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

FEAMP - Ecosystem approach to support the protection and management of Natura 2000 sites in heavily anthropized areas

Previous data and in-situ data will be collected within specific sampling campaigns…

Health, Ocean, Water, Food and Land Use.

MYSEA Torre Guaceto

The MYSEA specific objective is the creation of a “Puglia Marine Observatory”…

Ocean.

EuroSea - Improving and integrating the European Ocean Observing and Forecasting Systems

Although the Ocean is a fundamental part of the global system providing…

Future Earth, Health, Ocean.

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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

[email protected]

Research Units

PhD students

Ivano Barletta, Salvatore Causio

OPA Publications

A Modelling Approach for the Assessment of Wave-Currents Interaction in the Black Sea

Causio S., Ciliberti S., Clementi E., Coppini G., Lionello, P.
2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021,9(8),893, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9080893, web page

Understanding Sea Level Processes During Western Mediterranean Storm Gloria

Pérez-Gómez B., García-León M., García-Valdecasas J., Clementi E., Mösso Aranda C., Pérez-Rubio S., Masina S., Coppini G., Molina-Sánchez R., Muñoz-Cubillo A., García Fletcher A., Sánchez González J.F., Sánchez-Arcilla A., Álvarez Fanjul E.
2021, Frontiers in Marine Science, DOI: 0.3389/fmars.2021.647437, web page

A multi-model architecture based on Long-Short Term Memory neural networks for multi-step sea level forecasting

Accarino G., Chiarelli M., Fiore S., Federico I., Causio S., Coppini G., Aloisio G.
2021, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 124, November 2021, Pages 1-9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2021.05.008, web page

Towards Least-CO2 Ferry Routes in the Adriatic Sea

Mannarini G., Carelli L., Orović J., Martinkus C.P., Coppini G.
2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9 (2), DOI: 10.3390/jmse9020115, web page

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