1. – 7 th February 2012 , Bruxelles -
EMODnet
-Progress Meeting-
Chemistry Lot
A. Giorgetti
M. Vinci
– 7 th February , Bruxelles - 1 1 1

2. Chemical Lot -Introduction and summary of last year;
-WPs activities/progresses discussion;
-Summary of project activities;
-Lessons learned;
-Agenda specific questions. 2 2 2

3. Chemical lot – WHERE - focus on the 3 Geographic areas
NORTH SEA
BLACK SEA
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Regional Leaders:
North Sea – NERI
Black Sea– MHI
Med Sea – HCMR
5 spots 3 3 3

4. Chemical lot – WHAT- the Parameters
Choice based on MSFD requirements
Time series, geographically representative datasets
Selected from 8 groups in 3 matrices
17 selected for product generation in the three regions 4 4 4

5. Summary of last year activities
First half: the main activities were:
Data collection & Metadata compilation;
Products Generation;
Coordination activities.
Second half:
A Critical revision of Products began in September 2011.
A preliminary work for products QC was done for each partner. This brought to the open discussion of the last Liverpool coordination meeting;
Beside this, following the suggestions of MODEG advisory group, the viewing services were upgraded. 5 5 5

6. WP2 Data Collection Metadata compilation
Status at February 2012 6 6 6

7. Samples per parameter (described by CDI)
WP2 North Sea
Samples per parameter (described by CDI)
Chemical group
Water column
Sediment
Biota
Pesticides 62 3
520
Antifoulants
1.433
1.696 24
Pharmaceuticals
Heavy metals
2.011
2.273
Hydrocarbons
206
2.498
536
Radionuclides
475
345
Fertilisers/Nitrogen
67.700
Fertilisers/Phoshate
70.964
Organic matter (C)
2.961
2.106 -
Organic matter (N)
52.871 7 7 7

8. WP2 Med Sea 8 8 8

9. WP2 Med Sea 9 9 9

10. WP2 Black Sea Nr Partner Country Total profiles Measurements O2 PO4PH
Alk
SIO3
NO2
NO3
NH4
Total N 13
RIHMI-WDC RU
904
5343
3680 3
3404
635
2469
1654
280 33 14
SIO-RAS
147
888
837
249
226
286
855
311
361
876
152 15
MHI UA
2500
16946
877
306
127
839
379
2361
2601
436
488 16
IO-BAS BG
124
865
277
703
248 17
NIMRD RO
2268
9995
6548
10207
6892
7729
5275 18
TSU-DNA GE 10 20 25 27 30 29
YugNIRO
215
1265
365
122 39
Mb UHMI
144
745
214 64
118
TOTAL
6312
36067
12823
1261
4005
1824
14150
11284
11001
6649
681 10 10 10

11. WP2 Black Sea Nr Partner Country Total profiles Heavy metals
in water column
(Pb, Hg, Cd, Cu)
Radionuclides
(Cs-137, Cs-134, Sr-90)
in sediments
(Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, Cr, As, Sr) 14
RIHMI-WDC RU
398 15
MHI UA
1343
1267 76 17
NIMRD RO
859
456
403
TOTAL
2600
854
479 11 11 11

12. WP3
QC/QA and
Products 12 12 12

13. Homogeneous ditribution In time and space (basins)
Products generation work flow summary...About available data and related products...
Available data
Homogeneous ditribution
In time and space (basins)
Not homogeneous ditribution
In time and space (basins)
Expert workshop –Venice, September 2010-discussion and summary of decisions for Products:
Standard Diva Interpolated maps produced for parameters with homogeneous and suitable data coverage, measured on basin scale;
“Time series plots”. Show station maps with plots of measured time series (not trendsnot Emodnet Chemistry target) with link to metadata. This for not homogeneous datasets as:
coastal points repeated in time,
datasets with fragmented coverage. 13 13 13

14. Work done by Regional Leaders Work shared between NODCs
Products generation work flow summary
Work done by Regional Leaders
Work shared between NODCs
Homogeneous ditribution
In time and space (basins)
Not homogeneous ditribution
In time and space
Metadata
collection
(new)
DIVAdo
Xml
Tools for
“Time series”
plots,
suggested ODV
Diva software
for
NetCDF maps
Index file
(By Gher)
(By Gher)
Products Metadata
Catalogue
(By AWI)
(By IFREMER)
(By Gher)
Ocean Browser
Products viewing service 14 14 14

15. Work done by Regional Leaders Work shared between NODCs
Products generation work flow summary and tech dev
Work done by Regional Leaders
Work shared between NODCs
Homogeneous ditribution
In time and space (basins)
Not homogeneous ditribution
In time and space
Diva software
for
NetCDF maps
Tools for
“Time series”
plots,
suggested ODV
(new)
DIVAdo
Xml
Metadata
collection
(By Gher)
Index file
(By Gher)
Ocean
Browser
(By AWI) 15 15 15

16. WP3 – QC/QA and Products 16 16 16

17. WP3 – QC/QA and Products Products QC (for Diva maps):
-Scientific QC of the source data is the first step (to ensure that only trustworthy data will be used for the gridding procedure);
the periodic educated evaluation of the gridded field for each Region is the core element in QC process, to identify and check:
analysis parameter and temporal resolution;
source datasets that needs to be checked again. 17 17 17

18. WP3 – QC/QA Products Revision: Maps
-Mediterranean Sea:
Adriatic area:
to revise the analysis temporal resolution (from annual --> to seasonal);
to revise the DIVA analysis parameters (S/N ration, correlation lengths);
to reduce the extension of the interpolated field to the northern side of Adriatic;
to improve the definition of the regular grid to avoid overlapping between the interpolated field and the coastline.
Spanish area: a revision of the interpolated maps is expected (to check with chemical experts winter nitrate map);
French area: a critical revision of seasonal products is expected;
Cyprus area: a critical revision to the available maps is expected. ; 18 18 18

