Copernicus Marine Service in support to Italy by Copernicus Marine_Service

Copernicus Marine Service in support to

ITALY

USE CASE BOOK

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Northern adriatic sea water quality for aquaculture and tourism sectors - cadeau project

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Building uniform ocean acidity maps from scattered insitu data

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"Costa Concordia" accident: monitoring potential oil spills

P. 10 Decision support systems for coastal marine monitoring P. 12 DHI supporting arpal with marine litter and water quality monitoring P. 14 Early warning in the mediterranean sea P. 16 Environmental risk assessment induced by offshore oil spills P. 18 JELLYX: a monitoring tool to detect jellyfish swarms P. 20 Management of fish invasive species in the mediterranean sea P. 22 MET-ocean conditions in the mediterranean sea P. 24 MET-ocean conditions for surfers P. 26 Modeling plastic pollution in the mediterranean sea P. 28 Monitoring the marine environment of the ligurian sea P. 30 Monitoring oil spills in the mediterranean sea P. 32 Monitoring sediment plumes during dredging operations P. 34 Monitoring water quality in the mediterranean sea P. 36 Predicting the habitat and distribution of giant squid P. 38 Rheticus marine in support to EU marine strategy P. 40 Search and rescue in the mediterranean sea P. 42 Ship routing a cruise ferry in the mediterranean sea P. 44 Ship routing in the mediterranean sea P. 46 Supporting aquaculture and fishing in the Adriatic sea P. 48 Supporting Italy with the European marine strategy framework directive P. 50 Supporting the JRC and EU with the common fisheries policy (CFP) P. 52 Supporting the MSFD directive in the black sea P. 54 Support to maritime spatial planning European directive

The Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS) 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. CMEMS is implemented by Mercator Ocean International on behalf of the European Commission.

Inventory of marine applications developed in Italy with the help of Copernicus Marine Service products.

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NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA WATER QUALITY FOR AQUACULTURE AND TOURISM SECTORS - CADEAU PROJECT CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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, with the support of ARPA Emilia Romagna, 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. More here: http://www.bio.isprambiente.it/

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Better optimization for preventive closure of recreational beaches

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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

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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 (http://www.portaleacque.salute.gov.it). 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 (www.venetoagricoltura.org).

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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. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3 Product in use 4 Product in use 5 Product in use 6 Product in use 7

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Product in use 8 Product in use 9 ISPRA is in the Italian Product use 10 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 Geophysics. The OGS modelling team has strong expertise in numerical oceanography.

More information here ispra

Contact Cecilia Silvestri cecilia.silvestri@isprambiente.it

www.isprambiente.gov.it/itl

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BUILDING UNIFORM OCEAN ACIDITY MAPS FROM SCATTERED INSITU DATA CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

On the one hand, the Copernicus Marine Service provides with pH in situ observations that are scattered, i.e. not available as a full coverage map but as discrete points over the globe. On the other hand, SeaDataNet provides with an interplation tool (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis service, DIVA) allowing to map global, uniform distributions of pH from the Copernicus Marine Service scattered in situ data. However, the SeaDataNet service is not compliant with the Copernicus marine Service in situ data formats. Researchers from ISTI-CNR with funding from the H2020 BlueBridge project have developed the D4Science e-Infrastructure which creates a bridge between several e-Infrastructures to fill the gap between them. As for the ocean acidification monitoring case, the D4Science process can transform a set of Copernicus in situ marine observations of an acidification parameter into a uniform global distribution map, published on a data catalogue under standard geographical representation formats (e.g. Web Map Service). Benefit for users and scientists are numerous among which the data sharing and the scientific publishing facilities.

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Free data global coverage

Near real time capacity

One stop shop gathering all in situ data. Ready to use, global coverage, expertised ocean products.

