Marine Core Service MY OCEAN WP 18 URD Synthesis Marine and Coastal Environment.

MarineCore

Service

MY OCEAN

WP 18URD Synthesis Marine

and Coastal Environment

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URD Main Elements/Agenda

Introduction (Chapt.1) Area of Benefit (Capt. 3)

– Definition Users (Capt. 1,4,5)

– User description – Missions and improvements of capabilities – Policy driving needs– Tasks description and users short term needs– Evolution and Future of User needs

Products and Services (Capt. 6)– Overview– Product and Service Requirements– Critical issues

Comments/Conclusions

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Introduction (Chapt. 1)

Areas of benefit– Marine and Coastal Environment (water quality,

pollution, coastal activities)– Marine Safety (oil spill combat, ship routing, weather

forecast, defence, search& rescue)– Marine Resources (fish stock management)– Climate and Weather Forecasting (climate monitoring,

ice, short-term and seasonal forecasting) User Categories

• European Agencies (EU), e.g. EEA • Intergovernmental Bodies (IG), e.g. OSPAR, HELCOM• Service Provider (SP), National Agencies, e.g. ISPRA,

Centre of Marine Research in Lithiuania

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Area of Benefit (Chapt.3)

Marine and Coastal Environment Environmental Threats

– Water pollution and eutrophication (algae blooms)– Loss of biological diversity– Coast: Land use and landscape deterioration (ersosion),

river impact Major fields:

– Marine environmental assessment: Water quality, biodiversity, ecosystem

– Coastal Zone Management– Integrated River Basin Management

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User Description (Chapt. 1, 4)

Number of Users: 15

EU: 1

IG: 4

SP: 10

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User Description (Chapt.1,4)

Marine and Coastal Environment

User Category No Name of Organization Marine Area

European Agencies (EU)

1 European Environment Agency (EEA); 32 MS All

Intergovernmental Body (IG)

4 Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR); 15 member states Helsinki Commission (HELCOM); 9 MS Black Sea Commission (BSC); 6 MS Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS)

Atlantic, North Sea

Baltic Sea Black Sea Global

Service Provider (SP)

10 Examples:Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), SpainCentre of Marine Research (CMR), Lithuania

Mediterranean Sea

Baltic Sea

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Users missions (Chapt. 4)

General Environmental assessment, monitoring, forecast and impact

assessment Economic and social driving forces Find solutions against environmental threats Sustainability Policy driving needs

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Users missions (Chapt. 4.1)

EEA Represent mostly public interests and serve legislative tasks

Intergovernmental Bodies Intensify cooperation within regions of interest Increase collaboration with international organizations and

strengthen the cooperation between EU and other IG’s in order to foster the representation of regional interests in international context.

Service Providers Interests and responsibilities are mostly driven by interests

(public or private) of their customers Universities and research institutes: education, scientific

research in terms of marine and coastal environment

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Users Improvement of capabilities (Chapt. 4.2)

General Assessment and analysis of the state and trends in the marine

and coastal environment Include validated data sets Prediction of ecosystems respond to climate change to

evaluate their impacts on marine resources or marine biodiversity

Tracking of pollution/eutrophication incidents in real time and discover source (surface currents, river runoff and nutrient load)

Forecast of Water Quality Specification of ocean boundary conditions Include metadata in existing information systems

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Users policy driving needs (Chapt.5.1)

Global/EU Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive Directives, like Water Framework Directive

Regional Baltic: HELCOM Convention Atlantic/North Sea: OSPAR Convention, Joint Assessment and

Monitoring Programme (JAMP) Mediterranean: Barcelona Convention Black Sea:Black Sea Environmental Programme (BSEP)

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Users tasks description and users short term needs (Chapt.5.2)

General Continuation of present requirements Development of downstream services and implementation of new services and products Evolution of modelling systems Development of new indicators, like transparency indicators and products Serve increasing needs for marine and coastal information Mitigation the effects of environmental hazards and pollution and decrease of impact and effects of climate change on coastal communities

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Evolution and Future of User needs (Chapt.5.3)

EEA Implementation of the Marine Strategy Availability of sea state information through the Water

Information System for EUROPE) WISE for the Member states

Intergovernmental Bodies Improvement of state-of-the-art techniques for operational

service delivery, like web applications

Service Provider Geographical expand of the MyOcean products, e.g south area

of Morocco. Downscaling of the Ocean General Circulation Modell (OGCM)

to local ocean coastal modelling using a regional modelling intermediate step.

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Requirements overview (Chapt. 6.1)

General Availability of MyOcean MCS products is expected to improve user products and operationality of services at all time scales

– Product assessment strongly required Apply a common practise for MyOcean Service Providers and Users

– Relevant documents: URD, Service Level Agreement (SLA)– Contribution to the WISE viewer maps, production of GIS reference layers and creation of the CASE II coastal water indicator development and production– Contribution to the Marine assessments on eutrophication through the development of ocean colour based indicators

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Product and Service requirements (Chapt. 6.2)

Use Case

Requested Products

Coverage Depth Level

Spatial &

Temporal

Resolution

Temporal

Extent

Update Freque

ncy

Availability &

Timeliness

Format

Delivery Mechanis

ms

Forecast & Web

Services

SST, Sea Level Indicators,Sea Ice indicators, Ice coverage,

Up to European

scale

Surface variable long-term

Daily up to

seasonal

variable NetCDF,

maps, graphic

s

FTP OpenDap

Eutrophication, Trends of Chl-a

Chl-a, T, Salinity, Surrents,Nutrients, O2, bio-geo-chemicals River discharge

All European Basins

Surface to

Bottom

variable 5 days to long-

term

Daily to yearly

variable ASCII, NetCD

F

FTP

Bathing Water

assessment

T, Salinity, Velocity and Wave Fields,

Sea Level

Mediterranean Sea

Surface to

bottom

variable 1-10 days

daily 50% ASCII FTP

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Criticality of requirements and services (Chapt. 6.3)

Data delivery Availability without gaps and delay Best available products is mandatory Until now poor coverage of some European Seas

Service sustainability Long-term sustainability of provided services, web service in particular, is strongly required

Data quality and validation Quality, analysis and validation of in-situ data from the Thematic Assembly Centres (TAC) is mandatory for users.

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Thank you for your attention!