MyOcean

Towards a European Ocean Monitoring Service

MyOcean is an EU funded R&D project (FP7) which fits into the European Earth monitoring programme GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security).

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Project leader: National responsible:

Vlado Malačič

B. Petelin, M. Ličer, D. Žagar (FGG UNI-LJ)

A unique dynamic and 3D vision of the Ocean

ANYWHERE (Global + 6 Regional Seas) FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP AT ANY TIME (past, present,

future) REAL TIME or PAST PERIOD

Ice

Temperature

Salinity

Biogeochemical

Sea LevelCurrents

Project Objectives & Areas of benefits

• How does the project achieve these goals (MV comment)?

• By organized collaboration among European partners

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How does it work ?

DATA

DATA

USER

USERAPPLICATIONS

marine service

500 000 observations per day from Space and Sea

Production of Ocean observations, analysis and Forecasts (Models)

• Maritime Safety• Marine Resources• Coastal

Environment• Weather/Climate

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The MyOcean Service

• 350 marine experts in 29 countries

• 46 inter-connected systems• 300 technical interfaces• 700 000 billions of ops/day

on supercomputers

• MyOcean web portal : a sole data Access point.

• A catalogue of 239 products.• Inspire directive compliant

• A service desk providing assistance and connecting users to experts.

• MyOcean website• Quality Monitoring• Information to citizen on the

MyOcean IPhone app

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NIB-MBS as MyOcean partner

Marine Biology Station of NIB participated in the project MyOcean with two work packages :

WP9 – Cal/Val - calibration and validation of numerical models for the Mediterranean, providing:

Daily averaged data of the oceanographic buoy Vida (temperature, salinity and velocity of sea currents) - operational since February 2010 (buoy is operational since 2002)Daily averaged results of the numerical model North Adriatic Princeton Ocean Model – NAPOM (temperature, salinity, velocity of sea currents and sea surface elevation at predefined stations) - operational since June 2011

WP18 – Marine Safety - prediction of the spread of oil spils in the Slovenian Sea through numerical models of NAPOM (NIB-MBS) and NAFTA (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering)

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NIB-MBS as MyOcean 2 partner

Marine Biology Station of NIB participates in the project MyOcean 2 in a large WP 3:

Sub-WP 3.5 ‘National Systems in the Mediterranean’- calibration and validation of numerical models for the Mediterranean:

Task 3.5.3: integration of MyOcean2 products in the National System, (feedback by User Assessment Reports (UAR)) of usefullness of MyOcean products)

Task 3.5.4: external validation system of MyOcean, based on in situ data (buoy Vida) and high-resolution models products (NAPOM, NAFTA 3D) provided by National Systems.

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NIB-MBS as MyOcean partnerMyOcean

Start date:2009-01-01 ; End date:2012-03-31 ; Duration:39 months TOTAL Project cost: 55.000.000 €; EU Funding:33.800.000 €, 61%No. of PARTNERS: 60NIB-MBS cost: 220.000 €; NIB-MBS Funding: 110.000 €; EU: 110.000 €

MyOcean 2Start date:2012-04-01 ; End date:2014-09-30 ; Duration:30 months TOTAL Project cost: 41.133.416 €; EU Funding:27.999.446 €, 68%No. of PARTNERS: 59NIB-MBS cost: 107.066 €; NIB-MBS Funding: 27.166 €; EU: 79.900 EURO, 75 %

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MyOcean WP9 Cal/Val, NAPOM, Oceanographic buoy “Vida”

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Co-financed by the Slovenian Environment Agency & Slovenian Research Agency

http://gnoo.bo.ingv.it/myocean/calval/

MyOcean WP9 Cal/Val, forecasting model “NAPOM”

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NAPOM Northern Adriatic Princeton Ocean

Model

ARSO + NIBMalačič V., Petelin B., Vodopivec M., 2012,

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MyOcean WP9 Cal/Val, forecasting model “NAPOM”

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M. Ličer, B. Petelin , M. Vodopivec

Developed by NIB,

Running at Slovenian

Environment Agency

MyOcean WP3, forecasting model “NAPOM” and ‘CYCOFOS”

with ‘NAFTA 3D’ oil spill model

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NAPOM (ARSO&NIB) ASFS MFS (INGV Bologna)

Ličer M. (NIB) ,Žagar D. (FGG, UNI-LJ)

CYCOFOS (Cyprus OC) ALERMO (Univ. Athens) MFS (INGV Bologna)

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ConclusionsMyOcean 2 is one of a few projects that had been only slightly reducedMyOcean a successful project:

delivers about 215 oceanographic products available through a single catalogue it is open and free

We are worried about our possibility to work on MyOcean 2 in 2013 and later:

Funding of maintenance/repair of Vida after five years of continuous operation (65 k€), out of scope of MyOcean 2Heavy situation in a country lack of financing human potential - could affect the work on MyOcean 2

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Up to date the MyOcean (2) project is the best scientific/technological European umbrella for

coastal ocean studies.

Therefore:we will fight and accomplish what we promissed