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Marine Core Service - MCS
The Marine Core Service (MCS) has been selected with the objective to streamline consistent European capacities for forecasting, monitoring and reporting on the ocean state, and to foster derived applications on specific environmental and safety issues, for both the global ocean and the regional European seas.
MCS will address the requirements from national and European policies, international conventions, as well as European and international agencies (e.g. EEA, ICES, WCRP, UNFCCC), for data, information products and indicators on the environment at local to global scales.
MCS will contribute to:
- Better exploit and manage ocean resources (e.g. offshore oil and gas industry, fisheries);
- Improve safety and efficiency of maritime transport, shipping, and naval operations;
- Anticipate and mitigate the effects of environmental hazards and pollution crisis (e.g. oil spills, harmful algal blooms);
- Marine research (e.g. better understanding of the oceans and their ecosystems, of ocean climate variability);
- Seasonal climate prediction;
- Implement specific services for coastal management and planning (e.g. coastal flooding and erosion).
The European Commission has organised on October 27-28, 2005 a topical workshop on the MCS fast track service with the objective to reach a common view on the definition of this pilot service.
The conclusions of this workshops were presented to the GMES Advisory Council (GAC) on November 14, 2005.
MCS additional documents:
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