WP 18 URD Synthesis Marine and Coastal Environment

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

URD Main Elements/Agenda Marine Core Service n n n 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 – n n Evolution and Future of User needs Products and Services (Capt. 6) – Overview – Product and Service Requirements – Critical issues Comments/Conclusions My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Introduction (Chapt. 1) Marine Core Service n n 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 My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Area of Benefit (Chapt. 3) Marine Core Service Marine and Coastal Environment n Environmental Threats – Water pollution and eutrophication (algae blooms) – Loss of biological diversity – Coast: Land use and landscape deterioration (ersosion), river impact n Major fields: – Marine environmental assessment: Water quality, biodiversity, ecosystem – Coastal Zone Management – Integrated River Basin Management My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

User Description (Chapt. 1, 4) Marine Core Service Number of Users: 15 EU: 1 IG: 4 SP: 10 My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

User Description (Chapt. 1, 4) Marine Core Service 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 Service Provider (SP) 10 Examples: Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Spain Centre of Marine Research (CMR), Lithuania Baltic Sea Black Sea Global Mediterranean Sea Baltic Sea My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Users missions (Chapt. 4) Marine Core Service General n Environmental assessment, monitoring, forecast and impact assessment n Economic and social driving forces n Find solutions against environmental threats n Sustainability n Policy driving needs My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Users missions (Chapt. 4. 1) Marine Core Service EEA n Represent mostly public interests and serve legislative tasks Intergovernmental Bodies n Intensify cooperation within regions of interest n 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 n Interests and responsibilities are mostly driven by interests (public or private) of their customers n Universities and research institutes: education, scientific research in terms of marine and coastal environment My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Users Improvement of capabilities (Chapt. 4. 2) Marine Core Service General n Assessment and analysis of the state and trends in the marine and coastal environment n Include validated data sets n Prediction of ecosystems respond to climate change to evaluate their impacts on marine resources or marine biodiversity n Tracking of pollution/eutrophication incidents in real time and discover source (surface currents, river runoff and nutrient load) n Forecast of Water Quality n Specification of ocean boundary conditions n Include metadata in existing information systems My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Users policy driving needs (Chapt. 5. 1) Marine Core Service Global/EU n Kyoto Protocol, n United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) n n EU Marine Strategy Framework Directives, like Water Framework Directive Regional n Baltic: HELCOM Convention n Atlantic/North Sea: OSPAR Convention, Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme (JAMP) n Mediterranean: Barcelona Convention n Black Sea: Black Sea Environmental Programme (BSEP) My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Users tasks description and users short term needs (Chapt. 5. 2) Marine Core Service General n Continuation of present requirements n Development of downstream services and implementation of new services and products n Evolution of modelling systems n Development of new indicators, like transparency indicators and products n Serve increasing needs for marine and coastal information n Mitigation the effects of environmental hazards and pollution and decrease of impact and effects of climate change on coastal communities My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Evolution and Future of User needs (Chapt. 5. 3) Marine Core Service EEA n Implementation of the Marine Strategy n Availability of sea state information through the Water Information System for EUROPE) WISE for the Member states Intergovernmental Bodies n Improvement of state-of-the-art techniques for operational service delivery, like web applications Service Provider n Geographical expand of the My. Ocean products, e. g south area of Morocco. n Downscaling of the Ocean General Circulation Modell (OGCM) to local ocean coastal modelling using a regional modelling intermediate step. My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Requirements overview (Chapt. 6. 1) Marine Core Service General n Availability of My. Ocean MCS products is expected to improve user products and operationality of services at all time scales – Product assessment strongly required n Apply a common practise for My. Ocean 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 My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Product and Service requirements (Chapt. 6. 2) Marine Core Service Use Case Requested Products Coverage Depth Level Spatial & Tempor al Resolut ion Tempo ral Extent Update Freque ncy Availabi lity & Timelin ess Form at Delivery Mechanis ms Forecast & Web Services SST, Sea Level Indicators, Sea Ice indicators, Ice coverage, Up to European scale Surface variable longterm Daily up to seasonal variable Net. CD F, maps, graphic s FTP Open. Dap Eutrophic ation, Trends of Chl-a, T, Salinity, Surrents, Nutrients, O 2, bio-geochemicals River discharge All European Basins Surface to Bottom variable 5 days to longterm Daily to yearly variable ASCII, Net. CD F FTP Bathing Water assessme nt T, Salinity, Velocity and Wave Fields, Sea Level Mediterranea n Sea Surface to bottom variable 1 -10 days daily 50% ASCII FTP My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Criticality of requirements and services (Chapt. 6. 3) Marine Core Service Data delivery n Availability without gaps and delay n Best available products is mandatory n Until now poor coverage of some European Seas Service sustainability n Long-term sustainability of provided services, web service in particular, is strongly required Data quality and validation n Quality, analysis and validation of in-situ data from the Thematic Assembly Centres (TAC) is mandatory for users. My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens

Marine Core Service Thank you for your attention! My. Ocean WP 18 & User Meeting/ 29 -30 September Athens