Technical Framework

Towards more robust, integrated, and influential services

A new scenario for Ocean forecasting

Forecasting Systems have proven to be highly valuable, as they contribute to our understanding of the Ocean and provide priceless information for decision-making. However, they face numerous challenges, in standardisation, interoperability, and integration. As a result, building a forecasting service from scratch, without experienced guidance, remains a huge challenge. When successful, it often produces an isolated service, with limited possibilities of integration into a larger framework. 

This situation limits the forecasting services proliferation - especially in less technologically advanced countries, as well as the growth of our Ocean forecasting community and our common shared knowledge.

The OceanPrediction DCC and its associated Decade programmes are working together to change this scenario. We are doing so by defining common architectures and new Tools, Standards and Best Practices to standardise and improve the way we build the Ocean Forecasting value chain, taking advantage of the concept of digital twinning.

The ocean forecasting value chain

Reference guides to build, implement, evaluate and upgrade your ocean forecasting system

Multiplying the benefit by working together

Advancing towards delivering as one

OceanPrediction DCC has gathered a Team, the so-called Ocean Forecasting Co-design Team to design and promote an Ocean forecasting architecture to deliver as one, taking benefit from the digital twinning concept, which will permit a simpler, modular, and more robust development of the systems in the future. 

This team is formed by worldwide specialists whose collective expertise covers the whole value chain.  

The Ocean Forecasting Co-Design Team