| The MarCoast service portfolio is constituted by 6 core services
which can be classified as oil spill or water quality applications. In
the following table these services as well the service contacts are
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| Water Quality Services |
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| Below, MarCoast
services are detailled indicating their objectives, the service
providers, the users federated in the service and their areas of
coverage/applicability. |
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met-ocean data and in-situ measurements usually provided by the users,
water quality monitoring services have as objective to offer a NRT
surveillance of water quality indicators, such as chlorophyll,
transparency, TSM, Yellow substance or Gelbstoff, and SST on dayly,
weekly or monthly basis. The service is regionalised over almost all of
the European seas which include the Mediterranean, the Black sea, the
North and Baltic seas, the Channel and the Northern Atlantic Sea. |
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- Aalborg, Århus, Ribe and Ringkøbing Environmental centers (North and Baltic Seas)
- APAT (Adriatic, Tyrrhenian and Ligurian seas)
- BSH (North and Baltic Seas)
- IFREMER (French Mediterranean)
- INTECMAR (Spanish Atlantic Sea)
- IOW (Baltic Sea)
- LUNG (Baltic Sea)
- National Environmental Research Institute (North and Baltic Seas)
- Research Programme for the Protection of the Baltic Sea (Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia)
- RMRI, National Institute for Marine Research and Development of Romania (Black Sea)
- Rijkswaterstaat (NOrth Ses MWTL stations at Dutch waters)
- Service Public Généralde Santé Publique (Belgian EEZ)
- Uusimaa Regional Environment Centre (Gulf of Finland)
- City of Helsinki Environment Centre
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The pan-European algae bloom service provides a basic daily detection of algae
blooms for the whole European sea region and automated email alert to registered
users. The service covers the coastal and offshore waters of all European Union
countries plus Norway (from Spain, Portugal and Ireland in the West to Greece in the
South-East to Finland and Norway in the North-East), i.e. approximately the region
bound by latitudes 35°N and 70° N and by longitudes 12°W and 30°E. The Black Sea
and all inland waters are excluded.
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- Aalborg, Århus, Ribe and Ringkøbing Environmental centers (North and Baltic Seas)
- BSH (North and Baltic Seas)
- IOW (Baltic Sea)
- LANU (North and Baltic Seas)
- LUNG (Baltic Sea)
- Aalborg, Århus, Ribe and Ringkøbing Environmental centers (North and Baltic Seas)
- National Environmental Research Institute (North and Baltic Seas)
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The service is targeted to end-users in charge of providing information to support
decisions regarding measures to take to protect lives, properties and loss of natural
values in protected areas. The pressures from climate change are difficult to observe in
the local/regional seas due to the spatial and temporal variability. A view at European
scale is needed while keeping a capability to characterise the status at basin level. The
proposed service will assist end-users in a number of ways:
- to help the provision of the required policy-compliance information,
- to answer questions from policy makers, and
- to assist in the formulation of new environmental policies.
Representative monitoring of phenomena like eutrophication, one of the major issues
in terms of anthropogenic pressure, needs information on the quality of phytoplankton
(composition, abundance, biomass, blooms) and as supportive/interpretative
parameters: concentration of pigments (Chlorophyll a), transparency, temperature,
salinity, oxygen, nutrients, and the hydro-morphological parameters as currents and
wave exposure.
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- EEA (European waters)
- UKMO (North Sea, Irish Sea, Channel)
- HELCOM Agreement countries (Baltic Sea)
- National Environmental Research Institute (North and Baltic Seas)
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The purpose of this service element is to distribute to users this information useful for:
- Oil Spill detection, to improve the false alarm rate and customise the service with ancillary data;
- Water Quality and Algae Bloom alert to provide global ocean physical parameter;
- Oil Spill and Harmful Algae Bloom forecast forecast models to provide currents and nest drift models.
- All the European seas will be covered.
- The portfolio of data available will range from
near real time observations (ocean colour, sea surface temperature, …)
to analysis and forecasts produced by oceanographic or atmospheric
models (winds, waves, currents, 3D ocean temperature…)
In addition, to the availability of the data, the service will propose tailored processing
of the produced data allowing an easy, robust and accurate interfacing with the user´s
forecasting applications.
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