Research with Purpose
SEACLIM bridges scientific innovation with real-world impact by transforming advanced ocean-climate predictions into actionable insights. Through improved numerical modelling, stakeholder-driven climate services, and future-focused ocean indicators, it empowers policymakers, industries, and communities to enhance resilience, sustainability, and informed decision-making, driving meaningful change in marine governance, coastal zone management and blue economy
Coordinated Modelling for Ocean Decadal Predictions & Climate Projections
SEACLIM will co-design a framework for regional ocean decadal predictions and climate projections, ensuring standardised modelling, validation, and intercomparison frameworks.
By integrating best practices and protocols, it enhances simulation reliability, supports the Copernicus Marine Service, and delivers high-quality, fit-for-purpose climate insights for decision-makers and marine stakeholders.
Advancing Regional Ocean Decadal Predictions & Climate Projections
SEACLIM enhances regional-to-coastal ocean modelling by improving bias correction, refining atmospheric and river forcings, and integrating key ocean-atmosphere interactions. This will boost prediction accuracy, inform next-generation models, and improve climate services, ensuring more reliable decadal predictions and climate projections for marine ecosystems, policymakers, and coastal communities facing climate change impacts.
Predicting and projecting Ocean Health with Indicators for the Future
SEACLIM extends ocean indicators beyond global indicators and present and past assessments, developing regional high-resolution, future-focused indicators for climate impact analysis. These novel regional metrics will support policymakers, scientists, and industry in decision-making, while enabling integration into European climate services, enhancing preparedness for marine environmental changes and ecosystem management challenges.
Enhancing Climate Services for Coastal and Ocean Sectors
SEACLIM will demonstrate how regional ocean decadal predictions, climate projections, and indicators can inform decision-making in ports, fisheries, aquaculture, coastal planning, and risk reduction. By co-developing tailored climate services with stakeholders, SEACLIM strengthens adaptation strategies, ensuring actionable, science-based insights for sustainable marine and coastal management across European sea basins.
Maximising SEACLIM’s Impact Through Engagement
SEACLIM ensures broad uptake of its outcomes by fostering active stakeholder participation in co-design, testing, and validation. Through multiple engagement events, training, and strategic networking, SEACLIM drives long-term adoption of its climate services, ensuring interoperability with the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean, the Copernicus Marine Service and strengthening Europe’s capacity for informed ocean-climate decision-making.
Supporting the European Digital Twin Ocean
SEACLIM contributes to the EU Digital Twin of the Ocean by extending its capabilities with high-resolution regional modelling data. By providing decadal predictions and long-term climate projections up to 2100, SEACLIM enhances future ocean scenario analysis, supporting sustainable marine resource management, climate resilience, and informed coastal planning across Europe’s marine basins.
SEACLIM will develop four Climate Services Demonstrations to support ports, coastal adaptation, fisheries, and the blue economy. These services, co-designed with stakeholders, will generate tailored indicators and downscaled data to assess climate risks and adaptation strategies. Outcomes will inform guidelines for future coastal climate services across European regions.
Climate Service for the Spanish Port System
Assesses climate risks for three Spanish Atlantic ports using advanced downscaling techniques including AI for decadal predictions. It will provide high-resolution climate projections and decadal predictions tailored to the requirments of port infrastructure and operations.
Co-designed with stakeholders, it will feature visualization tools for specific and impact indicators to inform ports decision makers, along with recommendations for possible adaptation measures for each selected port.
Climate Services for Norwegian Marine Management
Focuses on downscaled climate predictions to support Norwegian marine management and offshore aquaculture. It provides high-resolution ocean and biogeochemical indicators for fish welfare and optimal offshore farming locations. Additionally, it assesses climate change impacts on vulnerable marine areas within Norway’s holistic marine management plan across emission scenarios.
Climate Service for French Coastal Adaptation
Uses regional projections of mean and extreme sea levels to enhance coastal risk adaptation at regional level in France. It compares existing sea-level projections from global climate models to the high-resolution sea level projections of SEACLIM for land-use planning and anticipates chronic flooding events due to sea-level rise, identifying areas of discrepancy. Determines critical thresholds for high-tide flood events, improving the accuracy of risk assessments for adaptation strategies.
Climate Services for the North Sea Coastal Risk and Blue Economy
Two coastal services will be developed for the southern North Sea through high-resolution model products. For the Blue Economy services, we will establish and access ecosystem health and resilience indicators to support sustainable offshore wind and aquaculture coexistence. For coastal risk services, we will test and analyse different sea-level rise, extreme waves, and surges scenarios derived from the climate projections, including using nature-based solutions (seagrass) to improve coastal protection.
SEACLIM transforms cutting-edge ocean-climate science into practical solutions for diverse stakeholders, ensuring its outputs drive real-world impact. By delivering regional high-resolution decadal predictions and climate projections, advanced modelling, ocean climate indicators and tailored climate services, SEACLIM empowers key sectors to enhance resilience, sustainability, and decision-making.
Science & Research Communities
SEACLIM fosters scientific collaboration by developing standardised methodologies for regional ocean-climate predictions. Researchers gain access to improved climate projections, novel ocean indicators, and intercomparison frameworks, strengthening marine and climate science while supporting advancements in ocean modelling.
Ocean & Climate Programmes and Projects
By integrating best practices and contributing high-resolution datasets, SEACLIM enhances the interoperability and effectiveness of existing European and global ocean-climate initiatives.
Its contributions support the European Digital Twin Ocean, Copernicus Marine Service, and policy-driven climate adaptation efforts.
Blue Economy End-Users
Industries such as fisheries, aquaculture, offshore wind, and shipping benefit from SEACLIM’s climate projections, helping them adapt to changing ocean conditions. Improved forecasting of waves, ocean circulation, and biogeochemistry enables risk reduction, operational optimisation, and sustainable resource management.
Climate, Coastal & Environmental Managers and Policymakers
SEACLIM provides actionable climate insights tailored to inform policies on coastal resilience, marine biodiversity, and climate adaptation. Decision-makers gain access to fit-for-purpose ocean indicators, supporting climate risk assessments, regulatory frameworks, and long-term planning for sustainable marine governance.
Stakeholder Groups (SG)
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