EuroGOOS Products Working Group
Henning Wehde, Einar Svendsen, Patrick Gorringe, Glenn Nolan, Rodney Forster,
Roberto Sorgente, Cosimo Solidoro, GiulettaRak, Irene Lake, Jan Reissman & others …
Terms of Reference (ToR)
1. Review potential of OO – to support marine policy – provide recommendations to increase effectiveness,
2. With ROOS’s identify, create and disseminate – products to support implementation of the MSFD
(CFP, MSP) in their region,3. Seek feedback from key users on products,4. Provide recommendations on
– Future products – Wider support for policy
ToR 1 – Review potential of OO • 1.1 Review on OO in policy development and
implementation– Report by December 2014
• 1.2 Agreed definition of Operational Oceanography – Text written and agreed November 2014
• Deliver useful information on the marine and coastal ecosystems at the right time and format according to user needs.
• Deliver useful services and information (about the past, now, and future of marine and coastal ecosystems), in a timely and useable form according to user needs.
ToR 2 – Identify products
Initial and final products• Finalise initial/final product list (July/Oct2014)• Identify sources (August 2014, Jan 2015)• Agree analytical procedure (October 2014,
March 2015) • Specify outputs and reporting format (October
2014, May 2015)• Agree and implement method for dissemination
(February / Sept 2015)
ToR 3 Feedback and 4 Recommendations
• 3.1 Agree approach to acquire feedback from end-users (October 2014)
• 3.2 Acquire and report feedback on initial products (June 2015)
• 3.3 Acquire and report feedback on final products (February 2015)
• 4.1 Provide recommendations to EuroGOOS on future products and on how EuroGOOS can provide support more broadly for policy implementation (June 2015)
Policy pull • EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive
– Clean and safe, biologically diverse and productive seas– [1, Biological diversity; 2, Non-indigenous species; 3,
Population of commercial fish / shell fish; 4, Marine food webs; 5, Eutrophication; 6, Sea floor integrity; 7, Alteration of hydrographical conditions; 8, Contaminants; 9, Contaminants in fish/seafood; 10, Litter; 11, Introduction of energy (noise)] + prevailing conditions !
• Other EU – CFP, MSP, WFD, Habitats, Birds, UWWTD, Nitrates…
• UN “Assessment of Assessments• Conventions on the Law of the Sea, Biological Diversity• World Summit for Sustainable Development• OSPAR – protection of the NE Atlantic . . .
Types of support• Indirect supporting evidence
– Prevailing environmental conditions– Ocean processes
• Direct evidence support– Descriptor, (common) indicator(s), data
• Other support– Operationalising marine assessments– Improved Understanding – Optimisation – monitoring programme design optimisation– Technology development – biology and chemistry
UK-IMON Core Variable List - Physical
Wea
ther
& c
limat
e
Mar
ine
oper
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ns
Nat
ural
haz
ards
Nat
iona
l sec
urity
Publ
ic h
ealth
Healthy ecosystems
Sust
aine
d re
sour
cesClean & safe5,8,10,
11
Healthy & biologically
diverse1,2,4,6
Productive3,9
Ocean process
es
Phys
ical
Salinity
Temperature
Bathymetry
Sea level
Surface waves
Surface currents
Optical properties (e.g. CDOM & SPM)
Heat flux
Ocean colour
Benthic habitats
Wind speed & direction
Tidal stream flow
Products – indirect
Annual average SST
Product – time series observed temperature
Products – modelled salinity
Products –modelled pCO2
& DIC
Products – time series and derived products
SST ranges from 4oC in winter to 18oC in summer
SST ranges from 6oC in winter to 15oC in summer
SST ranges from 6oC in winter to 14oC in summer
SST ranges from 9oC in winter to 14oC in summer. Temp in deeper waters is colder and less variable
SST ranges from 6oC in winter to 14oC in summer
1 Northern North Sea2 Southern North Sea
5 Irish Sea6 Minches and Western Scotland
7 Scottish Continental Shelf8 Atlantic North-West Approaches
Shared waters between N Ireland & Rep of Ireland
Scotland’s Marine Atlas
Ocean processes and prevailing conditions
• Categories of evidence– Decadal scale assessment– Climate change – Forecasting
• Based on – Sustained observations (time series)– Model reanalysis
• Products– Figures, maps, distributions with value and trends, time
series– Climatologies
Problems • No common workflow – different approaches
to derive climatologies for same variable• Heterogeneous set of figures and inputs • Data coverage
– Variables: sea bed temperature, acidification– Spatial and temporal
• Spatial data more difficult to represent e.g. FerryBox data
Observation to assessment
Databases
Assessment
Wea
ther
& c
limat
e
Ope
ratio
ns
Nat
ural
haz
ards
Nat
iona
l sec
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Publ
ic h
ealth
Healthy ecosystems
Sust
aine
d re
sour
ces
Clean & safe
5,8,10,11
Healthy & biologically
diverse1,2,4,6
Productive3,9
Ocean process
es
Biol
ogic
al
Chlorophyll
Pathogens
Phytoplankton species
(Indicato
r spp.)
Zooplankton abundance
Zooplankton species
Shellfish toxins?
Incidence of fish kills
(fish kills)
Fish species
UK-IMON Core Variable List - Biological
Descr. 5 eutrophication – direct supportFeature Environmental target Indicator Assessment
methodProcessingneeds
Chlorophyll conc.
No increase in the chlorophyll 90 percentile in the growing season (linked to increasing anthropogenic input) based on periodic surveys.
Chlorophyll concentration in the water column
Chlorophyll a concentration (area-specific) -Elevated maximum and mean level
Summer months: Mar-Sept inclusive.Chl and/or chl-a. Paired with salinity to identify coastal and offshore waters.90th percentileMaxMinMean
Plus - Data source, Metadata, Outputs, Other relevant information
Eutrophication – descriptor 5
Useable information – eutrophication assessment
Issues to consider - recommendationsa) Data inventory (who / where)b) Data standards and interoperabilityc) Levels of confidence in the dataset to support a regional
assessmentd) Spatial scale necessary to undertake an assessment at national
and regional scales. • fine enough to reproduce natural differences that occur • Scale required by the user/ customer e.g. Greater North Sea
for MSFD. • Scales intrinsic to variables
e) Boundary issues and coherence with data from other MS. e.g. MSFD /WFD boundary inconsistenciesf) Opportunities for industry engagement (e.g. WaveNet)g) Efficiencies made or future cost saving opportunities
Proposed next actions
• Ad Hoc Meeting – after todays session• Side meeting in Lisbon • Meeting 2015 tbd• Webex