Transcript The marine perspective of Copernicus Michael Rohn, Torsten Riedlinger European Commission - GMES unit --Integrated Maritime Policy Expert Group 11 December 2012

The marine perspective of Copernicus
Michael Rohn, Torsten Riedlinger
European 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
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System view
Service lines
 Land
 Atmosphere
 Marine
 Emergency
 Security
 Climate Change
Sentinel 1/2/3/4/5 & Jason-CS series
GMES Space
Component
Coordinated Data
Access System
Contributing missions
GMES Services
In situ
observations
GMES USERS
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Marine environment monitoring
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
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Currents
Temperature
Salinity
Sea ice
Sea level
Surface winds
• Biogeochemistry
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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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GMES: from research to operations
Copernicus Timeline
Operational service
GMES
Initial Operations
Copernicus Marine Service
GMES User Forum
RTD
IG
MerSea
GMES User Forum
Workshop
MyOcean
2011
MyOcean -II
2014
2019
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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 codecision
 Delegation Agreements to be concluded (and
procurement)
 Start of the operations in Summer 2014
 It changed its name to Copernicus today
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