Division 4 TECHNICAL SERVICE PORTFOLIO

CMEMS service shall provide the products free of charge to registered users through an Interactive Catalogue available on the CMEMS web portal. CMEMS shall provide regular and systematic core reference information on the state of the physical and biogeochemical oceans and regional seas. The observations and forecasts produced by the service support all marine applications. CMEMS shall be driven by quality and simplicity: quality of the ocean information provided to users, and simplicity of the access to information.

The interactive catalogue shall allow users to select products according to the following criteria:

1. (a)

   geographical areas: global ocean or regional areas: Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Atlantic-European North West Shelf-Ocean, Atlantic-European South West Shelf-Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea;

2. (b)

   parameters: Temperature, Salinity, Currents, Sea Ice parameters (concentration, edge, drift, thickness, type), Sea Level (SSH, SLA gH, SLA noise), Euphotic zone, mixed layer depth, Wind, Waves, optical water properties, Ocean Chemistry (N, P, Fe, O₂, Si, NH₄, RadFlux, PCO₂, pH), Ocean Biology (Chlorophyll-A, phyto, zoo, primary production);

3. (c)

   time coverage: forecast, near real time, multi-year, time-invariant products (either from observation or modelling);

4. (d)

   models or observations (products delivered from model simulation, satellite measurements, in situ observation, or combination of model and observation products);

5. (e)

   grid type;

6. (f)

   time span;

7. (g)

   vertical coverage;

8. (h)

   processing level;

9. (i)

   temporal resolution.