The GMES/MyOcean Marine Service and its applications P.Y. Le Traon (Ifremer) P. Bahurel (Mercator Ocean) First BreTel Workshop May 31st, 2012 - St Malo
Outline The GMES Marine Service and MyOcean What MyOcean has delivered MyOcean2 and a future ECOMF GMES Marine Service and applications in Regions
GMES Marine service, implementation steps with EC GMES Implementation (2004-2014) FP6 MERSEA (2004-2008) Set up a common R&D, prepare a system FP7 MyOcean (2009-2012) Set up a European integrated system, and open the service to users FP7 MyOcean2 (2012-2014) Develop and improve the service, work for sustainability GMES operations (2014 onwards) ECOMF, European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting A GMES Marine service sustained for users
MyOcean Products and Services Marine Core Service MyOcean delivers regular and systematic reference information (processed data, elaborated products) on the state of the oceans and regional seas: at the resolution required by intermediate users & downstream service providers, of known quality and accuracy, for the global and European regional seas. Physical state of the ocean, and primary ecosystem For global ocean, and main European basins and seas Large and basin scale ; mesoscale physics Hindcast, Nowcast, Forecast Data, Assimilation and Models
MyOcean (3 years) & MyOcean2 (2,5 years) ~60 partners from ~28 countries ~11 M /year EC Grant
1. What MyOcean has delivered:
SERVICE a) a demonstration of the marine «core European service» concept SYSTEM INTERMEDIAT E USERS Climate seasonal & weather forecasting Marine & coastal environment Marine Resources Marine safety
b) A catalogue of marine «common denominator» data Currents, Temperature, Salinity Sea Level, Sea Ice, Surface winds Biogeochemistry 239 products
c) A comprehensive and consistent description of the ocean All areas In Situ Observations Satellite Observations Assimilative Models Real-time Reanalyses
d) A single and easy access point for users www.myocean.eu Services DISCOVE R VIEW DOWNLOAD Data Policy Open & Free
e) A pan-european system organization to produce marine information 60 PARTNERS in FP7 MyOcean & MyOcean2 projects 14 MAIN OPERATORS for the main service functions 5 THEMATIC ASSEMBLY CENTRES 7 MONITORING AND FORECASTING CENTRES
f) An information system to manage the data flows
h) A service desk Providing assistance Connecting users and experts
i) Service Level Agreements Around 1000 standard Service Level Agreements today Specific management for major accounts EEA
j) A project organization to work on user s uptake A WP gathering of «reference intermediate users» The Core User Group A set of User Requirement Documents (URDs) User Forum Stockholm, April 2011 User Training Bologna July 2011
k) A pan-european organization to run the present and prepare the future Annual meetings with partners A project management, central and distributed A Board, with advisory committees for stakeholders, for users and for science ECOMF Contract, project and service coordination, between partners and EC
l) A growing number of users 1200 1000 800 600 1009 (26 march) 855 (1 march) 715 (1 feb) 602 (1 jan) 1200 400 1000 200 800 0 600 400 200 0 Service v0 Service v1 Service v2 A M J J A S O N D J F M A M J J A S S N D J F M A M J J A S O N D J F M 2009 2010 2011 2012
m) A good repartition of users Users in 65 different countries (25 EU members) 30% Climate seasonal & weather forecasting 28% Marine & coastal environment Marine Resources 17% Marine safety 25% A fair repartition in application areas And 67% of users using the core service in more than one sector
www.myocean.eu Fukushima MyOcean Global Ocean capacity MyOcean Global Ocean Service
Fukushima 3 months drift simulations in the Kuroshio www.myocean.eu
www.myocean.eu n Costa Concordia MyOcean response MyOcean Daily forecasts of the oil spill drift and spreading from the Costa Concordia ship Currents forecasted in the area Oil spill scenario derived locally Decision support for operations 13 th Jan 2012
n Icebreaking oil tanker Timofey Guzhenko in the Pechora Sea The service is fantastic - it is the clearest indication of ice thickness and extent that I've been able to find as a member of the public. Thank you. Richard Foster. Windallfilms, London. MyOcean Close out / MyOcean 2 Kick Off 27-29 March 2012
Marine ecosystem application in Greece MyOcean North Aegean Sea Ecosystem Modeling/Forecast ALERMO Model MyOcean Mediterranean MFC biochemical products are used for the initialization and open boundary conditions of the ecosystem model 5- days forecast application in the N. Aegean Sea. The experiments indicate that there is a clear benefit of using MyOcean products. North Aegean Model
COASTAL OBSERVATIONS & FORECASTS PREVIMER: A coastal operational forecasting system (Brittany Region CPER project) Website presentation: www.previmer.org/ presentation PREVIMER provides coastal synoptic observations and 96 hour to 6 day forecast in regional areas (the Channel, the Bay of Biscay and NW Mediterranean) down to very local areas on the following parameters: direction and intensity of currents, sea-surface and bottom temperature and salinity, sea level, waves: frequency, direction and height, Nutrients and phytoplankton concentration, water quality 2006-2007 : phase 1 based on demonstrators 2008-2013 : phase 2 towards an operational system www.previmer.org 24
n) A positive momentum to move from MyOcean to MyOcean2 a GMES Marine Service for ocean monitoring and forecasting 1000 users User #1000 registered on Friday 23 March 2012 1000 requests/day 30 000 requests in January 2012 and in February 2012
From MyOcean to MyOcean2 MyOcean-2 : a 2.5 year project (April 2012 September 2014), with 60 partners, and a EU Grant of 28 M A continuation of MyOcean-1 focussing further on the service to users, and with improvements based on MyOcean experience Some priorities: continuous updates in the catalogue, quality assessment, reanalyses & multi-year assessment, user uptake
From MyOcean2 to ECOMF ECOMF (European Center for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting) is the organization delivering the sustained ocean monitoring and forecasting component of the GMES Marine Service ECOMF
The components of the European Operational Oceanography Infrastructure ECOMF Effort on ECOMF A European Centre taking care of the core service part, pooling high level investments, simplifying interfaces, delivering common-need data Effort on national components A European community of marine centres, adding value for users, collecting observations, delivering services, taking care of national interests, sharing skills and practices
ECOMF timeframe 2011, kick-off 2012, design 2013, implement. 2014, ready 2011: ECOMF emerging Signal sent to European stakeholders: the ECOMF process is kickedoff MoU signed by 14 key partners for ECOMF preparation 2012: ECOMF design Scope, service content, implementation options, legal form, Links/partnerships with stakeholders, funding schemes, governance 2013: ECOMF implementation Assuming that GMES funding scheme is known, progressive implementation of ECOMF ; arrangements with EC and stakeholders 2014: ECOMF ready for transition End of MyOcean2, transition to GMES operations
GMES Marine Service: applications in regions GMES/MyOcean «core» products (satellite, in-situ and models) are needed and used for a wide range of coastal applications and services Need sustained satellite (e.g. Sentinel-1&3, Jason-CS), in-situ (e.g. Argo) and modelling&service (ECOMF) infrastructures. A European organization as part of the GMES Marine Service that must now be sustained. To best serve marine applications in regions (e.g. marine safety, aquaculture, renewable energy, water quality), the European service must be complemented to include coastal areas (and specific coastal products). This needs to be organized at national and regional levels. A strong need to set up in France a sustained coastal operational oceanography system (SNOCO) building on PREVIMER achievements and coupled to the GMES Marine Service.