MarineCore

Service

MY OCEAN

Potential contribution of Observatories to GMES

Marine Core Service,MyOcean

Fabrice HERNANDEZIRD/Mercator Ocean, France

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Ocean Monitoring and ForecastingCore Services, definition

Role – provide the common denominator data for all users requesting an

information on the ocean: the information for downstream services.

Core information– Describing ocean currents, temperature, salinity, sea level, primary

ecosystems, ice coverage …

Adding value through– Data combination and assimilative models, Continuity and consistency,

Expertise on the ocean, Information Service

Observing Describing Deciding

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What is « MyOcean » Objective: pan-European service for ocean monitoring and forecasting

Targetted users: specialized service providers

Challenge: a sustained European Marine Core Service

Framework: European Union « GMES » program

Budget: 55 M€ ; Funding: European Commission 33 M€ / Partners 22 M€

Duration: 3 years ; Start: April 2009; End: March 2012

Consortium: 61 partners, 29 countries; Lead: Mercator Ocean + Eur. Board

Organization: a pan-European system composed of 12 « centres », 5 for observations, 7 for assimilation/modelling, and shared facilities

In other words: the ocean monitoring and forecasting centres in Europe, working together to provide a single pan-European service, reducing unnecessary redundancies, increasing the service value

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The Consortium

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A clear (and limited) role in the value chain

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A clear (and limited) role in the value chain

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Users of the MyOcean core service are specialized service providers of the downstream sector.

Intermediate users

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Market Segmentation

The users, their requirements, their assessment

Area 1« MARINE SAFETY »

(marine operations, oil spill combat, ship routing, defense, search & rescue, …)

Area 2« MARINE RESSOURCES »(fish stock management,

ICES, FAO, …)

Area 3« MARINE AND

COASTAL ENVIRONMENT »(water quality, pollution,coastal activities, …)

Area 4« CLIMATE &

SEASONAL FORECASTING »(climate monitoring, ice,seasonal forecasting, ..)

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Le service de base océaniqueThe marine core service

des systèmes intégrésintegrated systems

Physical state of the ocean, primary ecosystem Global ocean, and main European seas Large and basin scale, mesoscale physics Hindcast, Nowcast, Forecast Data, Assimilation and Models

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The MyOcean offer The Global Ocean + 6 European Seas

(1) Global Ocean

(2) Arctic Ocean (3) Baltic Sea (4) Atlantic North-West

Shelves (NWS) (5) Atlantic Irish-Biscay-

Iberic (IBI) area (6) Mediterranean Sea (7) Black Sea

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The Production Units

Sea Level

Ocean Color

Sea Surface Temp.

Sea Ice & Wind

In Situ

Arctic Ocean

Baltic Sea

Atlantic NWS

Atlantic IBI

Mediterranean Sea

Global Ocean

Black Sea

5 Thematic Assembly Centres

7 Monitoring and Forecasting Centres

Observations Models

ServiceDesk

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http://www.myocean.eu.org

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Le service de base océaniqueThe marine core service

des systèmes intégrésintegrated systems

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Obervatories: MyOcean needs

Why? The ocean is still UNDERSAMPLED (OceanObs’09)

Statistics of in-situ data provided by the Coriolis data centre and processed at CLS between April and June 2009. Age of data by type (PF, profilers / BA, Global Transmission System [GTS] BATHY messages / CT, CTDs / MO, moorings / TE, GTS TESAC messages / XB, XBTs).

Altimetric Sea Level Anomalies (SLA, heights given in meter) gathered the 24/03/2004 for the same day

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Obervatories: MyOcean needs

When?– For assimilation (real time, 3-6 hours)– For validation (near real time , 6 hours to 1 week)– For reanalysis (delayed mode data, provided with several

months delays)

What?– Sea level, bottom pressure– Temperature, salinity (zoom in the mixed layer)– Currents– Sea state, waves

– Atmospheric parameters usefull if increase forecast skill of Weather Forecast Centers

– Biogeochimical parameters: turbidity, O2, CO2, inorg. nutrients, chlorophylle A…

Typically hourly data

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Obervatories: MyOcean needs

How?– Routinely Accessible for the InSitu MyOcean Portal, that

play unique entry point for all MyOcean Production Units– Data Policy: Observatory data can enter MyOcean with a

restricted access for operations (no dissemination of data)

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….. thank you