ESEOO project: a contribution to the development of Operational Oceanography at Spain

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ESEOO project preliminary results
ESEOO Group
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Introduction

• 1) Objectives, participants and structure of
  ESEOO
• 2) Preliminary results
• 3) Conclusions

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The origin of ESEOO

• During Prestige crisis several OO systems were
  implemented without real validation
• Situation after Prestige Posibility of a project
  to exploit the gained experience, cover part of
  the existing gaps in numerical modeling and
  exploitation of measurements and, basically, to
  boost OO
• A new project (ESEOO - Establecimiento de un
  Sistema Español de Oceanografía Operacional) was
  approved by the Spanish Ministry of Science

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What is ESEOO?

• ESEOO (Establecimiento Español de Un sistema de
  Oceanografía Operacional) is a three year project
  funded by the Spanish Science and Education
  Ministry.
• Funding 865.000 Euros
• Kick-off meeting January 2004
• 14 Spanish groups and 5 non-Spanish

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ESEOO Objectives
1. Development of a regional scale national oil
spill and current forecasting system.
2. Set-up of high resolution numerical models and
systems able to forecast currents and spill
evolution at local scale.
3. Validation and intercomparison of models in a
pilot area
4. Development of an data service able to quickly
provide information based on analysed historical
measurements.
5. Set-up of a unified access point to real-time
oceanographic and meteorological data at Spanish
coasts.
6. Basic research in the fields of data
assimilation in ocean models, oceanographic and
meteorological data processing...
7. Design of coordination procedures in case of
emergency.
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Participants
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Preliminary results Dissemination and
Exploitation plan
ESEOO web page http//www.eseoo.org
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ESEOO worckpackages
1 System definition
6. Pre-operational services
3. Met. modeling
2. Data analysis
4. Ocean modeling
5. Spill modeling
7. Exploitation
Oceanographic data and modelling RD
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Preliminary results Data (1)
Oceanographic and meteorologic data inventory

• Access via Internet
• Thousands of recors available at this moment

Current measurements locations
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Preliminary results Data (2)
New ESEOO XML format for data interchange
Name Description Latitude Longitude
ltStationgt
Variable Name Units
ltHeadgt
ltParametersgt
Credits Creation Date Feedback email
ltESEOOgt
ltInstitutiongt
ltRecordgt 1
Date 1, Value 1
ltDatagt
ltRecordgt 2
Date 2, Value 2
Date n, Value n
ltRecordgt n
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Preliminary results Data (3)
New software for data treatment via web
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Experiencia en Galicia resultados Series
temporales de oleaje
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Experiencia en Galicia resultados Series
temporales de corrientes
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• Preliminary results Data (5)

Análisis con el modelo ESEOO (primer tramo) en
los dos supuestos
22/12/2005 0600 a 26/12/2005 0200
Marzo de 2006 / Hoja 14
Resultados gt Validación mediante una boya de
deriva
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Preliminary results Numerical modelling on the
regional scale (1)
Nesting from Global models into three ESEOO
domains
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Preliminary results Numerical modeling (2)
OPERATIONAL CURRENT FORECAST AVAILABLE ON THE
WEB

• Forcings
• Tide
• Wind
• Atmospheric pressure
• Heat and fresh water fluxes
• River outflow

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Preliminary results Oil Spill modeling (1)
Tunning the TESEO model (Transport model of
ESEO0)

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Preliminary results Oil Spill modeling (2)
ESEOO oil Spill model interface to be
implemented at SASEMAR (Spanish search and rescue
institution) and to be made freely available via
web.
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Preliminary results Mediterráneo 2005
operational exercise (1)

• Mediterráneo 2005 International exercise for
  oil spill crisis management in the Med. Sea.
• Simulated scenario 1000 tons Oil Spill South of
  Mallorca Island on May 11 2005.
• A special unit was created to handle Met-Ocean
  info the USyP (Unidad de Seguimiento y
  Predicción)
• Forecasts provided to the decision makers on the
  crisis room.
• 6 drifters were released
• The USyP was able to fulfil all the objectives
  on the expected times

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Preliminary results Mediterráneo 2005
operational exercise (2)
Exercise implementation plan
Medios de respuesta y observación
Información Meteorológica y oceanográfica
CECOMAR
Sala de crisis
Datos formato netCDF
Resultados Derivas (GIF)
Datos tipo GIS
USyP
Recibe información Movimiento unidades Manchas
Previsiones y derivas (tipo GIF)
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Preliminary results Mediterráneo 2005
operational exercise (3)
Operational current forecast
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Preliminary results Mediterráneo 2005
operational exercise (4)
Forecasts provided to the crisis room via GIS
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Preliminary results Mediterráneo 2005
operational exercise (5)
Detailed validation (on progress)

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Preliminary results TESEO in action (2)
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Preliminary results Oil Spill modeling (3)
Teal time integration in GIS
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The ESEOO view of information flow in the future

• Core service Met-ocean information service
• (Interinstitutional consortium for ESEOO-II)
• Wind, waves and current forecasts
• Measurements Anchored buoys, HF radar and
  satellites
• Systems running daily, even without crisis

• Downstream service Analysis and proccess of
  information by an expert team (USyP or similar)
• Selection and analysis of infrometion from core
  service
• Oil Spill forecast
• New measurements at sea (i. e. drifting buoys)
• Integration of the information provided by field
  units
• System activated during a crisis

DECISIONS MAKERS
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Conclusions

• ESEOO project pretends to promote and develop OO
  at national level.
• The ESEOO group is formed by a large and
  interdisciplinary group of partners
• Without an appropriated European framework and a
  national plan to continue the effort, the results
  will be of little use.