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 ( ) –MCS products for Member States and EEA Nadia Pinardi EEA SSC INGV, Italy MCS Steering Group

Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 Global Monitoring of Environment and Security- GMES ( 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

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

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

Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The European Marine “core” service: the essential functions

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

Marine Core Service MY OCEAN The GMES Marine Core Service Project

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

Marine Core Service Marine Core Service presentation 15 May 2008 The MCS products in detail

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

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

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

MCS climate indicators development for EEA: SST trend horizontal structure for the last 25 years Deg C/yr

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

MCS oil spill forecasting: the Lebanon accident Correct trajectory of oil spill was forecasted almost in real time

MCS product: pelagic biochemistry forecast for today Produced by OGS, Trieste, Italy

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