Overview of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Products Available for the Arctic Region

A.L. Kholod

Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Russian Federation

e-mail: antonholod@mail.ru

Abstract

The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service is one of six services (ocean, atmosphere, land, emergency situations, security and climate changes) launched by the European Union within the EU Earth observation program. The data in the monitoring system covers both the entire World Ocean and individual European basins. The paper reviews the products of the Copernicus Marine Service operational system available in the Arctic. At the present time this region is of the increased interest both in Russia and in the world community. The system products include information on the thermodynamic, biogeochemical and bio-optical state of the marine environment. The system products are accessed through the electronic catalog of products. Selection criteria and possibilities for searching interesting information through the interactive web-portal are given in the paper. The system products containing the data of model calculations, satellite and in situ measurement results are considered. Spatial and temporal characteristics of the products are given, information on by whom, how the product was obtained and what is its accuracy is represented. The results of the system products visualization by the integrated tools (they allow one to construct and analyze time series, profiles, horizontal and vertical sections) are shown. All the system data is publicly available to the registered users. Regular changes and updates of the system products as well as the mechanisms for accessing them take place. This information is sent to users by e-mail and is available on the news flash of the web-portal.

Keywords

Arctic, model, satellite measurements, in situ measurements, products, Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, visualization

For citation

Kholod, A.L., 2017. Overview of the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Products Available for the Arctic Region. Physical Oceanography, (2), pp. 25-35. doi:10.22449/1573-160X-2017-2-25-35

DOI

10.22449/1573-160X-2017-2-25-35

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