IMMERSE is an EU Horizon2020 project involving 14 partners across Europe spanning centres with excellence in global ocean modelling, ocean forecasting, coastal and estuarine modelling, high performance computing, and the technical development of ocean models.

The project aims to develop improved numerical ocean models for the next generation Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS).

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Website: https://immerse-ocean.eu

PI: Julien Le Sommer, CNRS-IGE, Grenoble University, France
Email: julien.lesommer@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

NOC contact: Prof. Adrian New
Email: A.New at noc.ac.uk

Dates
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Funding

European Union

Aim

Specific project aims, in response to the future priorities for CMEMS, are to develop new capabilities to:

  • enable the production of ocean forecasts and analyses that exploit upcoming high-resolution satellite datasets
  • deliver ocean analyses and forecasts with the higher spatial resolution and additional process complexity demanded by users
  • exploit the opportunities of new high-performance computing (HPC) technology
  • allow easy interfacing of CMEMS products with detailed local coastal models.

These developments will be delivered in the NEMO ocean model, an established, world-class ocean modelling system that already forms the basis of the majority of CMEMS analysis and forecast products.