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The Copernicus Marine Environment
Monitoring Service (CMEMS)
Current status
and
start of operations in May 2015
Joël Dorandeu – CMEMS Technical Director
Outline
 Introduction
 CMEMS taking over from MyOcean
– Moving from pre-operations to full operations
– CMEMS objectives, scope, phases, overall architecture
 CMEMS preparation phase – procurement process
– Production Centres in the overall integrated framework
– Continuous evolution and links with the User Community
 Coordination for upstream data provision
– Strong dependency on upstream data – particular case of space
data
– Need for strong coordination with ESA and EUMETSAT, through
the Data Ware House process
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Introduction
 EC has issued a Request for Expression of Interest for the
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service in
January 2014
 Mercator Ocean has been selected as the Entrusted Entity by
EC through a Delegation Agreement for the implementation of
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service
(CMEMS).
 The Delegation Agreement specifies:
– Objectives and Scope of the Service
– Main architecture (building blocks)
– Functional description of the Service
– Strong legacy of MyOcean structure (scope, functions, architecture),
to be organised through a procurement process (open calls)
– Continuity of Service for Users between MyOcean and CMEMS
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CMEMS taking over from MyOcean
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(CMEMS)
building blocks
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service
Integrated Service:
Production
Common Centres
Technical
Central
Management
Information
System
Product Quality
Service Evolution
User Uptake
User Interface
Communication/
Training
Figure 1: System overview of Copernicus Marine Environment monitoring service chain as presented by the
European Commission to the GMES/Copernicus User Forum.
From the Technical Annex of the Delegation Agreement between the EU and Mercator Ocean
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CMEMS concept
 User driven service
 Core service
 Open and free access to data and information
 Integrated service provision, and one-stop-shop for
users, from a distributed network of producers
 State-of-the-art and evolving information
 European Service
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CMEMS main phases
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CMEMS procurement process
 Managed by Mercator ocean in accordance to the EU
delegation agreement
 Open calls
 First priority: Service Continuity
– 9 Production Centres:
• 4 Thematic Assembly Centres (TACs): Sea Level, Ocean and Sea Ice,
Ocean Colour, In Situ
• 5 Monitoring and Forecasting Centres: Mediterranean, Iberia-BiscayIreland, North West Shelves, Arctic, Baltic.
– Continuity of Service with respect to MyOcean:
• Needs Production Centres in place, operational on 01/05/15
• Needs stable central infrastructure (Central Information System) to
perform integration
– 14th January: the open calls are published
– Deadline to receive the offers: 10th March
– The Final choice 7th-8th April
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CMEMS procurement process
 Other open calls to issued by Mercator Ocean
 Black Sea Monitoring and Forecasting Centre:
– Has been delayed due to the Ukrainian Crisis
 Central Information System, after continuity of Service is
ensured
 Specific components of the Global MFC
 Framework Service Elements:
– Service Evolution:
• Evolutions of the Service
• Assessment of the service performance
• Regularly renewed through open calls
– User Uptake:
• External assessment
• Uptake of the service by users (downstream sector)
• Managed through open calls
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The CMEMS Production function
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Upstream Space Data required by
the CMEMS
SEA LEVEL
TOPEXPOSEIDON
ERS-1+2/RA
ENVISAT/RA-2
JASON-1
Geosat
GFO
JASON-2
CRYOSAT-2/SIRAL
SARAL/ALTIKA
HY2A/ALTIMETER
JASON-3
SENTINEL-3/SRAL
JASON-CS
SWOT
CFOSAT/SWIM
OCEAN COLOUR
SST
WIND
ENVISAT/AATSR
ERS-1/ATSR
ERS-2/ATSR
SEASTAR/SEAWIFS
ENVISAT/MERIS
OCEANSAT2
AQUA/MODIS
SUOMI-NPP/VIIRS
SENTINEL3/OLCI
HY1-ABC
FY-3A-B-C/MERSI
OCEANSAT-3/OCM
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NOAA-19/AVHRRMETOP-A-B/AVHRRMSG2/SEVIRI
GOES-East/Imager
DMSP-F15/SSM-I
AQUA/AMSR-E
TRMM/TMI
SUOMI-NPP/VIIRS
ERS-1-2/Scatterometer
QUIKSCAT/SEAWINDS
OCEANSAT-2/OSCAT
WINDSAT/PolarRadio
SENTINEL3/SLSTR
GCOMW1/AMSR2
METOP-C/AVHRR
JPSS1/VIIRS
MSG4/SEVIRI
GOES-S
MTG/FCI
HY2ABCD/Scat
RAPISCAT/ASCAT
SENTINEL-1/ASAR
OCEANSAT-3/OSCAT
CFOSAT/RFSCAT
METOP-A-B/ASCAT
used for Reprocessing
used in NRT and Reprocessing
used in the future
SEAICE
ENVISAT/SAR
OCEANSAT-2/OSCAT
CRYOSAT2
NOAA/AVHRR
LANDSAT7-8/LDCM
SMOS
COSMOSKYMED/SAR
TERRASARX/SAR
TANDEMX/SAR
METOP-AB/AVHRRASCAT
RADARSAT2/SAR
SENTINEL1/SAR
AQUA&TERRA/MODIS
DMSP/SSMIS
SENTINEL2/MSI
SENTINEL3/SLSTR
OLCI SRAL
Need for strong coordination for
upstream data
 In Situ and Space Data
 High Level Coordination managed through the Data
WareHouse process
– Core missions, Contributing and opportunity missions,
optimisation of the constellations
 Specific Coordination with Space Agencies:
– ESA CSCDA:
• well experienced process (formerly used with MyOcean)
• Semi-annual meetings
– Specific framework for Sentinel-1 data (see next presentations)
– Other third party missions
– EUMETSAT Operational Coordination Working Group for the
CMEMS
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Upstream Space Data required by
the CMEMS
 Multi-mission concept:
– The more satellite data in the system, the better the service
– Required to increase resolution for both observation products and
model outputs (through assimilation)
– Needs strong coordination for data provision
 Copernicus Sentinel missions strongly expected:
– Sentinel-1 SAR for Sea Ice (see next presentations). The Ocean
and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre of the CMEMS has been
awarded to a consortium led by Met Norway.
– Sentinel-3: 3 sensors dedicated to operational oceanography:
SRAL, SLSTR, OLCI
• Requirements for along-track SAR altimetry: OK
• Phasing between A/B (and potentially C/D) not optimal for the
Copernicus Marine Service:
– Revisit time optimised for optical missions
– Useless for altimetry (duplicated measurements)
• Lack of Biogeochemistry In Situ data for calibration (by Space
Agencies) and for long term validation (mainly by Services)
– Access to Sentinel long term archive should be efficient enough for
complying with the needs of the CMEMS reprocessing activities
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Conclusions
 The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service is
now in place:
– Continuity with former MyOcean Service will be ensured in May
2015
– Main Production Centres included into the CMEMS operational
framework, through Service contracts (after open calls)
– Other components will progressively be procured through open calls
 Both In Situ and Space data are crucial for Service
performance (product quality, operational requirements):
– Multi-mission concept
– Core missions, reference missions, operational missions (Sentinel
missions), but also third party and opportunity missions
– Copernicus Marine Service requirements (from user requirements)
to go through the EC+ESA requirement process for current
missions and for future mission specification
– The CMEMS will maintain a Space Data Requirement Document
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 Thank you for your attention
marine.copernicus.eu
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