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Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The GMES Marine Core Service n Outline What is GMES Marine Core Service, its design and the implemented prototype The future: MyOcean project (2008-2011) MCS products for Member States and EEA Nadia Pinardi EEA SSC INGV, Italy MCS Steering Group Slide 2 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 Global Monitoring of Environment and Security- GMES (www.gmes.info) n Terms of reference to establish an independent capability for global monitoring, in support of European environment and security goals a complete decision-support system for use by the public and policymakers, enabling the acquisition, interpretation and distribution of all useful information related to the environment, risk management and the natural resources. n Marine component Europe has a large part of its Member States GNP connected to activities in the marine areas The Marine Directive establishes that Member States shall take the necessary measures to achieve or maintain good environmental status in the marine environment by the year 2020 at the latest. Operational Oceanography has matured in the past ten years in Europe reaching competitiveness by means of EU-R&D research and EuroGOOS coordination Slide 3 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The European Marine core service: definition by GMES Implementation Group From GMES MCS Implementation Group report by P.Ryder & al Slide 4 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The Key Users of the MCS n MyOcean will deliver a service to EU: The European Union Users: European agencies (EEA, EMSA, EDA,...) MSS: The Member States Users: National Service Providers implementing INSPIRE, WFD, Marine Strategy Framework Directive... IG: The Intergovernmental bodies Users: MS and/or exec.bodies such as OSPAR, UNEP-MAP, HELCOM, ICES,... EEAEMSAEDA... Met Offices Ocean centers Env. agencies Navies, CoastGuards,.. Research centers... OSPAR ICES UNEP-MAP... CORE Slide 5 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The European Marine core service: the essential functions Slide 6 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The prototype MERSEA system: uniform technology, pan-European quality standards n 1. Global n 2. Arctic n 3. Baltic n 4. NWS n 5. IBI n 6. Med Sea n 7 Black Sea MOON & MedGOOS GOOS/ Godae NOOS BOOS Arctic GOOS Black Sea GOOS (only entering from MyOcean onward) 6 IBI-ROOS 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Slide 7 Marine Core Service MY OCEAN The GMES Marine Core Service Project Slide 8 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 WHAT will MyOcean produce? 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. Physical state of the ocean, up to primary producers biomass For global ocean, the main European basins and seas Large and basin scale: mesoscale physics Hindcast, Nowcast, Forecast Data, Assimilation and Models Slide 9 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The MCS products in detail Slide 10 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 HOW will this be realised? Service Interface n 5 TAC : Thematic Assembly Centers Observations n 1 global and 6 regional MFC: Monitoring and Forecasting Centers Model / Assimilation n Each Production Unit under operational commitments to deliver a service Conducting R&D, Integration, Operations, and Assessment Sea Level SST Ice Color In Situ TAC Arctic Baltic Atl. NWS Atl. IBI Med Sea Black Sea Global MFC 13 PRODUCTION UNITS Slide 11 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 Service types & characteristics n Service types Routine (bulk delivery) Expert forecaster interpretation (usually to schedule) Human support for emergencies Response to queries (non-emergency) User training Transformation service n Sample Characteristics Speed of response, percentage availability Standardisation (look/feel & interoperability) Monitoring of service use and feedback Business continuity, incident handling n Facilities Service desk Search, view and download (web) services ESSENTIAL BULK SPECIFIC ON REQUEST EMERGENCY Slide 12 Sub-regional models at 3 km Shelf models at 1-2 km ESEOO POSEIDON MCS service to Member States: from the basin scale to shelves Every day an analysis and forecast of the marine state Slide 13 MCS climate indicators development for EEA: SST trend horizontal structure for the last 25 years Deg C/yr Slide 14 July 19 10:35 GMT: oil is already in the Bay of Beirut MCS emergency response: the Lebanon accident July 16 08:30 GMT: smoke is visible so that bombing has occurred Slide 15 MCS oil spill forecasting: the Lebanon accident Correct trajectory of oil spill was forecasted almost in real time Slide 16 MCS product: pelagic biochemistry forecast for today Produced by OGS, Trieste, Italy Slide 17 Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 Final remarks n MCS is constructing the Meteorological office for the Sea: every day the best information and forecast of the physical state of the marine environment and some biogeochemical components n MCS is the first system of this kind in the world n MCS products will give Member State agencies the generic information to fulfill the Marine Strategy Directive Committments, Member States in situ monitoring networks should in the future support the quality assurance and the data collection for the MCS n MCS should closely work with EEA for the assessment of products and the development of value added products: ETC-Water has paved the way for this interaction to work