1. 1 Marine EnviRonment and Security for Europe Area MERSEA FP VI Integrated Project (SPACE) Contribution to GMES, GODAE, INSPIRE SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

2. 2 The Operational Oceanography Projects in FP IV and V SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

3. 3 MERCATOR

4. 4 SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 TOPAZ/DIADEM

5. 5 SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 BOOS

6. 6 SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 FOAM

7. 7 SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 Mediterranean Forecasting System

8. 8 Objective of MERSEA is to provide an integrated service in support of off-shore activities, environmental management, security, sustainable use of marine resources SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 Marine EnviRonment and Security for Europe Area

9. 9  observing system and provision of data  coordinated set of monitoring and forecast systems  information products, applications and services SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 MERSEA research and development is composed by three main modules:

10. 10  Ocean Observing Systems  MERSEA is further developing the European capacity in global remote sensing data processing and distribution.  Innovative tools with multidisciplinary sensors will fill gaps existing ocean observing systems. MERSEA will integrate the collection, quality control and dissemination of relevant in situ data. SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004  MERSEA Components

11. 11  Modelling and assimilation  MERSEA runs global high resolution models of ocean circulation (1/12°) and higher resolution models at regional and local scales.  MERSEA will contribute to progress the ecosystem models by developing modelling and assimilation models SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004  MERSEA Components

12. 12  Marine applications  MERSEA is developing products for final users such as the offshore oil and gas industry, forecasting of sea ice and iceberg drifts and improved sea state (surface waves) forecasts notably by better incorporation of wave-current interaction modelling. SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004  MERSEA Components

13. 13 MERSEA Information Management real-time delayed Has to facilitate the routine real-time exchange of high quality information, data and products within the project and the provision of appriopriate information for a wide range of external users, both in real-time and delayed mode. SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

14. 14 MERSEA Information Management CLS (F. Blanc) DMI (E. Buch) ENEA (G.M.R. Manzella – WP Leader) IFREMER (G. Maudire) INGV (N. Pinardi) MARIS (D. Schaap) NERSC (J. Johannessen) TECHWORKS (C. O’Kelly) UNREADS (K. Haines) SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

15. 15 Downscaling approach (serve the global models and the regional, shelf, coastal models) 8 main Thematic Assembling Centers 4) Global model 1)Satellite5) Arctic 2)In Situ6) Baltic 3)Forcings7) Mediterranean 8) N.W.S Requirements: Access to large amount of data; No restrictions within MERSEA; real time 9 : n) regional data centers providing data for regional, shelf, coastal areas

16. 16 MIM goal: to ensure the availability of near real time data, global products, gridded products Forecasting SystemData centerWWW information D.M.Visual. Global OceanMercatorhttp://www.mercat or.eu.org/ Organised files Mediterranean Forecasting System INGVhttp://www.bo.ing v.it/mfs/ Organised files LAS MVT CORIOLISIfremerhttp://Oracleself Solution: an operational data portal for GMES that is based on existing European processing facilities SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

17. 17 SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004 Data and Information availability and distribution A WWW site will be developed as a portal to the different independent systems and to facilitate the visibility and exchange of the data in a reliable and coherent manner. Operating the WWW portal –Regular Update of the information on the data sets availability –Plus regular information on their quality and availability (e.g. news, new products, data transmission and availability problem, data status, user information and support). Requirements for TACs Priority 1  Each center will list and document the data to be distributed+ access conditions  Each center will provide its data and gridded data products in a defined structure format Priority 2  Each center will define the availability of data in a defined catalogue. Priority 3  Each center will serve them with server Requirements for the portal A WWW data portal will be developed to deliver data in a shared and distributed mode.  The portal will provide an overview of all available MERSEA data and products // a ‘paper’ catalogue or for pre-selection  The portal will provide an easy access to the data sets through a link to the relevant data distribution centers. toward an interoperable catalogue  A central portal providing access to a federation of data centres

18. 18 Distributed system model General architecture MIM components solution ? SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

19. 19 TAC-i Project i Project j Project y PORTAL First development SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

20. 20 TAC-i Project i PORTAL Project j Project y TAC-j Project i Project j Project y Region i Project i Local i Local j Second phase development SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

21. 21 Internal USERS All MERSEA partners: -routine data collection and forcast -R&D activity -End users’ products SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

22. 22 External Users -GODAE -Operational users (e.g. applications) -Research -Education -Commercial -Policy makers MERSEA data policy, limitation of data downloading during each session SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

23. 23 Access to External Users - Through the portal MERSEA Vs GODAE Access to data (internal): -Routine -On demand -Project docs WWW Info Show pages Green documents SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

24. 24 MERSEA vs GODAE SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

25. 25 Guiding Principles: –Interoperability –Open easy-access and discovery –Reliable, sustained, efficient operations –Effective user feedback –Open design and standard process –Preservation of data and products SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

26. 26 The underlying philosophy should be that data should be managed independantly at participating sites. Reduce (eliminate) the differences in data management techniques between sites, file naming conventions, how long to keep files on line, whether variables are stored in individual files or consolidated, etc. SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

27. 27 Higher degree of standardization in data management in the initial stages of the project will greatly reduce the complexities of seeting it up.  Consistent syntactic representation of the data regardless of the semantics  Plus discipline specific semantics layered on the data to ease a joint use.  No requirements on the contents of these containers. Some data sets are well described, others are not. The various type of METADATA “Metadata” provides a description of data. Precise and adequate metadata is enormously important in any project where large quantities of data have to be handled. If the data comes from a variety of sources, it is essential to adopt some standard for the metadata so that common programs can be used for analysis and comparison. We split the metadata in 4 categories:  Use metadata which is made of two components:  the semantic part is the information about the contents and context of the data sets  The syntatic part is the information about the data types and structures at computer level  Discovery metadata  Documentation metadata  Administrative metadata

28. 28 Collaboration with Sea Search SeaDataNet Links to: EDIOS the European GOOS family (MAMA, PAPA, ARENA) SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

29. 29 MERSEA Information Management ……routine real-time exchange of high quality information, data and products …. both in real-time and delayed mode. No historical data will be accessed through the MIM portal, links will be provided SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

30. 30 Catalogue The catalogue will provide answers to key questions: What, Where, When, Who, Where to get the data, How to direct to data / dataset SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

31. 31 Collaboration Sea Search and SeaDataNet (+ ESA) Develop a unique model for distributed data systems SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004