1. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Operational Oceanography for the NW European Shelf: NOOS 2009 Prepared by Kees van Ruiten NOOS Steering Group June 2009 Lowestoft

2. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc …...Make formal agreements and commitments between participating agencies to create networks of existing systems and services, delivering operational ocean data products……… NOOS-objectives Facilitating NOOS-observatories (Pilot EMECO-NS) Improve Exchange of model output (extend to environmental data) Protocol for products exchange (technical, QC, maintainance, costs,..) … Strategic principles: The NOOS strategy 2010-2015

3. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc European Operational Oceanography

4. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Organisations

5. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Members (17) BSH, DMI, IMR, MUMM, MetO, met.no, RWS, POL, KNMI, SMHI, Marine Institute, AWZ, RDANH, SHOM, Cefas, Ifremer, ACRI, Meteo-France, Deltares Associate Members (4) NERSC, NIVA, GKSS, Uni-Oldenburg Representing: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Ireland and France NOOS members October 2008

6. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Linking Organisations to Networks Opportunity in initial assessment 2012 WORKSHOP at EEA 23/24 oct’06 Connecting operational oceanography with the European Marine Strategy and EEA assessments ETC EC/ MSD EEA/ EMMA OSPAR HELCOM EMS GMES MCS NOOS EuroGOOS MARCOAST MERSEA MOTIIVE BOOS MOON ECOOP Demand Offer (knowledge)

7. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Users

8. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Search and rescue forecast modelling Oil spill or marine pollution drift Harmful or nuisance algal bloom monitoring and warning Coastal flood forecasting (waves, storm surges) Fisheries management assessments Transport [ports and harbours operation, ship routing] Safety of life at sea (GMDSS) Defence and Naval operations Supporting tourism and leisure Sea Ice forecasting …………. NOOS partners provide operational services for:

9. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc How can NOOS contribute to structure of indicators at different levels?

10. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc European Initiatives

11. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc What is the scope of Eurogoos ROOSes Scope of a ROOS network Link and lobby obs “agencies” Develop and promote the MCS “USER” side : national, local, Ospar,... Provide the “core” service for the OOS Research

12. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Infrastructure

13. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Operational constrains The In-Situ TAC has to be built on well-defined standards: minimise the “Tower of Babel” in data exchange formats and access methods: data formats used have to be based on ISO-standards and the defacto- standards in Oceanography (NetCDF, MarineXML, OpeNDAP, ODV) all operations have to run regularly & automatically :the In-Situ has to based on an most automatic system working 24h on 7 days. Operations that request operator expertise will, within MyOcean, only performed during working days. The disposability has to be sustainable for a long time after the end of MyOcean QC (integrity guaranteed): all centres (global and regional) have to deliver data and products with common quality assurance to reach integrity guaranteed data sets and products, based on the QC in MERSEA and comparable projects Stability & commitment : all centres have to take care and monitor the data sets to be consistent and uniform, the redundancy is only possible at the regional centres for archiving

14. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Operational constrains Acquisition and archive system: all in-situ data acquired by the global and regional centres has to archived in the NODCs in a standard way well established data management method Effective, coordinated, distributed data management system at all centres, based on the efforts in MERSEA and ECOOP. Compatibility of data sets to facilitate use and integration automatic monitoring of data flow and product development: all centres have to establish methods and procedures to monitor the data flow and the product generation and distribution Continuity of data streams :the In-Situ TAC has to guarantee the continuity of data streams; the essential requirement for an operational system Timeliness of delivery (e.g. real-time products for real-time applications):Timely accessibility to quality data in “dynamically” standard formats

15. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc National initiatives

16. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS partners resources: Ferrybox Some NOOS partners run Ferryboxes: NIVA POL GKSS (NOCS) RWS-NZ

17. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Projects

18. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc SeaDataNet components ( 2006-2010)

19. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc MCS –Why and for Who? “The Marine Core Service is to make available & deliver a set of basic, generic services based upon common-denominator ocean state variables that are required to help meet the needs for information of those responsible for environmental and civil security policy making, assessment and implementation.”

20. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS Strategic plan 2010-2015 NOOS into the future

21. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS-Activities 2009-… Cooperation on regional storm evaluation and training staff WG- Coordination of monitoring activities (  filling gaps) WG OSPAR-NOOS Contribution to Initial assessment for EU-MSD Connection to MyOcean for all Member States in NOOS

22. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS Opportunities –Use national initiatives to build NOOS- capacity connecting networks harmonizing modeling activities (North Sea Toolbox) common assessments –We can do a lot more with what we have by just coordination between providers –We should better cover the shelf seas (Irish, Celtic Sea, Western Channel) –Gathering different views on implementing the Marine Strategy Directive

23. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS partners make the transition from Research to Operations NOOS can build on national projects and developments, as well as European Commission or ESA projects NOOS projects show that …

24. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Efficient shared production of ocean monitoring and forecasting services for the European NW Shelf GMES and GMES sustainability: Networked “European ocean forecast modelling” for NW Shelf (ECOOP, MyOcean, …..) Develop Downstream services: Challenge for NOOS partners to contribute to initial assessment for the EU-Marine Strategy Directive NOOS Challenges for 2009 and beyond

25. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS structure NOOSnational activitiesNOOS/EU-cooperationIntegrated approach MonitoringWG-monitoring coordinationSeaNetSEPRiSE Use of sensors and platformsgap analysisOSPAR-NOOS Observations in Osparexchange of experience ForecastingStorm surge exchangedata-assimilation schemesdata-assimilation TransportsECOOPuncertainty modelling 3D-modelling Ensemble forcasting Information SystemsMatroosSeaDataNetMarine Core Services EU-MSD implementationECOOPDown stream Services policy involvementMyOceanInitial assessment EMODNET

26. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc NOOS activities 2010 onwards 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008.. Storm surge forecast exchange Started 1999 EGS paper RIKZ “MATROOS” Water level exchange ftp box North Sea map complete Model transports exchange ftp box waves ftp box T, S NOOS-Monitoring Contribution to ICES-EuroGOOS North Sea pilot project MyOcean SEANET Forcasting Services, products Monitoring 2010  2014

27. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc From observations to information EMECO EMODNET MarinERA GMES MyOcean NOOS ?? Initiatives & ProjectsServices & Products

28. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Position of NOOS according to ECOOP MFC Model Forecasting Centre TAC Thematic Assembly Centre Model Product Observation Product ROOS (Regional OO system) EuroMiss common services (WMS, CSW) EuroDESS common services (search, view, get) Ocean Weather MyDSS Decision Support Service Other Products Find, view and get dataset instances of data product

29. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Temporal Scale (days) Spacial Scale (km) 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 1000 10000 10000 1000 100 10 1 0.1 0.01 global fluvial regional local HourDaySeasonYearDecenium Climate Change Ocean-Continental Shelf Interaction North Sea TSM Transport Estuary Dynamics Storm Surge Fresh/Sea water interaction Heat Exchange North Sea System Dynamics Time-space

30. NOOS NW Shelf Operational Oceanographic System www.noos.cc Coastal RegionalGlobal Which System for which need to measure these data? Remote Sensing 1Km 2 Regional/10 6 Km 2 Ocean bassin Globe Centuries Decadal Inter- annual Seasonal Daily hourly Moored Time series In network Region Ship Time Series Repeat Trans-Basin Sections Floats VOS Surface Data Space Time