Copernicus Marine Service in support to
Science & Innovation
USE CASE BOOK
SUMMARY P. 4 South China Sea Mesoscale Eddies Today P. 6 From open data to marine knowledge: A service for augmented data access and reproducible data analysis P. 8 The Copernicus Marine In Situ Dashboard combines Copernicus Marine & EMODnet data P. 10 CEOS: Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE)
The Copernicus Marine Service provides reference data and information on the physical and biogeochemical state, variability and dynamics of the ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional seas. Products are free of charge and open to all, accessible via marine.copernicus.eu. The Copernicus Marine Service is implemented by Mercator Ocean International on behalf of the European Commission.
Inventory of marine applications developed in the Society & Education sector with the help of Copernicus Marine Service products.
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South China Sea Mesoscale Eddies Today Powered by South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Overview Oceanic mesoscale eddy has been recognized as one of the typical and prevailing dynamic processes in the open oceans and even marginal seas like the South China Sea (SCS). More studies on mesoscale eddies in the SCS are emerging while accordingly more in situ observations are targeting these coherent vortexes, trying to figure out their evolution, vertical structure, energy exchange, and effects when interacting with other processes, etc. Hence, to monitor the mesoscale eddy field in the SCS, it is essential to efficiently transform near real-time remote sensing data to key information of this kind of prevailing phenomenon. •
Since the extraction of information is repetitive, we here present a method to automatically conduct satellite data downloading, eddy detection, figure generation, and associated push service.
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Major marine near real-time remote sensing parameters including the sea surface height (SSH) based on altimetry, sea surface chlorophyll (CHL) acquired by ocean color remote sensors, sea surface temperature (SST), and surface 10 m wind mainly from scatterometer are investigated together.
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Overall, this study not only describes an application to extract and share information of the eddy field in the SCS, which is helpful to the researcher focusing on oceanic eddies, but also provides a procedure that can be easily adapted to serve other monitoring purposes based on remote sensing.
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Oceanographers utilizes generated figures and eddy properties like eddy numbers per day to study their evolution or characteristics while ocean engineers utilizes the near-realtime information about eddy field to plan and organize the in situ observation.
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Products used Global Ocean Gridded L4 Sea Surface Heights and Derived Variables NRT Global Ocean Chlorophyll, PP and PFT (CopernicusGlobColour) from Satellite Observations: Monthly abd Daily Interpolated (Near Real Time) Global Surface Chlorophyll Concentration from Satellite observations (daily average) Reprocessed L3 (ESA-CCI)
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Taking oceanic mesoscale eddy field as an example, the major focus of this project is to extract near realtime information related to such kind of a typical ocean phenomenon by incorporating satellite data downloading automation, eddy detection, figure generation, and associated push service.
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South China Sea infrastructure for ocean & marine data interchange ==> South China Sea Mesoscale Eddies Today
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Open-sourced MATLAB function for mesoscale eddy detection based on sea surface height anomaly field
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One can therefore readily adapt this procedure to achieve other oceanic processes monitoring objectives based on satellite oceanography.
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Research letter: Work done by atmospheric winds on mesoscale ocean eddies
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Eddy properties like position of eddy center and identified eddy edge are rarely seen in a certain satellite data visualization platform but they are essential for the design of in situ observation strategy
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From open data to marine knowledge: A service for augmented data access and reproducible data analysis Powered by Marine Analyst
Overview The Marine-Analyst.eu is a novel platform for searching, viewing, processing, transferring, advertising and disseminating marine spatial data from numerous data sources. Launched in October 2020, it is powered by the WEkEO data and information access service (DIAS). The Marine-Analyst.eu provides users with access to data and key analyses for the location of their choice. It offers a personal dashboard where each user can collate the reports created for the chosen datasets [See: Single data access and analysis]. By generating on-demand data analyses for any location, the platform is able to address multidisciplinary challenges, for example: •
Maritime spatial planning: It represents a solution for coordinating decision-making when allocating identified areas to specific activities, by considering and partitioning a basin as a whole, including its ecological functioning and the activities it supports. (for example: zonation based on essential biophysical ocean parameters (such as Chl-a and Kd) (Marine Copernicus), human activities inventory (EMODnet) etc. (Ref: MSP challenge at the Ocean Hackathon Brest 2020)
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Climate change: Addressing climate change not only requires better science; it is also crucial to inform journalists, interested citizens and the wider public. The Marine-Analyst facilitates access to information and transparent analyses. (for example: sea surface temperature trends and anomalies. (Marine Copernicus), Coastal erosion (EMODnet) (Ref: Climate change at my Beach challenge at the Hack the Ocean Hackathon November 2019).
