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The marine perspective of Copernicus

Michael Rohn, Torsten RiedlingerEuropean Commission - GMES unit

---Integrated Maritime Policy Expert Group

11 December 2012

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What is Copernicus?It does Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

VP Tajani announced new name this morning!

The European Earth monitoring programme- Providing reliable information on the environment and security

to public users- Long term and operational - Building on existing assets and capabilities- Complemented by dedicated assets (e.g. Sentinels)- Contributes to growth and job through open data policy to

downstream sector

3GMES USERS

Coordinated Data Access System

GMES ServicesGMES Services

Contributing missions

In situ observations

Sentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS seriesSentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS series

GMES Space Component

System view

Service lines Land Atmosphere Marine Emergency Security Climate Change

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Objective: To provide information on the state of physical ocean and marine ecosystems for the global ocean and the European regional areas.

Monitoring and forecast, plus reanalysis of past years on

• Currents• Temperature• Salinity• Sea ice• Sea level• Surface winds

• Biogeochemistry

Marine environment monitoring

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Current implementation as pilot service

• Outside GIO as FP7 research project MyOcean-2• FP7-SPACE-2011: Prototype Operational

Continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting Service

• 59 participants from 28 different countries

• 41,2 M€ total cost (28 M€ EC contribution)

• From April 2012 to September 2014

• Coordinator: Mercator Océan

• http://www.myocean.eu.org

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Main building blocks

• Thematic Assembly Centres• Marine Forecasting Centres

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RTD

Operational service

GMES: from research to operations

2011 2014

MerSea

20202019

IG

GMESInitial Operations

GMES User Forum

Copernicus Marine Service

MyOcean MyOcean -II

GMES User ForumWorkshop

Copernicus Timeline

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Programmatic base Regulation GMES & its initial operations (GIO)

Communication COM(2011)831

New EU Financial Regulation

Funding Commission (EC) proposes GMES to be funded outside the MFF

European Parliament (EP) recommends it inside the MFF

No consensus position in the Council

Next EU summit on MFF expected on February 2013

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Next steps Decision on the budget (MFF) Debates + adoption by EP and Council in co-

decision Delegation Agreements to be concluded (and

procurement) Start of the operations in Summer 2014

It changed its name to Copernicus today