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Mercator Ocean International - ’Nologin - *Meteo-France - *AEMET - Marine Institute - *PdE
1. THE IBI-MEFC MISSION
The Copernicus Marine Service IBI-MFC (lIberia-Biscay-Ireland
Monitoring & Forecasting Centre) offers a comprehensive
portfolio of regular and systematic regional information on
the state of the ocean for the European Atlantic facade,
supporting all kind of marine applications. Its mission is to
provide operational regional short-term ocean forecasts and
reanalysis products for the so called IBI area, covering the
3lue (ocean physics and waves) & Green (biogeochemical)
ocean components. To this aim, different high-resolution
model applications are being run (using the NEMO, WAM and
PISCES model codes for the IBI ocean circulation [PHY], wave
state [WAV] and biogeochemical [BIO] model runs,
respectively). IBI-MFC model products integrate observations
through Data Assimilation (DA) schemes used in the
generation of IBI analysis & reanalysis products. IBI-MFC
near-real-time (NRT) forecasts (with horizontal resolution
ranging from 2.5 to 5 km resolution) are run on daily to weekly
Dasis, delivering forecast products over 10 days ahead. On the
ather hand, the IBI Multi-year (MY) reanalysis, for circulation
and waves, and non-assimilative hindcast (biogeochemical)
products cover from 1993 till present time.
IBI-MFC products and services are science-based and
reliable, and their quality is assessed (both in near-real-time
and delayed mode). The IBI-MFC service is engaged in a
continuous iImprovement and its R&D roadmap, fully aligned
with the general Copernicus Marine Service scientific
objectives, is dedicated to meet identified end-users needs.
To address these objectives, the IBI-MFC is managed by a
consortium of centres, coordinated by Mercator Ocean
International, and including NoLogin, Meteo-France, the
Galician Supercomputing Centre (CESGA), the Spanish Met
Office (AEMET), and the Irish Marine Institute (IM))
This paper reviews the present status of the Copernicus
Marine Service IBI-MFC service, highlighting the main
evolutions and achievements occurred along Copernicus 17
phase (from 2015 to 2021), as well as a short overview of
the IBI-MFC service evolution roadmap (to be developed
within the next Copernicus 2 phase).
2. IBI-MFC ACHIEVEMENTS ALONG
COPERNICUS 1
The IBI-MFC has extended its product offer along this first
Copernicus phase (2015-2021), and it delivers today NRT
short-term forecasts and MY products for physical ocean,
wave state and biogeochemical parameters. To achieve
this significant IBI product portfolio enhancement along
Zopernicus 1, three new production lines were developed to
aperationally generate new IB! BIO and WAV NRT forecasts,
cogether with a new IBI-WAV-MY reanalysis product. Today'’s
IBI-MFC service, based on these 3 new operational suites
'n addition to 3 other already existing in 2015 (IBI-PHY-NRT
rorecasts, IBI MY reanalysis and non-assimilative hindcast
for PHY and BIO; Sotillo et al., 2015), reached completeness
and it is the baseline for the next Copernicus 2 service phase
(to be started in 2021).
Generally, the IBI-MFC is continuously improving modeı
applications used as base for the IBl ooerational production
lines to:
- Increase IBI product resolution,
enhance Data Assimilation, using any new or improved
observational product available,
„achieve higher system interactions through modeı
coupling.
For this purpose, a roadmap was planned at the start of
Zopernicus 1 and has been strictly followed throughout
the project. A key success factor was the the essential and
zontinuous work of the R&D teams (in ocean physics, waves
and biogeochemistry)maintaining models at the state of the
art, to improve them as soon as possible and to adapt ther
specifically A summary of main specific achievements anc
key service evolution milestones achieved for each of these
clx IBI-MFC pnroduction lines is provided below.
