The MyOcean project

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- My STATUS
Globcolour/Medspiration Workshop, Oslo, 20-22
November 2007
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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 RD 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 (lt2002)
• 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

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OCEAN SURFACE QUANTITIES MEASURED FROM SPACE
SEA ICE
WAVES
SEA ICE THICKNESS
CHLOROPHYLL
GEOID MDT
SURFACE SALINITY
SURFACE CURRENT
NEAR SURFACE WIND
SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SEA LEVEL
ICEBERG
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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

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3. MERSEAMersea Strand 1 2003-2004Mersea
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.

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GMES schedule
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Operational
Implementation
Initial
GMES 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

• Todays 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

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STILL A PROPOSAL
A project for the European Marine Core Service
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A European Marine core service clearly defined
by the EC GMES Implementation Group
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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,
  were 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

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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.

• Climate
• Marine Environment
• Seasonal and weather forecasting
• Offshore
• Maritime transport and safety
• Fisheries
• Research
• General Public

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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 ?
The down stream Cut off
The upstream cut-off
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 place Example COASTAL
SYSTEMS
upstream to our service ... is done (duty) by an
observation agency or center (raw data) Example
Eumetsat SAF or the ESA PAC
Data, Model European 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
Ocean centers
...
Env. agencies
Research centers
Navies, CoastGuards, ..
OSPAR
UNEP-MAP
ICES
...
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

Arctic GOOS
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NOOS
4
3
BOOS
1
GOOS/ Godae
1
7
1
6
Black Sea GOOS
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6
IBI-ROOS
MOON MedGOOS
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Card 5 WHEN ?
GMES Implementation
GMES Operations
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
MCS Workshop
CALL
PROPOSAL
KICK-OFF
(prototyping core system)
MY OCEAN (core service)

• 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

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Card 6 HOW ?

• 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 RD, Integration, Operations, and
  Assessment

13 PRODUCTION UNITS
TAC
MFC
Arctic
Sea Level
Baltic
SST
Atl. NWS
Ice
Global
Service Interface
Wind
Atl. IBI
Color
Med Sea
In Situ
Black Sea
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The breakdown
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Selection of TACs MFCs Rationale

• Consolidation (operational, Cal/Val, RD,
  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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MyOcean arteries network
SL TAC
OC TAC
Sea Ice TAC
In situ TAC
SST TAC
Wind TAC
MFC Global NEC/Fujitsu
Arctic MFC
Baltic MFC
NW Shelves MFC NEC
IBI MFC Cray
Med Sea MFC
Black Sea MFC
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Card 7 WHO ?
Engineers Duty central engineering
Operators duty operational and qualified A few,
but under strong operational commitments
Users Duty ensure MCS integration into real
world
RD Duty quality and innovation
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Whats 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.