Chair: N.Pinardi

Rapporteur: B.Hackett

Splinter Session 6:Marine Operations (Real Time)

7&8 Sep 2015 -CMEMS SE & UU Workshop, Brussels

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CMEMS Service Evolution & User Uptake Workshop

Session Main Objectives

• gather feedbacks/inputs on the CMEMS products and services related to marine operations

• discuss user requirements for application in the sector

• discuss needed improvements

• discuss needed training/documentation

Transport Safety and efficiency

Search and Rescue

Pollution emergencies

Offshore operations

Military operations

Fishery&mariculture

Marine operations (real-time): Stakeholders

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What are the CMES products for marine operations?

All areas

+Waves coming soon

What are the CMES products for marine operations?

High time resolutionpossible

Long time series possible

Costa concordia operations:

oil spill drift scenario forecasts during emergencies

Currents and winds forecasted in the area

Oil spill scenarioderived locally

13th Jan 2012

Decision support for operations

Implied blue economy sectors: Coast Guards, Civil protection, offshore economy

Transport operations: routing in the ocean dynamical environment

Implied blue economy sectors: Naval engineering, transport, tourism

Waves, winds and currents forecasted in the area

Optimal Route Otranto-Patrasso

Questions to be addressedA. What are the new user requirements for marine

operation applications (Europe, international)

B. What are the user requirements in particular for the wave products?

C. CMES offer: strengths and weaknesses

D. Short term/mid-term R&D priorities to better serve marine operation applications

E. Suggestions for possible User Uptake activities

What are the new user requirements for marine operation applications (Europe, international)

● A new user: routing global, waves, currents, extend to winds. Use total current profile 0-16 m. Need tides. They are not looking for the best data, but the variability and confidence level are needed. Example: straits on transport routes.

● GLOBCURRENT: identified need for current profile in upper layer. Need to better define the currents in CMEMS MFC data.

● NetCDF convention: CMEMS could take a leading role in extending the CF convention. Ocean vocabulary conventions could be a tool to communicate with users.

● GODAE & JCOMM guidelines for validation metrics and vocabularies should be taken into account.

What are the new user requirements for marine operation applications (Europe, international)

● GLOBCURRENT has a user-study of requirements for surface current that can be used by CMEMS.

● Need for use cases and working service examples to demonstrate “how-to” to users.

● It is necessary to retain the present non-tidal current datasets (e..g. for downscaling).

● There is a need for more targeted sea ice information for the offshore industry and for defence.

What are the user requirements in particular for the wave products?

● Advantage of CMEMS waves is the coupling of waves and currents, and the consistency with the ocean model grid.

● There is a difference between internal user requirements and external user requirements (fitness-for-purpose). CMEMS needs to develop a strategy to discriminate between these requirements.

● Important to educate users that wave effects will be included implicitly in the surface currents. Important to retain the existing non-coupled currents (e.g. for downscaling).

● Need to maintain existing products and add new coupled products – let users decide how to use the new ones – if at all

● Need to provide uncertainties in the waves and new coupled datasets. The uncertainties need to be understandable and useful to users.

CMES offer: strengths and weaknesses

● No one volunteered to state problems with the CMEMS products.

● CMEMS offers both observations and model analyses/forecasts for users to intercompare.

● Uncertainty information is weak.

Short term/mid-term R&D priorities to better serve marine operation applications

● Tides are required and are planned.

● Uncertainty estimates are required for currents (total and non-tidal) and wave variables.

● Ocean optics is currently only an observed variable – could be a new MFC variable – needs to be validated.

● Coupling of waves and currents is important.

● GODAE OceanView Task Teams are a good international platform to identify R&D priorities. CMEMS should be well-represented.

Suggestions for possible User Uptake activities

● Consider the oil industry for training session. Ice in the Arctic is an issue.

● Emergency services (oil, SAR) global demos.

● Promote IMO and IHO standard data specifications to consider CMEMS products.