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Marine protected areas: Park managers benefit from simplified access to various bulletins comprising key information for the management of their MPA (for example: MPA bulletins, (Marine Copernicus forecast), Vessel density hierarchical clustering and statistical analysis. (EMODnet) (Ref: Environmental impact of Shipping traffic at the Blue Innovation Hackathon April 2021)
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Other topics will follow… [See topics]
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Copernicus Marine forecast, real time and multiyear Blue, White and Green global ocean products. EMODnet thematic portals: Bathymetry, Geology, Human activities, etc.
Benefits for users The Marine-Analyst platform provides access to data from a number of major marine data providers. It is aimed at: • Research institutes. • Public authorities. • Private companies. • Environmental organisations. • Journalists. • Interested citizens. • Students. It does not require any programming skills.It is an “open web platform for the achievement of accessible, reproducible and transparent environmental science” (i.e., the platform embodies the FAIR principles of open environmental science). All of its sources* are available in a Github repository for execution in a virtual Binder environment, allowing expert users to tailor any available analyses to their needs.
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Marine Analyst Official Website EMODnet
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The Copernicus Marine In Situ Dashboard combines Copernicus Marine & EMODnet data Powered by Powered by SOCIB, Puertos del Estado & HCMR
Overview Copernicus Marine In Situ TAC Dashboard, released in 2017, is a tool that provides an user-friendly interface for users to discover, subset, share and download files containing in-situ observations from In Situ TAC multiparameter NRT products. The tool relies on a set of python scripts which process homogenized metadata on an hourly basis as well as complementary information submitted by Sea Data Net (provider overview). The resulting information is then accessible through the interface with the aid of a json-server REST API, which allows users to make queries and filter the information according to their interest.
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In 2020, the current release of the Copernicus Marine In Situ Dashboard has been officially approved as an “Advanced Visualization Tool” by Copernicus Marine and is now showcased as a complementary tool to the official viewer. Future developments will explore its extension to the whole In Situ product family (beyond the present In Situ multiparameter NRT datasets), the improvement of data visualization options (currently using EMODnet widget services) and the implementation of data discovery capabilities.
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SOCIB - Balearic Islands Coastal Ocean Observing and Forecasting System
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Puertos del Estado - Spanish Ports Authority
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HCMR - Hellenic Center for Maine Research
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Products used GLOBAL OCEAN- IN-SITU NEAR-REAL-TIME OBSERVATIONS ARCTIC OCEAN- IN SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS BALTIC SEA- IN SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS ATLANTIC IBERIAN BISCAY IRISH OCEAN- IN- SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS BLACK SEA- IN-SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS MEDITERRANEAN SEA- IN-SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS ATLANTIC- EUROPEAN NORTH WEST SHELF- OCEAN IN-SITU NEAR REAL TIME OBSERVATIONS
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Interactive discovery of In Situ NRT observations. Interactive download of of files. Shareable links.
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EMODnet Physics enhances the services of the Copernicus Marine Service In Situ Thematic Assembly Centre Dashboard for visualizing Copernicus Marine Service In Situ products promoted to Advanced Tool
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CEOS: Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE) Powered by CEOS COVERAGE
Overview The CEOS Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE) initiative is a NASA-led project and a cross-cutting, collaborative effort within the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). It aims to provide improved and more seamless access to global, inter- agency and multivariate satellite data spanning the four CEOS Ocean Virtual Constellations (sea surface temperature, ocean vector winds, ocean surface topography and ocean colour radiometry) and select in situ datasets to support a prioritised set of application use cases identified by the stakeholders. COVERAGE utilises a data-rich technological platform for the integrated delivery of ocean data to demonstrate the benefits of multivariate ocean data integration in support of science and applications. It also seeks to demonstrate the potential of the technical system in supporting applications related to marine biodiversity involving synergistic use of remotely sensed environmental data from satellites and in situ biological observations. The COVERAGE’s thematic demonstration, “High Seas Tuna Fisheries in relation to the Environment”, aspires to realize the potential of earth observations more fully, particularly for the ecological and dynamic ocean management applications community, and with a focus on less expert remote sensing data users.
