Copernicus Marine Service in support to
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Bluerise: ocean thermal energy resource analysis
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Designing more robust ships thanks to wave data
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Improving sonar communication between defence vessels
P. 10 Listening to the ocean's noise P. 12 Monitoring oil spills in the north sea P. 14 MSFD-eutro: satellite-based service in support to MSFD P. 16 Supporting the aquaculture industry in Europe P. 18 Supporting the Netherlands with the European marine strategy framework 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 Netherlands with the help of Copernicus Marine Service products.
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BLUERISE: OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY RESOURCE ANALYSIS
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Covering seventy percent of our globe, the oceans are the world largest solar collectors. This solar energy is captured as heat in the upper layers of the oceans. From the natural temperature difference that exists between the upper and deep layers of the ocean, energy can be extracted. This is called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) and is in particular of interest in the tropics where it can be instrumental in helping islands and coastal regions in achieving a sustainable future. It is considered among the biggest renewable energy sources. Using the ocean database of Copernicus Marine Service, Bluerise in collaboration with TU Delft, has evaluated the year round and ten year average ocean characteristics in the Caribbean analyzing the ocean currents, density and temperature profiles over depth. Particular attention was spent on ocean upwelling and seasonal fluctuations. Bluerise has developed a model, using the data from the Copernicus Marine Service, to analyze oceanographic features such as natural ocean current patterns and their variability relevant for OTEC. This enables a quick assessment of the feasibility of OTEC locations.
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Provides relevant inputs for the feasibility analysis of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) for a particular location quick assessment of the ocean characteristics
OTEC OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION BLUERISE CARRIBEAN ISLANDS RENEWABLE
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is a renewable electricity source that uses the natural temperature difference in tropical oceans between the surface water and deep water. The technology can transform a temperature difference of 20 °C or more into clean, reliable, and predictable base load electricity. Tropical regions, with population centers near the coast, have ideal conditions to deploy OTEC technology to fully meet their rapidly growing energy needs. Although tropical regions currently account for less than 30% of the current global energy demand, the tropics will become the most significant energy market within the next 20 years.
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Ten years of data from the Global Ocean Model with a spatial resolution of 1/12 degree and temporal resolution of one day is applied. This enables a quick assessment of the feasibility of OTEC locations. Product in use 1
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Bluerise develops Ocean Thermal Energy solutions. Bluerise is a private company which mission is to bring the cost of OTEC down to a competitive level and to provide a vast, baseload source of renewable energy to its customers. Bluerise was conceived in 2009 by a team of experts convinced that OTEC can become a substantial part of the future sustainable energy mix.
Bluerise www.bluerise.nl/
Contact a.s.candy@tudelft.nl b.j.kleute@bluerise.nl
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DESIGNING MORE ROBUST SHIPS THANKS TO WAVE DATA CASE • USE OVE RVIE W
Damen Shipyards is building 165 ships per year. These ships operate in all kind of environmental sea conditions. The structures of a ship has to carry the loads from the outside environment and is designed to last at least 20 years. Additionally the hulls have to be light to ensure fuel efficiency. The ship structure is therefore optimized for efficiency and safety. During the design of new ships the development team of Damen Shipyards is therefore focusing on predicting the fatigue life of these ships as accurately as possible. To be able to predict the fatigue life more accurately our prediction methods are continuously improved by our research team. The new fatigue models developed by Damen are using the global wave model data from the Copernicus Marine Service. Wave conditions along AIS (Automatic Identification System) tracks are extracted in order to know the real wave conditions encountered. Based on this input the fatigue life consumption for each ship is predicted. In the future, Damen is planning to get the wave conditions along the AIS tracks in real time to remotely monitor for their clients the ship fatigue and fuel consumption over time.
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Provide realistic estimation of wave conditions encountered by
Reduce risk of ship hull cracking
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wave data feeding fatigue models With the Copernicus wave data it is now possible to get much more accurate insight in the actual wave conditions encountered than in the past with scatter diagrams of expected sailing areas
SHIP CONSTRUCTION SHIP HULL STRENGHT IN HARSH MARINE ENVIRONMENT FATIGUE MODEL DAMEN SHIPYARDS
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A harsh ocean environment with strong winds and waves over decades of use causes significant wear and tear on ship hull and structures. The angle from which waves hit a platform, and the wave height are important factors, but in addition the wave frequency is an important factor due to the resonance frequency of the structure itself. Running fatigue models is an approach for risk assessment of the ultimate strength of a ship hull structure degraded by corrosion and fatigue.
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The Copernicus Marine Service Global wave model is used for this application. Product in use 1
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Damen is an international shipyard group operating everywhere in the world. They deliver tried and tested designs of competitively priced and innovative vessels. By building a wide variety of standard hulls for stock, they substantially reduce delivery times.
