Oceans of Data

Operational Oceanography data Sources: Observational data Introduction EMODnet Physics, EuroGOOS, ROOSs

Patrick Gorringe

EuroGOOS AISBL

patrick.gorringe@eurogoos.eu

www.emodnet-physics.eu

• Delivery of products and services

• Meeting user needs

• Supporting short and long range weather predictions, climate monitoring and climate services

• From data collection, data management to knowledge creation

• Data to decisions

Operational Oceanography

• Technologically complex and high cost

infrastructures. Variety of platforms/technologies

• Remote sensing (satellite and coastal radars)

• Drifting-profiling floats

• Fixed moorings (time-series stations)

• Ships of opportunity, FerryBox

• Gliders

• Research vessels

• Coastal networks

• Multi – platform, multi-parametric, observatory

approach

• Diversity of operators (national,

local, research, …..) & funding

mechanisms

Ocean Observations

Operational models: from local to

Global

Ship routing - Marine operations

Fish larvae distribution

Sea-Ice service

Oil spill Service

Search and Rescue

Operational end-user Services

Stormsurge warnings

Operational Oceanography is not a new invention

An international conference established the basic principles of

operational meteorology and oceanography:

– Common standards/formats for data

– Common standards for data quality

– Free and open exchange of data

Modern principles, but when ?

Maury and the 1853 Brussels Conference

”Pathfinder of the Seas”

”Father of Modern Oceanography”

”Scientist of the Seas”

• Maury early became convinced that adequate scientific

knowledge of the sea could be obtained only through

international cooperation

• Within a few years after the Brussels conference in

1853 nations all over the world were sending their

oceanographic observations to Maury

• These observations were evaluated and the results

given worldwide distribution

• Also as a result of the Brussels conference a large

number of nations agreed to cooperate in the sharing

of ocean data using uniform standards

• Printed the first map of oceanic bathymetry based on the

data he had collected, published by Maury in (1836)

Since 19th century a lot of measurements have been made by diverse communities for their own needs (Scientists, fishermen, commercial navigators…)

BUT

– Not done in an organized way

– Shared only among small communities

– Measured over limited periods and areas

– Not properly archived

…it sounds all good, Maury set the scene. However as more and more data were collected

by divers communities, data were shared only among small communities and was not

properly archived and it wasn’t done in a organized way. In situ archeology is a hard job

providing questionable databases……

The ways of using data have changed

• A lot of data still collected is not easily accessible

• Government agencies requirements have changed

– Global scale applications requiring a integrated observing system (climate change, ocean health monitoring, fisheries assessment,…)

– No country can pay the full bill for the data acquisition

– A new paradigm emerging: "Data acquired with public funds should be publically available”

• Important demand for real time data access especially in operational oceanography and monitoring applications

• Information Technology and Data Management techniques are no more an obstacle to information sharing

• Coordination and cooperation is absolutely necessary

The user needs have changed

• Core parameters :

– Assimilation in global/regional models : T, S

– Validation : Sea Level, Current, Oxygen, Chlorophyll, Nutrients , Wave.

• Data accessible easily from a unique point

• Data coherent in term of :

– Data format

– Data Quality

– Processing chain (clearly documented)

– Coherent at basin scale level

• Data are available

– in real time/near real time (within less than 24 hours)

– in delayed mode after calibration and /or validation with estimation of the accuracy

– Long time series

• Data management must rely on qualified teams (data management, scientific expertise…)

Responses from fisheries managers

Berx et al.(2010)

How are we organised?

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Think tankers

European specialized agencies

European Marine Scientific Clusters

European Maritime Clusters

Databases

International Programmes (IPO in Europe)

Funding instruments

Reporting Processes

UN specialized agencies with marine/maritime mandate

Other marine International Organizations in Europe

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37 members from 17 European Countries

5 Regional operational oceanographic systems, ROOSs

(in collaboration with further 60 partners)

Support and facilitate members cooperation to establish a

coordinated European Operational Oceanography approach for:

Identifying priorities for operational oceanography

Promotion of operational oceanography and the necessary

research and technology

Coproduction of data and model based services

Defining standards and recommendations

Cooperation at global and regional scales

Contributing to national, regional and international

implementation of recommendations

Existing Infrastructures in Europe: EuroGOOS

Operational

Oceanography

community

EuroGOOS is one of the twelve GOOS Regional Alliances (GRAs) that develop

the system in different parts of the World Ocean.

