progetto CMEMS SST-TAC
Programme: Copernicus Marine Service
CNR Strategic Area: AP4 EARTH OBSERVATION
Project title: Copernicus Marine - Production Provision of Ocean Observation Products Thematic Assembly Centre (TAC)- SST TAC LOT3
Acronym: Copernicus Marine Service SST TAC
Role in the project: Lead Partner
Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
Total budget: € 1.756.718,00
ISMAR budget: € 524.421,10
Web site: n.a.
Key words: Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Operational Oceanography, Satellite sensors, Climate, Ocean Monitoring Indicators
Summary: CNR-ISMAR leads the Copernicus Marine Service Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Thematic Assembly Centre (TAC). The SST TAC, a consortium composed by different production units (PUs), is the service in charge of the operational production of state-of-the-art SST products covering the Global Ocean (GLO) and the European Seas, namely the North West Shelf/Iberia-Biscay-Irish Seas (ATL), Baltic Sea (BAL), Black Sea (BS) and Mediterranean Sea (MED).
All these products are primarily based on satellite observations and provided as merged multi-sensors (level-3) and gap-free (level-4) near real time (NRT) and multi-year (or reprocessed, REP) datasets, designed respectively for operational and climate applications.
This TAC works to continuously improve the service, addressing specific requirements from the users, improving the quality and accuracy of the products delivered, maintaining up-to-date the processing chains through e.g. integration of new generation satellite sensors (as e.g. SLSTR from the Sentinel-3A/-3B/-3C satellites), and releasing new products.
SST TAC maintains and updates on a regular basis the provision of the so-called SST Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs) and contributes to the Ocean State Report to provide consistent descriptions of the ocean state over the past decades.
Contact person in ISMAR: andrea.pisano@cnr.it
Partnership:
- CNR-ISMAR (Italy)
- Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) (Denmark)
- Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) (France)
- Met.No (Norwegian Meteorological Institute) (Norway)
- Innuere Consulting (Italy)
