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Marine Service USE CASES
MONITORING SEDIMENT PLUMES DURING DREDGING OPERATIONS
USE CASE • OVERVIEW DHI is a worldwide non-profit private organisation with its head office in Denmark. Its area of expertise ranges from coastal and marine engineering to the energy, aquaculture and agriculture sectors among others. For example, it develops tools for monitoring harbour sedimentation. For the harbour of La Spezia, Italy, in particular, it has developed a model to follow the dispersion and fate of the fine sediment plume during dredging operations. DHI has developed a downscaling modelling suite where the Copernicus Marine Service Mediterranean Sea model is used to provide boundary conditions for a higher resolution ocean model. Dynamical downscaling is a method for obtaining high-resolution local models from lower resolution CMEMS models as forcing conditions. Andrea Pedroncini from DHI says that "Downscaling the Copernicus Marine Service regional model ocean dynamics enables us take its impact on coastal and nearshore regions into account".
BENEFITS • FOR USER High quality information allowing realistic applied results. Ready to use expertised ocean products. Useful, free and sustained information provision for downscaling purposes.
DHI COASTAL ENGINEERING DREDGING HARBOR MANAGEMENT DOWNSCALLING MODEL LA SPEZIA MED SEA
COASTAL Implemented by & MARINE ENVIRONMENT Copernicus Version 1.0
Marine Service USE CASES
FACTS AND • KEY NUMBERS Ports, waterways and locks are constantly being extended and adapted in order to meet economic demand. Private companies such as DHI help project developers and government authorities with the design, construction, and servicing of ports. Their knowledge about waves, morphology, hydrodynamics, water quality and ecology allows to advise clients and to optimise the design of ports. The use of the free and sustained Copernicus Marine Service products is an asset for such private companies.
CMEMS • PRODUCT IN USE CMEMS Analysis and Forecast model products provide with 7-day forecast of 3D ocean currents updated daily. Physics Model over the Mediterranean sea is used in this application. It provides hydrodynamic forecast including high frequency processes of paramount importance to characterize regional scale marine processes.
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CMEMS • USER DHI is a private company that offers research and consultancy services. Their expertise spans all water environments from rivers and reservoirs, to oceans and coastlines, to cities and factories. They provide services for Aquaculture and agriculture, Energy, Climate change, Coast and marine, Surface and groundwater, Urban water, Industry, Environment and ecosystems.
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