19. WP3 – QC/QA Products Revision: Maps
Black Sea:
-focus on nitrate and phosphate for products validation (with expert QC check);
- a selection of products is needed between SeaDataNet and Emodnet maps (now both available on the Ocean Browser).
Greater North Sea:
- the interpolated maps will be better at seasonal scale – agreed that this generally is the best way to represent data – Greater North Sea will maintain its seasonal definition, eg: winter as Dec to Feb; 19 19 19

20. NODC – TS Sample volounteers: OGS, BSH and 3 Regional Leaders
Path from DATA to PRODUCTS (time series products sample)
NODC – TS Sample volounteers: OGS, BSH and 3 Regional Leaders
Create:
- Plots with ODV
- INDEX file
Commonly agreed ratio:
1plot:1sta:1param:1depth
Images of time series, ...
OceanBrowser
GHER
Map (GetMap) and URL of images (GetFeatureInfo) 20 20 20

21. TS products – products available until now -21 21

22. TS products sample extended to OGS, BSH and Regional Leaders22 22

23. WP3 – QC/QA Products Revision
Time series:
Defined a minimum number of points per plot, set to 4;
Use of scatter points plots (avoid lines to connect plotted measures);
Svg format for new plots 23 23 23

24. WP4
Tech Development 24 24 24

25. WP4 -Tech Development- About Ocean Browser viewing service...
As suggested by MODEG products menu are now at the same level 25 25 25

26. Products Metadata Catalogue
WP4 -Tech Development-
Products Metadata Catalogue
...from Camioon to GEONETWORK:
First idea → to manage Chemistry Lot products metadata with
Camioon service used by MyOcean. Several analysis highlighted that it
does not match SDN/Emodnet needs.
Actual situation → Geonetwork open source software will now be adopted
for this task. It was experimented with Ifremer Sextant Geoviewer.
The products metadata profile XML ISO need to be checked.
Maps Metadata has been loaded from DivadoXML by Regional Leaders;
TS plots Metadata manually loaded by partners in Sextant CMS. 26 26 26

27. -Chemitry Lot- Activities summary
First year activities →
Set up of the web portal (OGS), filled with core services (Gher, Maris).
Working group Mailing lists were activated (OGS).
All Partners started Data collection and metadata compilation (WP2).
Regional Leaders & Gher group. Products generation and web visualization.
Second year activities →
Continuation of data collection, metadata compilation and products generation .
Expert meeting to discuss data and metadata complexity. TS products generation
was common agreement.
Web questionnaire (BODC) for users Feedback to increase portal functionalities .
Started TS plots generation(OGS,BSH,IFREMER) and web prototype (Gher). 27 27 27

28. Brief activities summary
-Chemitry Lot-
Brief activities summary
Third year activities:
Continuation of data collection, metadata compilation .
Continuation of TS plots generation (all partners) and Diva maps.
Updates for the web as suggested by MODEG advisory group.
Products critical revision (from September 2011) A Coordination group open
discussion followed revision, this brought to a Validation Guideline available
on the web. 28 28 28

29. -Chemitry Lot- Lessons Learned
Source data are not always easily accessible → need to improve data flow (MSFD reporting);
For some areas huge work of data/metadata standardization from source datasets;
The complexity of the measurements covering 8 groups of parameters collected on 3 matrices → need to have wide metadata description and continue with adapting process of SDN infrastructure;
The geographic heterogeneity of the measurements (coastal points time series Vs homogenous sampling) and of measurement methods (instrument, method, target species, target basis, grain sizes) → need to split subsets of homogeneous datasets to generate suitable products;
The “exotic parameters” → need an ad hoc QC protocol;
Products → need to have a regular expert revision;
Users → need to evaluate different classes of users as planned in SDN2 29 29 29

30. Anybody using data? – year 2011 AWstats-
-Chemitry Lot-
Anybody using data? – year 2011 AWstats-
Web portal
Unique visitors
Number of visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
Total
180
328
(1.82 visits/visitor)
586
(1.78 Pages/Visit)
955
(2.91 Hits/Visit)
55.96 MB
(170.6 KB/Visit)
CDI
Unique visitors
Number of visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
Total
558
845
(1.51 visits/visitor)
25,779
(30.51 Pages/Visit)
73,254
(86.69 Hits/Visit) MB
(881.8 KB/Visit)
OceanBrowser
Unique visitors
Number of visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
Total
477
909
(1.90 visits/visitor)
296,231
(325.89 Pages/Visit)
349,440
(384.42 Hits/Visit)
8.97 GB
(9.9 MB/Visit) 30 30 30

31. What products for the Directive Reporting?
-Chemitry Lot-
What products for the Directive Reporting?
→ we could make Diva products with observations before a key date (such as when the MSFD was implemented) to compare any change after implementation;
→ we could produce histograms (in ODV), that can tell how "exceptional" a given measurement is relative to all previous measurements;
→ we could evaluate long-term trends. However, this was not recommended during the Experts workshop (to be undertaken by other initiatives);
→ we could consider nutrients ratio (with silicates, nitrogen and phosphorus);
→ we could include additional metadata with products, if needed;
→ we could consider products related to parameters like chlorophyll, DO, AL and CORG in EMODNET chemistry.
Plots along a coast can be produced already from the Diva maps as a vertical section. 31 31 31

32. Thanks!...comments!? 32 32 32