1. JCOMM Observations Coordination Group Open GTS pilot project
Kevin O’Brien
JCOMM OCG Vice-Chair for Data and Information
University of Washington/JISAO
NOAA/PMEL

2. Open Access to the GTS:  A JCOMM Observations Coordination Group Pilot Project
Kevin O’Brien
University of Washington, USA
NOAA/PMEL, USA
David Legler
NOAA/OOMD, USA
Nadia Pinardi
University of Bologna, Italy
Bill Smith, Michelle Little, Kevin Kern
NOAA/NDBC, USA
Simona Simoncelli, Alessandro Grandi
INGV, Italy
Vanessa Cardin, Alessandro Crise, Pierre Poulain, Elena Mauri
OGS, Italy
Begona Perez, Fernando Manzano, Enrique Alvarez Fanjul
Puertos del Estado, Spain
James Potemra
University of Hawaii, USA
Eugene Burger, Heather Tabisola, Jessica Cross, Meghan Cronin, Noah Lawrence-Slavas

3. Introduction JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
Goal is to provide data producers a simpler method of submitting real time data to GTS infrastructure and data consumers a simpler method of access
A pilot project to take well understood physical ocean data from known platform types and inject in near real-time onto the GTS for distribution globally.
Retrieve these and other data from the GTS and make available through interoperable web services.

4. Partners JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
NOAA Observing System Monitoring Center (OSMC), USA
Data management, encoding/decoding GTS data, providing GTS data access
Puertos del Estado, Spain
Moorings, tide gauges
NOAA/PMEL, USA
SAILDRONE platforms
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Italy
E2M3A mooring
US Integrated Ocean Observing System/PacIOOS, USA
Bottom Pressure Recorder
Volvo Ocean Race
7 ships reporting MET data
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy
GTS Access and GTS data tests
JCOMMOPS, France
WMO IDs for GTS platforms and keeper of platform metadata

5. Platforms JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project WMO ID Platform Name
Platform Type
Institution
Location (approx)
Algeciras
Coastal Mooring
PdE
Med Sea
Langosteira
Atlantic (Spanish coast)
E2M3A
OGS
Adriatic Sea
1001
Saildrone
PMEL
Arctic
1002
1003
1005
TPOS
1006
Aloha Cabled Observatory
Bottom Pressure Recorder
PacIOOS
Hawaii
Gijon
Tide Guage
Ferrol
Hielva
Fuerteventura
Palma de Malloca

6. Volvo Ocean Race 2017- 2018 7 teams
JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
Platforms
Volvo Ocean Race teams

7. Open Access to GTS workflow
JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
Workflow
Data is harvested from GTS, decoded and ingested into ERDDAP services
Data is encoded into BUFR and sent to GTS
Data harvested from host institutions and ingested into ERDDAP server
Data is available through ERDDAP services to end users and their favorite applications
Data Center crawls ERDDAP services to grab near real-time data
Open Access to GTS workflow

8. Results JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
Successfully transmitted real-time data from 18 platforms to GTS
Moorings (3), Ships (8), Saildrones(5), Bottom Pressure Recorder (1)
Improved workflow, in conjunction with National Data Center, simplified process of getting data onto the GTS
ERDDAP data services simplified process of accessing data from GTS
Illustrated issues in GTS availability of data in comparisons with Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring service (CMEMS)
Saildrone TPOS atmp
Saildrone 2013 atmp
Algeciras sst
ACO sea water pressure
E2M3A atmp
Volvo Ocean Race
Langosteira atmp

9. Next Steps JCOMM Open Access GTS Pilot Project
Still supporting GTS transmission of additional Saildrone mission MET data
12 additional Saildrones supporting Arctic, US fisheries and TPOS 2020 missions
JCOMM OCG to develop an Open GTS strategy document, with assistance from community members
quality assurance of data
national sensitivities surrounding data distribution
dealing with data duplicates
others…
Create BUFR template for Unmanned Surface Vehicles
Identify proper GTS routing header for Saildrone data
Saildrone Arctic2018 mission
Saildrone TPOS 2018 mission

10. Kevin.M.O’Brien@noaa.gov Thank you!
JCOMM OCG Vice-Chair for Data and Information
University of Washington/JISAO
NOAA/PMEL