DATA MAPPING DATA INTERPOLATION DATA FORMAT H2020 BLUEBRIDGE D4SCIENCE TOOL

MARINE CONSERVATION & POLICIES

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The h2020 BlueBRIDGE project - Building Research environments fostering Innovation, Decision making, Governance and Education to support Blue growth - supports capacity building in interdisciplinary research communities actively involved in increasing scientific knowledge about resource overexploitation, degraded environment and ecosystem with the aim of providing a more solid ground for informed advice to competent authorities and to enlarge the spectrum of growth opportunities as addressed by the Blue Growth Societal Challenge.

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The Copernicus Marine Service in situ acidity (pH) products are used in this application. Product in use 1

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The Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) is an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The Institute is committed to producing scientific excellence and to playing an active role in technology transfer. The domain of competence covers Information Science, related technologies and a wide range of applications.

isti cnr www.isti.cnr.it/ More information here Contact Gianpaolo Coro gianpaolo.coro@isti.cnr.it

MARINE CONSERVATION & POLICIES

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"COSTA CONCORDIA" ACCIDENT: MONITORING POTENTIAL OIL SPILLS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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).

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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 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.

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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day 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. Product in use 1 Product in use 2

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INGV is the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV).

www.ingv.it/en/ More information here

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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR COASTAL MARINE MONITORING CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

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.

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Faster decision making thanks to START platform in the Apulia Region 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.

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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. Product in use 1 Product in use 2

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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.

LINKS SPA www.linksmt.it More information here Contact MARRA Palmalisa palmalisa.marra@linksmt.it

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DHI SUPPORTING ARPAL WITH MARINE LITTER AND WATER QUALITY MONITORING CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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.

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Provision of methodology and tools supporting Environmental Agencies with their mission. Support to monitoring activities.

BATHING WATER DIRECTIVE MSFD ARPAL DHI DOWNSCALING EU POLICY ITALY WATER QUALITY MARINE LITTER MED WATER QUALITY

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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.

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The product used is the Mediterranean Sea Physics Analysis and Forecast of the Mediterranean Monitoring and 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. Product in use 1

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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 delivers consultancy, through a vast set of numerical applications based on MIKE by DHI products to the Oil&amp;Gas sector, Environmental Agencies and more.

ARPAL www.arpal.gov.it/;

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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" (http://www.marine-ew.com/en/home) 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.

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Better knowledge and preparation to situation at sea. Lower risk for human beings on board offshore platforms or boats. More secure operations at sea. 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-of-the-art modeling and innovative technology platforms.

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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 mission is to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment.

www.linksmt.it/

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ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT INDUCED BY OFFSHORE OIL SPILLS CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

A methodology for the evaluation of the environmental risk 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.

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provide risk assessment methodology compliant with EU Directive 2013/30/EU Provision of ocean data for risk index computation

RISK ASSESSMENT OFFSHORE OIL SPILL EU DIRECTIVE NEW METHODOLOGY

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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.

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Mediterranean Sea Ocean current, surface wind, salinity and temperature data for year 2015 have been used for this study. Product in use 1 Product in use 2

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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.

Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna www.unibo.it Contact Sarah Bonvicini sarah.bonvicini@unibo.it

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JELLYX: A MONITORING TOOL TO DETECT JELLYFISH SWARMS CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

Pollution, climate change and marine habitats degradation are affecting ocean-based industries worldwide. Increasing events of jellyfish outbreaks that can reach hundreds of individuals per cubic metre are harmful to marine ecosystems and human health, with severe impacts on fisheries, tourism and aquaculture. For instance, jellyfish outbreaks are responsible for major farmed fish kills, causing profit losses for the global marine aquaculture industry. ColomboSky is addressing this issue by offering JellyX, an advanced web mapping tool for large scale monitoring of jellyfish swarms and their drift, based on oceanographic data provided by Copernicus Marine Service. Users can access JellyX online portal for a real-time update on the risk of jellyfish swarm presence. Our solution combines remote sensing data with in-situ ground-truth and oceanographic models, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques.

