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User Awareness & Training:
MARINE
Bucharest, Romania – 9th November 2013
Antonio Guarnieri
Contents
Overview of the Copernicus Marine service
Brief History
Services (approach, products, users, etc..)
Possible Applications
Live Demonstration – Navigation through the Portal
Discovery service
Viewing service
Downloading service
Live Demonstration – Use of Products
Preliminary use through free software
Summary & Questions
Context and brief history
What is the COPERNICUS Marine Service?
A service providing information on the state of the
physical oceans and regional seas
Why?
To sustain and allow the development of a whole set of
activities at sea in the domains of marine resources,
marine safety, coastal and marine environment, weather,
climate and seasonal forecasting
How?
Through the service provided by MyOCEAN
The Service Today
Within Copernicus and its Marine Service Fast Track,
the EU consolidated past experiences and expertise in
pre-operational ocean monitoring and forecasting
capacity in Europe developed through precursor
European projects:
MERSEA (http://w3.mersea.eu.org/)
BOSS4GMES (http://www.boss4gmes.eu/)
GSE MARCOAST (http://www.marcoast.eu/)
POLAR VIEW (http://www.polarview.org/)
MyOCEAN (http://www.myocean.eu)
The Service Today
Need for synthesis and consolidation of all these
precursor activities:
MyOcean2
MyOcean 2 is the EU funded project through which
the EU delivers the Copernicus marine service
products
Objective: Deliver and operate a rigorous, robust
and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting
system of the GMES Marine Service;
Partners: 59 partners in 29 Countries
Funding: 28 Million Euros
Duration: 30 months (April 2011-September 2013)
Marine Service – Four domains
Marine
Resources
Marine
Safety
Coastal and
Marine
Environment
Climate and
Seasonal Forecast
Marine service – Approach
Integrated – system of systems
Open and Free – username and password
Reliable – quality and availability
Direct access – direct request of account, direct
response
User-Driven – fact sheets, questionnaires,
workshops, dedicated WPs for User
requirements
Marine Service – Organisation
The Catalogue
An easy-to-navigate and
detailed catalogue allows
the Users to easily;
Discover the products
Get detailed information
on the products
View part of the products
Access the products
The Products
The catalogue has been simplified: 107 products are
currently now available
MONITORING
In-situ
EO
MODELLING
(re)analysis
fcst
The Products
PHYSICS
MONITORING
MODELLING
Sea Ice
(coverage, drtift, thikness,
temperature, density)
Sea Ice
(coverage, drtift, thikness)
Salinity
Salinity
Temperature
Temperature
Currents
Currents
SSH, MDT
Surface Winds
SSH
The Products
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
MONITORING
MODELLING
Oxygen
Oxygen
Nutrients
Optical Properties
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll
Primary Production
The Users
Users numbers have increased at an impressive rate due to…
2500
User Evolution
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Oct-09
Apr-10
Oct-10
Apr-11
Oct-11
Apr-12
Oct-12
Apr-13
Reliability of the service
Ease of data access
QC and product
information
Registration simplicity
All in one place
Open and free service
Catalogue simplicity
Web Portal simplicity
Common Data format
Service Desk efficiency
Typology and Breakdown of the Users
Some of the main users
University,
Educational Research
15%
Business/Company
9%
50%
7%
Other/OtherInternatio
nal
19%
Unaffiliated
Public Sector
28%
29%
Marine and Coastal
Environment
Climate Seasonal and
Weather Forecasting
12%
31%
Marine Resources
Maritime Safety
EMSA
HELCOM
OSPA
National maritime safety agencies
National Coast Guards
ICES
FAO
National Fisheries Agencies
EEA
UNEP/MAP
National Environmental Protection
Agencies
ECMWF
Climate Research Centers
National Weather Services
Possible applications and benefits
Marine
Resources
Protection and sustainable management of
living marine resources in particular for:
Aquaculture
Fishery research or regional fishery
organisations
Fish-stock management
Ecology and biodiversity preservation
Monitoring campaign planning
Example – Forecasting Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB)
Marine
Resources
ASIMUTH is a FP7 project: "Applied Simulations and
Integrated Modelling for the Understanding of Toxic and
Harmful Algal Blooms”.
