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Marine EnviRonment and Security for Europe Area

MERSEA

FP VI Integrated Project(SPACE)

Contribution to GMES, GODAE, INSPIRE

SeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

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The Operational Oceanography Projects in FP IV and V


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MERCATOR

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TOPAZ/DIADEM

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BOOS

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FOAM

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Mediterranean Forecasting System

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Objective of MERSEA is to provide an integrated service in support

of off-shore activities, environmental management, security, sustainable use of

marine resources


Marine EnviRonment and Security for Europe Area

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observing system and provision of data

coordinated set of monitoring and forecast systems

information products, applications and services


MERSEA research and development is composed by three main modules:

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Ocean Observing Systems MERSEA is further developing the

European capacity in global remote sensing data processing and distribution.

Innovative tools with multidisciplinary sensors will fill gaps existing ocean observing systems. MERSEA will integrate the collection, quality control and dissemination of relevant in situ data.


MERSEA Components

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Modelling and assimilation MERSEA runs global high resolution

models of ocean circulation (1/12°) and higher resolution models at regional and local scales.

MERSEA will contribute to progress the ecosystem models by developing modelling and assimilation models


MERSEA Components

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Marine applications MERSEA is developing products for final

users such as the offshore oil and gas industry, forecasting of sea ice and iceberg drifts and improved sea state (surface waves) forecasts notably by better incorporation of wave-current interaction modelling.


MERSEA Components

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MERSEA Information Management Has to facilitate the routine real-time

exchange of high quality information, data and products within the project and the provision of appriopriate information for a wide range of external users, both in real-timereal-time and delayeddelayed mode.


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MERSEA Information Management•CLS (F. Blanc)•DMI (E. Buch)•ENEA (G.M.R. Manzella – WP Leader)•IFREMER (G. Maudire)•INGV (N. Pinardi)•MARIS (D. Schaap)•NERSC (J. Johannessen)•TECHWORKS (C. O’Kelly)•UNREADS (K. Haines)


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Downscaling approach (serve the global models and the regional, shelf, coastal models)

8 main Thematic Assembling Centers4) Global model

1) Satellite 5) Arctic2) In Situ 6) Baltic3) Forcings 7) Mediterranean

8) N.W.SRequirements: Access to large amount of data; No

restrictions within MERSEA; real time

9 : n) regional data centers providing data for regional, shelf, coastal areas

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MIM goal: to ensure the availability of near real time data, global products, gridded products

Forecasting System Data center WWW information

D.M. Visual.

Global Ocean Mercator http://www.mercator.eu.org/

Organised files

Mediterranean Forecasting System

INGV http://www.bo.ingv.it/mfs/

Organised files

LASMVT

CORIOLIS Ifremer http:// Oracle self

• Solution: an operational data portal for GMES that is based onexisting European processing facilities


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Data and Information availability and distributionA WWW site will be developed as a portal to the different independent systems and to

facilitate the visibility and exchange of the data in a reliable and coherent manner.

Operating the WWW portal– Regular Update of the information on the data sets availability – Plus regular information on their quality and availability (e.g. news, new products, data

transmission and availability problem, data status, user information and support).

Requirements for TACsPriority 1 Each center will list and document

the data to be distributed + access conditions Each center will provide its data and gridded data

products in a defined structure format Priority 2 Each center will define the availability of data in a

defined catalogue.Priority 3 Each center will serve them with server

Requirements for the portalA WWW data portal will be developed to deliver data in a shared and distributed mode.

The portal will provide an overview of all available MERSEA data and products

// a ‘paper’ catalogue or for pre-selection

The portal will provide an easy access to the data sets through a link to the relevant data distribution centers.

toward an interoperable catalogue A central portal providing access to a federation of data centres

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Distributed system model

General architecture

MIM components

solution

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TAC-i

Project i

Project j

Project y

PORTAL

First development


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TAC-i

Project i

PORTAL

Project j

Project y

TAC-j

Project i

Project j

Project y

Region i Project i

Local i

Local j

Second phase development


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Internal USERS

All MERSEA partners:

- routine data collection and forcast- R&D activity- End users’ products


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External Users- GODAE- Operational users (e.g. applications)- Research- Education- Commercial- Policy makersMERSEA data policy, limitation of data

downloading during each session


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Access to External

Users

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Through the portal

MERSEA

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GODAE

Access to data

(internal):

-Routine

-On demand

-Project docs

WWW

Info

Show pages

Green documents


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FOAM MERCATOR MFS TOPAZ HYCOM

Not available

Not available

Not available

Not available

MERSEA vs GODAESeaSearch – Limassol May 25, 2004

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Guiding Principles:

– Interoperability– Open easy-access and discovery– Reliable, sustained, efficient operations– Effective user feedback– Open design and standard process– Preservation of data and products


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The underlying philosophy should be that data should be managed independantly at participating sites.

Reduce (eliminate) the differences in data management techniques between sites,

•file naming conventions, •how long to keep files on line, •whether variables are stored in individual files or consolidated,•etc.


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Higher degree of standardization in data management in the initial stages of the project will greatly reduce the complexities of seeting it up.

Consistent syntactic representation of the data regardless of the semantics

Plus discipline specific semantics layered on the data to ease a joint use.

No requirements on the contents of these containers. Some data sets are well described, others are not.

The various type ofMETADATA

“Metadata” provides a description of data. Precise and adequate metadata is enormously important in any project where large quantities of data have to be handled. If the data comes from a variety of sources, it is essential to adopt some standard for the metadata so that common programs can be used for analysis and comparison. We split the metadata in 4 categories:

Use metadatawhich is made of two components:

the semantic part is the information about the contents and context of the data sets

The syntatic part is the information about the data types and structures at computer level

Discovery metadata

Documentation metadata

Administrative metadata

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Collaboration with Sea SearchSeaDataNet

Links to:EDIOSthe European GOOS family(MAMA, PAPA, ARENA)


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MERSEA Information Management ……routine real-time exchange of high

quality information, data and products …. both in real-time and delayed mode.

No historical data will be accessed through the MIM portal, links will be

provided


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Catalogue

The catalogue will provide answers to key questions:

• What, Where, When, Who, • Where to get the data, • How to direct to data / dataset


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Collaboration

Sea Search and SeaDataNet (+ ESA)

Develop a unique model for distributed data systems


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