1. Preliminary results of ESEOO project ESEOO Group

2. Index 1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO 2) Preliminary results 3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective 4) Conclusions

3. What is ESEOO? ESEOO (Establecimiento Español de Un sistema de Oceanografía Operacional) is a three year project funded by the Spanish Science and Education Ministry. The project was built as a reaction to Prestige event Objectives: cover part of the existing gaps in numerical modeling and exploitation of measurements and, basically, to boost OO at national level Kick-off meeting: January 2004

4. National institutions: Puertos del Estado Sasemar Instituto Nacional de Meteorología Instituto Español de Oceanografía INTA ICM/CSIC Universities: Cantabria, Málaga, Vigo, Cádiz, Polit. de Barcelona, Las Palmas, Granada, Santiago de Compostela, UNED Institutions from other countries: NRL (EE.UU.) POL (U.K.) Mercator (Francia) MFSTEP (Italia) IST/Hidromod (Portugal) Participants Regional institutions: Meteogalicia IMEDEA Azti

5. Pre-ESEOO situation: one example, the PdE networks Tide gaugesCoastal buoys Deep Water buoys Current meters

6. Index 1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO 2) Preliminary results 3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective 4) Conclusions

7. ESEOO Results (1/2) Examples of technical results : 4. Set-up of a unified access point to real-time oceanographic and meteorological data at Spanish coasts. 3. Development of an data service able to quickly provide information based on analysed historical measurements. 2. Set-up of high resolution numerical models and systems able to forecast currents and spill evolution at coastal scale. 1. Development of a regional scale national oil spill and current forecasting system.

8. Preliminary results: Data (1) Oceanographic and meteorologic data inventory Access via Internet Thousands of recors available at this moment Current measurements locations

9. New software for data treatment via web: Preliminary results: Data (2)

10. Real time data service : Preliminary results: Data (3)

11. Preliminary results: Data (4) HF radar demonstration in Prestige event region

12. Wave measurements (buoys and HF radar) Preliminary results: Data (5)

13. HF Radar currents and in-situ buoy (Silleiro buoy) Preliminary results: Data (6)

14. Preliminary results: Data (7) 22/12/2005 06:00 26/12/2005 02:00 22/12/2005 06:00 a 26/12/2005 02:00 Drifting buoy analysis using HF radar

15. Preliminary results: Numerical modelling on the regional scale (1) Nesting from Global models into three ESEOO domains

16. Operational daily current forecast available on the web http://www.eseoo.org Preliminary results: Numerical modeling (2) Forcings: Tides Wind Atmospheric pressure Heat and fresh water fluxes River outflow SST at Bares buoy

17. ESEOMED results (Under validation) Surface Currents (m) 2005-01-02Surface Temperature (ºC) 2005-01-02

18. Coastal nested applications: The example of Galicia Preliminary results: Numerical modeling (3)

19. ESEOO Results (2/2) 3. Coordination with international groups 2. Coordination between national and regional groups 1. Design and implementation of the USyP (Monitoring and forecasting Unit for emergencies) with SASEMAR Capacity building results : 4. Setting-up of coordination mechanism for emergency case in order to deal with oceanographic info (new and existing)

20. The USyP Crisis room USyP TESEO ESEOO partners Internet Compilation, generation and analysis Decisión making based in information Crisis management Met-Ocean Info

21. Real time integration of information in the crisis room during Mediterráneo 2005 exercise The USyP

22. Analisis of trajectories of drifting buoys during Mediterráneo 2005 exercise

23. Index 1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO 2) Preliminary results 3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective 4) Conclusions

24. The vision of future derived from ESEOO Existing ESEOO groups + new Spanish Operational Oceanography Office Crisis management Downstream services Other public and private users Users Core services at national level USyP: Search and rescue Other public and private services

25. Index 1) Objectives and participants ESEOO 2) Preliminary results 3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective 4) Conclusions

26. Conclusions ESEOO project has changed the panorama of OO at Spain. Nevertheless, it is just a project about to finish and the developed products must be maintained in time and integrated with operational units such as USyP. If not, we will be again in very poor conditions of facing next Prestige. New operational systems have been developed and coordination has improved, so we can offer better joint service to society and action to our European partners. Collaboration with US organisations was poor and this must be improved in a near future The ESEOO vision of future includes the creation of an “Spanish Operational Oceanography Office” (solution similar to Mercator or NCOF) and the implementation of USyP at SASEMAR as a permanent unit.