Marine Core Service MY OCEAN WP 18 URD Synthesis Marine and Coastal Environment

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens URD Main Elements/Agenda n Introduction (Chapt.1) n Area of Benefit (Capt. 3) –Definition n Users (Capt. 1,4,5) –User description –Missions and improvements of capabilities –Policy driving needs –Tasks description and users short term needs –Evolution and Future of User needs n Products and Services (Capt. 6) –Overview –Product and Service Requirements –Critical issues n Comments/Conclusions

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Introduction (Chapt. 1) n Areas of benefit –Marine and Coastal Environment (water quality, pollution, coastal activities) –Marine Safety (oil spill combat, ship routing, weather forecast, defence, search& rescue) –Marine Resources (fish stock management) –Climate and Weather Forecasting (climate monitoring, ice, short-term and seasonal forecasting) n User Categories European Agencies (EU), e.g. EEA Intergovernmental Bodies (IG), e.g. OSPAR, HELCOM Service Provider (SP), National Agencies, e.g. ISPRA, Centre of Marine Research in Lithiuania

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Area of Benefit (Chapt.3) Marine and Coastal Environment n Environmental Threats –Water pollution and eutrophication (algae blooms) –Loss of biological diversity –Coast: Land use and landscape deterioration (ersosion), river impact n Major fields: –Marine environmental assessment: Water quality, biodiversity, ecosystem –Coastal Zone Management –Integrated River Basin Management

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens User Description (Chapt. 1, 4) Number of Users: 15 EU: 1 IG: 4 SP: 10

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens User Description (Chapt.1,4) Marine and Coastal Environment User CategoryNoName of OrganizationMarine Area European Agencies (EU) 1  European Environment Agency (EEA); 32 MS  All Intergovernmental Body (IG) 4  Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR); 15 member states  Helsinki Commission (HELCOM); 9 MS  Black Sea Commission (BSC); 6 MS  Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)  Atlantic, North Sea  Baltic Sea  Black Sea  Global Service Provider (SP) 10Examples:  Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Spain  Centre of Marine Research (CMR), Lithuania  Mediterranean Sea  Baltic Sea

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Users missions (Chapt. 4) General n Environmental assessment, monitoring, forecast and impact assessment n Economic and social driving forces n Find solutions against environmental threats n Sustainability n Policy driving needs

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Users missions (Chapt. 4.1) EEA n Represent mostly public interests and serve legislative tasks Intergovernmental Bodies n Intensify cooperation within regions of interest n Increase collaboration with international organizations and strengthen the cooperation between EU and other IG’s in order to foster the representation of regional interests in international context. Service Providers n Interests and responsibilities are mostly driven by interests (public or private) of their customers n Universities and research institutes: education, scientific research in terms of marine and coastal environment

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Users Improvement of capabilities (Chapt. 4.2) General n Assessment and analysis of the state and trends in the marine and coastal environment n Include validated data sets n Prediction of ecosystems respond to climate change to evaluate their impacts on marine resources or marine biodiversity n Tracking of pollution/eutrophication incidents in real time and discover source (surface currents, river runoff and nutrient load) n Forecast of Water Quality n Specification of ocean boundary conditions n Include metadata in existing information systems

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Users policy driving needs (Chapt.5.1) Global/EU n Kyoto Protocol, n United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) n EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive n Directives, like Water Framework Directive Regional n Baltic: HELCOM Convention n Atlantic/North Sea: OSPAR Convention, Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) n Mediterranean: Barcelona Convention n Black Sea:Black Sea Environmental Programme (BSEP)

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Users tasks description and users short term needs (Chapt.5.2) General n Continuation of present requirements n Development of downstream services and implementation of new services and products n Evolution of modelling systems n Development of new indicators, like transparency indicators and products n Serve increasing needs for marine and coastal information n Mitigation the effects of environmental hazards and pollution and decrease of impact and effects of climate change on coastal communities

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Evolution and Future of User needs (Chapt.5.3) EEA n Implementation of the Marine Strategy n Availability of sea state information through the Water Information System for EUROPE) WISE for the Member states Intergovernmental Bodies n Improvement of state-of-the-art techniques for operational service delivery, like web applications Service Provider n Geographical expand of the MyOcean products, e.g south area of Morocco. n Downscaling of the Ocean General Circulation Modell (OGCM) to local ocean coastal modelling using a regional modelling intermediate step.

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Requirements overview (Chapt. 6.1) General n Availability of MyOcean MCS products is expected to improve user products and operationality of services at all time scales –Product assessment strongly required n Apply a common practise for MyOcean Service Providers and Users –Relevant documents: URD, Service Level Agreement (SLA) –Contribution to the WISE viewer maps, production of GIS reference layers and creation of the CASE II coastal water indicator development and production –Contribution to the Marine assessments on eutrophication through the development of ocean colour based indicators

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Product and Service requirements (Chapt. 6.2) Use Case Requested Products CoverageDepth Level Spatial & Tempor al Resolut ion Tempo ral Extent Update Freque ncy Availabi lity & Timelin ess Form at Delivery Mechanis ms Forecast & Web Services SST, Sea Level Indicators, Sea Ice indicators, Ice coverage, Up to European scale Surfacevariablelong- term Daily up to seasonal variableNetCD F, maps, graphic s FTP OpenDap Eutrophic ation, Trends of Chl-a Chl-a, T, Salinity, Surrents, Nutrients, O2, bio-geo- chemicals River discharge All European Basins Surface to Bottom variable5 days to long- term Daily to yearly variableASCII, NetCD F FTP Bathing Water assessme nt T, Salinity, Velocity and Wave Fields, Sea Level Mediterranea n Sea Surface to bottom variable1-10 days daily50%ASCIIFTP

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Criticality of requirements and services (Chapt. 6.3) Data delivery n Availability without gaps and delay n Best available products is mandatory n Until now poor coverage of some European Seas Service sustainability n Long-term sustainability of provided services, web service in particular, is strongly required Data quality and validation n Quality, analysis and validation of in-situ data from the Thematic Assembly Centres (TAC) is mandatory for users.

Marine Core Service MyOcean WP18 & User Meeting/ September Athens Thank you for your attention!