Damen Shipyards www.damen.com/
More information here Contact Ewoud Huiskamp ewoud.huiskamp@damen.com
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IMPROVING SONAR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEFENCE VESSELS CASE • USE OVE RVIE W
The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) under the Dutch Ministry of Defence and the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO) are collaborating in order to improve underwater sonar communications between the Dutch Ministry of Defence?s sea-going vessels. The performance of a given sonar is critical for self protection. DMO and TNO have developed a sonar performance model, the most complex aspect of which by far is the propagation of sound in the ocean. Such models need to take into account the refraction of sound due to oceanic temperature and salinity variation in the water column, the reflection of sound at the surface, the influence of roughness (wave spectrum, wind speed, sea surface temperature) and bubble content at the surface, as well as the reflection of sound at the seabed. The DMO and TNO use the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea and Global models as an input source for ocean density (temperature and salinity) in their sonar performance model. Gert Vlaming from DMO says that "we also soon expect to use the wave products from the Copernicus Marine Service".
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Free and sustained information provision for oceanic water density. High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Provision of sustained and accurate oceanic water density and wave height for reliable underwater anthropogenic noise estimation.
DMO TNO DEFENCE SONAR COMMUNICATION ACOUSTIC GLOBAL OCEAN
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Undersea warfare including sonars communication is strategic for all naval forces. Naval forces develop research and development activities, as well as test and evaluation to provide engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare.
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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Product in use 1 Product in use 2
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The Dutch Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) ensures that military personnel have modern, robust and safe materiel to work with. The Dutch DMO is involved in the procurement, maintenance and sale of materiel.
DMO www.defensie.nl/organisatie/dmo
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LISTENING TO THE OCEAN'S NOISE
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The Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO) is participating in the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, which objective is to understand the impact of underwater anthropogenic noise on aquatic life, develop solutions for ocean noise monitoring and reduce the impact of anthropogenic noise through regulation. TNO has developed an underwater sound modelling system that performs mathematical calculations of underwater sound pressure as a function of time, space and the frequency of sound sources. The speed of sound in seawater is dependent on water density (i.e. temperature and salinity) and wave height will have an influence on local noise and long range propagation. TNO uses the Copernicus Marine Service Global model as an input source for ocean density. Mark Prior from TNO says that the Copernicus Marine Service global model is an accurate tool for providing seawater density, which affects our underwater sound propagation model.
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Free and sustained information provision for oceanic water density. High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Provision of sustained and accurate oceanic water density and wave height for reliable underwater anthropogenic noise estimation.
TNO QUIET OCEAN NOISE AQUATIC LIFE GLOBAL OCEAN
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Developing human activity at sea opens up new possibilities for the global economy, but increases environmental pressures. Correlation between sonar exercises and numerous whale beachings has been proved in the 80s and triggered awareness among the scientific and stakeholders community. Prejudicial effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life is now better regulated: In Europe, regulation is currently governed by two European Directives, the Water Framework Directive (2000) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2010).
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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Product in use 1 Product in use 2
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TNO was founded by law in 1932 to enable business and government to apply knowledge. As an organisation regulated by public law, they are independent: not part of any government, university or company.
TNO www.tno.nl/en/ More information here
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MONITORING OIL SPILLS IN THE NORTH SEA
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IMARES is involved in a European (DG MARE) funded project for assessing the cost-effectiveness and reliability of the existing oceanic monitoring infrastructure in the North Sea, and identifying any gaps. The objective is to test the available oceanic information (from Marine Copernicus Service and other sources) and to evaluate it in the framework of real case exercises (e.g. fake oil spill accident exercise). IMARES has for example built an oil spill monitoring system based on the GNOME (NOAA) oil spill trajectory model fed by the Copernicus Marine Service ocean currents and satellite winds model. Jan Tjalling van der Wal from IMARES says that "the Copernicus Marine Service ocean currents and satellite wind data are key inputs for our North Sea Checkpoint oil spill exercises. This saved us time and also the investment of time and expertise that would have been necessary to develop a hydrographical circulation model to get the currents right".
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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.
IMARES DG MARE EU PROJECT NORTH SEA OIL SPILL MONITORING OCEAN CURRENTS NWS
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The purpose of the North Sea checkpoint is to audit the value of marine data services to solve particular commercial and policy challenges with the development of the Blue Economy. IMARES has successfully audited the value of the Copernicus Marine Service data in the case of an oil spill accident in the North Sea.
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CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Models over the European North West Shelves is used in this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes. Wind satellite products are also used. Product in use 1 Product in use 2 Product in use 3
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Imares is also called Wageningen Marine Research located in the Netherlands. It is part of the Wageningen University & Research.
