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MY OCEAN
Globcolour/Medspiration Workshop, Oslo, 20-22 November 2007
- My STATUS
Marine Core Service
Recap MyOcean objectives
Objective 1: Set up the Marine Core Service– A “system of systems” of 14 components (6 TACs, 7 MFCs, and 1 central)
forming the backbone of the core service– 13 CORE PARTNERS, committed for operations
Objective 2: Ensure Operational Certification– A group of “engineering-operated” space companies and met offices
Objective 3: Ensure Sustainability through User involvement– A group of 23 “Member States” users & all EU “marine” countries are
represented
Objective 4: Ensure Sustainability through Products ‘state-of-the-art’ quality– A group of 24 R&D partners, distributed all over Europe
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MyOcean consortium Lead : MERCATOR OCEAN
Core partners from France, UK, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Ukraine, ...
27 different countries, from EU, but also Norway, Israel, Russia, Canada, Morrocco, ...
69 partners total
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Before MyOcean Before GMES (<2002)
– GOAL: Conducting research, developing network and capacities– The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) initiated
GMES initial period (2002-2003)– GOAL: Demonstrate the “European maturity” of oceanography:
• MERSEA Strand 1– We proposed a system based on existing skills and capacities
GMES Implementation period (2004-2008)– GOAL: Build the main components of the GMES system
• MERSEA IP for the marine component– Based on the integration of the European core of the existing systems
and their networks
Marine Core ServiceOCEAN SURFACE QUANTITIES MEASURED FROM SPACE
SEA LEVEL
CHLOROPHYLL
NEAR SURFACE WIND
WAVES
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
ICEBERG
SEA ICE
SURFACE CURRENT
SURFACE SALINITY
SEA ICE THICKNESS
GEOID & MDT
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GODAE Modelling/Assimilation Centers
cf. GODAE Implementation plan Australia : (BLUELINK): Regional
Australian seas to Global Ocean Japan : N.Pacific to Global Ocean US (ECCO, HYCOM-US projects, …) :
N.Atlantic and Global Ocean Europe
– France (MERCATOR) : N.Atlantic & Med Sea to Global Ocean
– Norway (TOPAZ) : North Atlantic to Arctic– UK (FOAM) : N.Atlantic / Global ocean to
Northern Shelves
GODAE
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MY OCEAN
3. MERSEA
“Mersea Strand 1” 2003-2004“Mersea IP” 2004-2008
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MERSEA Strand-1/IP Objectives develop at European level an “integrated capacity” for
global to regional ocean monitoring and forecasting
Share efforts, capacity, skills
and data
Develop a European system of systems
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The Marine Core Service
In october 2005, the “Marine Core Service” definition workshop– In 2006: The “MCS” GMES Implementation Group report :
Ryder & al
GMES Operational period (2008-xxxx)– GOAL: Run the GMES European Service
• MyOcean MCS for the marine component - moving from system integration to services.
Marine Core Service
OperationalImplementation
GMES schedule
00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13
InitialGMES Phases
...
Demonstrate the European maturity of
oceanography
Build the GMES marine
system, integrating the
“core” capacities
Run the GMES marine core
service, on an operational basis
Today’s challenges : Challenge (1): run the European core service on an operational basis Challenge (2) : link with the European and member states main services and
applications, (and the rest of the world) Challenge (3) : organise on a sustainable basis the link between this
operational European service and the existing research networks
MarineCore
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MY OCEAN
STILL A PROPOSAL
A project for the European “Marine Core Service”
Marine Core Service
GMESSatelliteand in situnetworks
Marine Core Service
Marine Downstream Services
GMES Marine
OperationalUsers
GMESService outputs(others)
Core information
(ocean state)
User customizedinformation
(user products)
GMES input information (raw data)
A European Marine “core” service clearly defined by the EC GMES Implementation Group
Marine Core Service
MyOcean strenghts
A multi-year “experience” : preparing this “MCS” successful implementation through different GMES projects– The last ones are: MERSEA, Medspiration & Globcolor,
Marcoast & Polarview, ...
A collection of well-assessed existing “systems”, we’re not starting from nothing ; we have already a very good basis of existing core systems– See for instance the Mersea “system of systems”
A community of providers, operators, users and researchers: we have powerful networking organization such as EuroGOOS– Organized by regions and linked to international (GOOS, GEO)– Gathering data Providers, model Operators and ... Users
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MyOcean Challenges
Move from an inter- “National” cooperation to a “European” perspective define a “european core” and focus on the links with national systems
The “ocean community” has multiple faces: Met Offices, Ocean centers, Research & Operational, Public & Private, Data only, model only, etc define a functional architecture, assign the responsibilities, and be clear on the
commitments
We have different definitions of “operationality” for our “operational oceanography” systems. use only one : use the EC guidelines as the reference
Move from “science-push” to “user-pull” set up a user-oriented organization: a user board, user commissioning forum, ...
Move from demonstration to full scale operations a certification process, to deliver the “ready-for-operations” label
MCS
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Climate Marine Environment Seasonal and weather forecasting Offshore Maritime transport and safety Fisheries Research General Public
Card 1: “WHY?” Areas of Benefit MyOcean will “provide the data for users in the marine
sector, in other words the information for existing & new downstream services.”
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Card 2: “WHAT ?” (Service) MyOcean will
“deliver 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.”
Data handling, Modelling and Assimilation
Variables: T, S, UV, SSH, ice, Chl-a, ...
Products: Catalog of reference products : pre-defined data fields, reanalysis, reports, ...
