CONNECT delivers a local, high-resolution, coastal monitoring service that seamlessly integrates model-based forecasts and observations to provide blue (physical) and green (biogeochemical) data on Portuguese estuaries to the Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS).
This service integrates two recent operational coastal data infrastructures: the UBEST coastal observatory and the CoastNet monitoring infrastructure.
CONNECT's main features are: i) shelf-to-estuary, high-resolution, circulation and water quality operational modeling, downscaling CMEMS regional forecasts to produce daily forecasts of physical and biogeochemical variables; ii) real-time physical and biogeochemical data acquisition from in-situ observation networks, and remote sensing data from CMEMS; iii) a dedicated WebGIS portal, providing web services and open access to the data and related physical and water quality indicators, and iv) seamless integration with CMEMS regional models and Earth Observation (EO) data.
The new integrated service will strengthen the support of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Floods Directive (FD), and other EU policies, such as the Green Deal, by providing further and integrated historical and real-time information on physics and biogeochemistry.
CONNECT delivers a user-friendly service that seamlessly integrates and shares through a dedicated webGIS portal layers of blue and green data, aggregated at different spatial and temporal levels. The integrated service will be globally accessible, comprehensive, flexible, and modular, being easily customizable and transferable to other coastal systems anywhere. The service’s main features are:
Use Case 1 - Extreme water levels and water quality in the Tagus estuary. Learn more
Use Case 2 - salinity, temperature and extreme water levels in the Mondego Estuary. Learn more
CONNECT – Local coastal monitoring service for Portugal. Rodrigues M., Fortunato A.B., Martins R., Jesus G., Nahon A., Brito A.C., Oliveira A., Costa J.L., Alves E., Korani M., IAHR 2024 – 8th IAHR Europe Congress, 2024.
Demonstration session "Sessão de demonstração do serviço CONNECT – Caso de uso #1, Estuário do Tejo". Agenda
1. CONNECT project and Tagus estuary case study (in Portuguese)
2. Observation network (in Portuguese)
3. Circulation and water quality forecast systems (in Portuguese)
4. Demonstration of the CONNECT webGIS portal (in Portuguese)
Demonstration session "Sessão de demonstração do serviço CONNECT – Caso de uso #2, Estuário do Mondego". Agenda
1. CONNECT project and Mondego estuary case study (in Portuguese)
2. Observation network (in Portuguese)
3. Circulation and water quality forecast systems (in Portuguese)
4. Demonstration of the CONNECT webGIS portal (in Portuguese)
Copernicus Marine General Assembly 2024
CONNECT - Local coastal monitoring service for Portugal
Copernicus Marine National Collaboration Programme: EU Coastal Monitoring Pilot Demonstrations Workshop 2024
CONNECT - Local coastal monitoring service for Portugal
Encontro de Oceanografia 2024
Extreme water levels and water quality in the Tagus estuary: the CONNECT Tagus service
8th IAHR Europe Congress - IAHR 2024
CONNECT - Local coastal monitoring service for Portugal
EGI 2024
CONNECT: Tagus river-to-ocean collaboratory for thematic digital twins and collaborative management
Stimulating Ocean Best Practices: OBPS Workshop VIII 2024 - Ocean Circulation Predictions from Global to Coastal scale
Using on-demand services to build reliable coastal forecasts, The CONNECT service as a demo
DANUBIUS - Workshop on Coastal Ecological Modelling, 2024
Water quality forecasting in estuaries: insights from the Tagus estuary
Team
LNEC: Marta Rodrigues (coordinator), André B. Fortunato, Alphonse Nahon, Anabela Oliveira, Gonçalo Jesus, Ricardo Martins, Elsa Alves
FCUL-FCID: Ana C. Brito, José Lino Costa, Bernardo Quintella, Paula Chaínho, Susana França
Marta Rodrigues
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Av. do Brasil, 101
1700-066 LISBOA
PORTUGAL
This work has been carried out as part of the Copernicus Marine Service CONNECT project. Copernicus Marine Service is implemented by Mercator Ocean in the framework of a delegation agreement with the European Union.