The MyOcean project

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Pierre BAHUREL Mercator Ocean MyOcean project
coordinator GODAE Final IGST Meeting, Washington
DC, 2-4 June 2008
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MyOcean

• A project
• A service
• A team

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MyOcean, a projectfor ocean monitoring and
forecasting in Europe
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MyOcean, a European Commission GMES project

• GMES the European Union program for  Global
  Monitoring for Environment and Security .
• A joint program European Commission / European
  Space Agency
• Different themes the first 3 priorities are
  Marine, Land Risk
• Funded through the EC 7th Research Program

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G O D A E
GMES Phases
Operational
Implementation
Initial
Marine projects
MyOcean
MERSEA
Mersea Strand 1
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The challenge

• Set up and demonstrate operationality of a
  European Marine Core Service
• MERSEA Strand 1 (2003-2004) has shown the value
  of the European monitoring and forecasting
  systems
• MERSEA (2004-2008) has worked on the design and
  development of a European integrated system
• MyOcean (2008-2011) has to deliver a fully
  qualified service

Ocean monitoring and forecasting
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The project

• A project initiated and co-funded by the European
  Commission (EC research program)
• Involving 60 partners from 28 different countries
• A 3-year project
• Should start before end of 2008, to end in 2011
• 60 M for 3 years, with 33 M funded by EC
• Currently ending the negotiation with EC
• First call Dec 2006 First proposal June 2007

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MyOcean, a servicefor ocean monitoring and
forecasting in Europe
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The core service

• MyOcean will provide the common denominator data
  for all users in the marine sector, in other
  words the information for existing new
  downstream services.

• Climate
• Marine Environment
• Seasonal and weather forecasting
• Offshore
• Maritime transport and safety
• Fisheries
• Research
• General Public

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MyOcean Market Segmentation

• The users, their requirements, their assessment

Area 1  MARINE SAFETY  (marine operations, oil
spill combat, ship routing, defense, search
rescue, )
Area 3  MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT  (water
quality, pollution, coastal activities, )
Area 4  CLIMATE SEASONAL FORECASTING  (climate
monitoring, ice, seasonal forecasting, ..)
Area 2  MARINE RESSOURCES  (fish stock
management, ICES, FAO, )
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The MyOcean offer

• MyOcean will deliver regular and systematic
  reference information on the state of the oceans

• Physical state of the ocean, and primary
  ecosystem
• Global ocean, and main European basins and seas
• Large and basin scale mesoscale physics
• Hindcast, Nowcast, Forecast
• Data, Assimilation and Models

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Organization The MyOcean Production Units

• 5 TAC Thematic Assembly Centers
• Observations
• 7 MFC 1 global and 6 regional Monitoring and
  Forecasting Centers
• Model / Assimilation
• 1 single DESK
• Products to users

12 PRODUCTION UNITS
TAC
MFC
Arctic
Sea Level
Baltic
Color
DESK
Atl. NWS
Global
SST
Service Interface
Atl. IBI
IceWind
Med Sea
In Situ
Black Sea
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A pan-european organization
TAC
MFC
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3 years to

• Implement and run the MyOcean system to deliver
  the core service
• Qualify it to get the  operational  stamp
• Interact with users to get requirements and
  feedbacks
• Bring in continuous innovation through RD
• Prepare the organization for the longer term

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MyOcean, a teamfor ocean monitoring and
forecasting in Europe
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The MyOcean team

• Lead by Mercator Ocean
• 60 partners, 28 countries
• All European maritime countries
• A core group of 15 partners the European GODAE
  partners

A MyOcean network involving all European maritime
countries Partners networking 28 countries for
users requirements

• In the consortium,
• 1/3 of  operators ,
• 1/3 of  expertise  (research industry),
• 1/3 to market  users  need

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Responsibilities

• A Board
• P.Bahurel (coord), M.Bell, PY. Le Traon, E.Buch,
  F.Jacq, J.Johannessen, N.Pinardi
• An Executive Committee
• Partners Mercator Ocean, CLS, CNRS, NERSC, DMI,
  Met Office, INGV, MHI, CNR, Ifremer, met.no, HCMR
• Individuals F.Adragna, E.Dombrowsky, J.Siddorn,
  C.Donlon, S.Pouliquen, P.Brasseur, G.Larnicol,
  L.Bertino,
• A scientific advisory committee
• To be organized by P.Brasseur
• A core user group
• To be organized by K.Nittis

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Conclusion
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MyOcean GODAE

• MyOcean, a European project opened to the GODAE
  world and partners
• Links to be reinforced as soon as the
  European-centric nego phase is over
• MyOcean, the European focal point for
  GODAE-follow-on activities
• MyOcean to continue and foster GODAE good
  practices
• Metrics and validation practices
• Data exchanges and interoperability issues
• Science technics
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Contact pointMERCATOR OCEAN(Pierre
BAHUREL)email my-ocean_at_mercator-ocean.frTelec
opy 33 5 61 39 38 99
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