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EuroGOOS Up-date ROOSs
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A few of 20 EuroGOOS objectives Just as a reminder

• to foster European co-operation on and contribute
  to international planning and implementation of
  the Global Ocean Observing System ("GOOS")
• to identify European priorities for operational
  oceanography and to promote the development of
  science, technology and computer systems for
  operational oceanography and assess the economic
  and social benefits from operational
  oceanography
• ix) to co-ordinate GOOS data acquisition with
  existing European and national data gathering
  under agreements and conventions relating to
  pollution monitoring, marine meteorology,
  navigation and safety at sea
• xiii) to promote the development of common
  infrastructure and to promote major systems or
  capital installations required to support
  European operational oceanography
• xv) to promote the development of common
  European operational oceanographic services and
  products of maximum value to European governments
  and agencies, the furtherance of European
  industries and service companies, and the
  protection of the environment and health in the
  European coastal and shelf seas

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The Present Network
35 Members 53 Additional Regional Partners
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• Seen from the EuroGOOS Office the last year has
  been successful. Prioritised goals have been
  reached or are coming closer, and EuroGOOS is
  today a well known organisation in the relevant
  European and Global contexts.
• The last year is also finalising a period with
  priorities for the EuroGOOS work that was adopted
  by the Annual General Members meeting 2002
• This five year period can be characterised as a
  period of design and demonstration of a European
  system for operational oceanography.

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• During this period the work of EuroGOOS has been
  influenced and supported by several European
  Union/Commission initiatives and regulations as
  the
• Water Framework Directive,
• the Marine Strategy Directive,
• the Inspire Directive,
• the re-use of Governmental Data Decision,
• GMES/Kopernikus,
• the Maritime Policy and others.
• EuroGOOS has taken or been given the opportunity
  to influence several EU initiatives.
• An important source for funding development and
  demonstrations has been the European Framework
  Programmes FP5 FP7. The EuroGOOS Chair and
  Director have served as advisor or evaluator in
  several projects related to operational
  oceanography.

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Priorities 2002 for next 5 years
Priority 1. Advance and implement a marine
monitoring and forecasting system using a
European Centre(s) approach. Priority 2.
Establish an operational forecasting suite from
global to local/from drivers to
products. Priority 3. Implement regional systems
based on local and regional user
requirements. Priority 4. Co-ordinate the
contribution to GMES, GOOS, JCOMM, Coastal GOOS
(COOP). Priority 5. Pull the necessary research
and technical development for marine
monitoring, forecasting, nowcasting, and
hindcasting. Priority 6. Introduce EuroGOOS
Summer schools. Priority 7. Establish a Capacity
building programme. Priority 8. Establish an
interface to marine industry. Priority 9.
Prepare EuroGOOS to be intergovernmental?
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Priorities 1 and 2 the system

• GMES, today Kopernikus
• GMES Butterfly
• Projects as MerSea, ECOOP and MyOcean designed,
  planned and carried through by EuroGOOS members
  and partners to support the development and
  implementation
• EuroGOOS and its members are in charge of the
  implementation of the GMES Marine system through
  several different roles. Design, implementation
  projects, chair of implementation group,
  important users. The EuroGOOS Director is present
  chair of the Marine Core Service Implementation
  Group

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The Kopernikus Marine System
EuroGOOS area of interest
Information freely available for all users
Area for private and governmental value added
services
Contracted operators
Expected member state contribution
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• A European marine monitoring programme is
  formally required by GMES, the Marine Directive
  and the Maritime Policy, respectively.
• Together with other organisations EuroGOOS has
  promoted the importance of the in situ
  observations in parallel with remote sensing in
  GMES. The work has been successful, and the
  Director is now representing marine observations
  in the GMES In Situ Observations Working Group.
• The European Marine Observation and Data Network
  (EMODNET) is part of the Maritime Policy
  development. The EuroGOOS Director is chair of
  the EMODNET Expert Group, MODEG.
• An important role in the GMES and EMODNET groups
  is to explain that marine data is not mainly a
  data management problem but a problem of serious
  under sampling in relation to requirements. This
  message is also promoted in a brochure, which is
  a joint production between the Marine Board and
  EuroGOOS.

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• The EuroGOOS working group DATA-MEQ has during
  the year produced a Recommendation for a
  Pan-European data management system for
  operational oceanography within EuroGOOS. This
  is closely related to the development of a common
  European data exchange system that is also
  harmonised with the Global efforts.
• The EuroGOOS working group on Products looks at
  the European system for operational oceanographic
  products from a user perspective. This group
  co-operates with a similar group in ICES
  (established through EuroGOOS influence)

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• Priority 3. Implement regional systems based on
  local and regional user requirements.
• The establishment and successful development of
  European regional systems, so called ROOSs, has
  been on-going for several years. During the last
  year IBI-ROOS has taken a major step forward, and
  a new ROOS has been established in the Arctic
  region, Arctic ROOS.
• The sub-regional structure, which is also adopted
  by other GOOS Regional Alliances as a method to
  implement Coastal GOOS, supports a closer contact
  with local users and user requirements, and
  justifies easier the costs for operational
  systems.

