RIVIERADE

Delivering validated climate services for resilient European Seas on a decadal to multi-decadal horizon is a challenge. RIVIERADE brings together the scientific communities geared into CORDEX and the Copernicus Marine Service and capitalizes on their unique scientific experience to develop and implement a pre-operational and replicable multi-model framework and protocols to produce, downscale, assess and deliver state-of-the-art decadal predictions and multi-decadal projections of climate change and related impacts on marine ecosystems, covering the basin scale and the coastal areas, up to, and including, development and demonstration of climate services.

RIVIERADE will target three European Seas (Baltic, Black, Mediterranean), to produce data and information for ocean health, sustainable blue economy, and coastal climate risks, downstreaming the data flow from climate ensembles to coastal areas at different spatial resolutions and for selected areas, in a circular process based on users and stakeholders engagement, co-design and assessment of innovative climate services. The proposed methodology will employ high-resolution regional Earth Systems, ocean, marine ecosystem, and impact models of different complexity and will include both traditional and new ocean modelling approaches with the final objective of delivering:

• coordinated and harmonized multi-model datasets of high-resolution decadal and multi-decadal scenario simulations for the three European target seas
• demonstrators of climate services at European Sea basin scale (3 seas), coastal regional (4 subregional areas) and local (4 local use cases) scales.

These datasets, together with the framework proposed to produce the coastal climate services, and the portfolio of services platform and demonstrators represent the RIVIERADE legacy and will prepare, after the project conclusion, the further development of coastal climate services and their potential implementation in a Copernicus Services framework.