Consortium

The consortium is a collaboration between 8 organisations led by IOPAN. It merges the know-how of research institutes, universities, and private companies, plus the involvement of one expert as an external service. Each partner has a range of complementary skills and experience to benefit the project.

With the team's expertise, and as most partners have already worked together, the consortium believes it will significantly increase the impact and results of the project to answer the challenge given by the ITT and manage collaborative research.

For example, the SoW requires expertise in products like in Ocean Colour owned by IOPAN and ACRI-ST, Sea Surface Temperature (ACRI-ST), in open ocean and coastal sea level as observed by radar altimetry (University of Bonn) and Salinity (ACRI-ST and Albavalor) to be able to generate dedicated products adapted to the Baltic Sea, well known by IOPAN. ACRI-ST with its experience in CAL/VAL will be able to support TalTech for the validation of products in WP3. In particular, TalTech through its Geodesy team, will give access to GPS data to assess the sea level products in the BALTDYN database.

The SOW aims to characterise the biochemical exchanges and the dynamics of the ocean parameters: GEOMAR and IOPAN have the needed assets to study since they developed a numerical ocean model to simulate the dynamic and biogeochemical process of the Baltic Sea. In addition, they have access to unique data sets to validate the 4DBALTDYN products and to make three case studies. The University of Bonn will also conduct a case study related to the Baltic Sea Level and, thanks to its involvement in the SWOT early adopter program, will introduce SWOT data, which constitutes a strong innovation.

NERSC will bring to 4DBALTDYN complementary expertise in ocean data assimilation, geostatistics, machine learning and insights from the EDITO ModelLab Digital Twin of the Ocean and Copernicus Marine Services. NERSC will, therefore, lead WP5 about the impacts of 4DBALTDYN and the roadmap towards a Digital Twin of the Baltic.

AdwäisEO, a company offering cloud resources for EO-based projects, will provide an innovative computing resource to host data and generate new products.

IMEV is involved in generating CMEMS biogeochemical products with a Neural Network approach. To adapt ACRI-ST to the Baltic Sea context, IMEV will support the project (the IMEV contribution to the project is under the “External Services” line).

IOPAN is used to lead large EU (e.g. Horizon) and national projects in Poland: they will lead the project (WP9). They will benefit from support from ARGANS Ltd, which has an exceptionally long record of accomplishment in being prime of ESA contracts.