION SEAWETRA WEB BASED PLATFORM OGC INSPIRE
MARINE RESOURCES
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The Mediterranean sea is recognised as a biodiversity hotspots, hosting unique environmental conditions together with a number of marine species. At the same time, it is an important touristic site and one of the most important industrial area in Europe. Competition for maritime space, for renewable energy equipment, aquaculture and other uses, has highlighted the need to manage our waters more coherently. At the same time, human activities involve a number of environmental pressures causing high or very high environmental impacts in marine and/or coastal ecosystems. An effective use of our seas must take into account conservation needs of such an unique area.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
Both Ocean observation and forecast products with Mediterranean Sea coverage are used in this application.
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CIMA Research Foundation is a non-profit research organization committed to the promotion and support of scientific research, technological development and training within the fields of Civil Protection, Disaster Risk Reduction and Biodiversity.
www.cimafoundation.org Contact Paola Tepsich paola.tepsich@cimafoundation.org
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SUPPORTING AQUACULTURE AND FISHING IN THE ADRIATIC SEA
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Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) in the context of the MERMAID project has developed a regional model in the Adriatic Sea for the aquaculture and fisheries industries. The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea ocean currents model and satellite sea surface temperature data are used among other sources as input for their regional Adriatic Sea model. Maps of various useful parameters such as potential fish harvests (in tons per year) are made available to aquaculture farmers and fish industries. Such dashboards help them with their day-to-day decision making, for example to optimize the selection of sites for growing shellfish, or to monitor water quality. Andrea Taramelli from ISPRA says that "the Copernicus Marine
Service ocean currents and satellite sea surface temperature data are key inputs for our Aquaculture dashboard. This saved us the time and expertise we would have had to invest to develop a hydrographical circulation model to get the currents right".
E N E FI TS • BFOR USER
Allow to save time and expertise to get the ocean currents right. Easy and fast download of satellite data providing accurate sea surface temperature and ocean colour information.
ISPRA MED SEA AQUACULTURE FARM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS MODEL ADRIATIC SEA MERMAID PROJECT
MARINE RESOURCES
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Water quality is a critical factor when culturing any aquatic organism. Optimal water quality varies by species and must be monitored to ensure growth and survival. The quality of the water in the production systems can significantly affect the organism's health and the costs associated with getting a product to the market. Water quality parameters that are commonly monitored in the aquaculture industry include temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, alkalinity, hardness, ammonia, and nitrites.
• CMEMS PRODU C T IN USE
CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7day 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. Satellite and in situ data are also used.
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The Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA has been established in 2008. ISPRA gathers the duties of the Environment Protection Agency, the National Institute for Wildlife and the Central Institute for Scientific and Technological Research applied to the Sea.
www.isprambiente.gov.it
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marine.copernicus.eu @CMEMS_EU Copernicus Marine Service servicedesk.cmems@mercator-ocean.eu
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