Directors report

1
Directors report

• Internal affairs
• External affairs

2
Objectives, tasks and products

• The major objective of the ESEAS is to enhance
  exploitation of sea-level and related databases
  both in scientific and non-scientific
  applications.
• In order to achieve this, the ESEAS strives to
  identify and promote user requirements as well as
  requests and wishes made by the users for
  specific products.
• The ESEAS aims to provide quality-assured
  sea-level and sea-level related information for
  European waters to a broad range of scientific
  and non-scientific users.
• To do this, the ESEAS will maintain user-friendly
  interfaces to databases and stimulate research in
  order to improve observation and analysis methods.

3
ESEAS Tasks

• The major tasks of the ESEAS are to ensure a
  sufficient quantity, guarantee the quality, and
  improve the accessibility of sea-level
  information. The ESEAS must meet the requirements
  and specifications of a wide range of
• users.
• Integrate the activities of the ESEAS as far as
  possible into the strategies of relevant on-going
  programmes or services such as GLOSS, MEDGLOSS,
  G3OS, EUROGOOS, IGS, and EUREF
• Coordinate and, where necessary, initiate
  sea-level observations in European waters as well
  as necessary ancillary observations
• Set and maintain standards for operation of tide
  gauges and other ancillary observation
  infrastructure, and to make sure that these
  standards conform to existing standards in other
  relevant programmes or services
• Take appropriate measures to quality-assure all
  data, products and information provided to user
  through the ESEAS
• Define and maintain a list of products and to
  make sure that these are provided to users
• Compile and make available information related
  to sea level and its spatial and temporal
  variability
• Establish and maintain a comprehensive sea-level
  web site providing general information as well as
  access to sea-level data and products.

4
ESEAS Products

• near real-time access to tide gauge data
• hourly data from tide gauge sites including
  relative sea level and meteorological parameters
  
• monthly mean values of relative sea level
• extreme sea-level estimates
• long-term statistics and possibly predictions of
  extremes
• historical and current rates of change of mean
  sea level
• long-term trends and possibly predictions of
  means
• routine maps of sea-surface topography over
  extended areas of the European coastal seas and
  adjacent deep ocean
• ocean tidal parameters
• crustal vertical motion at location(s) adjacent
  to tide gauges
• absolute gravity values from sites close to tide
  gauges.

5
Directors report

• New webpages
• Data collection
• Coordination/participation in proposals
• Sea Level Hazards Observation System
• Transfer Tsunami Risk and Strategies for the
  European Region
• IPY ArcticGOOS (Operational oceanography in the
  Arctic and Nordic seas)
• Real-time TG survey
• New server
• White paper

6
Directors report

• GEO plenary and WG Tsunami
• IOC
• International Early Warning System
• IOTWS sea level project
• NEAMTWS
• Working Group on Sea Level
• WCRP Understanding Sea Level Rise and
  Variability, Paris (ESEAS sponsor)
• SONEL Workshop, La Rochelle
• GLOSS
• EuroGOOS
• SEPRISE
• MoU
• EGU 2006, Vienna
• GMES

7
ESEAS TEC

• Tide Gauge Operation and Analysis (6 mem)
• Douwe Dillingh (The Netherlands) not
  in RI
• Daniel Hareide (Norway)
  not in RI
• Begoña Pérez (Spain)
  in RI
• Fabio Raicich (Italy)
  in RI
• New Andrew Shaw (UK)
• New Mikis Tsimplis (Chair)
• Satellite Altimetry (1)
• Per Knudsen or colleague (Denmark) in
  RI

• Vertical land movements (3 mem)
• New. Halfdan Kierulf (Norway)
  in RI
• New Norman Teferle (UK)
  in RI
• New Guy Woppelmann (France) not in
  RI
• Operational Modelling (2 mem)
• Enrique Alvarez Funjal (Spain)
  not in RI
• New UK