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Marine Environmental Monitoring

from sampling to knowledge

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National cruise reports
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Algal situation reports
Syrekarta 2018

Oxygen situation reports

What we do

SMHI monitors the status of our oceans

"After more than 100 years of conducting marine environmental monitoring and handling the data it produces, SMHI has vast experience and deep knowledge in how to collect, manage and present data"

The marine environmental monitoring at SMHI is a versatile operation from sampling to knowledge. Here's what we do:

Perform national marine environmental monitoring where we sample, collect data and produce knowledge about the ocean status.

Analyze and process collected data and communicate current information of ocean status to researchers, stakeholders and the public.

Collect, quality control, process, summarize and archive data generated in national and regional marine environmental monitoring and make it available for an international audience.

NODC

SMHI is the National Oceanographic Data Centre of Sweden

Since 2017 we are the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) appointed by UNESCOs IOC/IODE.

SMHI monitors the status of our oceans

"After more than 100 years of conducting marine environmental monitoring and handling the data it produces, SMHI has vast experience and deep knowledge in how to collect, manage and present data"

The marine environmental monitoring at SMHI is a versatile operation from sampling to knowledge. Here's what we do:

Perform national marine environmental monitoring where we sample, collect data and produce knowledge about the ocean status.

Analyze and process collected data and communicate current information of ocean status to researchers, stakeholders and the public.

Collect, quality control, process, summarize and archive data generated in national and regional marine environmental monitoring and make it available for an international audience.

NODC

SMHI is the National Oceanographic Data Centre of Sweden

Since 2017 we are the National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) appointed by UNESCOs IOC/IODE.

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Learn more about the ocean
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Marine environmental monitoring at SMHI
A film about algae and algal blooms - the role of phytoplankton in our ecosystem
Source: SMHI
skärgårdsbad

Learn more about the ocean
Hav i november

Marine environmental monitoring at SMHI
A film about algae and algal blooms - the role of phytoplankton in our ecosystem
Source: SMHI

DATA, REPORTS AND NEWS

NEWS

03 September 2021

New publication shows latest scientific knowledge on climate change in the Baltic Sea

To provide a better understanding of the effects of climate change in the Baltic Sea, Baltic Earth and HELCOM have recently published the first Baltic Sea Climate Change Fact Sheet. The publication compiles the latest available science in the region on climate change and its impact. 

24 March 2021

More algal blooms and new species of phytoplankton in Swedish seas

The ongoing phenomenon of climate change is having an impact on marine ecosystems. Researchers from SMHI can show that there is now a greater occurrence of certain types of algal blooms than 40 years ago, and that new species of phytoplankton have become established. This has consequences not only for the marine environment, but also for tourism and food production.

11 January 2021

Research provides new knowledge for local climate adaptation measures

A changed climate with more extreme weather involves a heightened risk of natural hazards if society is not prepared for the new conditions. How do municipalities and other stakeholders use new research in their planning? SMHI and SEI have examined how research can be designed to meet users’ needs.

 

National archive for oceanographic data

Algblomning

SHARK

Search and download data from the national archive for oceanographic data in the SHARK system

National archive for oceanographic data
Svea

Latest national cruise report

Latest news from SMHI's regular marine monitoring programme.

Real-time data from the Baltic Sea

Real-time data from Ferrybox systems in the Baltic Sea

www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/BOOS/Ferrybox/Transpaper/TransPaper_latest_route_temperature.htm

Baltic Sea inflow

Accumulated water inflow to the Baltic Sea through the sound (Öresund)

www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/BOOS/Oresund.html

Vattenwebb (in Swedish)

Information on Swedish coastal waters and freshwater

Vattenwebb

SMHI open data (in Swedish)

Search among SMHIs open data collections

Utforskaren - Öppna data

NEWS

03 September 2021

New publication shows latest scientific knowledge on climate change in the Baltic Sea

To provide a better understanding of the effects of climate change in the Baltic Sea, Baltic Earth and HELCOM have recently published the first Baltic Sea Climate Change Fact Sheet. The publication compiles the latest available science in the region on climate change and its impact. 

24 March 2021

More algal blooms and new species of phytoplankton in Swedish seas

The ongoing phenomenon of climate change is having an impact on marine ecosystems. Researchers from SMHI can show that there is now a greater occurrence of certain types of algal blooms than 40 years ago, and that new species of phytoplankton have become established. This has consequences not only for the marine environment, but also for tourism and food production.

11 January 2021

Research provides new knowledge for local climate adaptation measures

A changed climate with more extreme weather involves a heightened risk of natural hazards if society is not prepared for the new conditions. How do municipalities and other stakeholders use new research in their planning? SMHI and SEI have examined how research can be designed to meet users’ needs.

 

National archive for oceanographic data

Algblomning

SHARK

Search and download data from the national archive for oceanographic data in the SHARK system

National archive for oceanographic data
Svea

Latest national cruise report

Latest news from SMHI's regular marine monitoring programme.

Real-time data from the Baltic Sea

Real-time data from Ferrybox systems in the Baltic Sea

www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/BOOS/Ferrybox/Transpaper/TransPaper_latest_route_temperature.htm

Baltic Sea inflow

Accumulated water inflow to the Baltic Sea through the sound (Öresund)

www.smhi.se/hfa_coord/BOOS/Oresund.html

Vattenwebb (in Swedish)

Information on Swedish coastal waters and freshwater

Vattenwebb

SMHI open data (in Swedish)

Search among SMHIs open data collections

Utforskaren - Öppna data

OBSERVATIONS AND FORECASTS (some in Swedish awaiting translation)

havsvåg

Sea observations
Hav och blåst

Marine and coastal weather
alger

Algal situation reports

Annual reports

Annual report of the Swedish marine monitoring programme.

