Delivering validated climate services for resilient European Sea 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: (i) coordinated and harmonized multi-model datasets of high-resolution decadal and multidecadal
scenario simulations for the three European target seas (ii) 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 Delivering
validated climate services for resilient European coastal areas on a decadal to multi-decadal horizon represents a challenge in the
development of the EU Green Deal and the setting up of reliable digital twins for the ocean.