Argo Information Centre Report M Belbeoch Argo TC

Argo Information Centre Report M. Belbeoch, Argo TC ADMT #10, Toulouse, France September 2009

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National Contributions New partners Poland South Africa Kenya, Gabon, Nigeria, Finland (EUArgo/Germany) Morocco (JCOMM III), Indonesia, Venezuela, Togo, Peru, Philippines, Ivory Coast, Rep. Dominican Main Argo programs funding will be critical to sustain the array Help from all nations will be important for filling gaps and promote Argo 3

Coverage 4

Argo Network Growth 4000 3500 3307 3285 (3070) 3000 3271 (2858) 2800 #FLOATS 2500 AIC GDACs 2000 GTS - JP GTS - FR GTS - USA 1500 Argo Core Target 1000 Grey. List DOXY 500 0 2001 426 239 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 5

#Float • How to communicate ? • Argo is not complete … – Show a status with 2800 floats ( « core mission » ) – Increase the target to 4000 (? ) to include high latitudes & marginal seas 6

Planning ANY FLOAT DEPLOYMENT MUST BE REGISTERED AT THE AIC BEFORE DATA DISTRIBUTION, 7 And updated as appropriate …

Cruise Scores Survival function Weights applied to float count => density Deployment plans are rated according to their contribution to the array (3°x 3°) => This is one of the “tools” that help decision 1 P [x <=A] 0. 9 0. 8 0. 7 0. 6 0. 5 0. 4 0. 3 0. 2 0. 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ∑Floats = 1928 8

Argo or not Argo … that is the question! For now monitoring at the at AIC (transparency !) Soon restrictions: status map, disclaimers, new labels … (cosmetic !) 9

Float Models 10

Float Telecommunications 11

Survival 12

Cycles 13

#Profiles 14

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by DACs 15

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by Country 16

#DM/DM Eligible Profiles, by Program/DM Operator Check next AIC Report … 17

Deployments 2008 was a good year for Argo, especially in the Atlantic Ocean with increased contributions from France and Germany. 2009 will be a “bad one” … 18

AIC - Background • The AIC was originally funded on a yearly basis through voluntary contributions from Canada, France, UK and USA (2001). • Australia (2005) • China, India and Germany (2007) • In 2008 Korea started to support the AIC • AIC: Argo Project Office / JCOMMOPS • JCOMMOPS: expansion to JCOMM Observing Programme Support Centre • Argo TC started SOT (VOS/SOOP) coordination, Feb 2009. – stabilize TC position (with a funding under pressure – fiscal years) – Develop further synergies Argo/SOOP – Identify more dep. opportunities • New I. T. resource (half time) started at JCOMMOPS, Aug. 2008. (Laurent Cros) • Ocean. SITES coordination started (DBCP TC) 19

JCOMMOPS is a component of the international coordination mechanism, which aims on behalf of JCOMM to: • • • develop synergies between observing systems assist in the planning, implementation and operations of the observing systems monitor and evaluate the performance of the networks encourage cooperation between communities and member states encourage data sharing assist in data distribution on Internet and GTS relay users feedback on data quality to platforms operators provide technical assistance and user worldwide support act as a clearing house and focal point on all programmes aspects • 20 years of experience in international technical coordination (8 on Argo) • • More general information on http: //www. jcommops. org See JCOMMOPS Whitepaper for Ocean. Obs’ 09 20

AIC – TC Activities Argo Information Centre Technical Coordination Monitoring, Assistance, Cooperation. • • Network status, Data management monitoring (RT, Monthly, Yearly) Monthly Reporting • • • Assistance to deployment planning, float retrieval, data distribution Assistance to national programmes Support Centre (users support, users feedback) • • Information System technical maintenance and development Information System content management (float metadata, contacts, documents, news, …) 21

AIC – TC Activities • International Cooperation, Donor Programmes • • JCOMMOPS administration, development Cooperation with host (CLS) • • Links with SOT, DBCP, Ocean. SITES, IOC, WMO, JCOMM Reports … • • • Media needs (photos, maps, articles) Assistance to new programmes (Marine Mammals, ITP, gliders) Assistance to individual scientists interested/involved in Argo • 2009: Transition year challenging regarding TC work load – – SOT coordination (monitoring, REAL/MASK scheme) I. T. resource to be trained and managed Argo activities still growing – thankfully JCOMMOPS expansion 22