The project is designed to respond to the demand for
short-term forecasts of HAB events along the European
Atlantic coast using:
MyOcean modelling data
Satellite image analysis
phytoplankton and biotoxin data
Forecasts will be delivered directly to fish farmers and any
other interested parties by means of mobile phone and
internet technology
Possible applications and benefits
Marine
Safety
Any safe activities at sea:
Ship routing services (for safety and fuel
optimization purposes)
Search & rescue operations
Oil Spill combat
Example – The Costa Concordia Accident
Marine
Safety
January 2012, Italian Coast
Search and Rescue and risk mitigation measures
>2,400 tons of fuel
Potential environmental impact on the Tuscan
Archipelago National Park
MyOcean provided the Italian Coast Guard
Operational Centre with valuable up-to-date
information on currents in the Mediterranean
Sea
Oil spill drift forecast (INGV)
Possible applications and benefits
Coastal and
Marine
Environment
Physical and marine biogeochemical
components are particularly useful for:
Water Quality monitoring and pollution control
Support to Marine Strategy Framework
Directive (SFD) (i.e. GES, target, water
characterization)
Coastal erosion studies and measures
Efficient site selection for wind mills, marine
turbines, green energy production devices in
general
Example – Supporting MSFD
Coastal and
Marine
Environment
The MSFD is going through its phase of practical
implementation by the Member States. The focus is on:
Need of producing initial assessments of the Member
States' marine waters
Taking account of existing data
Determination of Good Environmental Status (GES)
Establishment of Environmental Targets
The MyOCEAN data are being used by several countries and
institutions around Europe:
Italy: physical and biogeochmical indicators
UK: physical, biogeochmical & benthic habitat indicators
Croatia: physical indicators
Finland: physical indicators
More…!!!
Possible applications and benefits
Climate and
Seasonal Fcst
The weather, climate and seasonal ocean
forecasting is a fundamental instrument to:
detect global warming through proxies such
as the sea ice extent, concentration and
volume
Give decision makers the scientific
instruments and basis to plan the marine
and coastal management towards climate
change
Provide the boundary conditions to
atmospheric models
Example – Sea ice extent in the Arctic
Coastal and
Marine
Environment
Modeling and forecasting of changes in:
Arctic topography
The Arctic’s reaction to climate change
Provides insight into:
Ice extent
Ice formation
Ice melt
Thanks to MyOcean, Arctic monitoring and forecasting
information is being made openly available.
Several modeling and forecasting climate centers use
the ocean data.
An important example of this is the project ICEMAR
(http://www.icemar.eu/)
LIVE DEMONSTRATION CONTENTS
During the live demonstration of the MARINE domain the following
sections of the MyOCEAN portal will be shown:
• Overview of the portal and its generalities - 15 minutes:
About us
News and events
Products Showcase
Users Newsletters
Education
Press Edition corner
Scientific Publications
• Areas of activity (Maritime Safety, Marine Resources, Coastal and Marine
Environment, Weather Climate and Seasonal Forecast) - (5 minutes)
• A few selected examples of successful downstream use cases and user feedbacks
• Demonstration on Data Discovery (The catalogue – 20 minutes)
• Demonstration on Data Viewing (link through catalogue -10 minutes)
• Demonstration on Data access and downloading (requesting and receiving an
account; how to download the data; direct download, automatic download,
subsetting etc... – 10 minutes)
• Live demonstration on how to make quick and useful use of the downloaded
products with simple, open and free software (30 minutes)
“ABOUT US”
“NEWS and EVENTS”
“Products Showcase and Users Letters”
“EDUCATION”
“Press Edition Corner”
“SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS”
“Areas of activity ”
“Demonstration on Data Discovery ”
ETC…
“Demonstration on Data Discovery - information”
“Demonstration on Data Discovery ”
“Demonstration on Data Discovery ”
“Demonstration on Data Discovery - documentation”
“Demonstration on Data Viewing”
“Demonstration on Data Viewing: MyO APP”
“Demonstration on Data Access – registering”
“Demonstration on Data Access – data download”
“The Service Desk”
“Quick use of the data through Panoply”
“Quick use of the data through UVT”
Feedback Forms
&
Questions