AQUARIUS Funding Call – Marine and Freshwater Infrastructure Access: Open 02 September 2025 – 28 October 2025
C-SHIFT
Coastal SST High-resolution Inference From Shipboard Transects
Funded by AQUARIUS Transnational Access Call 2
C-SHIFT will use in-situ sea surface temperature (SST) measurements, above water hyperspectral radiometer measurements, as well as supporting EOVs from the FerryBoxes on MS Color Hybrid and MS Color Fantasy.
Research Infrastructure Used: NorSOOP
“Using new machine-learning techniques, it is now possible to improve the resolution of satellite sea surface temperature data to a scale where we can measure the temperature of individual bays along complex coastlines such as the Bohuslän coast in Sweden. This will hopefully allow us to understand when and why local heatwaves occur in the future.
However, we still need to groundtruth the satellite data with field measurements, to make sure that they are reliable. In this project, we will use ferrybox data collected on the Color line ferries between Strömstad-Sandefjord and Oslo-Kiel to test if the downscaled satellite data actually corresponds to real field measurements.”
Dr. Pierre De Wit
PARTNERS
MAIN OBJECTIVES
C-SHIFT will use in-situ sea surface temperature (SST) measurements, above water hyperspectral radiometer measurements, as well as supporting EOVs from the FerryBoxes on MS Color Hybrid and MS Color Fantasy. These observations will be used to assess marine heatwaves (MHWs) by ground-truthing data for local downscaling and interpolation of satellite SST data to coastal embayments using machine-learning techniques.
This project will deliver daily/sub-daily SST data at ~100 m resolution for two primary transects of the northern Skagerrak. For stakeholders, this information will be useful (such data are not currently available to them), however the data per se are of limited value. The key contribution of this project comes in its provision of unique, high-resolution, ground-truth data for the production of coastal SST maps with documented uncertainty.
MORE INFORMATION
AQUARIUS TA Project Name:
Coastal SST High-resolution Inference From Shipboard Transects
Project acronym:
C-SHIFT
TA Project Unique ID:
68
Partners involved:
University of Gothenburg
Start date
4 May 2026
End date
3 May 2027
Mission Lighthouse Region
Baltic & North Sea
Work/research geographical
area
North-eastern Skagerrak, coordinates: roughly N 58.5-59°, E 10-11°
Names of RI facilities used
NorSOOP
Scientific discipline(s)
Earth Sciences & Environment: Global change & Climate observation
Principal Investigator
(PI) Affiliation
Dr. Pierre De Wit