The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) provides regular and systematic reference information on the physical and biogeochemical ocean and sea-ice state for the global ocean and the European regional seas. CMEMS serves a wide range of users (more than 15,000 users are now registered to the service) and applications. Observations are a fundamental pillar of the CMEMS value-added chain that goes from observation to information and users. Observations are used by CMEMS Thematic Assembly Centres (TACs) to derive high-level data products and by CMEMS Monitoring and Forecasting Centres (MFCs) to validate and constrain their global and regional ocean analysis and forecasting systems. This paper presents an overview of CMEMS, its evolution, and how the value of in situ and satellite observations is increased through the generation of high-level products ready to be used by downstream applications and services. The complementary nature of satellite and in situ observations is highlighted. Le Traon et al. Copernicus Marine Service: Observations Long-term perspectives for the development of CMEMS are described and implications for the evolution of the in situ and satellite observing systems are outlined. Results from Observing System Evaluations (OSEs) and Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) illustrate the high dependencies of CMEMS systems on observations. Finally future CMEMS requirements for both satellite and in situ observations are detailed.
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Abstract. Within the framework of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS),
an operational wave forecasting system for the Mediterranean Sea has
been implemented by the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) and
evaluated through a series of preoperational tests and subsequently for 1
full year of simulations (2014). The system is based on the WAM model and it
has been developed as a nested sequence of two computational grids to ensure
that occasional remote swell propagating from the North Atlantic
correctly enters the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Mediterranean model has a grid spacing of 1∕24∘. It is driven with
6-hourly analysis and 5-day forecast 10 m ECMWF winds. It accounts for
shoaling and refraction due to bathymetry and surface currents, which are
provided in offline mode by CMEMS. Extensive statistics on the system
performance have been calculated by comparing model results with in situ and
satellite observations. Overall, the significant wave height is accurately
simulated by the model while less accurate but reasonably good results are
obtained for the mean wave period. In both cases, the model performs
optimally at offshore wave buoy locations and well-exposed Mediterranean
subregions. Within enclosed basins and near the coast, unresolved
topography by the wind and wave models and fetch limitations cause the wave
model performance to deteriorate. Model performance is better in winter when
the wave conditions are well defined. On the whole, the new forecast system
provides reliable forecasts. Future improvements include data assimilation
and higher-resolution wind forcing.
In this paper, we investigate changes in the wave climate of the west-European shelf seas under global warming scenarios. In particular, climate change wind fields corresponding to the present (control) time-slice 1961-2000 and the future (scenario) time-slice 2061-2100 are used to drive a wave generation model to produce equivalent control and scenario wave climate. Yearly and seasonal statistics of the scenario wave climates are compared individually to the corresponding control wave climate to identify relative changes of statistical significance between present and future extreme and prevailing wave heights. Using global, regional and linked globalregional wind forcing over a set of nested computational domains, this paper further demonstrates the sensitivity of the results to the resolution and coverage of the forcing. It suggests that the use of combined forcing from linked global and regional climate models of typical resolution and coverage is a good option for the investigation of relative wave changes in the region of interest of this study. Coarse resolution global forcing alone leads to very similar results over regions that are highly exposed to the Atlantic Ocean. In contrast, fine resolution regional forcing alone is shown to be insufficient for exploring wave climate changes over the western European waters because of its limited coverage. Results obtained with the combined globalregional wind forcing showed some consistency between scenarios. In general, it was shown that mean and extreme wave heights will increase in the future only in winter and only in the southwest of UK and west of France, north of about 44-45°N. Otherwise, wave heights are projected to decrease, especially in summer. Nevertheless, this decrease is dominated by local wind waves whilst swell is found to increase. Only in spring do both swell and local wind waves decrease in average height.
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