Completed projects

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.

ObsSea4Clim

Ocean observing is executed and financed by nations according to their national interest and needs, but aligned with European and international agreements and directives. To improve sustained and multipurpose observations vital to European and global climate requirements, the project "Ocean Observations and Indicators for Climate and Assessments" brings together key European actors within ocean observing science, climate assessment, Earth System modelling, data sharing and standards, with users of oceanographic products and services to deliver an improved observation framework based on essential ocean variables.

FOCCUS

The main ambition of the project "Forecasting and observing the open-to-coastal ocean for Copernicus users" is to improve and advance the coastal dimension of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service by enhancing existing capability, developing innovative coastal products.

Arctic-BLISS

The "Arctic atmospheric Boundary Layer Influence in Sea ice ensemble Simulations: a predictability & sensitivity study" (Arctic-BLISS) project aims to assess the short-term predictability of sea ice drift, a challenging problem posed by the daily to weekly forecasts in the polar regions. The project will use the state-of-the-art sea-ice model with a brittle rheology, coupled to an interactive atmospheric boundary layer and perform ensemble forecasts to evaluate predictability.

FRACCEO

The project "Flood Risk Assessment in a Changing Climate for Cities using EO" focuses on the development of a methodology that combines Earth Observation data, specifically the Essential Climate Variable datasets from the ESA Climate Change Initiative programmes, with hydrodynamic models to improve the prediction of extreme water levels at the coast and subsequently the assessment of flood risk in coastal cities under climate change.

NorArgo3

In the third stage of the NorArgo project, "A Norwegian Argo Infrastructure – a contribution to the European and global Argo infrastructure", the focus is on maintenance and further development of the NorArgo infrastructure with high-quality sustainable state-of-the-art ocean observing system with advanced physical and biogeochemical sensors covering the whole water column in the Arctic.

ENRICH

The objective of the "Engaging researchers and coastal population in communicating Oceanʼs role on Human Health" (ENRICH) project is to engage researchers and the coastal population to effectively communicate and disseminate research-based knowledge on climate related changes in the ocean and its implications on human health vulnerability.

EO4SA

The "Earth Observation for Sustainable Aquaculture" project is investigating applications for aquaculture management and the marine industry. Researchers are developing and demonstrating applications related to, among other things, harmful algal blooms affecting the shellfish farming industry and fish mortality due to salmon lice outbreaks.

ORBITAS

The main objective of the project "Orbit impact on sea-level trend and acceleration stability uncertainty" is to evaluate how a new reference orbit for Sentinel-6 Next Generation will impact the current mean sea level uncertainty.

IMPETUS4CHANGE

Adapting society to the changing climate will become even more important in the near future. It is therefore important to know as much as possible about the changes on short time scales such as 1-10 years in the future, especially at local and regional level. The project "Improving near-term climate predictions for societal transformation" aims to improve true climate predictions and to make them more accessible and useful for society.