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JEAN-FRANÇOIS MINSTER
A “European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting”
(ECOMF): The ECOMF concept aims to operate a global system, with a
short to medium-term (e.g., one month) prediction capacity at high
resolution. The ECOMF should have strong research connections and build
partnerships with national centres.
Some European countries are already running national global ocean
systems for practical or political reasons (e.g., defence needs). These
national systems should enter into partnerships with the ECOMF, so as to
share services and products for their mutual benefits. It is expected that
several services currently operated under national systems will be transferred
to the ECOMF.
Most practical issues and applications are regional and require very high
resolution monitoring and modelling. Such systems can be best managed in
a distributed manner. Regional “outcentres” can be run as integrated
systems, carrying out observations, modelling and assimilation, real-time
and off-line operation, validation, analysis, distribution of products, and
regional services. For example, they could use ECOMF outputs as boundary
conditions and will contribute to data acquisition and model development
useful for ECOMF. Outcentres will generally develop in an open and
competitive manner, but some can be part of an institutional network (e.g.
the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Artic Seas).
MERSEA data processing modules: MERSEA does not contribute to
infrastructures (e.g., ships, satellites, computers), but includes modules
necessary to ensure that ocean observations are adequately processed.
MERSEA in situ observations: A global in situ observation system is
required, such as continuing ARGO and time series observations. MERSEA
includes part of the European contribution to this world scale system.
MERSEA will aim at creating real-time access to environmental ocean
monitoring data, and at implementing their assimilation into numerical
models to improve the value of this environmental monitoring.
The Biogeochemistry component: There are a number of contrasting
requirements for ecosystem prediction. Global requirements include CO 2
fluxes (for climate change) and primary production. These are of interest to
end-users and decision makers.
Regional requirements include trophic interactions to zooplankton and
predators, and harmful algal blooms. These are interesting to intermediate
and end-users such as fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS MINSTER
A “European Centre for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting”
(ECOMF): The ECOMF concept aims to operate a global system, with a
short to medium-term (e.g., one month) prediction capacity at high
resolution. The ECOMF should have strong research connections and build
partnerships with national centres.
Some European countries are already running national global ocean
systems for practical or political reasons (e.g., defence needs). These
national systems should enter into partnerships with the ECOMF, so as to
share services and products for their mutual benefits. It is expected that
several services currently operated under national systems will be transferred
to the ECOMF.
Most practical issues and applications are regional and require very high
resolution monitoring and modelling. Such systems can be best managed in
a distributed manner. Regional “outcentres” can be run as integrated
systems, carrying out observations, modelling and assimilation, real-time
and off-line operation, validation, analysis, distribution of products, and
regional services. For example, they could use ECOMF outputs as boundary
conditions and will contribute to data acquisition and model development
useful for ECOMF. Outcentres will generally develop in an open and
competitive manner, but some can be part of an institutional network (e.g.
the Mediterranean, Baltic, and Artic Seas).
MERSEA data processing modules: MERSEA does not contribute to
infrastructures (e.g., ships, satellites, computers), but includes modules
necessary to ensure that ocean observations are adequately processed.
MERSEA in situ observations: A global in situ observation system is
required, such as continuing ARGO and time series observations. MERSEA
includes part of the European contribution to this world scale system.
MERSEA will aim at creating real-time access to environmental ocean
monitoring data, and at implementing their assimilation into numerical
models to improve the value of this environmental monitoring.
The Biogeochemistry component: There are a number of contrasting
requirements for ecosystem prediction. Global requirements include CO 2
fluxes (for climate change) and primary production. These are of interest to
end-users and decision makers.
Regional requirements include trophic interactions to zooplankton and
predators, and harmful algal blooms. These are interesting to intermediate
and end-users such as fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism.