Programme: European Copernicus Marine Service
Project title: Copernicus Marine Environment Reanalyses Evaluation Project
Acronym: GLORAN_Lot3
Duration: 01/04/2025 – 30/06/2028
Project budget: € 750.000,00
ISMAR budget: € 249.000,00
Web site: n.a.
Summary:
The Objective of this project is to evaluate and validate Copernicus Marine reanalyses and compare them with other existing ocean reanalyses beyond GREP (e.g., ECCO, SODA) in terms of data quality and potential value for scientific studies or applications. High-resolution ocean reanalyses (e.g., GLORY12V1 at 0.83° resolution) will be included to understand the impact of model resolution on the representation of ocean and climate dynamics. Independent observations are needed (where possible) to assess the strengths and weaknesses of our reanalyses. The evaluation will be based on use-case studies (ocean dynamical processes) rather than single-variable validation. We identified 7 use cases to understand whether ocean reanalyses are suitable for use in understanding ocean dynamics (mesoscale eddies, ocean transport), ocean circulation (AMOC), and climate change (ocean heat content, sea level change, marine heatwaves, and sea ice variation).
The role of CNR-ISMAR is to coordinate the project and be responsible for studying ocean heat content and ocean meso-scale eddies.
Contact person in ISMAR: chunxue.yang@cnr.it
Partnership:
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Italy,
- University of Reading, UK,
- University of Vienna, Austria
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium,
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Italy
