FOCCUS

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March 17, 2025

FOCCUS - Forecasting and observing the open-to-coastal ocean for Copernicus users

January 2024 - December 2026

Summary

FOCCUS aims at enhancing CMEMS (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service), integrating Copernicus and European Member states coastal services, through seamless and fit-for-use monitoring and forecasting of the ocean from global to regional and coastal scales. Novel approaches (i.e. new space and in-situ observations, innovation in data fusion, processing and visualisation, numerical coastal predictions with interfaces for downscaling from CMEMS) will be used for effective uptakes from the Member states to ensure a more sustainable Blue Economy and coastal resilience to climate change.

Team members involved

Arthur Capet and Florian Ricour

ECOMOD tasks and responsabilities

  • Task 6.1. Design and test modelling interfaces between CMEMS and MSCS

    • Subtask 6.1.2 Implementation of new nesting capabilities

  • Task 6.2. Implement new modelling techniques for use in operational production chains

    • Subtask 6.2.1 Ensemble approaches

  • Task 7.1. Validation and demonstration of modelling interfaces improvements

    • Subtask 7.1.1 MSCSs performance assessment
    • Subtask 7.1.2 Transfer of knowledge across system
    • Subtask 7.1.3 Demonstration cases

  • Task 7.2. Assess and demonstrate the added value of new modelling techniques

    • Subtask 7.2.1 Ensemble evaluation

  • Task 10.1. Communication, Dissemination, and Management of Project Results Exploitation

  • Task 10.2. Member states - Copernicus engagement

    • Subtask 10.2.1 Inventory of MS coastal systems

Partners

  1. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon GmbH (HEREON)
  2. Mercator Ocean (MOi)
  3. Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC)
  4. Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM)
  5. Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS)
  6. SOCIB - Consorcio para el diseño, construcción, equipamiento y explotación del sistema de observación costero de las Illes Balears (SOCIB)
  7. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
  8. Stichting Deltares (DELTARES)
  9. Stiftelsen Nansen Senter for Miljø og Fjernmåling (NERSC)
  10. Meteorologisk Institutt (MET.NO)
  11. Sveriges Meteorologiska och Hydrologiska Institut (SMHI)
  12. Atlantic Associacao para um Laboratorio Colaborativo do Atlântico (+ATLANTIC)
  13. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (RBINS)
  14. Maritime Hydrographic Directorate (MHD)
  15. European Global Ocean Observing System (EUROGOOS)
  16. Brockmann Consult GmbH (BC)
  17. Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI)
  18. Institut Francais de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (Ifremer)
  19. Seascape Belgium (SSBE)

Funding and contract

This project is funded by the European Commission