The European Sea Level Service 7th Governing Board Meeting Start 14:30

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The European Sea Level Service7th Governing
Board MeetingStart 1430
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The European Sea Level Service7th Governing
Board MeetingChairman Report

• Per Knudsen

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Main events since GB6

• 3rd Call for Participation in the re-established
  ESEAS open until 31/12-05
• 30 proposals (27 institutions in 15 countries 3
  org.s)
• More is coming!
• (Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Poland,
  Portugal?)
• Sea Level Web and Data Portal
• New structure / design
• Much more data

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Main events since GB6

• Coordination and Representation
• GEO
• UN International Early Warning Programme
• GMES Fast Track Marine Core Services workshop
• GLOSS / IOC sea level workshop
• Funding
• Sea Level Expert at CB
• SLHOS, TRANSFER, ECOOP

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Important Actions for the Next Year

• In the consolidation of ESEAS some important
  tasks are to be carried out
• Follow-up on the 3rd Call for Participation
• Re-activate the TEC (network and product
  coordinator?)
• Complete data flows/deliveries and coverage
• GLOSS/PSMSL
• EUROGOOS regional centres / GMES Fast Track
• Network/product assessment implement ESEAS-RI
• Compile/develop user requirements, standards for
  NRT
• Alliances with EUROGOOS, MedGLOSS and Ocean DACs
• Plan a sea-level workshop

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Important Actions for the Next Year

• Furthermore, we need to develop an ESEAS Strategy
  2007-2012 building on the Term of References
  covering
• Vision / mission
• Physical network Tide gauges / GPS - Altimetry
• Application network
• Oceanography Geodesy Climate
• Research - Operation
• ESEAS institutional network
• Strategy for developing
• Users requirements products
• Network operation
• External affairs (Consolidation lobbying)
• Internal affairs (CB - Meetings - Workshops)
• Funding
• Writing team Chair, Director, TEC Chair with
  input.

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SWOT

• Strengths
• Pan-European Member institutions, Expertise, Data
• ESEAS-RI products (standards QC)
• Relations to GLOSS, IOC, GEO
• Weaknesses
• Not all institutions / data
• Only a few derived products
• Few resources at CB
• Not fully acknowledged in the operational
  community

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SWOT

• Opportunities
• GLOSS
• SeaDataNet, NOOS/BOOS
• TRANSFER, ECOOP
• Threats
• Somebody else wants to do it / is doing it
• Split into regional data centres
• Funding

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ESEAS physical network

• Main components
• Network coordinator
• National Centres
• Observing sites
• Application A absolute sea level variations.
• Application B various applications (including
  tides, ocean circulation and sea level extremes)
  using hourly, quality controlled data.
• Application C satellite altimetry calibration.
• C1 calibration of satellite altimeter biases.
• C2 calibration and monitoring of drifts in the
  biases.
• Application D operational oceanography,
  including storm surges (NRT)
• and GPS, levelling..

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Products

• Quality-assured sea level information to a broad
  range of scientific and non-scientific users
• Near real time access to TG data
• Hourly data from TGs incl. Rel. sea level and
  met. Parameters
• Monthly means of relative sea levels
• Extreme sea level estimates and long term
  statistics
• Historic and current rates of change and long
  term trends
• Sea surface topography maps
• Ocean tidal parameters
• Crustal vertical motions and
• Absolute graivity.

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ESEAS structure

• The organisational structure of the ESEAS
• Institutional network
• Physical network
• Applications