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Effective risk management using a jellyfish bloom warning service

Improved knowledge-based decision-making for the environmental management of coastal areas Improved understanding of jellyfish outbreaks dynamics and environmental forcing

JELLYFISH OUTBREAK MEDITERRANEAN SEA COLOMBOSKY AQUAX RISK MANAGEMENT DECISION SUPPORT

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Jellyfish swarms interfere with human activities and generate several issues, such as the collapse of fisheries, clogging of industrial seawater cooling systems, injuries of bathers and fish kills in aquaculture plants. Jellyfish outbreaks are estimated to have caused 40,000 cases of stings along Italian coasts during the 2007-2011 period, with associated healthcare costs of approximately 2 million euros per year. With high estimation accuracy of jellyfish presence/absence, JellyX provides managers with tools for predicting and preventing the economic and societal impacts of jellyfish outbreaks.

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JellyX focuses on the Mediterranean basin, therefore the Copernicus Marine Service products used in the context of this work are limited to the Mediterranean Sea and are represented by satellite datasets and biogeochemical models. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3 Product in use 4

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ColomboSky develops remote sensing products for ocean and coastal monitoring. Through the study of innovative optimization processes, ColomboSky exploits remote sensing information to address the needs of key ocean industries, such as marine aquaculture, tourism and energy, reducing risks and economic losses.

More information here ColomboSky www.aquaexploration.com

Contact ColomboSky info@colombosky.com

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MANAGEMENT OF FISH INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

An Invasive fish species from the Suez Canal (silvercheeked toad-fish Lagocephalus sceleratus) has rapidly colonised the eastern Mediterranean basin and is currently moving westwards. It puts at risk the fishery management in the Mediterranean Sea as it has a highly opportunistic behaviour, it attacks fish captured in nets and lines, seriously damages fishing gears and catch and is a highly-toxic species with no immediate economic value for the Mediterranean market. Researchers from ISTI-CNR with funding from the H2020 BlueBridge project have produced an overall habitat suitability map and an effective geographical spread map for L. sceleratus at Mediterranean scale by using cloud computing-based algorithms to merge seven machine learning approaches. Data from (i) the AquaMaps Consortium, (ii) the Copernicus Marine Environment monitoring service, and (iii) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are used. The study suggests that without an intervention, L. sceleratus will continue its rapid spread and will likely have a high impact on fisheries.

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Ready to use expertised ocean products.

Standardized and interoperable interfaces.

Service available 24/7 Useful, free and sustained information provision.

FISHERY MANAGEMENT MEDITERRANEAN SEA INVASIVE SPECIES HABITAT MAP

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The Lessepsian migration is the migration of marine species across the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and more rarely in the opposite direction. When the canal was completed in 1869, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other marine animals and plants were exposed to an artificial passage between the two naturally separate bodies of water, and cross-contamination was made possible between formerly isolated ecosystems. The phenomenon, still occurring today, is named after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat in charge of the canal's construction. This migration presents a significant concern to the fisheries industry in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Data from (i) the AquaMaps Consortium, (ii) the Copernicus Marine Environment monitoring service, and (iii) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are used. Product in use 1

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isti cnr www.isti.cnr.it/ More information here Contact Gianpaolo Coro gianpaolo.coro@isti.cnr.it

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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" (http://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."

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Ready to use expertised ocean products. Service available 24/7 Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

LINKS SPA CMCC SEA CONDITION MED SEA MET OCEAN DASHBOARD

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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).

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LINKS SPA www.linksmt.it/; More information here

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MET-OCEAN CONDITIONS FOR SURFERS

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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.

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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

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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.

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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, and 2) The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS) Atmospheric Model. Product in use 1

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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.

meteosurf www.marzocca.net/linux/meteosurf_en.html

Contact Marzocca Fabio marzoccafabio@gmail.com

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MODELING PLASTIC POLLUTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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Plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea poses considerable risk to ecosystems and human health, causing adverse economic impacts on coastal communities. What are the main trajectories of plastics at sea? Where do plastics come from, and where do they accumulate? A research realized in the framework of AMAre project and lead by CMCC researcher Svitlana Liubartseva identified the transport and fate of plastic marine debris in the Mediterranean Sea with the aim to find solutions to this key issue. An ensemble of more than 10 billion virtual particles has been tracked to understand the transport and fate of plastic marine debris in the Mediterranean Sea, embracing its three environmental compartments: the sea surface, the coastlines, and the sea bottom. Anthropogenic sources, such as coastal cities, rivers and shipping lanes are taken into consideration. Monte Carlo technique is developed to compute the beaching and sedimentation of plastics. Plastic particles are forced by the high-resolution sea surface kinematics provided by the Copernicus Marine Service model in the Mediterranean Sea over 2013-2017.