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• Priority 4. Co-ordinate the contribution to GMES,
  GOOS, JCOMM, Coastal GOOS (COOP).
• EuroGOOS has obtained observer status in IOC,
  GOOS, JCOMM and other intergovernmental
  organisations. The Director represents EuroGOOS
  at major meetings of these organisations, and
  also encourages members to be part of their
  national delegations, to promote EuroGOOS
  interests and to follow and influence global
  demands for European contributions.
• The EuroGOOS Decision to act for the creation of
  an Arctic Regional GOOS has caused a lot of
  efforts by the Office and some members, but has
  up to now only resulted in the EuroGOOS Arctic
  ROOS. The work has been done in close
  co-operation with IOC and the GOOS Project Office
  and will continue. During the last year this work
  has been performed as a part of SAON (Sustained
  Arctic Observing System), an initiative by the
  Arctic Council.
• A new political initiative, which includes data
  requests, has been launched, the Global Earth
  Observation System of Systems, GEOSS. In
  principle GOOS is the marine component of GEOSS,
  but due to the principles of GEOSS also more
  direct contributions are expected. GEOSS has
  introduced a new suite of meetings and plans,
  which are of interest for EuroGOOS. The Director
  is member of a steering group for coastal
  observations. The justification for this is to
  avoid diverging messages to the political system,
  and also to inform on on-going development.
• The Director and some members have been engaged
  in IOCs establishment of a high frequency
  monitoring network for sea level. The role of the
  system is to verify or cancel tsunami warnings in
  the Mediterranean and the North East Atlantic
  area.

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• Priority 5. Pull the necessary research and
  technical development for marine monitoring,
  forecasting, nowcasting, and hindcasting.
• Strong research components have been included in
  EC funded projects on oceanographic modelling and
  monitoring in which groups of members and
  partners have been active. The Director is and
  has been member of the advisory boards of several
  of these projects.
• The Director, the EuroGOOS Technical Plan Working
  Group, TPWG, and some members have actively
  promoted a co-operation with the oceanographic
  instrument manufacturing industry in order to
  test, improve and initiate development of
  oceanographic instruments. A network is
  established, has met a few times and is searching
  for funding opportunities.
• Major EuroGOOS events are the periodic
  conferences where scientific/technical
  development in operational oceanography is
  presented. The 5th EuroGOOS Conference on
  Operational Oceanography was held in May. The
  Conference was hosted by UK MetOffice, and
  planned by a Steering Committee that consisted of
  the EuroGOOS Board, local organisers and the
  Office. Papers submitted for publication are at
  present edited by the Office, and the reviewed
  and proof read manuscript is planned to be
  printed in March 2009.

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• Priority 8. Establish an interface to marine
  industry.
• There are good examples on contacts at national
  level.
• The Director has been in contact with
  associations organising at European scale
  different groups of the marine industry and got
  polite responses but no real enthusiasm.
• The Office participates in the SIMORC project,
  which is making data sets collected for and by
  the Off Shore industry available for
  oceanographic research.
• Also the work on creating a European ACT
  organisation includes good industry contacts.

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SAON

• Recommendations
• The Arctic Council (including permanent
  participants and observers) are urged to
  facilitate international collaboration among
  operational agencies, researchers, and northern
  residents and communities.For this purpose, the
  Arctic Council and partners are encouraged to
  establish an Arctic Observing Forum with adequate
  resources to oversee arctic observing, and
  related data and information management services.
  The Forum will address issues that transcend
  individual arctic observing systems and national
  capabilities
• The governments of the Arctic Council member
  states should commit to
• sustain their current level of observing
  activities, and data and information services,
  and increase the scope of those activities in the
  future
• make data and information freely, openly and
  easily accessible in a timely fashion at minimal
  costs to users, taking into account relevant
  national legislation, and encourage their
  national partners to adopt the same policy.

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• Each of the Arctic states is encouraged to create
  an inter-agency/department group to coordinate
  and integrate their Arctic observing activities,
  and resulting data and information services.
  Those groups will form the basis for
  inter-governmental cooperation in Arctic
  observing.The Arctic states are urged to
  increase inter-governmental cooperation in
  coordinating and integrating Arctic observing
  activities, and data and information management.
• Recognizing that the Arctic issues are of global
  common concern and that they are open for
  scientific study by all states, the Arctic
  Council member states should welcome non-Arctic
  states and international organizations as
  partners to the inter-governmental cooperation
  that will be necessary to sustain and improve
  Arctic observing capacity, and data and
  information services.Non-Arctic states are
  therefore also encouraged to adopt, support and
  implement actions that are recommended to the
  Arctic states in 1-3 above.