Completed projects

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.

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.  

COMBINED

Both the Arctic and the Tibetan Plateau have been warming three times faster than the rest of the world. The causes are being researched in the project "Accelerated Arctic and Tibetan Plateau warming: processes and combined impact on Eurasian climate" and the findings will be used to improve calculation methods for the Eurasian climate.

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.

MAPARC

The project "Mechanism and prediction of the new Arctic climate system" aims to create a better understanding of what leads to climate change in the Arctic. At the same time, research will be conducted into how the new climate in the region can be predicted better with improved calculation methods.

Cryo-TEMPO

The European satellite mission CryoSat-2 has been circling the world since 2010. The satellite sends a lot of useful information, especially from the polar regions. In the project "CryoSat-2 thematic products", products are developed to use the satellite data in the best possible way. The products will help improve research on sea ice, land ice, polar seas, coastal seas and lakes.

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.

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.

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.

SeaPR

Sea levels are rising worldwide, a change that threatens more and more regions. In the project "Sea level predictions and reconstructions", important gaps in sea level research will be filled. A particular spotlight is also placed on the northern high latitudes.