Part of the Global effort

GOOS establishes a permanent global system for observations, modelling and analysis of marine

and ocean variables to support operational ocean services worldwide

GOOS is a platform for:

• International cooperation for sustained observations of the oceans

• Generation of oceanographic products and services

• Interaction between research, operational, and user communities

• The ROOSs are the operational arm(s) of EuroGOOS

• About 60 additional partners in Regional Operational

Oceanographic Systems (ROOS)

• The ROOSs cooperation focus on improved national and regional

services and products

• ROOSs coordinate the observations and the data

transfer for internal use and to other users

i.e. acting as the regional data broker

ROOS (Regional Operational

Oceanography Systems)

• The pre-operational marine service of Copernicus

• Provides free and open access to real-time and

delayed mode «ocean monitoring and forecasting»

information

Based on the combination of satellite, in situ

observations and assimilative ocean models

Connects to the EuroGOOS ROOSs (in situ)

Covers global oceans and European seas

Provides free and open access to products on

Currents, Temperature, Salinity, Sea Level,

Sea Ice, Surface winds, Biogeochemistry)

NRT products

• within a few hours to a

week

• homogeneous

automatic quality check

procedures

Delayed products

• updated on annual base

• scientifically validated data

for reanalysis

• integrated historical T&S

data (SeaDataNet, ROOSs,

JCOMM)

MyOcean

Existing Infrastructures in Europe: MyOcean

SeaDataNet

DG Research and Innovation - Marine Information

System

Connects the National Oceanographic Data Centres –

NODCs

EDMO: European Directory of Marine Organisations

(>2200 entries)

EDMED: European Directory of Marine

Environmental Data sets (>3000 entries)

EDMERP: European Directory of Marine

Environmental Research Projects (>2500 entries)

CSR: Cruise Summary Reports (>31500 entries)

EDIOS: European Directory of Ocean-observing

Systems

Develops CDI – Common Data Index (ISO19115) – and

gives access to quality controlled archived time series of

ocean observations

i.e. physical observations from fixed stations for winds,

temperature, pressure, waves, currents, and sea level, etc.

complimentary to the NRT

EU.FP5 2002-05 EU.FP6 2006-11 EU.FP7 2011-15

www.seadatanet.org

Existing Infrastructures in Europe: SeaDataNet

DG

ENTERPRISE &

INDUSTRY

Copernicus

MyOcean

www.myocean.eu

DG

RESEARCH &

INNOVATION

FP7

SeaDataNet

www.seadatanet.org

Three initiatives for marine information

www.emodnet-physics.eu

EMODnet Physics DG MARITIME AFFAIRS & FISHERIES

Operational

Oceanography

community

www.eurogoos.eu

EMODnet Physics has the cross cutting role in these initiatives

A Novellino G Manzella D Schaap S Pouliquen L Rickards P Gorringe

Preparatory Actions for

European Marine Observation and Data Network

MARE 2010/02 - Physical Parameters [SI2.579120]

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Knowledge base for growth and innovation in ocean

economy: assembly and dissemination of marine data

for seabed mapping

MARE/2012/10 - Lot 6 Physics [SI2.656795]

EMODnet Physics

Sustain

Interoperability

WMS WFS Web

services …

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EMODnet Physics objectives:

– Provide a single point of access to marine near real time and achieved data

on physical conditions as monitored by:

• Fixed Stations1, Ferrybox1, (Euro) Argo2, Gliders2, HF Radars2

Parameters:

• Sea Temperature1, Sea Level1, Sea Salinity1, Winds1, Waves1, Sea Currents1, Light

Attenuation1, Ice Coverage2, Sea Level trends2

– Build up on existing infrastructures by adding value – not complexity

– Ensure data access to any user

– Facilitate integration and interoperability with further systems

(INSPIRE compliant, WMS, WFS, etc.)

