COSYNA Products

Quality-assured, science-based, near real-time environmental information derived from an optimized synthesis of observations and model data can support decision makers and answer essential questions relevant to society. One of the main characteristics of COSYNA is the pre-operational, i.e., routine provision of ‘products’ that are of interest to scientists, monitoring authorities and stakeholders. These products range from routine time series at different locations, to regular maps of important parameters, e.g., currents, waves, salinity, temperature, chlorophyll, oxygen, etc. to routinely short-term forecasts (days) for these parameters in the North Sea. One of the first COSYNA products is the pre-operational prognosis of current field in the German Bight.