Programme: Copernicus Marine Service
CNR Strategic Area: AP4 EARTH OBSERVATION
Project title: Copernicus Marine – Production Provision of Ocean Observation Products Thematic Assembly Centre OC TAC_LOT2
Acronym: CMEMS OCTAC LOT 2
Role in the project: Lead Partner
Duration: 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024
Total budget: € 3 645 461,00
ISMAR budget: € 1 263 875,00
Web site: https://marine.copernicus.eu/about/producers/oc-tac
Key words: Ocean Colour, operational oceanography, satellite
Summary:
The Ocean Colour Thematic Assembly Centre (OC TAC) operates the European Ocean Colour component within the Copernicus Marine Service, bridging the gap between space agencies and end-user with high-quality core ocean colour products for the Global Ocean and the European regional seas based on multiple satellite missions.
OCTAC provides in a timely and sustained manner a set of the Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) that can be retrieved from Ocean Colour radiometry, i.e., CHL, IOPs and PFTs/PSCs (Phytoplankton Functional Groups and community structure). Global and regional products are higher level observational combined products providing an added value to standard products delivered by the space agencies. Regional products provide higher accuracy than standard global products as the regionalisation of processing chains takes into account the bio-optical characteristics of each regional sea. Blended datasets are generated by applying the appropriate algorithms across the open ocean and coastal waters.
Contact person in ISMAR: vittorio.brando@cnr.it
Partnership:
- CNR-ISMAR (Italy)
- AEQUORA LDA (Portugal)
- ACRI-ST S.A.S., (France)
- Brockmann Consult GmbH (Germany)
- INNUERE CONSULTING (Italy)
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom) (01/01/2022 – 31/03/2023)
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Belgium)
- Suomen ympäristökeskus SYKE (Finland)