– Bring together the main European Marine Observation and Data Communities

(EuroGOOS ROOSs, MyOcean, SeaDataNet, etc)

– Attract new data and new data providers

– Attract new users and stakeholders

1MARE/2010/06 (2011-2013) 2MARE/2012/10 Lot 6 (2013 – 2016)

EMODnet Physics

EMODnet Physics

DISCOVER

VIEW

DOWNLOAD

Open & Free

INSPIRE Services

Data Policy

WMS/WFS

www.emodnet-physics.eu

EMODnet Physics www.emodnet-physics.eu

EMODnet Physics

EMODnet Physics

EMODnet Physics Dashboard

Available interoperability services http://www.emodnet-physics.eu/map/Dashboard/Default.aspx Web Service http://www.emodnet-physics.eu/map/Service/WSEmodnet2.aspx WMS/WFS http://www.emodnet-physics.eu/map/Service/DefaultWMS.aspx Web Catalougue http://www.emodnet-physics.eu/map/Service/Catalog.aspx

EMODnet Physics

Additional stations not yet in the current system identified by JERICO, EMODnet Physics and MyO

EMODnet Physics

big benefit to data user!

benefit to data contributor?

• increase verification & re-use of available data,

measure once – use multiple times

• reduce duplication of effort among agencies

• identify data gaps and improve diversity in future marine research

• brings together countries, regions and the European marine community

• encourage the marine community to adopt standards for interoperability

YES: exposure!

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i.e. a European shopping window for your data

Benefits of data sharing

Facilitating the exposure of marine data:

nationally – agencies, and institutes provide the ROOS data portals and hence EMODnet Physics

(and other projects such as MyO) with access to their data sets for visualization and discoverability

Institutes / data originators

ROOS data portals

scale of data exposure

value of data discovery

user

scale of data exposure

value of data discovery

user

nationally – agencies, and institutes provide the ROOS data portals and hence EMODnet Physics

(and other projects such as MyO) with access to their data sets for visualization and discoverability

internationally – EMODnet Physics provides international initiatives with access to a interoperable

collection of European marine data on the global scale

Facilitating the exposure of marine data:

Institutes / data originators

EMODnet Physics

EMODnet Physics approach

• Build on existing infrastructures i.e. SeaDataNet and

MyOcean and avoid duplication of efforts

• Improve back office infrastructure for the benefit of the

EuroGOOS ROOSs and contributing institutes

• Give visibility and awareness to everyone

• Crate added value interoperability layers on top of the

existing infrastructure

• Reach new stakeholders and users

• Increase the amount of available data from additional

platforms and platforms types (gliders, HF radars,….)

• Give feedback and support to contributing institutes

• Contribute to a stronger community on local, regional,

European and global scales

DG

ENTERPRISE &

INDUSTRY

Copernicus

MyOcean

www.myocean.eu

DG

RESEARCH &

INNOVATION

FP7

SeaDataNet

www.seadatanet.org

Three initiatives for marine information

www.emodnet-physics.eu

EMODnet Physics DG MARITIME AFFAIRS & FISHERIES

Operational

Oceanography

community

www.eurogoos.eu

• Platform codes

• Common

vocabularies

• Institute names

• Institute EDMO code

• Platform names

• Data access policy

• License issues

• Open ID

• Quality flags

• Quality control

indicators

• WMO codes

• Institution references

• Citation

• Increase the

amount of data and

data contributors

• EMODnet central portal: www.emodnet.eu

• EMODnet Physics: www.emodnet-physics.eu

• MyOcean: www.myocean.eu

• SeaDataNet: www.seadatanet.org

• EuroGOOS: www.eurogoos.eu

www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

Data from:

• TAO/TRITON array that consists of pproximately 70

moorings in the Tropical Pacific Ocean in real-time

• Tsunami buoys (global)

• Voluntary Observing Ships

• Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS® ) US

GOOS

www.argo.net

GLOSS

Direct data access web service to the IOC sea level

system hosted at VLIZ

www.gloss-sealevel.org/data

http://portal.aodn.org.au/aodn/

–Free and open data access is essential for operational oceanography needs and best use of existing observations: acquire once use multiple times

–Efficient Data exchange system relies on common standards on metadata, formats , Quality Control Procedures and product discovery/viewing/access

–Need to rely on sustained data processing capabilities and qualified teams (including scientific expertise)

–Cooperation

Recommendations

Patrick.gorringe@eurogoos.eu

EuroGOOS Conference 2014

• Lisbon 28-30 October 2014

• Themes & topics

– Meeting end-user needs & supporting Blue Growth

– Copernicus: Towards a European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and

Forecasting

– Ocean modelling & forecasting: extending & improving predictability

– In-situ and remote sensing observations: towards a European Ocean

Observing System (EOOS)

http://eurogoos2014.hidrografico.pt/