IMPRESSIVE project focuses in developing a universal-relocatable platform for real time management of marine pollution events in the wider area of EU harbors and their vicinities, easy to manipulate and use from the harbor control post. EO monitoring and advanced modeling of these areas are of great interest as the large ship activity, ship traffic and ship refueling, addresses them as highly risky for pollutant spills and waste waters. The product will be consisting of integrated operational services relying on: * A satellite monitoring service processing Sentinel 1, 2, 3 satellite images and Copernicus Marine products to identify polluting events (oil spills and waste water discharges), to generate alerts and provide their position and features in near real time. * A software package that once an event is located will provide forecast of its drift and fate, based on coupling between the pollutant fate and transport and the hydrodynamic numerical models, supporting decision making and the maneuvering of the autonomous vehicles with advanced positioning technologies. * A set of risk mapping services based on the integration of time series of remote sensing and modeling products. * A set of specifically designed Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) and a drone (UAV) equipped with remote sensing instruments and a sampler device (on board of the ASV), remotely operated from the Headquarter Control Post for operational monitoring missions and/or accidental/illegal oil spills and other polluting events. * A local rapid-response integrated system of near real time satellite/ASV/drone/model/forecast/risk mapping survey information and products, to support/improve the decision making process in any particular spilling event that may occur inside or outside the harbor or in near coastal areas. The product will be accompanied by an action protocol and will be tested & validated as an operational pilot in Puerto de la Luz (Gran Canaria), Taranto port (Italy), Rafina port (Greece).

SEACLIM aims to provide refined information on future decadal-to-multidecadal changes of the marine environment and related impacts at regional to local scales, fundamental for climate policy and decision making. SEACLIM will leverage on regional ocean models of the Copernicus Marine Service to enable for the first time the pre-operational prediction of decadal and multi-decadal changes of the marine environment (ocean circulation, waves, sea-ice, biogeochemistry) through coordinated downscaling of the latest global climate models reference simulations (CMIP6). SEACLIM will also advance the understanding of physical and ecosystem processes to further develop regional ocean models. New regional ocean indicators will be developed to assess the ocean state and health over coming decades. SEACLIM R&I will be performed over three European seas: the northeastern Atlantic, northwest shelf including the North Sea and the Arctic Ocean, but will be replicable to other regional seas. SEACLIM regional ocean predictions, projections and ocean climate indicators will be integrated in the European Digital Twin of the Ocean, providing it with climate ‘what-if scenarios’. SEACLIM new datasets will be benchmarked in coastal and ocean climate services for targeted policy and decision makers to support climate mitigation and adaptation actions and the blue economy. SEACLIM will co-design its R&I and exchange knowledge with key stakeholders and will bridge the gap between the operational oceanography and climate science research communities, ocean modelling and programmatic frameworks (e.g., Copernicus, WCRP CMIP, CORDEX, CLIVAR, RiFS, WMO, GOOS). A coordinated framework for regional ocean decadal to multi-decadal predictions and their evaluation will be co-developed to build capacity of the regional ocean climate community to produce coordinated simulations and pave the way for the development of a new service line on projected changes of the marine environment in Copernicus Marine.

The overarching goal of IMMERSE project is to ensure that the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) will have continuing access to world-class marine modelling tools for its next generation systems while leveraging advances in space and information technologies, therefore allowing it to address the ever-increasing and evolving demands for marine monitoring and prediction in the 2020s and beyond. In response to the future priorities for CMEMS, IMMERSE will 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. Hence the pathway from the research in IMMERSE to implementation in CMEMS will be simple and seamless, as the model code developed will be directly applicable in CMEMS models. NEMO has a long track record of producing and maintaining a stable, robustly engineered code base of the type that is needed for operational applications, including CMEMS. The IMMERSE consortium combines world-class expertise in ocean modelling, applied mathematics and HPC, established software engineering processes and infrastructure, and in-depth knowledge of the CMEMS systems and downstream CMEMS systems. Thus IMMERSE is exceptionally well placed to deliver the operational-quality model code required to meet the emerging needs of CMEMS, and maintain it into the future. We indeed believe that a three-month extension of the project allow us to better assess the impact of new developments to NEMO on our prototype CMEMS systems (WP6), to better assess the impact of CMEMS service evolutions onto downstream applications (WP8) and also offer some interesting opportunities for communicating the results of the project to the broader NEMO and CMEMS communities (WP2). In more detail : The evaluation of the IBI Zoom demonstrator, which has been developed as part of IMMERSE would directly benefit from an extension. The team has made very good progress and D6.1 is now ready for submission after internal review. Still, the re-organisation of the workshare, in the context of the departure of Ocean Next and the difficulties encountered at EPPE, implies that a larger fraction of the work will be done by the same staff. Should they have a bit more time, they would be able to perform more in depth analysis. This will in particular allow them to fully exploit the work done by IMEDEA through the subcontracting. I think this activity is key for demonstrating the impact of NEMO development on future CMEMS systems. The extension will also allow the groups involved in WP8 to produce more consolidated results regarding the impact of service evolutions on downstream applications. There again, the teams are making good progress although several of them have encountered hiring difficulties in the post-covid context. It should be stressed that the quality of their results somewhat depends on the ability of the involved teams to articulate IMMERSE funding with other on-going activities in their groups. Here again I think that the proposed extension will mechanically improve the quality of the output of WP8. A key dimension of the final phase of the project is the communication of our results to the broader NEMO and CMEMS communities. These activities have generally been slowed down during the project because of the pandemics and the subsequent difficulties in planning events and travels. As a consequence, the resources planned for formatting and communicating our results have n