Marine environment

Ocean Monitoring in Europe standardised in the MyOcean mega project. SMHI and more than 60 other institutes is working on EU MyOcean project. The monitoring of all oceans from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea is to be combined and downscaled which will improve oceanographic forecasts.

ECOSUPPORT (Advanced tool for scenarios of the Baltic ECOsystem to SUPPORT decision making) is a BONUS funded project to address the urgent need for policy relevant information on the combined future impacts of climate change and industrial and agricultural practices in the Baltic Sea catchment on the Baltic Sea ecosystem.

The oceanographic research group at SMHI have expertise in a wide range of ocean science fields such as numerical modelling, remote sensing, marine biology and marine observations.

SMHI has developed a number of "climate indicators" that can be used to follow the climate change in Sweden. The climate indicators show deviations in temperature, precipitation, geostrofical wind and sea level.

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.

Reports from SMHI's offshore sampling programme, which describe the situation in our surrounding seas.

Access to data - sea level, temperature, salinity, ice, forecasts, wave height and currents.

Weather and oceanographic data are now transferred in real-time from the icebreakers Oden, Frej and Atle via satellites. The icebreakers operate primarily in the Gulf of Bothnia but are available for the whole Baltic Sea region if needed. Oden also operates in Arctic and Antarctic waters during certain years.

Learn more about the ocean - sea ice, waves, currents, sea level, algal blooms and other physical properties of sea water.

Extract marine physical, chemical and biological data from the Swedish environmental monitoring.

Here your can find information about Swedish water bodies.

SeaDataNet is a co-operation between the European oceanographic data centres, which makes data available from one single web site.

EMODNET Chemistry 2 is built on EMODNET Chemistry pilot components of the EU's maritime policy, to deliver a marine observation infrastructure that offers the most effective support to the marine and maritime economy whilst supporting environmental protection needs, launched by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE).

Integrated Carbon and trace gas monitoring for the Baltic Sea

SMHI calculates how pollutants and other emissions disperse into the air and water under different conditions.

To minimise the damage on the environment, it is important to quickly develop a forecast regarding how the oil is dispersing and where it is heading.

With the web service HOME Water, it is possible to carry out a cost-effective action planning in accordance with EU’s framework directive for water for lakes, watercourses and coastal waters.

SMHI carries out qualified measurements of the air and water which form the basis of economic and environmentally strategic decisions. The investigations concern physical and/or chemical conditions.

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