Monthly Report • Monthly (every two months !) report gradually improved • 10 reports produced in 2008 • Good feedback between reports … but – Deployment plans could be updated more often (but it is improving) – Feedback on beached floats is too rare – Data management issues slowly fixed (PARAM_QC, duplicates, missing profiles) • Plans: automate the report production as far as possible – Developments required – Make the report more user friendly • Suggestions? 23

AIC – Some Developments • Synchronisation with GDACS (2000 - 2008): new index file by Coriolis ftp: //ftp. ifremer. fr/ifremer/argo/etc/argo_profile_detailled_index. txt. gz More metadata More info on profiles available at GDACs (time, space, quality, PARAM) • Additional Requirements were submitted to Coriolis GDAC: • add N_LEVELS (“Common Practices”) • first/last date of net. CDF file update (to monitor delays) • New products to monitor Argo more closely • • • Density map of good quality profiles / PARAM / time Compare AIC/GDACs metadata New lifetime plots based on distance profiled Efficiency stats Student will work on it Suggestions ? 24

AIC – Some Developments • New GIS data management: – – More metadata ( notification step) New data layers, new maps New export files: text, GE, pdf with layers Intersection plans/ Maritime Zones • Argo Support/Feeback Centre – Only Coriolis and AST websites promote it !!! – Please add a link to http: //support. argo. net on your Argo website • WMO Ids allocation by the AIC (on support of WMO) – (fast, rational, soon automatic) • Planning: use the AIC as your tool to plan deployments • Better tools will be developed (new density/age 1 x 1) 25

Information System • System and web services monitored 24/7 by CLS operators • 2009 - 2010 : new generation of web services – – – integrating the technical elements of the Information System better designing a new structure for the JCOMMOPS website(s) analysing, in depth, the results of the websites audience tracking using more interactivity in navigation (thanks to new technologies) developing a profile based service: “My JCOMMOPS” With reporting features (see Google Analytics) • Base infrastructure set up – Still need to migrate Oracle database to a new server • Tech. Spec. being written and I. T. resource ready • AST/ADMT will be consulted as appropriate 26

AIC www audience (2008) 2008 Usage Statistics: regular and international audience Visits: ~100 times/day, ~500/week, ~2000/month. Total: 26126 visits in 2008, from 135 countries ~800 pages views / day, ~10000/month, ~120 000 / year. Main features used: • the float database (search, etc) • the deployment planning interface • the News section (the float of the month has great success) • the Map Room and Interactive Map • the monitoring tools (country, program, data flow) • the documents/meetings/contacts sections • the global search engine • the text/GE file exports 27

AIC www audience • International audience • Well used by Argo countries … and non-Argo • Growing interest from Africa • Light weight by TC use 28

ADMT#9 Actions • Calculate time delay for getting RT/DM files onto the GDACS. Investigate files slowly arriving – Need to complete GDAC detailed index files – Coming in next monthly report • Monitoring the floats sending good data to be included in AIC report – Done • Coriolis and AIC to monitor the resubmission of profiles after feedback – Need to complete GDAC detailed index files • ARCS and AIC to help CCHDO by providing point of contacts when they are aware of CTD cruises interesting for the Reference Database. – Done in monthly AIC Report. New list/maps of CTD made. Float search engine updated 29

Argo & Google Ocean Thanks to privileged contacts between Scripps and Google, we are planning to include Argo status and products under the Google Ocean content offer. Target: a general public audience (millions of users) Our challenge will be to make this useful also for the Argo community, as far as possible. We are basically planning to: • Provide general information on Argo animating a generic 3 D float, telling the “Argo Story”… • Improve the existing Argo balloon for the 3000 floats, including all float details, data plots, links to products, oceanographers float stories and educational products (“adopted” floats), Institution/Programme page • Include T/S/Anomalies monthly (Argo only) products at key levels ( using Scripps Argo gridded data) 30

Argo & Google Ocean Connecting to Argo GDACs, RDACs, PIs websites and diagnostic tools. Euro Argo float stories … Connecting to Argos services … • Please send your links ! Connecting to JAMSTEC services … 31

Thank you … http: //argo. jcommops. org support@argo. net belbeoch@jcommops. org 32