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

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

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

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

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.

6. WP2 Data Collection Metadata compilation Status at February 2012

7. WP2 North Sea Samples per parameter (described by CDI) Chemical groupWater columnSedimentBiota Pesticides623520 Antifoulants1.4331.69624 Pharmaceuticals000 Heavy metals2.01102.273 Hydrocarbons2062.498536 Radionuclides4753450 Fertilisers/Nitrogen67.70000 Fertilisers/Phoshate70.96400 Organic matter (C)2.9612.106- Organic matter (N)52.8710-

8. WP2 Med Sea

10. WP2 Black SeaNrPartnerCountry Total profiles Measurements O2O2O2O2 PO 4 Total P PHAlk SIO 3 NO 2 NO 3 NH 4 Total N 13 RIHMI- WDC RU9045343368033404635246916542803314 14SIO-RASRU147888837249226286855311361876152 15MHIUA25001694687730612783937923612601436488 16IO-BASBG124865277703248000000 17NIMRDRO226899956548000102076892772952750 18TSU-DNAGE102025000027302927 YugNIROUA215126536500012239000 Mb UHMI UA14474521400641180000 TOTAL 631236067128231261400518241415011284110016649681

11. WP2 Black SeaNrPartnerCountry Total profiles Heavy metals in water column (Pb, Hg, Cd, Cu) (Pb, Hg, Cd, Cu)Radionuclides in water column (Cs-137, Cs-134, Sr-90) Heavy metals in sediments (Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, Cr, As, Sr) 14RIHMI-WDCRU39839800 15MHIUA13430126776 17NIMRDRO8594560403 TOTAL26008541267479

12. WP3 QC/QA and Products

13. Products generation work flow summary... About available data and related products... Available data Not homogeneous ditribution In time and space (basins) 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.

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

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

16. WP3 – QC/QA and Products

17. 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.

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. -;

19. 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; WP3 – QC/QA Products Revision: Maps

20. 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 GHER OceanBrowser Map (GetMap) and URL of images (GetFeatureInfo) Images of time series,...

21. TS products – products available until now -

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

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

24. WP4 Tech Development

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

26. 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 19139 need to be checked.  Maps Metadata has been loaded from DivadoXML by Regional Leaders;  TS plots Metadata manually loaded by partners in Sextant CMS. http://www.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

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).

28. -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.

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

30. -Chemitry Lot- Anybody using data? – year 2011 AWstats- Unique visitorsNumber of visitsPagesHitsBandwidth OceanBrowser CDI Web portal Total180 328 (1.82 visits/visitor) 586 (1.78 Pages/Visit) 955 (2.91 Hits/Visit) 55.96 MB (170.6 KB/Visit) Total558 845 (1.51 visits/visitor) 25,779 (30.51 Pages/Visit) 73,254 (86.69 Hits/Visit) 745.16 MB (881.8 KB/Visit) Total477 909 (1.90 visits/visitor) 296,231 (325.89 Pages/Visit) 349,440 (384.42 Hits/Visit) 8.97 GB (9.9 MB/Visit) Unique visitorsNumber of visitsPagesHitsBandwidth Unique visitorsNumber of visitsPagesHitsBandwidth

31. -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.

32. Thanks!...comments!?