Service: Real time, Delayed Mode, On request,
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Card 3: “HOW FAR ?”
Provider
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EuropeanCore Service
downstream to our service:... is done (duty), or will be better done (skill) by a specialized agency, a European agency or a national center ; usually already in placeExample : COASTAL SYSTEMS
The down stream Cut off
upstream to our service
... is done (duty) by an observation agency or center (raw data)Example : Eumetsat SAFor the ESA PAC
The upstream cut-off
Data, ModelEuropean added-value
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Card 4: “TO WHOM ?” The Key Users MyOcean will deliver a service to
– EU: The European Union• Users: European agencies
(EEA, EMSA, EDA, ...)
– MS: The Member States • Users: National Service
Providers
– IG: The Intergovernmental bodies• Users: MS and/or exec.bodies
such as OSPAR, UNEP-MAP, HELCOM, ICES, ...
EEA EMSA EDA ...
Met Offices
Oceancenters
Env. agencies
Navies, CoastGuards, ..
Research centers
...
OSPAR
ICES
UNEP-MAP
...
CORE
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The users The direct users of MyOcean products are
– a) Member States service providers (intermediate users) that provide downstream services and products to regional / national / local users
– b) European and Regional Agencies: EMSA, EEA, HELCOM, OSPAR, UNEP-MAP, Arctic Council, OOPC, GCOS, JCOMM, ...
A Core User Group composed by both a) and b) members will be set up
A much broader range of MyOcean users (end-users) is involved indirectly in the demonstrations and together with the MS providers carry out the assessment
SLAs will be established by WP17 following GSE approach
Existing relations ”Core service providers” ”Intermediate users” built through MERSEA, Marcoast/Polarview, regional organizations (e.g. GOOS/EuroGOOS), ... will be continued.
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MFC and regions 1. Global 2. Arctic 3. Baltic 4. NWS 5. IBI 6. Med Sea 7 Black Sea
MOON & MedGOOS
GOOS/Godae
NOOSBOOS
Arctic GOOS
Black Sea GOOS6
IBI-ROOS
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Card 5: “WHEN ?”
A 3-year project Starting before summer 2008, ending in 2011 2 phases :
– First 18 months: qualification of Service Version 1– Last 18 months: qualification of Service Version 2
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
(prototyping core system)MY OCEAN (core service)CALL PROPOSALMCS
Workshop KICK-OFF
GMES Implementation GMES Operations
Qualif Service V1Qualif Service V2
QUALIF MCS V1 QUALIF MCS V2
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Card 6: “HOW ?”
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6 TAC : Thematic Assembly Centers– “Observations”
1 global and 6 regional MFC: Monitoring and Forecasting Centers– “Model / Assimilation”
Each Production Unit– under operational
commitments to deliver a service (OLAs)
– Conducting R&D, Integration, Operations, and Assessment
Sea Level
SST
Ice
Wind
Color
In Situ
TAC Arctic
Baltic
Atl. NWS
Atl. IBI
Med Sea
Black Sea
Global
MFC13 PRODUCTION UNITS
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MyOceanWP1
MANAGEMENT &CROSS-CUTTING
WP2CENTRAL ENGINEERING
WP4 to WP16PRODUCTION
WP17 to WP20SERVICE
WP3R&D
WP4 to WP10MFCs
(Monitoring & Forecasting Centers)
WP 11 to WP16TACs
(Thematic Assembly Centres)
Servicedefinition
Serviceprovision
ServiceIntegration &assessment
System engineering
Qualityassurance
CommonSub-systems
The breakdown
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Selection of TACs & MFCs Rationale
Consolidation (operational, Cal/Val, R&D, service) of facilities developed over the past 5-10 years (MERSEA, Eurogoos, ESA projects including GSE, national projects, etc).
Criteria : maturity, skill, pan-European scale, operational capabilities, links with MFCs, Member state support (sustainability)
Global and regional services
Builds on Implementation Group Report
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MyOcean 6 TACs
Sea Level TAC
Sea Surface temperature TAC
Ocean colour TAC
Wind TAC
Sea Ice TAC
In-situ TAC
CLS
UK Met Office, Météo-France
CNR
KNMI
Met.No, (NERSC)
Ifremer
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MyOcean 7 MFCs
Global and North Atlantic
Atlantic: North west Shelves
Atlantic: IBI area
Arctic
Baltic
Med Sea
Black Sea
Mercator Ocean, France
Met office, UK
Puerto del Estados, Spain Mercator Ocean, France
met.no, (NERSC) Norway
DMI, Denmark
INGV, Italy
MHI, Ukraine
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SL TAC
OC TAC
Sea Ice TAC
In situ TAC
MFC Global: NEC/Fujitsu
Arctic MFC
Baltic MFC
NW Shelves MFC: NEC
IBI MFC : Cray
Med Sea MFC
Black Sea MFC
MyOcean arteries network
SST TAC
Wind TAC
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Card 7: “WHO ?”
Operatorsduty: operational
and qualifiedA few, but under strong operational
commitments
R&DDuty : quality and
innovation
UsersDuty: ensure
MCS integration into
real world
EngineersDuty: central engineering
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What´s next
We expect to receive an official letter from the Commission in beginning December that will invite us to start negotiations:
- The negotiation phase is assumed to take about 3-4 months (end in April 2008).
- The negotiation and finalization of the DoW will have to provide a full outline of the MyOcean objectives and workplan in consistence with the 33 meuro of EU contribution.
- MERSEA IP ends in April 2008
- Possible start of MyOcean in 3rd quarter of 2008.