MER-EP Project Approach

MER-EP is an international initiative to evaluate marine environment reanalyses to better use their potential for ocean and climate monitoring and prediction

By sharing “best practices” derived from the studies and use cases:

• Guidelines on how to use reanalyses
  • for monitoring the state of the ocean
  • for training AI forecasting models
  • as environmental forcing for ecosystem models

• Methods and tools to handle the data (Copernicus Marine Service EDITO)

Within MER-EP, the scientific topics are organised into “use cases”. Each use case brings together several institutions addressing a common thematic area. For each use case, scientific studies will be conducted and published, and the corresponding codes and best practices will be made available to the community. At the end of the MER-EP project, a summary document synthesizing the main outcomes for the reanalyses will be delivered.