The In situ component of the CMEMS – Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (original) (raw)

The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) measures, models and forecasts the state of the global oceans and European regional seas, providing more than speci c products comprising data from satellite images, ocean forecast models and ocean observations (measurements taken in the sea). The role of the CMEMS Thematic Assembly Centres (TACs) is to collect, process and quality control upstream satellite and in situ data required both to constrain and validate modelling and data assimilation systems and to directly serve downstream applications and services. Within CMEMS, the In Situ Thematic Assembly Centre (INSTAC) ensures that a steady supply of these in situ ocean measurements is made available to the other service components.