Marine Environmental Monitoring

HELCOM is working towards achieving good ecological status in the Baltic Sea by 2021. HELCOM has produced a action plan to reach this goal, the so-called "Baltic Sea Action Plan". Together, the member states develop indicators and guidelines to describe good environmental status and compile information on the current state of the Baltic Sea.

The OSPAR commission works toward protecting and conserving the North-East Atlantic and its resources. Together, the member states develop indicators and guidelines to describe good environmental status and make a collective assesment of the current status of the North East Atlantic Ocean. OSPAR also has a leading role in the marine strategic framework directive.

All countries of the EU report their national marine environmental data yearly to ICES.  SMHI is at cutting edge for developing machine-to-machine communication together with ICES. Our goal is to automate data exchange so that it can be performed on-demand and be updated continuously in real-time. This will ensure the most recent and highest quality data.

Copernicus is EU’s program for global environmental observations. The marine section, Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Service offers multiple marine services such as oceanographic observational data collected in near real-time and model calculations for all european seas.

EuroGOOS is a paneuropean network between national agencies, research organisations and companies that are involved in operational  oceanography at the european level. EuroGOOS coordinates five regional and operative collaborations in europe.

The EU project EMODnet consists of a number of discipline-based themes. SMHI is involved in data ingestion, biology, chemistry, and physics. Chemistry is built entirely on the SeaDataNet system.

SeaDataNet is a standardized infrastructure for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by marine institutes, oceanographic fleets and automatic observation systems, providing up-to-date and high quality access to ocean and marine metadata, data and data products by: setting, adopting and promoting common data management standards.

The purpose of this european project is to enhance observations of ocean status in coastal waters of europe. The project ties together existing observational systems and aims to develop new methods.

Integrated Carbon and trace gas monitoring for the Baltic Sea. This project is nearly complete. Please visit the web page for more information.

BONUS FUMARI. Future marine assessment and monitoring of the Baltic. This project is nearly complete. Go to the web page for further information.