Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 5

Karina von Schuckmann, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Neville Smith, Ananda Pascual, Samuel Djavidnia, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Marilaure Grégoire, Signe Aaboe, Victor Alari, Brittany E Alexander, Andrés Alonso-Martirena, Ali Aydogdu, Joel Azzopardi, Marco Bajo, Francesco Barbariol, Mirna Batistić, Arno Behrens, Sana Ben Ismail, Alvise Benetazzo, Isabella Bitetto, Mireno Borghini, Laura Bray, Arthur Capet, Roberto Carlucci, Sourav Chatterjee, Jacopo Chiggiato, Stefania Ciliberti, Giulia Cipriano, Emanuela Clementi, Paul Cochrane, Gianpiero Cossarini, Lorenzo d'Andrea, Silvio Davison, Emily Down, Aldo Drago, Jean-Noël Druon, Georg Engelhard, Ivan Federico, Rade Garić, Adam Gauci, Riccardo Gerin, Gerhard Geyer, Rianne Giesen, Simon Good, Richard Graham, Marilaure Grégoire, Eric Greiner, Kjell Gundersen, Pierre Hélaouët, Stefan Hendricks, Johanna J Heymans, Jason Holt, Marijana Hure, Mélanie Juza, Dimitris Kassis, Paula Kellett, Maaike Knol-Kauffman, Panagiotis Kountouris, Marilii Kõuts, Priidik Lagemaa, Thomas Lavergne, Jean-François Legeais, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Simone Libralato, Vidar S Lien, Leonardo Lima, Sigrid Lind, Ye Liu, Diego Macías, Ilja Maljutenko, Antoine Mangin, Aarne Männik, Veselka Marinova, Riccardo Martellucci, Francesco Masnadi, Elena Mauri, Michael Mayer, Milena Menna, Catherine Meulders, Jane S Møgster, Maeva Monier, Kjell Arne Mork, Malte Müller, Jan Even Øie Nilsen, Giulio Notarstefano, José L Oviedo, Cyril Palerme, Andreas Palialexis, Diego Panzeri, Silvia Pardo, Elisaveta Peneva, Paolo Pezzutto, Annunziata Pirro, Trevor Platt, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Laura Prieto, Stefano Querin, Lasse Rabenstein, Roshin P Raj, Urmas Raudsepp, Marco Reale, Richard Renshaw, Antonio Ricchi, Robert Ricker, Sander Rikka, Javier Ruiz, Tommaso Russo, Jorge Sanchez, Rosalia Santoleri, Shubha Sathyendranath, Giuseppe Scarcella, Katrin Schroeder, Stefania Sparnocchia, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Emil Stanev, Joanna Staneva, Alexandra Stocker, Ad Stoffelen, Anna Teruzzi, Bryony Townhill, Rivo Uiboupin, Nadejda Valcheva, Luc Vandenbulcke, Håvard Vindenes, Karina von Schuckmann, Nedo Vrgoč, Sarah Wakelin, Walter Zupa

The first operational phase 2014–2021 of the Copernicus Marine Service has successfully implemented a unique European Union ocean monitoring and forecasting service (https://marine.copernicus.eu/). Thirty thousand expert downstream services and users are now connected to the service that responds to public and private user needs and policies related to all marine and maritime sectors: maritime safety, coastal environment monitoring, trade and marine navigation, fishery, aquaculture, marine renewable energy, marine conservation and biodiversity, ocean health, climate and climate adaptation, recreation, education, science and innovation. The Copernicus Marine Service organises the value chain that goes from observation to information (Le Traon et al. ) and is an essential tool for Ocean Governance (Section 1.4) and sustainable management of the ocean based on comprehensive ocean monitoring and forecasting capabilities.

The Copernicus Marine Service is unique by its coverage and comprehensiveness, its balance between state-of-the-art science and operational commitments, and the consistency of its portfolio where satellite observations, in situ observations, and model simulations are used coherently to describe the physical (blue), biogeochemical (green) ocean and sea-ice (white) state the European regional seas and the global ocean. The Copernicus Marine Service gathers a strong network of European ocean information producers. Thanks to a well-established and organised evolutions of the Copernicus Marine Service system of systems, the capabilities to operate a marine service responsive to user needs and scientific/technological advances have fully been demonstrated (CMEMS General Assembly ). The product and service portfolios have evolved from 2015 to 2021 with, in particular, the integration of new parameters (e.g. waves, carbon, turbidity, sea ice thickness and icebergs), the improvement of resolution and quality, longer time series, the full uptake of Sentinel missions (S1, S3 and recently S2) and the development of new means to access and visualise the data.

