MyOcean 2 Project Progress

1. MyOcean 2 Project Progress J. Dorandeu – MyOcean2 Project Manager Joel.dorandeu@mercator-ocean.fr

2. First year of MyOcean-2:a very busy year • A year of operations: MyOcean-2 started with the operation of MyOcean Service version 2 • A year of evolutions: Definition and specification of versions 3 and 4 (resp. April 2013 and 2014), implementation of V3 • A year of technical work: Design, development and release of V3, R&D, Product quality, Outreach, communication and training • A year of important events: MyOcean science days, MyOcean User workshop, internal technical workshops, ECOMF strategic partnership

3. Continuous development in operations April 2012 – April 2013 V2 Operations POR POR Definition of V3 and V4 Design of V4 Design of V3 EXEC EXEC EXEC PDR PDR PDR Madrid Toulouse Barcelona VaRR Implementation of V3 V4… DWS DWS Acc WS KOff AOR T0+6 T0 T0+3 T0+12 Brussels Cork

4. A deep internal involvement • A improved decision process: • The Executive Committee Bureau (ECB: Marina, Sylvie, Bruce, Alistair, Vincent, Joël): • Analyses the issues to be submitted to the Executive Committee -> technical dossiers, preliminary trade-offs • Proposes decisions for the Exec. Com. • Avoids useless preliminary discussions • Some Examples: V3 and V4 requirements, WMS for all products, without authentication, Surface fluxes in reanalyses, Wave parameters , Hindcast definition, Major accounts and Specific Core Products, Merging PUMS and QuIDs, AOR organisation • Work structured and coordinated by cross-cutting work packages • A more mature way of working (within the Executive Committee): • Well known decision processes • Clear roles and responsibilities

5. A deep internal involvement • Specific internal work about requirements (for V3 and V4: • In depth analysis of MyOcean status and outputs • Internal consultation at the start of the project (from Kick-Off to June 2012 in Barcelona): significant and relevant feedback from WP leaders • A lot of important decisions taken quite quickly at the Barcelona Executive Committee meeting: user profiles, visualization, Authenticated FTP, archiving, priorities for the CIS, internal interfaces and data flows, etc… • Same process used for evolutions and other decisions (Toulouse and Madrid Exex. Comm. Meetings). • Preparation of the MyOcean PDR at T0+3 and T0+6 (while it was T0 + 12 in MyOcean).

6. Reviews and meetings • External reviews (4): • Kick-off April 2012 • Initial PDR (Design review) July 2012 • Final PDR October 2012 • AOR-1: today and tomorrow; POR (Pre-Operation Review), PDR and VaRR (Validation Readiness Review) on 18-19/04/2013 • Internal reviews, meetings and workshops: • Executive Committee meetings (4) : • Kick-Off, Brussels, April 2012 • Barcelona, June 2012 • Toulouse, October 2012 • Madrid, January 2013 • Internal Reviews (Production Centres and CIS) (2 + 2): • Design Workshops: Barcelona, June 2012, Madrid, January 2013 • Acceptance workshop: Madrid, January 2013 • Technical meetings (awareness, training, etc) (1): • Service Management • Product Management • Technical meeting wrt to CIS interfaces and tests • ECOMF meetings for the preparation of the Copernicus Operational phase

7. Other important events • MyOcean Science Days: November 2012 • Strong participation (120 people, many projects) • Observational systems, Numerical modelling, Data assimilation, validation and user related issues • Outcomes relevant to the next phase but also to the long term operational oceanography R&D roadmap • MyOcean User Workshop: April 2013 • Good participation • Plenary and splinter sessions and discussions • Final Round table • Main outcomes: • actions to be decided wrt MSFD applications and users, • Expected reinforcement of the link with the downstream services (end to end value chain), • consolidation for a long term and sustainable Marine Service • More frequent or coordinated User workshops • ECOMF Strategicpartnership: the Nicosiadeclaration: • defines an ECOMF Strategic Partnership between the “national” institutions that deliver data and predictions to their national or local authorities and ECOMF

8. Review, meetings and eventsSummary POR Exec Exec Exec Exec Va RR PDR PDR PDR Tec WS ACC DWS DWS SCD UWS ECOMF AOR KOff T0+6 T0+12 T0+9 T0+3 T0 Executive Committee Design Review Operation Review Validation Readiness Review Annual Operation Review Design Workshop Acceptance Workshop Technical Workshop Science Days User Workshop ECOMF strategic Partnership

9. Other important events • External meetings: • With ESA: GSC-DA (2), Sentinel-1 interfaces, OC-SST meeting • With EUMETSAT: 2 programmatic workshops, technical workshops and teleconferences • Project representedat EUROGOOS and ROOS meetings • With REA and GMES projects: coordination of R&D activities • GMES User Forum (presentation of the MyOcean Marine Service) • Participation to many Exhibitions, Symposiums, Workshops and other communication events…

10. Main results: • A user driven Service • Current Service Status

11. A User driven Service • A single user interface: Service Desk and Web Portal • A specific project organisation: • Collection of user requirements and engineering into Service Definition: • User requirements, user surveys, questionnaires • User validation (beta testers), user feedback • Traceability of each system functionality to user requirements • A Work Package dedicated to user uptake: • Downstream applications and national/regional operational centres • Outreach, communication and training • User workshops Véronique Marc Cédric

12. A growing number of users 2000+ SLAs in March 2013 2000 usersfrom 1000 organisations 100 new users everymonth 1000 SLAs in April 2012 300 Service Level Agreements in April 2011 MyOcean2 Service v0 Service v2 Service v1 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

13. An international, multi-sectorresponse Users in 88 different countries (26 EU members) A fair repartition in application areas And 67% of users using the core service in more than one sector

14. The MyOcean Service in V3 (V3 – 23rd April 2013) • Products and datasets simplification • 107 products (instead of 201 in V2) with no reduction of information • Product upgrades in almost all areas • 15 new products (Global, Baltic model forecasts, ocean Colour and InSitu observation products) • Each Product is associated with a Product User Manual and a Quality Information Document • New search engine, faster access to products, updated FAQs • All products available through standard MyOcean interfaces • All products can be visualized DISCOVER VIEW DOWNLOAD

15. Next steps

16. Next steps • Main activity: preparation of V4: • Final MyOcean Service version, to be operated 6 months during the project (April 2014 – Sep. 2014) • Intermediate versions for new products or system functions (CIS) will be defined • Reporting of the first period (May 2013) • Preparation of the post-MyOcean2 phase in the frame of Copernicus: ECOMF

17. Some challenges in the year to come • Internal: • Involvement, reactivity, acting as a single entity: still needs strong efforts: not an easy task, given the size and the structure of the project • Reducedelays in eachdelivery or contribution: thisis one major issue (example: integration and transition phases) • Keep enthusiasm in our “daily” tasks: this not the end of the story, but the beginning! • Maintain our Service and System State-of-the-Art, well integrated • Internal & External: • Prepare, develop and deliver V4 (and intermediate versions) • Take new user requirementsintoaccount (from UWS in particular) • External: • Engage even more the users in the Service, downstream sector • Maintain and develop relationships with main providers (Space, InSitu), European Agencies, main stakeholders • Be prepared to ECOMF... MyOcean 2 project to prepare a sustained, Service

18. Annual review agenda

19. Annual Review Agenda

20. Annual Review Agenda

21. Annual Review Agenda

22. Annual Review Agenda