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4-6 November 2013, Baltimore

CURRENT STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT OF

OCEAN ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SERVICES

Pierre Bahurel, Mercator Ocean, France

Frank Aikman, NOAA, US

Tim Moltmann, IMOS, Australia

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MyOcean Copernicus, Europe

IMOS, Australia

National Ocean Service, US

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Talk outline

We consider three ocean environmental core services :

IMOS, NOS, and MyOcean.

We ask them three questions:

• Why today? Why does the service exist today?

• What’s new? What does it change?

• So what? So, what do the users think about this service?

Our goal is to understand how operational oceanography moves from R&D demonstrations to operational information services

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QUICK OVERVIEW A few slides to present IMOS, NOS and Copernicus Marine

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IMOS: Integrated Marine Observing System

• A national collaborative research infrastructure, funded by Australian Government

• Open ocean, onto the continental shelf and into the coast...

• Integrated across physics, chemistry, and biology

• A portfolio of platform based Facilities Argo, SOOP, Deepwater Moorings, Gliders, AUV’s, Shelf/Coastal Moorings, Radar, Animal Tagging, Sensor Networks, and Remote Sensing

• A data portal, where data are freely available

www.imos.org.au

contact person: Tim Moltman

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NOS: NOAA’s National Ocean Service

• A national service, funded by the US government

• Operational Forecast Systems (OFS) for the Coastal and Estuarine Environment – A network of coastal forecast systems all along the US coasts

• Mainly focussed on physical oceanography


oceanservice.noaa.gov contact person: Frank Aikman

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MyOcean: The EU Copernicus Marine Service

• A European service, funded by EU and the Member States

• Monitoring and Forecasting data centres, for the global ocean and European seas – Integration of observation- and model-based data in a single

catalogue

• Open ocean, regional seas ; ocean physics and bio-geochemistry, real-time and reanalyses


marine.copernicus.eu contact person: Pierre Bahurel

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WHY TODAY?

Why does the service exist today? What were or are the motivations?

What are the conditions that made this transition possible?

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Why does IMOS exist today?

Motivation: a marine nation

• 3rd largest ocean territory on Earth

• Australia: a ‘marine nation’

• Inadequate marine observing effort

Objective : support science

• to provide observations and data to the marine and climate science community, as a research infra

Framework : gov. program

• Australia’s government ready to invest $130M over 8 years

• A group of partners ready to go

http://www.sims.org.au/

http://www.jcu.edu.au/

http://www.uwa.edu.au/

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Why does NOS exist today?

Motivation: support operations

• Safe & efficient navigation

• Emergency response

• Environmentally sound mgt of the coastal zone

Objective: develop operational models

• to develop a national network of operational hydrodynamic models providing nowcasts and short-term forecasts

Framework: gov. agency

• NOAA’s National Ocean Service

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Why does MyOcean Copernicus exist today?

Motivation : use Earth data

• Foster the use of Earth observation data in downstream applications

• Take benefit of a multi-year and successful community work

Objective : improve and simplify

• to improve ocean information and simplify access to it

Framework : EU program

• EU Copernicus program for marine (60 M€ so far)

• 60 partners / 28 countries ready to co-invest

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Why today?

• a good reason + a good organisation + a good sponsor

– The good reason was already there, and is reinforced by a successful R&D

– A good organisation means skilled partners and a continuous networking approach

– The sponsor understands and supports an « open & free » data policy for the core service

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WHAT’S NEW?

what is the added value for users?

where stands the difference with the previous situation?

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What changes with IMOS

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• multiple institutions engaged with complementary capabilities

• a ‘data centric’ infrastructure for use by all

• a move towards a culture of open data access

• more effective relationships with other components of the research & innovation system (vessels, other data holders, modeling)

• synergies with IT capabilities (computing, data, tools)

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What changes with NOS

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What changes with NOS

• A plan for a full network, with systems already in operations

• Integration of observing system data, model predictions

• A common model framework, including real-time data ingest, a 24x7 QC, dissemination tool via web display or OpenDAP

• Well-defined standards; runs regularly & automatically; reliability, stability & commitment

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What changes with MyOcean Copernicus

SEA LEVEL

SEA ICE

BIOGEO

CHEMISTRY SEA WIND

CURRENTS TEMPERATURE

SALINITY

REANALYSES

10 to 45 years

REAL-TIME

Daily, hourly FORECAST

2 to 10 days

DISCOVER

VIEW

DOWNLOAD

Open & Free

ESSENTIAL MARINE VARIABLES

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• A single catalog with information produced and assessed by ocean experts, a reduction of unnecessary redundancy, a recognition of complementarities

• Standards for formats, QC, interoperability, service evolutions

• A free and open access to everyone for all data, advanced tools to facilitate access, high level reliability (> 96%)

• A group of operators committed for operations

QC

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What’s new?

• A focal point + a data policy + standards + commitments

– A focal point, devoted to ‘service-to-users’, enabling further synergies and partnerships

– A data policy, increasing value via data-sharing

– Standards, improving interoperability and cost efficiency

– Commitments, for service continuity and sustainability

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SO WHAT?

what are the users feedbacks?

what have we learned ?

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So what do users think of IMOS?

UPTAKE • Uptake and use is strong: 40% per

annum increase in science output • Assessed as high priority in four successive

competitive funding rounds • Attracting for international collaboration and partnership

with modeling and forecasting communities EXPECTATION • IMOS to be more active in the coastal zone LESSON • ensuring that adequate investment is made in quality control

Imos.org.au

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So what do users think of NOS ?

DE Bay/River Pilots (S. Roberts) “prevent the safe passage of deep

loaded tankers before they are

scheduled to get underway.”

“[…] saving costs due to delays and aborted passages.”

NWS (B. Schneider, WFO Portland)

“Receiving accurate model output […] is central to WFO

Portland’s effort to improving forecasts for these areas”

oceanservice.noaa.gov

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0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48

So what do users think of MyOcean?

Number of users

Months

2719

1500

300

Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012 Sep 2013

a successful uptake: ~100 new registrations

every month

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4-6 November 2013, Baltimore 26%

31% 12%

31%

Marine

safety

Marine & coastal

environment Climate seasonal &

weather forecasting

Marine

Resources

So what do users think of MyOcean?

A worldwide use, in different domains

Research

Public Business

Others 50%

20% 18%

12%

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So what?

• A good uptake, and clear expectations

– Core services have found their users

– Users are asking for long-term sustainability,

service continuity and quality information

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CONCLUSION

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Conclusion

Operational oceanography is moving from successful R&D demonstrations to operational core services.

There are different types of core services, with different scopes, but they always come from a successful R&D

Core services in operation

• prove their capacity to meet users’ first expectations (simplify, deliver, assess, secure)

• are based on ‘public-good’ business models

• create value by securing a ‘network organization with a simple focal point’ for users

There is a lot to do, and

great expectations.

Sustainability is a key issue.

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Conclusion

Operational oceanography is moving from successful R&D demonstrations to operational core services.

There are different types of core services, with different scopes, but they always come from a successful R&D

Core services in operation

• prove their capacity to meet users’ first expectations (simplify, deliver, assess, secure)

• are based on ‘public-good’ business models

• create value by securing a ‘network organization with a simple focal point’ for users

There is a lot to do, and

great expectations.

Sustainability is a key issue.

Contact

[email protected]

Web sites

MyOcean: marine.copernicus.eu

IMOS: www.imos.gov.au

NOS: oceanservice.noaa.gov

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