Annual reports of the Swedish oceanographic monitoring in open seas
Högt vattenstånd

Sea levels and waves
Vågor vatten

Sea surface temperature
Havsis

The ice situation
Varningar

Warnings

Forsande vatten

Inflow the Sound (Öresund)
Skummet yr när vågor slår mot klippor

Sea level (ocean)

Marine environment on external web sites

Environmental Fact sheets

SMHI has developed a range of fact sheets describing every year the environmental status. These are used both nationally and internationally, for example within HELCOM cooperation. The fact sheets describe on a yearly basis the development of salinity, stratification, oxygen, water exchange, river run-off, cyanobacteria blooms and the spatial distribution of winter nutrients.

HELCOM - Indicator Fact Sheets

International collaborations

International collaborations
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HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

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.

helcom.fi/

OSPAR COMMISSION

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.

www.ospar.org/

ICES

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.

www.ices.dk/Pages/default.aspx

Copernicus Marine Service

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.

marine.copernicus.eu/

EuroGOOS

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.

eurogoos.eu/

BOOS - Baltic Operational Oceanographic System

BOOS is one of five regional systems that are organized under EuroGOOS. BOOS spans the Baltic Sea region and has members in most of the countries bordering the Baltic Sea. Members are institutes working with oceanography such as SMHI in Sweden. The vision of BOOS  is to offer an integrated marine service to marine operators and stakeholders in the region.

BOOS

HELCOM Baltic Data Flows

The goal of this HELCOM-driven data project is to harmonize and increase the spread of marine data from marine environmental monitoring projects in the HELCOM area. The result of the project is aimed towards decreasing manual data reporting by developing API-based harvesting systems. The project will develop innovative solutions for sharing, harmonizing and assimilating different types of marine environmental data following established reporting standards. The project will also focus on including data from new monitoring methods such as satellite- and ferrybox data in existing data flows and assessment systems.

HELCOMs webpage for the project

Ocean Data Factory (ODF Sweden)

ODF Sweden was established through Vinnova funding and is a consortium of actors from academia, research institutes, public sector, and industry.  The goal of ODFSweden is to enable Sweden to be a global leader in sustainability and data-driven innovation in the digital blue economy. ODF Sweden will enable the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to many different types of marine data from Swedish to international data sources. 

ODF

EMODnet

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.

www.emodnet.eu/

SeaDataNet

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.

SeaDataNet

JERICO

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.

www.jerico-ri.eu/

BONUS INTEGRAL

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

www.io-warnemuende.de/integral-home.html

BONUS FUMARI

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

www.syke.fi/en-US/Research__Development/Research_and_development_projects/Projects/BONUS_FUMARI

Swedish Biodiversity Data InfrastructureSBDI (SBDI)

SBDI is a national e-infrastructure for data on biological diversity. Within the collaboration between universities, agencies and museums a large number of databases are linked to form a common infrastructure.

SBDI

HELCOM - Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

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.

helcom.fi/

OSPAR COMMISSION

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.

www.ospar.org/

ICES

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.

www.ices.dk/Pages/default.aspx

Copernicus Marine Service

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.

marine.copernicus.eu/

EuroGOOS

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.

eurogoos.eu/

BOOS - Baltic Operational Oceanographic System

BOOS is one of five regional systems that are organized under EuroGOOS. BOOS spans the Baltic Sea region and has members in most of the countries bordering the Baltic Sea. Members are institutes working with oceanography such as SMHI in Sweden. The vision of BOOS  is to offer an integrated marine service to marine operators and stakeholders in the region.

BOOS

HELCOM Baltic Data Flows

The goal of this HELCOM-driven data project is to harmonize and increase the spread of marine data from marine environmental monitoring projects in the HELCOM area. The result of the project is aimed towards decreasing manual data reporting by developing API-based harvesting systems. The project will develop innovative solutions for sharing, harmonizing and assimilating different types of marine environmental data following established reporting standards. The project will also focus on including data from new monitoring methods such as satellite- and ferrybox data in existing data flows and assessment systems.

HELCOMs webpage for the project

Ocean Data Factory (ODF Sweden)

ODF Sweden was established through Vinnova funding and is a consortium of actors from academia, research institutes, public sector, and industry.  The goal of ODFSweden is to enable Sweden to be a global leader in sustainability and data-driven innovation in the digital blue economy. ODF Sweden will enable the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to many different types of marine data from Swedish to international data sources. 

ODF

EMODnet

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.

www.emodnet.eu/

SeaDataNet

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.

SeaDataNet

JERICO

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.

www.jerico-ri.eu/

BONUS INTEGRAL

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

www.io-warnemuende.de/integral-home.html

BONUS FUMARI

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

www.syke.fi/en-US/Research__Development/Research_and_development_projects/Projects/BONUS_FUMARI

Swedish Biodiversity Data InfrastructureSBDI (SBDI)

SBDI is a national e-infrastructure for data on biological diversity. Within the collaboration between universities, agencies and museums a large number of databases are linked to form a common infrastructure.

SBDI