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User Awareness & Training: MARINE Bucharest, Romania – 9 th November 2013 Antonio Guarnieri. Contents. Overview of the Copernicus Marine service Brief History Services ( approach, products , users, etc ..) Possible Applications Live Demonstration – Navigation through the Portal
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User Awareness & Training:MARINEBucharest, Romania – 9th November 2013Antonio Guarnieri
Contents • Overview of the Copernicus Marine service • Brief History • Services (approach, products, users, etc..) • Possible Applications • Live Demonstration – Navigation through the Portal • Discovery service • Viewing service • Downloading service • Live Demonstration – Use of Products • Preliminary use through free software • Summary & Questions
Context and brief history • What is the COPERNICUS Marine Service? • A service providing information on the state of the physical oceans and regional seas • Why? • To sustain and allow the development of a whole set of activities at sea in the domains of marine resources, marine safety, coastal and marine environment, weather, climate and seasonal forecasting • How? • Through the service provided byMyOCEAN
The Service Today • Within Copernicus and its Marine Service Fast Track, the EU consolidated past experiences and expertise in pre-operational ocean monitoring and forecasting capacity in Europe developed through precursor European projects: • MERSEA (http://w3.mersea.eu.org/) • BOSS4GMES (http://www.boss4gmes.eu/) • GSE MARCOAST (http://www.marcoast.eu/) • POLAR VIEW (http://www.polarview.org/) • MyOCEAN (http://www.myocean.eu)
The Service Today • Need for synthesis and consolidation of all these precursor activities: • MyOCEAN 2
MyOcean2 • MyOcean 2 is the EU funded project through which the EU delivers the Copernicus marine service products • Objective: Deliver and operate a rigorous, robust and sustainable Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting system of the GMES Marine Service; • Partners: 59 partners in 29 Countries • Funding:28Million Euros • Duration: 30 months (April 2011-September 2013)
Marine Service – Four domains Coastal and Marine Environment Marine Resources Marine Safety Climate and Seasonal Forecast
Marine service – Approach • Integrated – system of systems • Open and Free – username and password • Reliable – quality and availability • Direct access – direct request of account, direct response • User-Driven – fact sheets, questionnaires, workshops, dedicated WPs for User requirements
The Catalogue An easy-to-navigate and detailed catalogue allows the Users to easily; Discover the products Get detailed information on the products View part of the products Access the products
The Products The catalogue has been simplified: 107 products are currently now available MONITORING MODELLING In-situ (re)analysis EO fcst
The Products PHYSICS MONITORING MODELLING SeaIce (coverage, drtift, thikness, temperature, density) SeaIce (coverage, drtift, thikness) Salinity Salinity Temperature Temperature Currents Currents SSH, MDT SSH SurfaceWinds
The Products BIOGEOCHEMISTRY MONITORING MODELLING Oxygen Oxygen Nutrients OpticalProperties Chlorophyll Chlorophyll Primary Production
The Users Users numbers have increased at an impressive rate due to… Reliability of the service Ease of data access QC and product information Registration simplicity All in one place Open and free service Catalogue simplicity Web Portal simplicity Common Data format Service Desk efficiency User Evolution
Typology and Breakdown of the Users Some of the main users EMSA HELCOM OSPA National maritime safety agencies National Coast Guards ICES FAO National Fisheries Agencies EEA UNEP/MAP National Environmental Protection Agencies ECMWF Climate Research Centers National Weather Services
Possible applications and benefits Protection and sustainable management of living marine resources in particular for: Aquaculture Fishery research or regional fishery organisations Fish-stock management Ecology and biodiversity preservation Monitoring campaign planning Marine Resources
Example – Forecasting Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) • ASIMUTHis a FP7 project: "Applied Simulations and Integrated Modelling for the Understanding of Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms”. • The project is designed to respond to the demand for short-term forecasts of HAB events along the European Atlantic coast using: • MyOcean modelling data • Satellite image analysis • phytoplankton and biotoxin data • Forecasts will be delivered directly to fish farmers and any other interested parties by means of mobile phone and internet technology Marine Resources
Possible applications and benefits Any safe activities at sea: Ship routing services (for safety and fuel optimization purposes) Search & rescue operations Oil Spill combat Marine Safety
Example – The Costa Concordia Accident January 2012, Italian Coast Search and Rescue and risk mitigation measures >2,400 tons of fuel Potential environmental impact on the Tuscan Archipelago National Park MyOcean provided the Italian Coast Guard Operational Centre with valuable up-to-date information on currents in the Mediterranean Sea Oil spill drift forecast (INGV) Marine Safety
Possible applications and benefits • Physical and marine biogeochemical components are particularly useful for: • Water Quality monitoring and pollution control • Support to Marine Strategy Framework Directive (SFD) (i.e. GES, target, water characterization) • Coastal erosion studies and measures • Efficient site selection for wind mills, marine turbines, green energy production devices in general Coastal and Marine Environment
Example – Supporting MSFD The MSFD is going through its phase of practical implementation by the Member States. The focus is on: Need of producing initial assessments of the Member States' marine waters Taking account of existing data Determination of Good Environmental Status (GES) Establishment of Environmental Targets The MyOCEAN data are being used by several countries and institutions around Europe: Italy: physical and biogeochmical indicators UK: physical, biogeochmical & benthic habitat indicators Croatia: physical indicators Finland: physical indicators More…!!! Coastal and Marine Environment
Possible applications and benefits The weather, climate and seasonal ocean forecasting is a fundamental instrument to: detect global warming through proxies such as the sea ice extent, concentration and volume Give decision makers the scientific instruments and basis to plan the marine and coastal management towards climate change Provide the boundary conditions to atmospheric models Climate and Seasonal Fcst
Example – Sea ice extent in the Arctic Modeling and forecasting of changes in: Arctic topography The Arctic’s reaction to climate change Provides insight into: Ice extent Ice formation Ice melt Thanks to MyOcean, Arctic monitoring and forecasting information is being made openly available. Several modeling and forecasting climate centers use the ocean data. An important example of this is the project ICEMAR (http://www.icemar.eu/) Coastal and Marine Environment
LIVE DEMONSTRATION CONTENTS • During the live demonstrationof the MARINE domain the followingsectionsof the MyOCEANportalwillbeshown: • Overview of the portal and its generalities - 15 minutes: • About us • News and events • Products Showcase • Users Newsletters • Education • Press Edition corner • Scientific Publications • Areas of activity (Maritime Safety, Marine Resources, Coastal and Marine Environment, Weather Climate and Seasonal Forecast) - (5 minutes) • A few selected examples of successful downstream use cases and user feedbacks • Demonstration on Data Discovery (The catalogue – 20 minutes) • Demonstration on Data Viewing (link through catalogue -10 minutes) • Demonstration on Data access and downloading (requesting and receiving an account; how to download the data; direct download, automatic download, subsetting etc... – 10 minutes) • Live demonstration on how to make quick and useful use of the downloaded products with simple, open and free software (30 minutes)
Feedback Forms & Questions
