1. Operational Oceanography Science and Services for Europe and Mediterranean Srdjan Dobricic, CMCC, Bologna, Italy on behalf of National Group of Operational Oceanography

2. OUTLINE
The GMES European Marine Service and the Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network: the system design and implementation
The observing system status
The deterministic forecast system components and the quality of the products
Estimates of physical conditions in the North-Western Mediterranean in March 2006

3. The European GMES Marine Core Service functions
Satellite
and
in situ
data
Geoportal
For
Data
Access
The Marine Core Service will deliver regular and systematic reference information on the state of the oceans and regional seas of known quality and accuracy

4. The GMES Marine Core service is an European production integrated system
5 Thematic Assembly
Centres
7 Monitoring and
Forecasting Centres
Observations
Models
Service
Desk
Global Ocean
Sea Level
Arctic Ocean
Ocean Color
Baltic Sea
Sea Surface Temp.
Atlantic NWS
Sea Ice & Wind
Atlantic IBI
In Situ
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea

5. The Marine Core Service for users: 4 areas of benefit
MARINE AND COASTAL
ENVIRONMENT
GMES service delivers a service to:
European agencies (EEA, EMSA, EDA, ...)
Member State Users: National / Regional Service Providers (public or private)
Intergovernmental bodies (OSPAR, UNEP-MAP, HELCOM, ICES, ...)
Private businesses
MARINE RESOURCES
MARINE SAFETY
WEATHER, CLIMATE &
SEASONAL FORECASTING 5

6. Users are service providers;,
Climate & Seasonal
Forecasting
29%
Marine Safety:
Marine Operations (23%),
Defence (10%), Search & Rescue (15%),
Weather forecasting (19%), Ship routing (10%), Environmental Hazard (23%)
Marine and Coastal Environment:
Coastal Activities (34%), Water Quality (34%), Pollution (32%)
Climate and Seasonal Forecasting:
Seasonal Forecasting (20%), Climate Monitoring (63%), Ice Monitoring (17%)
Marine Resource:
Fish Stock Management (100%)
Marine Safety
31%
Marine
Resource
13%
Marine & Coastal
Environment
27%

7. The components of operational oceanography in the Mediterranean Sea: 1995-today
Numerical
models of hydrodynamics, waves
and
biochemistry
at basin scale
RT Observing System
satellite SST, SLA,
VOS-XBT, moored multiparametric buoys,
ARGO and gliders
Numerical models
of different complexity
for shelf and
coastal areas
End-User applications /
Downstream services

8. MOON data collection system: Basin scale and real time
Multiparametric buoys in: Ligurian Sea, Adriatic Sea and Cretan Sea (few hours delay)
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XBT VOS/SOOP high resolution
(12 nm along track and full profile transmission, few hours delay)
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20 ARGO floats deployed from VOS
(few hours delay)
Daily satellite SST interpolated in RT on model grid (one day delay)
JASON-1, GFO, ENVISAT, T/P
Sea Level Anomalies
(few days delay)
T/¨P
ENVISAT
ERS
JASON
GFO
Scatterometer DAILY winds
analysis, 1/2x1/2
(one week delay)
Open ocean monitoring by gliders
(few hours delay)
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9. MFS: large scale numerical forecasting models
Hydrodynamics
(INGV)
Horizontal res: 1/16°x1/16° ~ 6.5Km
Vert res: 72 unevenly spaced levels
Lateral open boundary condition in the Atlantic: nesting in Mercator global model
Coupled wave-current model for wind drag coefficient
Surface atmospheric pressure: pre-operational implementation
B) Waves
(INGV)
CODE: WAM 4.5
Horizontal res: 1/16°x1/16° ~ 6.5Km
Same bathymetry than hydrodynamics
24 directional bins, 30 frequency bins (0.05Hz-> Hz) bins.
Coupled with MFS currents
(hourly for drag, daily for currents)

10. MyOcean large scale numerical forecasting system
C) Pelagic Biochemistry
(OGS)
Horizontal res: 1/16°x1/16° ~ 6.5Km
Vertical res: 72 unevenly spaced levels
Offline Coupling with MFS physics
10 days forecast every three days
Circulation Model
OPA 1/16°
Daily means
INGV
Biogeochemical Model
OPATM-BFM
1/16°
OGS CINECA
Lazzari et al., 2010

11. The MFS deterministic forecast system
Forecast and analyses production cycle
Tuesday
Days
Tuesday
Tuesday
Tue -
Wed -
Once a week, daily analyses are produced for the past 14 days (best satellite information and all in situ)
Thu -
Fri -
Sat -
Sun -
Mon -
Tue -
Production Days
Every day a deterministic forecast is issued starting either from analysis or a simulation
Analysis
24hr Model Simulation + Assimilation
24hr Model Simulation
10 days physical Forecast

12. The MFS users: Limited area sub-basin, shelf scale models

13. Very near coastal model started from MyOcean products
Marine and coastal environment:
land pollution control
Very near coastal model started from MyOcean products
Assessment of pollution from land sources and their impact
In the sea
Bellafiore et al., 2011

14. Anaysis on
05 March 2006

15. Anaysis on
10 March 2006

16. Cross section at 6.1 E
05 mar 2006
10 mar 2006
15 mar 2006