Ocean Predictions and Applications

The OPA Division deals with the development of models and methods for interdisciplinary research on marine operational forecasting, on the interactions between coastal areas and the open ocean, on the development of services and applications for all maritime economy sectors, including transport, security and management of coastal areas and marine resources, in the context of climate change adaptation problems.

OPA Division, in coordination with ODA Division, coordinates the European Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS, http://marine.copernicus.eu/) Monitoring Forecasting Center for the Mediterranean Sea (http://marine.copernicus.eu/about-us/about-producers/med-mfc/) and develops and maintains the physical modelling part of the CMEMS Monitoring Forecasting Center for the Black Sea (http://marine.copernicus.eu/about-us/about-producers/bs-mfc/).

To learn more, please visit the Ocean-Lab website.

OPA Projects

MaCoBioS - Marine Coastal Ecosystems Biodiversity and Services in a Changing World

MaCoBioS contributes to improve the biological and ecological knowledge on the spatio-temporal…

APOLLON – environmentAl POLLutiOn aNalyzer

The project is aimed at environmental quality monitoring in urban contexts, with…

ANDROMEDA - An EnhaNceD Common InfoRmatiOn Sharing EnvironMent for BordEr CommanD, Control and CoordinAtion Systems

Border surveillance is a complex mission given the length of European borders…

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Forecasting Systems

Mediterranean Forecasting System

Black Sea analysis and Forecasting System

Global Ocean Forecasting System (GOFS16)

Southern Adriatic Northern Ionian coastal Forecasting System (SANIFS)

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Division Director

Giovanni Coppini

Division Manager

Emanuela Mergola

PEOPLE

Contacts

via Augusto Imperatore, 16 – 73100 Lecce, Italy

emanuela.mergola@cmcc.it

Research Units

PhD students

Ivano Barletta, Salvatore Causio

OPA Publications

EU-MRV: an analysis of 2018’s Ro-Pax CO2 data

Mannarini G., Carelli L., Salhi, A.
2020, IEEEXplore, DOI: 10.1109/MDM48529.2020.00065, web page

Graph-Search and Differential Equations for Time-Optimal Vessel Route Planning in Dynamic Ocean Waves

Mannarini G., Subramani D. N., Lermusiaux P. F.J., Pinardi N.
2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 3581-3593, Aug. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2019.2935614, web page

A box model to represent estuarine dynamics in mesoscale resolution ocean models

Verri G., Pinardi N., Bryan F., Tseng Y.-h., Coppini G., Clementi E.
2020, Ocean Modelling, Volume 148, April 2020, 101587, DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101587, web page

Marine litter in the Croatian part of the middle Adriatic Sea: Simultaneous assessment of floating and seabed macro and micro litter abundance and composition.

Palatinus A., Kovač Viršek M., Robič U., Grego M., Bajt O., Šiljić J., Suaria G., Liubartseva S., Coppini G., Peterlin M.
2019, Mar. Pollut. Bull., Volume 139, February 2019, Pages 427-439, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.12.038, web page

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