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

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Mar

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Nat

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Healthy ecosystems

Sust

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d re

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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

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& c

limat

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Ope

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ns

Nat

ural

haz

ards

Nat

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urity

Publ

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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