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MSFD-EUTRO: SATELLITE-BASED SERVICE IN SUPPORT TO MSFD CASE • USE OVE RVIE W
MSFD-Eutro is a free and interactive web-mapping service for chlorophyll indicator based on satellite data. MSFD-Eutro facilitates the use and interpretation of ocean colour data for public authorities working on the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). MSFD Descriptor 5 aims at monitoring eutrophication in coastal waters. Phytoplankton is a proxy for eutrophication and can be monitored by satellite. Favourable conditions for phytoplankton development are mixing or water column stratification, increase in light availability, water temperature and/or nutrient level increase. Phytoplankton is also grazed and is at the base of the aquatic food web, providing an essential ecological function for all aquatic life. Variations and changes in the chlorophyll concentrations (CHL) are relevant for the study of the ecology and health of the sea. The Copernicus Marine Service delivers satellite chlorophyll-a products which are combined with standard satellite Chlorophyll-a products for turbid waters. Statistics (such as multi-year mean and maximum) as well as trend analysis of CHL are performed to help with the MSFD reporting.
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Allow interactive evaluation of assessment levels. Facilitate the use and appreciation of ocean colour satellite data
by public authorities working on the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive Foster international harmonisation of assessment levels and methods
MSFD DESCRIPTOR 5 EUTROPHICATION GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS WATER QUALITY
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COASTAL MONITORING
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Recognising both the ecological and economic importance of European seas, the EU has put in place a range of policies and measures, related to planning and regulating the sustainable use of European seas covering a number of activities such as fisheries, offshore energy production, and protection of marine biodiversity. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive, adopted in 2008, aims to ensure coherence between such EU policies and sets three goals for European seas: to be productive, healthy, and clean. These efforts are also aligned with the EU's Blue Growth agenda.
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Satellite products, particulary of Copernicus Marine Service chlorophyll products are used in this application. Product in use 1 Product in use 2
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Deltares is an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface. Throughout the world, they work on smart solutions, innovations and applications for people, environment and society. Their main focus is on deltas, coastal regions and river basins. They work closely with governments, businesses, other research institutes and universities at home and abroad.
Deltares www.deltares.nl/en/ Contact Marieke Eleveld marieke.eleveld@deltares.nl
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SUPPORTING THE AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY IN EUROPE
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Deltares, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Water Insight and DHI have collaborated in the EU-funded project AQUA-USERS (https://portal.aqua-users.eu/), which provides the aquaculture industry with user-relevant and timely information based on the most up-to-date satellite data and innovative optical in-situ measurements. The key purpose is to develop an application that brings together satellite information on water quality and temperature with in-situ observations, as well as relevant weather prediction and met-ocean data. The application and underlying database is linked to a decision support system that includes a set of (user-determined) management options. Specific focus is put on the development of indicators based on Earth observation data for aquaculture management, including indicators for harmful algae bloom events. The methods and services developed within AQUA-USERS are tested by the members of the user board, aquaculture companies and organisations representing different geographic areas and aquacultural production systems.
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Better planning of aquaculture farm sitting and management. Better understanding of the environmental conditions. Free and sustained information about many ocean parameters.
DELTARES PML DHI AQUACULTURE EUROPE AQUA-USERS EUROPE
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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 Copernicus Marine Service Satellite Ocean Colour data are usefull for water quality monitoring, 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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DELTARES is an ducth independent, not-for-profit, applied research institute advising governments, industry and NGOs for safe and sustainable living in river & coastal regions worldwide.
DELTARES www.deltares.nl/en/
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SUPPORTING THE NETHERLANDS WITH THE EUROPEAN MARINE STRATEGY FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE CASE • USE OVE RVIE W
DELTARES is an independent, not-for-profit, applied research institute. The European Marine Strategy Framework (hereafter MSFD) Directive requires EU Member States to take the necessary measures to achieve a good coastal and oceanic environmental status by 2020. In the Netherlands, DELTARES is one of the national institutes in charge of implementing such measures. For MSFD, 11 Descriptors have been defined for monitoring the environmental status of the oceans 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 number 5 dealing with eutrophication. Meinte Blaas from DELTARES has stated that "Copernicus Marine Service Ocean Colour data are central for the MSFD, as this allows us to improve consistency 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.
DELTARES WFD MSFD EU POLICY WATER QUALITY SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OCEAN COLOUR MEMBER STATE NETHERLANDS EUTROPHICATION
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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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DELTARES is an dutch independent, not-for-profit, applied research institute advising governments, industry and NGOs for safe and sustainable living in river & coastal regions worldwide.
DELTARES www.deltares.nl/en/
MARINE CONSERVATION & POLICIES
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MARKETS
Copernicus Marine Service supports all sectors of the Blue Economy.
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POLAR E NVI RONME NT M ONI TORI NG
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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M A R IN E CO N S E RVAT I O N & PO L IC IES
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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
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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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