1. MAMA Workshop on Marine Data & Information Management Malta, 28 th January 2004 Recent experiences and future plans in oceanographic data management of the Mediterranean and Black Sea

2. Several data management actions have been made in a global international context 1996-1999 MTPII-MATER www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/mater/ 1998-2001 MEDAR/MEDATLAS II www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/mater/ MFSPP-MFSTEP 1998-2001 2003-2006 www.bo.ingv.it/mfstep/ + meta-data: Sea-search, EDIOS They have been made possible by the development of common standards and infrastructures WOCE/JGOFS, OMEX, CANIGO GODAR ARGO

3. MTPII-MATER 1996-1999 MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response 58 research groups from 10 EU Member States and 3 non-EU States 108 cruises (more than 1000 days of ship time) 130 long time series from fixed mooring and lagrangian drifters 254 main scientific equipments A reference good quality multidisciplinary database > 200 parameters collected by :

4. MATER Database

5. Data Management Structure Three regional Data Centres Western Central Eastern Publication of the Database on CDRom

6. MEDAR/MEDATLAS II EC-MAST Concerted Action (MAS3-CT98-0174/ERBIC20-CT98-0103 )

7. DATA BASE CONTENT DATA BASE CONTENT (PARAMETERS) Parameter Nb of Profiles Parameter Nb of Profiles Temperature284 371Nitrite10 508 Salinity118 009Ammonium5 239 Oxygen44 928Chlorophyll4 672 Phosphate20 761Alkalinity2 548 Silicate15 920 Total Phosphorus 2 381 PH14 512H2SH2S1 843 Nitrate10 572Total Nitrogen153

8. SALINITY

9. CHLOROPHYLL

10. CLIMATOLOGY Methodology  Computation of Climatological Analysis by Variational Inverse Model (VIM) algorithms  Computation made on finite elements and then re- interpolated on a regular grid (0.2 degrees in Latitude and Longitude), with smaller scales for local computations  T, S and bio-chemical climatology reviewed by regional experts and modellers http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/Medar

11. CLIMATOLOGY - Results Selected numerical fields depending on data availability: Annual, seasonal and monthly climatology Temperature, Salinity Annual and seasonal Oxygen, Silicate, Phosphate Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in the Black Sea Annual only Nitrate, Nitrite, pH, Ammonium, Alkalinity, Chlorophyll No climatology Total Phosphorus, Total Nitrogen + 2500 horizontal maps, vertical sections and data location

13. SALINITY at 10m Depth

23. CD-ROM 4: climatology Black Sea + E-Mediterranean CD-ROM 3: Climatology Global + W-Mediterranean DATA PRODUCT DATA PRODUCT (A set of 4 CD-ROMs) CD-ROM 2: Database Observed data + SELMED interface for extraction (according to various criteria), interpolation and visualization - export formats: MEDATLAS, CSV or ODV. CD-ROM 1: Documentation on the project and its results Cruise inventory Software QCmedar ODV

25. MFSPP Real time data management VOS Voluntary Observing Ship M3A Multisensor Moored Array MEDARGO Subsurface Profiling System GLIDERS Basin Wide Monitoring Technology Atmospheric forcing data Satellite Data

26. MFSTEP RT Data Access XBt

27. MFSTEP RT Data Access – MEDARGO Floats

28. Standardization mandatory meta-data ISO 19115 common exchange format(s) : ASCII : MEDATLAS NetCdf : ARGO/MFSTEP quality controls On data On products Requested for interoperability :Communication protocol Marine XML

29. QUALITY CHECKS QCO : Automatic check of the format QC1 : Automatic and visual check of the headers QC2 : Automatic and visual check of the data points a quality flag to each numerical value (GTSPP flag scale)

30. QC1: Location, date, duplicates

31. QC-2 : check of the data points Automatic ChecksResult Pressure + one more observation (E) Out of the regional scale (min & max values) Increasing pressure Data below the bottom depth Coherence with pre-existing statistics (LEVITUS, MODB, MEDATLAS) No constant profiles Spikes Vertical stability E= Elimination

32. Conclusion 1: Present available data infrastructure and services for the Mediterranean and Black Sea The data management network of NODC/DNA disseminate data from national and international programs provides basic data services: Implementation of internationally agreed protocols (when available) and practices for data formatting and checking, Continuous compilation of national data, quality checking with feedback to source scientists, perennial archiving, Data dissemination : routine regional or thematic subsets, and answers to specific requests, State of the art watch to develop standards and make use of the communication technology.

33. Conclusion 2: What remain to be done Direct internet access to the most complete and integrated data sets : historical data + data released in recent projects +real time data more quality data and products such as estimates of the mean, decadal, seasonal, monthly statistics at basin, regional and shelf scales Insure continuity and integration with other Pan-European and international programs: Avoid to stop the dynamics Compatibility with other networks Develop the standardization with ISO 19115 and Marine XML, especially for meta-data and communication Develop marketing to and feedback from the users Avoid to create new non compatible systems

34. SEA-DATANET : New concerted actions in preparation to develop : An internet integrated portal A communication protocol (ISO19115, Marine XML) between local systems Quality Control procedures to be applied on data and products according to the existing international standards or standards developed in the project, especially for non-physical data Marketing of the user community, to get more data and provide better services Enhanced international cooperation & capacity building activities

35. Sea Data network a semi-distributed model that incorporates, but enhances, the existing infrastructures professional archiving centres scientific centres SMEs

36. User Elements of the Oceanographic Data System Science Centres Data Centres Data & Meta Data Scientific Products Standard Products

37. Phases of Sea-Datanet 1.Design study : protoype of the system  On line networking of a limited number of centre to provide data  Access to all via internet  Test of feasibility and cost estimation for any current parameter 2.Development of the system  On extended network of data sources  On a limited number of parameters 3.Implementation and evolution

38. Expected long term results of Sea DataNet Standardize, secure and disseminate the data holding of the Pan-European community Decrease or optimisation of the overall costs of the data management of the projects Training on standards and methodologies developed in the project Robust statistics and trends over the last decades of the physical and bio-chemical parameters A recognised Pan-European data infrastructure able to contributes to international programmes related to GOOS/MEDGOOS, CLIVAR,JGOFS..