Abstract
The overarching goal of IMMERSE project is to ensure that the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) will have continuing access to world-class marine modelling tools for its next generation systems while leveraging advances in space and information technologies, therefore allowing it to address the ever-increasing and evolving demands for marine monitoring and prediction in the 2020s and beyond. In response to the future priorities for CMEMS, IMMERSE will develop new capabilities to: - enable the production of ocean forecasts and analyses that exploit upcoming high resolution satellite datasets, - deliver ocean analyses and forecasts with the higher spatial resolution and additional process complexity demanded by users, - exploit the opportunities of new high performance computing (HPC) technology - allow easy interfacing of CMEMS products with detailed local coastal models. These developments will be delivered in the NEMO ocean model, an established, world-class ocean modelling system that already forms the basis of the majority of CMEMS analysis and forecast products. Hence the pathway from the research in IMMERSE to implementation in CMEMS will be simple and seamless, as the model code developed will be directly applicable in CMEMS models. NEMO has a long track record of producing and maintaining a stable, robustly engineered code base of the type that is needed for operational applications, including CMEMS. The IMMERSE consortium combines world-class expertise in ocean modelling, applied mathematics and HPC, established software engineering processes and infrastructure, and in-depth knowledge of the CMEMS systems and downstream CMEMS systems. Thus IMMERSE is exceptionally well placed to deliver the operational-quality model code required to meet the emerging needs of CMEMS, and maintain it into the future.
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Francesco Trotta
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"
Coordinator:
C.N.R.S. Plateforme Macle(France)
Other Participants:
Helmholtz Zentrum Fur Ozeanforschung Kiel
(Germany)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
(Italy)
Institut National De Recherche En Informatique Et En Automatique
(France)
Science And Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
(United Kingdom)
Fondazione CMCC - Centro Euro Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici
(Italy)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional De Supercomputacion
(Spain)
Mercator Ocean
(France)
Universiteit Utrecht
(Netherlands)
Met Office
(United Kingdom)
Ocean Next
(France)
Helmholtz Zentrum Geestacht Zentrum Fur Material Und Kustenforschung Gmbh
(Germany)
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
(United Kingdom)
Puertos del Estado
(Spain)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 4.998.942,50
Project Duration in months: 48
Start Date:
01/12/2018
End Date:
30/11/2022
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This project contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 821926