Work Package 2 / 3 TECHNOLOGIAL & PROCEDURAL HARMONISATION FixO3 General Assembly 14 th to the 16 th October 2014, Heraklion-CRETE Alicia Lavín, IEO Santander, Daniel Cano, IEO Santander,

WP 2 / WP3 – Technological & Procedural Harmonisation Task 2.1:Review of the current status of all fixed observing sites Task 3.1: Assessment of procedures Current status of the Observatory (October 2014) Position: 43 o ´N 3 o ´W Seawatch buoy Air Temperature, Humidity, Wind speed and direction, Air pressure, Water temperature, conductivity, currents up to 100 m deep, oxygen, chlorophyll, wave height, wave direction and wave periods. people involved: Alicia Lavín, Daniel Cano, Carmen Rodríguez, César González-Pola

Significant results/highlights during the first year project Climatologies for SST, SSS, Currents, Hm0 vs. Tm02 and Hm0 vs. Tp have developed. Software for real time calculation of SST and SSS anomalies developed. Data Management and Data Access Real Time (all mentioned previously) Delayed Mode (Monthly SST, SSS, oxygen and chlorophyll) Key persons involved data management for your time-series Daniel Cano WP 2 / WP3 – Technological & Procedural Harmonisation Task 2.1:Review of the current status of all fixed observing sites Task 3.1: Assessment of procedures

Pre-deployment (procedures in short) Design issues – Deep water needed special mooring Maintenance/service issues (periodic/after failure) – Need for a large vessel for periodic maintenance. Scheduling – Scheduling for failure assistance Calibration issues – Mostly on biologic sensors. Solved with monthly cruise. Preparations – FOAS internals Equipment – Spares for needed sensors or structural parts WP 2 / WP3 – Technological & Procedural Harmonisation Task 2.1:Review of the current status of all fixed observing sites Task 3.1: Assessment of procedures Operating Scheme/Schematic (with time intervals) FOAS is responsible for all the steps in the maintenance. Periodic maintenance is performed 3 times a year. Malfunction or emergency operations are performed on demand

Deployment (procedures in short) Means – Ship capable of lifting buoy on board for periodic maintenances and non in-situ repairable malfunction. Smaller ship and divers for in-situ repairable malfunction and/or cleaning operations Maintenance on board – Comprises structural checking, data download, disassembly, check and calibration of sensors, damaged parts substitution and re deployment Testing/Validation – FOAS internals Deployment procedures – No special issues concerning this part WP 2 / WP3 – Technological & Procedural Harmonisation Task 2.1:Review of the current status of all fixed observing sites Task 3.1: Assessment of procedures

On the field (procedures in short) Data transfer – Hourly satellite data transfer to land station. Part of the data of waves and ADCP are stored in the dataloger. Surveys Emergencies – In case of emergency FOAS, will provide suitable means to guarantee fast and safe solution Data post processing – Includes transformation to several formats and distribution to partners in an automated manner WP 3 – Procedural Harmonisation Task 3.1: Assessment of procedures