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First basin-scale vision of plastics at the sea surface on the coastlines and in the seabed

Inverse source identification stresses the importance of coastal management at a national level Understanding of substantial accumulation of plastics on the coastlines and sea bottom

PLASTIC POLLUTION LAGRANGIAN DRIFT COASTAL ACTIVITIES RIVER POLLUTION MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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Plastics mainly accumulate on the coastlines and sea bottom and the former sink greatly dominates the latter one: terrestrial plastics (from coastal human populations and rivers) reside for 7 days at the sea surface, while the plastics from shipping lanes have a mean residence time of 80 days, not allowing any long-term accumulation at the sea surface. The coastlines with the highest plastic fluxes include the Cilician sub-basin (Turkey), the Catalan Sea (Spain), Israel, the Po River Delta area (Italy). Also, highly polluted local patches in the vicinity of sources with limited circulation are identified.

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The Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea daily analysis datasets provided by a coupled hydrodynamic-wave (NEMO-WW3) modeling system are used. The system is implemented for the Mediterranean Sea at a 1/16° (6.5 km) horizontal resolution forced by ECMWF atmospheric fields at a 1/8°(12.5 km) horizontal resolution. Product in use 1

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The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is a non-profit research institution established to investigate and model our climate system and its interactions with society and the environment. This study is performed in the framework of the AMAre Project funded by Interreg MED Programme 2014-2020.

cmcc www.cmcc.it/ More information here Contact Svitlana Liubartseva svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it

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MONITORING THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF THE LIGURIAN SEA CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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 high-resolution 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".

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Ready to use expertised ocean products. Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

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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.

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ARPAL is an Italian regional public agency for the protection of the Ligurian environment.

More information here

ARPAL www.arpal.gov.it/

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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" (http://www.witoil.com/en/home) 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 Mediterraneanarea.

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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. Service available 24/7

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.

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www.linksmt.it/

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MONITORING SEDIMENT PLUMES DURING DREDGING OPERATIONS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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".

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Ready to use expertised ocean products. Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

DHI COASTAL ENGINEERING DREDGING HARBOR MANAGEMENT DOWNSCALLING MODEL LA SPEZIA MED SEA

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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.

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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.

DHI Group www.dhigroup.com/

More information here

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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" (http://www.marinenvironment.com/en/home#) 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.

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High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Ready to use expertised ocean products. Service available 24/7 Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.

LINKS SPA CMCC MARINE ENVIRONMENT MED SEA WATER QUALITY

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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.

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LINKS SPA www.linksmt.it/; More information here

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PREDICTING THE HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION OF GIANT SQUID CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

Architeuthis dux belongs to the family of giant squids which are difficult to observe in the nature. Very little is known about their habitat and worlwide distribution in the oceans. Predicting the habitat and distribution of this species is important from a biological conservation perspective. Researchers from ISTI-CNR with funding from the H2020 BlueBridge project have developed an approach to estimate the potential distribution of A. dux at global scale, with relative high resolution (1-degree). They have developed a so-called "niche model" that estimates species distribution and have become widely used in conservation biology. Their approach relies on a complex preparation phase, which improves the reliability of presence, absence and environmental data correlated to the species habitat. The datasets come from several sources among which the Copernicus Marine Service Global model mass concentration of chlorophyll and nitrates. Results show that their approach gives good estimate of the distribution of A. dux. They also explain how their approach can be generalized and extended to other rare species.

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Ready to use, global coverage, expertised products. Service avalaible 24/7 Useful, free and sustained information provision.

HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION NICHE MODEL GIANT SQUID GLOBAL OCEAN

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The giant squid (genus Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae. Giant squid can grow to a tremendous size due to deep-sea gigantism: recent estimates put the maximum size at 13 m for females and 10 m for males from the posterior fins to the tip of the two long tentacles. The number of different giant squid species has been debated, but recent genetic research suggests that only one species exists. In 2004, Japanese researchers took the first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, and in July 2012, a live adult was first filmed in its natural habitat.

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The datasets come from several sources: MyOcean (Copernicus Marine Service), World Ocean Atlas, Bio-Oracle, Marine Geoscience website and the AquaMaps website. Product in use 1

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isti cnr www.isti.cnr.it/ More information here Contact Gianpaolo Coro gianpaolo.coro@isti.cnr.it

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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, ra

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Supports national and regional authorities for EU directive implementation

WATER QUALITY MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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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.

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The CMEMS 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. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3

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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.

Planetek Italia Srl www.planetek.it

More information here Contact Daniela Iasillo daniela@planetek.it

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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 (http://www.ocean-sar.com/en/home) 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.

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Better knowledge and preparation to situation at sea. Faster and more secure search operations.

Higher chances to find endangered person in water.

Lower risk at sea for search and rescue staff. Service available 24/7

LINKS SPA CMCC SEARCH AND RESCUE MED SEA OCEAN CURRENTS

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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.

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www.linksmt.it/

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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 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.

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Free and sustained ocean currents and waves provision to feed ship routing software. High quality information allowing consistent fuel saving and lower

CO2 emission.

More accurate planning of arrival time. Safer sailing routes for human beings and boat equipment.

SHIP ROUTING CRUISE FERRY MED SEA OCEAN CURRENTS DOWNSCALING

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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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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.

IAMC-CNR www.iamc.cnr.it/

MARINE NAVIGATION

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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE

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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" (http://www.visir-nav.com/en/home) 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.

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Free and sustained ocean currents, sea ice and waves provision to feed ship routing software. High quality information allowing consistent fuel saving and lower

CO2 emission.

More accurate planning of arrival time. Safer sailing routes for human beings and boat equipment.

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MARINE NAVIGATION

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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. The open-review N

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SUPPORTING AQUACULTURE AND FISHING IN THE ADRIATIC SEA CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

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".

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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

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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.

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The Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, ISPRA (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale) 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.

More information here www.isprambiente.gov.it/en

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SUPPORTING ITALY WITH THE EUROPEAN MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The European Water Framework (hereafter WFD) and Marine Strategy Framework (hereafter MSFD) Directives both require EU Member States to take the necessary measures to achieve a good coastal and oceanic environmental status by 2020. In Italy, ISPRA is one of the national agencies in charge of implementing such measures. For MSFD, 11 Descriptors have been defined for monitoring the environmental status of the oceans ( http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:320 10D0477(01) ) in terms of marine biodiversity, eutrophication, contaminants, marine litter and submarine noise. The Copernicus Marine Service Ocean Colour Satellite data as well as biogeochemical models and in-situ data are key inputs for monitoring some of the 11 Descriptors, especially Descriptor 5, which deals with eutrophication. Andrea Taramelli from ISPRA has stated that "the Copernicus Marine Service Ocean Colour data are central for the MSFD, as it allows us to improve coherence in eutrophication assessments based on chlorophyll, using satellite-derived chlorophyll provided by CMEMS".

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Free and sustained information provision. Provision of merged satellite information along with in situ information. Ready to use, global coverage, expertised ocean colour satellite products.

WFD MSFD ISPRA EU POLICY EU MEMBER STATES ITALY WATER QUALITY EUTROPHICATION SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OCEAN COLOUR

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The aim of the European Union's ambitious Marine Strategy Framework Directive is to protect more effectively the marine environment across Europe. It came into force on June 2008 and was transposed into each member's state national legislation by mid 2010. It is the first EU legislative instrument related to the protection of marine biodiversity and aims to protect the resource base upon which marine-related economic and social activities depend.

