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Abstract

The UN Ocean Decade Core Project “PredictOnTime” consists of a partnership of more than 40 partners to deliver new predictive capacities, services and products for the global coastal ocean based on innovative integrated observing systems and forecasting systems implemented and tested at selected Pilot areas.PredictOnTime is a core project of the CoastPredict program that will build, consolidate and deliver a relocatable, easy to be deployed, cost effective observing and forecasting system of systems as well as best practices. The observing and forecasting systems will be deployed and tested with users and stakeholders in Pilot coastal areas sites in more than 20 nations in the global coastal ocean.We will focus on observing and predicting natural extreme events in the global coastal ocean in near real time and with the appropriate accuracy so that impacts on natural and human resources and assets will be minimized. During this presentation, we overview PredictOntime and we will highlight one coastal resilience project, Aquarius, led by Fugro that focuses on providing an early warning system tool to government bodies for coastal hazard preparedness.PredictOnTime will also develop and consolidate the citizen-community science observing capacities and support through new predictive capabilities the innovative and sustainable applications for coastal solutions/services.PredictOnTime will contribute to the Global Coastal Ocean Experiment – GlobCO – which will be developed by CoastPredict partnership and implemented to demonstrate fit-for-purpose coastal observing and prediction systems for new process understanding and in support of an innovative value chain that will produce better services for coastal resilience.