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COVERAGE implements an innovative distributed system architecture involving deployments of the project software at remote nodes operating within heterogeneous cloud environments and hosting the project’s US and European CEOS agency satellite data, respectively. WEkEO is being used to host our project software stack in a virtual cloud environment to provide compute and more direct access to Copernicus Marine data. The objective is to minimize large- scale, redundant data movements and demonstrate a fusion of data across disparate computing infrastructures. The integration of in situ holdings at selected partners’ national oceanographic data repositories is another novel aspect of our approach. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a unique US national research facility that carries out robotic space and earth science missions. It is a federally funded research and development centre managed for NASA by Caltech. JPL implements innovative science and engineering programs in planetary exploration, earth science and observation, space- based astronomy and technology development while applying its capabilities to technical and scientific problems of significance for societal benefit.
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Products used GLOBAL OCEAN GRIDDED L4 SEA SURFACE HEIGHTS AND DERIVED VARIABLES REPROCESSED (1993-ONGOING) GLOBAL OCEAN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE MULTI PRODUCT ENSEMBLE (GMPE) GLOBAL OCEAN CHLOROPHYLL, PP AND PFT (COPERNICUS-GLOBCOLOUR) FROM SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: MONTHLY ABD DAILY INTERPOLATED (NEAR REAL TIME) GLOBAL OCEAN WIND L4 NEAR REAL TIME 6 HOURLY OBSERVATIONS
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Integrated access to inter-agency ocean data.Cloud infrastructure for scalability and performance . Curated aggregation of high-quality inter- agency data products (simplifying data selection).
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Value-added data services, e.g., integrated search, visualization, subsetting, analytics.
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GUI tools and APIs.
CEOS COVERAGE Official Website
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Web Article: COVERAGE: Enabling the widespread use of satellite and in-situ ocean datafor societal benefit
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Official Website
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WEkEO Official Website
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MARKETS 1
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Environment 4
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Society
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Copernicus Marine Service supports all sectors of the Blue Economy.
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Economy
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Environment 1
POLAR ENVIRO NMENT MONITORING
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The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data products for the Polar Environment Monitoring sector to assess environmental impacts at both poles.
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CLIMATE & AD APTATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides scientists with ocean data and information to conduct their environmental, climate and oceanographic research to support climate adaptation.
OCEAN HEALTH
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MARINE CO NSERVATION & BIODIVERSITY
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data to monitor marine biodiversity and to protect Marine Protected Areas, preserving at-risk ecosystems.
The Copernicus Marine Service provides important inputs to monitor the ocean’s state and vital health signs, essential for the well-being of life on Earth.
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SCIENCE & INNOVATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides scientists and businesses with ocean data, allowing them to innovate their practices and build new applications and services for intermediate and final users.
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EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH & RECREATION
The Copernicus Marine Service supports businesses and non-profit organizations to develop public health, ocean literacy and educational tools to raise awareness on the many challenges facing the ocean.
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POLICIES & OCEAN GOVERNANCE & MITIGATION
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data to support European Member States in the implementation of European Directives. It also collaborates with international institutions to support Ocean Governance.
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EXTREMES, HAZARD S & SAF ETY
The Copernicus Marine Service supports safety at sea and pollution response by providing oceanic parameters for extreme situations at sea and pollutant drift forecasts.
Economy 9
MARINE FOO D
The Copernicus Marine Service supports the management of aquaculture farms and the sustainable exploitation of ocean’s living resources.
TRADE
11 & MARINE NAVIGATION The Copernicus Marine Service provides key ocean parameters contributing to safer and more ecological marine navigation.
COSTAL
10 SERVICES The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data that can be used to develop high-resolution coastal models to manage and monitor coastal areas.
12 NATURAL RESO URCES & ENERGY
The Copernicus Marine Service provides key data products for the oil & gas, deep sea mining and marine renewable energy sectors.
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WHAT WE PROVIDE
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Member States
Open and free of charge ocean data
Research institutes
High level scientific & validated data Map-based visualisation of gridded data products Opendap data access protocol NGOs EN VI RO N MEN TAL & S OC IETAL IMPACTS
Private companies
A cleaner ocean: combat against plastic pollution A safer ocean: support search & rescue operations at sea A greener ocean: support the implementation of renewable marine energy farms.
Startups
The Copernicus Marine Service provides scientists and businesses with ocean data, allowing them to innovate their practices and build new applications and services for intermediate and final users l
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