Argo Information Centre Report M. Belbeoch, Argo TC ADMT #10, Toulouse, France September 2009

National Contributions 2

3 Main Argo programs funding will be critical to sustain the array Help from all nations will be important for filling gaps and promote Argo New partners Poland South Africa Kenya, Gabon, Nigeria, Finland (EUArgo/Germany) Morocco (JCOMM III), Indonesia, Venezuela, Togo, Peru, Philippines, Ivory Coast, Rep. Dominican

Coverage 4

Argo Network Growth (3070) (2858)

6 #Float How to communicate ? Argo is not complete … –Show a status with 2800 floats (« core mission ») –Increase the target to 4000 (?) to include high latitudes & marginal seas

Planning 7 ANY FLOAT DEPLOYMENT MUST BE REGISTERED AT THE AIC BEFORE DATA DISTRIBUTION, And updated as appropriate …

Cruise Scores 8 Survival function Weights applied to float count => density Deployment plans are rated according to their contribution to the array (3°x3°) => This is one of the “tools” that help decision ∑Floats = 1928

Argo or not Argo … that is the question! 9 For now monitoring at the at AIC (transparency !) Soon restrictions: status map, disclaimers, new labels … (cosmetic !)

Float Models 10

Float Telecommunications 11

Survival 12

Cycles 13

#Profiles 14

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by DACs 15

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by Country 16

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by Program/DM Operator 17 Check next AIC Report …

Deployments was a good year for Argo, especially in the Atlantic Ocean with increased contributions from France and Germany will be a “bad one” …

19 AIC - Background The AIC was originally funded on a yearly basis through voluntary contributions from Canada, France, UK and USA (2001). Australia (2005) China, India and Germany (2007) In 2008 Korea started to support the AIC AIC: Argo Project Office / JCOMMOPS JCOMMOPS: expansion to JCOMM Observing Programme Support Centre Argo TC started SOT (VOS/SOOP) coordination, Feb –stabilize TC position (with a funding under pressure – fiscal years) –Develop further synergies Argo/SOOP –Identify more dep. opportunities New I.T. resource (half time) started at JCOMMOPS, Aug (Laurent Cros) OceanSITES coordination started (DBCP TC)

JCOMMOPS 20 JCOMMOPS is a component of the international coordination mechanism, which aims on behalf of JCOMM to: develop synergies between observing systems assist in the planning, implementation and operations of the observing systems monitor and evaluate the performance of the networks encourage cooperation between communities and member states encourage data sharing assist in data distribution on Internet and GTS relay users feedback on data quality to platforms operators provide technical assistance and user worldwide support act as a clearing house and focal point on all programmes aspects 20 years of experience in international technical coordination (8 on Argo) More general information on See JCOMMOPS Whitepaper for OceanObs’09

21 AIC – TC Activities Argo Information Centre Technical Coordination Monitoring, Assistance, Cooperation. Network status, Data management monitoring (RT, Monthly, Yearly) Monthly Reporting Assistance to deployment planning, float retrieval, data distribution Assistance to national programmes Support Centre (users support, users feedback) Information System technical maintenance and development Information System content management (float metadata, contacts, documents, news, …)

AIC – TC Activities International Cooperation, Donor Programmes JCOMMOPS administration, development Cooperation with host (CLS) Links with SOT, DBCP, OceanSITES, IOC, WMO, JCOMM Reports … Media needs (photos, maps, articles) Assistance to new programmes (Marine Mammals, ITP, gliders) Assistance to individual scientists interested/involved in Argo 2009: Transition year challenging regarding TC work load –SOT coordination (monitoring, REAL/MASK scheme) –I.T. resource to be trained and managed –Argo activities still growing – thankfully –JCOMMOPS expansion 22

23 Monthly Report Monthly (every two months !) report gradually improved 10 reports produced in 2008 Good feedback between reports … but –Deployment plans could be updated more often (but it is improving) –Feedback on beached floats is too rare –Data management issues slowly fixed (PARAM_QC, duplicates, missing profiles) Plans: automate the report production as far as possible –Developments required –Make the report more user friendly Suggestions?

24 AIC – Some Developments Synchronisation with GDACS ( ): new index file by Coriolis More metadata More info on profiles available at GDACs (time, space, quality, PARAM) Additional Requirements were submitted to Coriolis GDAC: add N_LEVELS (“Common Practices”) first/last date of netCDF file update (to monitor delays) New products to monitor Argo more closely Density map of good quality profiles / PARAM / time Compare AIC/GDACs metadata New lifetime plots based on distance profiled Efficiency stats Student will work on it Suggestions ? ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/argo/etc/argo_profile_detailled_index.txt.gz

AIC – Some Developments New GIS data management: –More metadata ( notification step) –New data layers, new maps –New export files: text, GE, pdf with layers –Intersection plans/ Maritime Zones Argo Support/Feeback Centre –Only Coriolis and AST websites promote it !!! –Please add a link to on your Argo websitehttp://support.argo.net WMO Ids allocation by the AIC (on support of WMO) –(fast, rational, soon automatic) Planning: use the AIC as your tool to plan deployments Better tools will be developed (new density/age 1x1) 25

26 Information System System and web services monitored 24/7 by CLS operators : new generation of web services –integrating the technical elements of the Information System better –designing a new structure for the JCOMMOPS website(s) –analysing, in depth, the results of the websites audience tracking –using more interactivity in navigation (thanks to new technologies) –developing a profile based service: “My JCOMMOPS” –With reporting features (see Google Analytics) Base infrastructure set up –Still need to migrate Oracle database to a new server Tech. Spec. being written and I.T. resource ready AST/ADMT will be consulted as appropriate

AIC www audience (2008) Usage Statistics: regular and international audience Visits: ~100 times/day, ~500/week, ~2000/month. Total: visits in 2008, from 135 countries ~800 pages views / day, ~10000/month, ~ / year. Main features used: the float database (search, etc) the deployment planning interface the News section (the float of the month has great success) the Map Room and Interactive Map the monitoring tools (country, program, data flow) the documents/meetings/contacts sections the global search engine the text/GE file exports

AIC www audience 28 International audience Well used by Argo countries … and non-Argo Growing interest from Africa Light weight by TC use

ADMT#9 Actions Calculate time delay for getting RT/DM files onto the GDACS. Investigate files slowly arriving –Need to complete GDAC detailed index files –Coming in next monthly report Monitoring the floats sending good data to be included in AIC report –Done Coriolis and AIC to monitor the resubmission of profiles after feedback –Need to complete GDAC detailed index files ARCS and AIC to help CCHDO by providing point of contacts when they are aware of CTD cruises interesting for the Reference Database. –Done in monthly AIC Report. New list/maps of CTD made. Float search engine updated 29

Argo & Google Ocean 30 Thanks to privileged contacts between Scripps and Google, we are planning to include Argo status and products under the Google Ocean content offer. Target: a general public audience (millions of users) Our challenge will be to make this useful also for the Argo community, as far as possible. We are basically planning to: Provide general information on Argo animating a generic 3D float, telling the “Argo Story”… Improve the existing Argo balloon for the 3000 floats, including all float details, data plots, links to products, oceanographers float stories and educational products (“adopted” floats), Institution/Programme page Include T/S/Anomalies monthly (Argo only) products at key levels ( using Scripps Argo gridded data)

Argo & Google Ocean 31 Connecting to Argos services … Connecting to JAMSTEC services … Please send your links ! Connecting to Argo GDACs, DACs, RDACs, PIs websites and diagnostic tools. Euro Argo float stories …

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