Themes & Topics

A. Meeting end-user needs & supporting Blue Growth

• New Operational Oceanography products and services for end users:

  • Maritime Resources: Oil and gas exploration, Marine renewable energy, Aquaculture, Fisheries
  • Maritime Safety: Ship routing, Response to disasters and pollution events, Coastal defence, Search and Rescue
  • Marine Environment: Regular environmental assessments, MSFD, Eutrophication, HABs
  • Climate and weather applications: Long term ocean reanalysis, Seasonal forecasting, Coupled Ocean Atmosphere models

• Developing a structured dialogue with users:

  • Establishing and updating Users Requirements
  • Mechanisms for regular service assessment and feedback

B. Copernicus: Towards a European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting

• Present and future capacities of the Copernicus Marine Service
• Research and Development: towards improved and new products
• Short and long term User Requirements
• The in-situ and Remote Sensing data components of Copernicus

C. Ocean modelling & forecasting: extending & improving predictability

• Global, Regional, Shelf and Coastal forecasting systems
• Reanalysis products
• Assessment of forecasting skill; metrics
• Data assimilation: new sources, new schemes
• Ecosystem models: present and future developments
• Next generation ocean models: coupling atmosphere, ocean and its biogeochemistry; optimizing for new computing systems
• Combining models and data for Rapid Environmental Assessments

D. In-situ and remote sensing observations: towards a European Ocean Observing System (EOOS)

• In-situ observations: present and emerging capacities; new biochemical observations
• Calibration and quality assurance methods
• Data management: harmonization at European and Global levels
• Co-ordination of national capacities at regional and global scales: filling the gaps
• Satellite remote sensing for Operational Oceanography: new products, new sensors, new missions
• Progress since OceanObs 2009
• Key elements of EOOS; design and roadmap