The TIAMAT Observatory facilitates the continuous monitoring of the marine environment in the Spanish National Park network with natural marine systems (Cabrera Archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Islands and Doñana along the Atlantic coast) in the context of climate change. This marine observatory provides continuous open access to information on the ocean state and variability, through the monitoring and visualization of essential ocean variables and indicators (e.g. sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a concentration, ocean currents or sea level, ocean surface stress), from daily to interannual and decadal scales. Such an observatory is enabled by the Copernicus Marine Service which provides free and open access to quality-controlled historical and near real-time ocean data, in particular from non-intrusive and regular satellite remote sensing data available since 1982. This web-based application enables the detection of extreme events (e.g. marine heat waves) in real-time, as well as the monitoring of long-term ocean variations, in response to climate change. The TIAMAT observatory will be presented for the Cabrera National Park in the Balearic Islands. This observatory aims to be an open science-based management tool to support decision-making in the National Parks and marine protected areas from regional to international levels. Finally, through its dissemination strategy, the TIAMAT project will raise awareness about the climate challenges that the National Parks are facing to foster their conservation.

Primary Presenter: Melanie Juza, SOCIB (mjuza@socib.es)

Authors:

Gabriel Navarro, ICMAN-CSIC  (gabriel.navarro@icman.csic.es)

Isabel Caballero de Frutos, ICMAN-CSIC  (Isabel.caballero@icman.csic.es)

Aina García Gómez, SOCIB  (aggomez@socib.es)

Llúcia Ribot, SOCIB  (llucia.ribot@socib.es)

Rosa Rodriguez, SOCIB  (rrodriguez@socib.es)

Joaquin Tintoré, SOCIB  (jtintore@socib.es)