The Copernicus Marine Service provides invaluable observation and model products to assess and report on past and present marine environmental conditions and to analyse and interpret changes and trends in the marine environment as for example discussed in previous Ocean State Reports, https://marine.copernicus.eu/access-data/ocean-state-report, and as part of the Ocean Monitoring Indicator framework, https://marine.copernicus.eu/access-data/ocean-monitoring-indicators. The CMEMS Ocean State Reports and Ocean Monitoring Indicators provide, in particular, a unique ocean monitoring dashboard for policy and decision makers as well as for the general public to support actions and assess progresses in policy implementation. There have been excellent feedbacks on the annual Ocean State Reports and their high level summaries that are now part of the EU ocean state assessment landscape and provide a high visibility of the Copernicus Marine Service. They have also federated a unique pooling of EU scientific expertise to assess the state of the ocean based on the Copernicus Marine Service ocean monitoring products.

A remaining challege is to establish a comprehensive monitoring of the ocean, a challenge that demands international cooperation. In response, the Copernicus Marine Service has set up important partnerships with GOOS, OceanPredict, GEO and GEO Blue Planet. The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (https://www.oceandecade.org/) will be a unique opportunity to develop further the required international cooperation to support delivery of the information, action and solutions needed to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Bibliographic data

Karina von Schuckmann, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Neville Smith, Ananda Pascual, Samuel Djavidnia, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Marilaure Grégoire, Signe Aaboe, Victor Alari, Brittany E Alexander, Andrés Alonso-Martirena, Ali Aydogdu, Joel Azzopardi, Marco Bajo, Francesco Barbariol, Mirna Batistić, Arno Behrens, Sana Ben Ismail, Alvise Benetazzo, Isabella Bitetto, Mireno Borghini, Laura Bray, Arthur Capet, Roberto Carlucci, Sourav Chatterjee, Jacopo Chiggiato, Stefania Ciliberti, Giulia Cipriano, Emanuela Clementi, Paul Cochrane, Gianpiero Cossarini, Lorenzo d'Andrea, Silvio Davison, Emily Down, Aldo Drago, Jean-Noël Druon, Georg Engelhard, Ivan Federico, Rade Garić, Adam Gauci, Riccardo Gerin, Gerhard Geyer, Rianne Giesen, Simon Good, Richard Graham, Marilaure Grégoire, Eric Greiner, Kjell Gundersen, Pierre Hélaouët, Stefan Hendricks, Johanna J Heymans, Jason Holt, Marijana Hure, Mélanie Juza, Dimitris Kassis, Paula Kellett, Maaike Knol-Kauffman, Panagiotis Kountouris, Marilii Kõuts, Priidik Lagemaa, Thomas Lavergne, Jean-François Legeais, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Simone Libralato, Vidar S Lien, Leonardo Lima, Sigrid Lind, Ye Liu, Diego Macías, Ilja Maljutenko, Antoine Mangin, Aarne Männik, Veselka Marinova, Riccardo Martellucci, Francesco Masnadi, Elena Mauri, Michael Mayer, Milena Menna, Catherine Meulders, Jane S Møgster, Maeva Monier, Kjell Arne Mork, Malte Müller, Jan Even Øie Nilsen, Giulio Notarstefano, José L Oviedo, Cyril Palerme, Andreas Palialexis, Diego Panzeri, Silvia Pardo, Elisaveta Peneva, Paolo Pezzutto, Annunziata Pirro, Trevor Platt, Pierre-Marie Poulain, Laura Prieto, Stefano Querin, Lasse Rabenstein, Roshin P Raj, Urmas Raudsepp, Marco Reale, Richard Renshaw, Antonio Ricchi, Robert Ricker, Sander Rikka, Javier Ruiz, Tommaso Russo, Jorge Sanchez, Rosalia Santoleri, Shubha Sathyendranath, Giuseppe Scarcella, Katrin Schroeder, Stefania Sparnocchia, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Emil Stanev, Joanna Staneva, Alexandra Stocker, Ad Stoffelen, Anna Teruzzi, Bryony Townhill, Rivo Uiboupin, Nadejda Valcheva, Luc Vandenbulcke, Håvard Vindenes, Karina von Schuckmann, Nedo Vrgoč, Sarah Wakelin, Walter Zupa. Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 5
Journal: Journal of Operational Oceanography , Volume: 14, Year: 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2021.1946240