Special issue on the Status of Ocean Forecasting published

Ocean prediction: present status and state of the art

Ocean prediction services have been improving and evolving during the last decades and today are a crucial tool for decision-making in multiple socio-economic sectors, being the backbone of many applications, including those that enhance marine safety, disaster risk reduction, and coastal zone management. The issue describes the actual status of ocean forecasting, detailing its degree of development in the different regions of the world and the most recent advances in all the relevant specific aspects associated with the technology, such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, written by a group of experts that forms the so-called “Ocean Forecasting Co-Design Team”, integrated in the OceanPrediction Decade Collaborative Centre (OP-DCC).

To access the issue just click on the picture or visit the Copernicus Publication at https://sp.copernicus.org/articles/sp-5-opsr.pdf

(DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-5-opsr)