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The Copernicus Marine Service Satellite Ocean Colour data are central for the MSFD, as it allows us to improve coherence in eutrophication assessments based on chlorophyll. Product in use 1 Product in use 2

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SUPPORTING THE JRC AND EU WITH THE COMMON FISHERIES POLICY (CFP) CASE • USE OVE RVIE W

The dynamic identification of essential fish habitat by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission contributes to the protection of fish stock recovery areas (Article 8 of the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP). Habitat analysis showed that marine predators are attracted by productive fronts for feeding (chlorophyll-a fronts). These studies used the Copernicus Marine Service products of satellite ocean colour and hydrodynamic models to daily map favourable feeding habitats of important species such as hake, Atlantic bluefin tuna, skipjack tuna, fin whale and blue shark. These habitat products are useful as a decision tool for fisheries closure, by-catch reduction and improvement of fish stock estimates. Essential habitats of marine species are also key information for research on full ecosystem modelling and animal behavior analysis. Jean-Noël Druon from the JRC says "Copernicus Marine Service ocean models provide crucial data of suitable quality for our fish habitat model allowing identification both at decadal and real-time time scales. They are major inputs to build robust operational ecology products to sustain the fisheries sector".

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Free and sustained information on hydrodynamics allows a better comprehension of the development and migration of fishes as their habitat are strongly linked to chlorophyll-a and oceanic fronts.

JRC COMMON FISHERIES POLICY (CFP) PELAGIC HABITAT FISHERY MANAGEMENT ATLANTIC OCEAN MEDITERRANEAN SEA INDIAN OCEAN GULF OF MEXICO GLOBAL OCEAN SATELLITE

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S A ND • FACT KE Y N UMBER S

Species in the oceans are tied together through marine food webs. It's a Fish-Eat-Fish World! Marine food chain can be simply described with four levels, from plants (photo-autotroph) to herbivores, then to carnivores and finally to top predators that are simply larger and faster than their preys. But food chains can be shorter or much more complex. Better understanding marine food chains and the links between each trophic level is a necessary step for a better and more sustainable management of our environment. The JRC supports EU policies with scientific advice and, regarding fisheries, guides EU deciders on the amount of fish which can be caught within the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

MS • CME P RODUCT I N U SE

CMEMS physics analysis and reanalysis models provide respectively with Chlorophyll-a maps and main fronts locations updated daily. It allows JRC to compute daily potential habitat maps for various fish species such as Hake, Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Skipjack tuna, Fin whale and Blue shark. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3

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The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policy. The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the EU's instrument for the management of fisheries and aquaculture that aims at protecting fish stocks and ensuring the fishing sector future.

JRC fishreg.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fish-habitat Contact Druon Jean-Noel Jean-Noel.DRUON@ec.europa.eu

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Copernicus Marine Service

Version 1.1 31/01/2018

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SUPPORTING THE MSFD DIRECTIVE IN THE BLACK SEA

CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

Marine modelling at the Joint Research Centre, Directorate General (JRC) provides a tool to examine the present and future state of the marine ecosystem and can inform and support a variety of EU policies including the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The Black Sea has suffered from severe ecological degradation since the 1970s. The aim of the EU-MC SIMSEA project (2015-06 to 2017-06) was to implement an advanced ecosystem model to simulate the complex Black Sea ecosystem. This model is based on the validated JRC hydrodynamic model to generate future scenario simulations considering different policy options and climate change scenarios. Numerous hindcast runs of the Black Sea hydrodynamic model (Miladinova et al., 2017) have been performed to distinguish possible climate change trends for the Black Sea environment. Long-term evolution of the Black Sea thermohaline properties is simulated. Changes in basin-scale and mesoscale circulations are shown to be an important factor for the surface salinity variation. Copernicus Marine Service reanalysed thermohaline fields from 2005 to 2015 are used as independent results for intercomparison.

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Direct access to oceanographic / environmental datasets

Free and sustained information about many ocean parameters.

