Completed projects

Blue-Cloud2026

In the project "A federated European FAIR and Open Research Ecosystem for oceans, seas, costal, and inland waters", an existing cloud platform is to be further developed so that researchers get the best possible access to data and services. The research fields that are supported by the development focus on the sea and other water on the globe.

OTC25

The "Ocean Training Course 2025" is part of the One Ocean Expedition, which is a scientific and educational voyage around the Northern Hemisphere oceans, aboard the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl, in 2025-2026.  The expedition aims to create attention and share knowledge about the ocean’s crucial role for a sustainable future, as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The ship is equipped with state-of-the-art ocean science instruments and will collect data on ocean physics, chemistry and biology throughout the journey. The expedition will also serve as a floating university, bringing students and young leaders together, and as a platform for outreach, inspiration and engagement for the ocean.

Voyage - Doppler 

During the 6-week sail voyage from Tromsø via Reykjavik to Nice in April to June 2025, in-situ ocean data will be collected in the Norwegian Sea, the North Atlantic, and the Mediterranean Sea. This is part of the second One Ocean Expedition. The "Voyage - Doppler" project aims to compare these data with ocean surface current radial velocities derived from Sentinel-1 SAR Doppler shift signals obtained during the same period, to validate these satellite-based data. During the sail voyage, the project will also contribute to the Advanced Ocean Training Course 2024-2025  for around 50 students in collaboration with ESA and NASA.  

MuSIC

Our sea-ice model neXtSIM receives quality assurance through adaptation of the model to satellite observations and through the use of new machine learning methods in the "Multi-scale sea ice code" project. The model has great potential to represent sea-ice conditions in the best possible way and can improve climate models that struggle with realistic representation of sea ice.

Icebergs Monitoring and Forecasting

The project "Icebergs Monitoring and Forecasting" aims to analyze and evaluate datasets from the Copernicus Program, particularly from the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service. These datasets will be integrated into the OpenBerg model to generate iceberg risk maps. The demonstration will feature two use cases—one focused on Greenland and the other on the Barents Sea.

PARCIM

In the project "Proxy assimilation for reconstructing climate and improving model", a review of the climate in the last 1000 years is developed using completely new methods. The data set shall be available online and shall also be used to study variations in the climate during this period and to be able to improve climate models.

TARDIS

The thickness of sea ice in the Arctic is important for climate research. Since 2010, satellites have been used to measure the ice thickness from space, but before 2010 there was not enough good information. The project "Thickness of Arctic sea ice reconstructed by data assimilation and artificial intelligence seamlessly" will change this. The aim is to reconstruct the thickness of Arctic sea ice as it was before 2010.

EDITO ModelLab

The ocean plays an important role in the climate context. To make knowledge and information about the ocean more accessible to the general public, the project "Underlying models for the European Digital Twin Ocean" is building a virtual ocean lab. It must be openly accessible and give everyone the opportunity to better analyze and understand data from the sea.

CCI + SSS

How salty the sea surface is has an impact on the global ocean circulation, the water cycle and the climate. The amount of salt can be measured from space with satellites. The project "Climate Change Initiative Extension Phase 2 - Sea Surface Salinity" will produce highly reliable information about salt over the entire sea surface in the period 2010-2019. The data set will support research on e.g., the climate.

O2Ocean

Between 1960 and 2010, the oxygen content in the world's oceans decreased. This negatively affects the habitat for marine animals such as fish. The project "O₂Ocean: The breathing ocean" aims to find out why calculation methods are not yet able to represent this decline and thus contribute to an improved estimate of oxygen in the ocean.