European Global Ocean Observing System

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European Global Ocean Observing System

• Hans Dahlin (Director), Siân Petersson (Office
  Manager)
• EuroGOOS Office, SMHI, SE-601 76 Norrköping,
  Sweden
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• e-mail eurogoos_at_smhi.se
• Peter Ryder (Chair) peter.ryder600_at_ntlworld.com

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Structure of EuroGOOS

• EuroGOOS is an Association of Agencies, founded
  in 1994, to further the goals of GOOS, and in
  particular the development of Operational
  Oceanography in the European Sea areas and
  adjacent oceans.
• EuroGOOS now has 33 Members in 17 European
  countries. (Almost all operational institutes
  partners through the subregional systems) The
  Members pay a subscription to cover the costs of
  the EuroGOOS Office in Sweden

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EuroGOOS Members
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Detailed structure of EuroGOOS
General Members Meeting
Elected Board
Working Groups
Science
Technology
Task Teams
Data exchange
Executive Director
Office
Products
European Regional Systems
MoUs
BOOS
IBIROOS
Black Sea GOOS
MOON
MedGOOS
NOOS
Arctic ROOS
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Objectives

• Promote Operational Oceanography
• Find ways to improve the members capability to
  carry out their duties
• Foster a sustained production of required
  services at scales larger than national
• Find the most efficient use of members available
  resources
• Promote the funding of research and development
• Foster co-operation
• Give advice and submit joint position papers

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Main achievements
Co-ordination Very early on, EuroGOOS chose a
user-driven bottom-up approach where the regional
scale was the most appropriate scale for
co-operation and co-production. EuroGOOS Regional
Task Teams have built and continue to build
Regional Operational Systems.
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Inventories/Publications
Main achievements
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Conferences and workshops
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What observations do we have ?
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Overview of existing continued stations and
sections
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Details from Southern North Sea
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Real time data exchange
Global Centre
Specialised centre (ESEAS)
Global Centre
Global Centre
Regional centre
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
Regional centre
European Centre
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
Regional centre
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
Regional centre
National dataprovider
National dataprovider
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Observation sites from where data are presently
exchanged hourly in real time (demonstration)
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Does it work?
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(No Transcript)
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European/Global scale from Coriolis (Daily
updates)
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Challenges

• Sustainability
• Ecosystem monitoring/nowcasting/forecasting
• Steering system (compare RA VI)
• Increased co-operation with private sector

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Challenges faced (problems to solve)

• National
• Responsibility for national oceanography often
  divided between several agencies, institutes and
  ministries
• Oceanography often only a part of an organisation
• Difficult to co-operate at national level,
  competing for money from the same source
• Quasi-commercial arrangements between national
  partners prohibits free access to data and
  products

• Regional
• We want to stay with our own practices
• National policies
• Primitive commercial approaches
• Agency representatives with weak mandates and
  mixed priorities
• Eventual possibilities to get funding from
  regional/European sources delays implementation

• Global
• Difficult to get long term commitments
• Slow implementation process due to annual cycle
  of intergovernmental organisations
• Scale of products of little interest for end
  users, and the main funding mechanism
• Different capabilities of GRAs

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EuroGOOS website
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