Easy access to Open Data products from different sources

MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE JRC BLACK SEA EUROPEAN POLICY WATER QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION

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S A ND • FACT KE Y N UMBER S

The Black Sea has suffered from severe ecological degradation since the 1970s due to concurrent effects of intense eutrophication, overfishing, outburst of gelatinous carnivores and natural climatic variations. The main purpose of the SIMSEA project was therefore to implement an advanced ecosystem model for the complex Black Sea ecosystem based on the validated JRC hydrodynamic model to generate future scenario simulations considering different policy options and climate change scenarios.

MS • CME P RODUCT I N U SE

Monthly mean temperature and salinity, chlorophyll_a, nitrate and phosphate fields are extracted from the Copernicus Marine Service Black Sea reanalysis model. Satellite sea surface temperature and ocean colour data in the Black Sea are also used. In situ data will be used in the future. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3 Product in use 4 Product in use 5

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Centre Directorate D - Sustainable Resources Unit D.02 Water and Marine Resources

More information here Contact Svetla Miladinova svetla.miladinova@ext.ec.europa.eu

ec.europa.eu/jrc/en

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Copernicus Marine Service

Version 1.3

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SUPPORT TO MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE CASE â&#x20AC;˘ USE OVE RVIE W

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 inter-operable 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 INSPIRE Directive and OGC compliant standards. High quality information ready in near real-time allwowing

effective scenario analysis

Specific tools designed for users needs User Friendly access to dynamic and static layers

MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING CIMA FOUNDATION SEAWETRA WEB BASED PLATFORM OGC INSPIRE

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S A ND • FACT KE Y N UMBER S

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.

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Both Ocean observation and forecast products with Mediterranean Sea coverage are used in this application. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3 Product in use 4

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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.

More information here Contact Paola Tepsich paola.tepsich@cimafoundation.org

CIMA Foundation www.cimafoundation.org/

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COPERNICUS MARINE SERVICE

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MARKETS

Copernicus Marine Service supports all sectors of the Blue Economy.

POLAR E NVI RONME NT M ONI TORI NG

The Copernicus Marine Service polar environment products allow users to assess environmental safety in both poles. These products are used by national sea ice services to serve many user groups like:  National authorities  Research institutes  Shipping companies

SCIENCE & CL IMAT E

We provide scientists with many products to conduct their environmental, climate and oceanographic research. They can rely on:  The Ocean Monitoring  The Ocean State Indicators (OMIs) Report, a flagship scientific publication

We provide public authorities and governments with key parameters to support the monitoring of habitats within conservation areas. Many variables can be monitored by each European Member State using the Copernicus Marine Service, such as:  Sea water eutrophication  Ocean noise

WATE R QUALI TY

SOCIET Y & EDUCAT ION

We develop ocean literacy tools for the general public, teachers, decision-makers etc. They are used to raise awareness about the multifaceted environmental pressures on the ocean:  Climate change  Overfishing  Plastic pollution

M ARI NE NAVI GATI ON

We provide products contributing to safer ship routing (can reduce fleet navigation risks in ice-covered areas) and more ecological and efficient marine navigation (by lowering fuel consumption):  Ocean current  Sea ice  Wave

N ATU RA L R ES O U R C ES & E N E R GY

Our ocean models provide key inputs to estimate ocean energy resources to:  Monitor  Evaluate ocean offshore sites energy resources These data are used by businesses researchers and decision-makers.

COASTAL M O NITO R IN G

The modelling method called “Downscaling” allows the Copernicus Marine Service data to be used to develop high resolution coastal models, useful for coastal management.

Using our products, each European Member State can:  Monitor sea water  Notably sea water quality in line with eutrophication in the European Marine areas impacted by Strategy Framework harmful algae blooms Directive (MSFD)

M A R IN E CO N S E RVAT I O N & PO L IC IES

M A R IN E FO O D

Our products and services are used to model fish habitats with variables like chorophyll and sea surface temperature, for example. These contribute to the sustainable management of:  Fisheries  Aquaculture farms

SA FE TY & D ISASTE R

Our daily forecast ocean model provides inputs for:  Search and rescue  Meteo-ocean software dashboards The ocean current model can be used for drift forecasting of oil spills that help government agencies to better plan emergency response operations.

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