MyOcean is the EU-funded project responsible for the development of the pre-operational GMES marine monitoring service.
Based on the combination of space and in situ observations and on data assimilation, MyOcean provides information on the ocean for the large scale (worldwide coverage) and regional scales (main European basins and seas): temperature, salinity, currents, ice extent, sea level, primary ecosystems, …
The targeted applications belong to four mains areas:
- Marine safety (e.g. marine operations, oil spill combat, ship routing, search & rescue);
- Marine resources management (e.g. fish stock management);
- Climate and seasonal forecasting (e.g. climate change monitoring, ice seasonal forcasting);
- Marine and coastal environment (e.g. ice sheet surveys, water quality, coastal activities).
Recent Achievements
MyOcean's recent achievements include:
- Monitoring La Niña (January 2012)
- MyOcean at the Innovation Convention (December 2011)
- MyOcean Online (December 2011)
- Ierapetra Gyre (August 2011)
- New release of the service (July 2011)
- Influences on the North-West Shelves (February 2011)
- New MyOcean web portal available to users (December 2010)
- Hourly Sea Surface Temperature near the Gilbraltar Strait (September 2010)
- Monitoring El Niño through sea surface height positive anomalies (April 2010)
- Arctic ice monitoring (December 2009)
More information on the above examples can be found directly on the MyOcean website.