Copernicus Marine Service at Baltic Monitoring and Forecasting Centre COP2ph2

The Copernicus Marine Service provides operational, regular, and systematic reference information on the physical (blue ocean), biogeochemical (green ocean), and sea ice (white ocean) state for the global ocean and European regional seas. This capacity encompasses the description of the current situation (analysis), the prediction of the situation 10 days ahead (forecast), and the provision of consistent retrospective data records (reprocessing of in situ and satellite observations and reanalysis). More than thirty thousand expert downstream services and users are connected to the service. The Copernicus Marine Service responds to public and private user needs and supports policies related to all marine and maritime sectors: maritime safety, coastal environment monitoring, trade and marine navigation, fishery, aquaculture, marine renewable energy, marine conservation and biodiversity, ocean health, climate and climate adaptation, recreation, education, science and innovation. Baltic Monitoring and Forecasting Centre (BAL MFC) is responsible in delivering ocean forecast and reanalysis products for the Baltic Sea area. BAL MFC has five partners: Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Department of Marine Systems at Tallinn University of Technology (MSI) and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Main duties of the MSI within BAL MFC is development and application of Ocean Monitoring Indicators, contribution to the Ocean State Report, quality control of the products, and development of numerical models (circulation, waves, biogeochemistry).