EMODnet Chemistry Data Products – Experts Workshop – 19 June 2014, Split
Mediterranean Sea Basin Checkpoint
a user of
EMODnet Chemistry
N. Pinardi E. Clementi C. Panaroni
INGV
http://www.emodnet-mediterranean.eu/
MedSea
Background: the ‘new vision’
• Change the present
fragmented EU
repositories of marine
data with an interoperable
sharing framework
• Move to a new paradigm
where data are collected
once and used for many
purposes
• Optimize observation
networks by showing how
monitoring meets the
needs of public and private
users (CHECKPOINT)
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Background
The EMODnet MedSea checkpoint is setting up a portal that will serve to quality assess,
extract the synergies between and identify the gaps of the present monitoring data sets for
the entire Mediterranean Sea.
The data will be extracted
from:
-existing EMODnet thematic
portals
-Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security
Marine Service (GMES)
-JRC Data Collection
Framework for Fisheries
-other initiatives existing at the
national scale and European
basin-wide scale
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European common target architecture
observation
and data
collection
archiving at
national and
european
data centres
thematic
assembly
groups
sea basin
checkpoints
check data layers,Integrate
ensure that
different information and layers
the data from different
to see groups
how they produce relevant products
are mutually compatible and
for
available
End-users and by this define
Priorities for observing systems
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Project aims
1) Carry out a literature survey on the existing Mediterranean Sea monitoring systems
2) Produce two Data Adequacy Reports on the fitness for purpose of the monitoring with
respect to ‘ 7 Challenges’
3) Develop an EMODnet MedSea Portal that will publish outputs for the 7 Challenges:
Windfarm
Siting
Marine
Protected
Areas
Oil Platform
Leak
Fishery
Management
Climate &
Coastal
Protection
Marine
Environment
River Inputs
Partners
COORDINATOR
ITALY
FRANCE
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GREECE
CYPRUS
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EMODnet Checkpoint: end-to-end concept
Basin Checkpoints will realize
an end-to-end process
eliminating time to search for
datasets, interconnecting the
dataset to user applications
(seven challenges)
Basin Checkpoints will assess
monitoring systems fitness
for purpose on the basis of
applications
Applications
Monitoring
Wind Farm sit
Copernicus
MPAs
EMODNET
Oil platform Leak
Data Coll Frame
Fishery Manag
National DBs
Coast and climate
International DB
Marine Env
Data
Adequacy
Report
River inputs
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Data Adequacy Reports
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The Input data survey for classification
In order to summarize findings of previous studies of the adequacy of data in the
Mediterranean Sea basin a series of actions have been carried out:
1.Definition of terminology according to the MFSD (ANNEXIII)
2. A template was organized to internally collect a list of required input data to the challenges
3. A method has been identified to classify the upstream data potentially used by the
challenges and to establish their fitness for purpose by means of 7 'elements':
1. Characteristics definition (variable or GIS data set) and category;
2. Data source specification: provider, originating programme and dataset/dataset series;
3. Overview elements: production purpose, intended uses, processing level;
4. Spatial coverage;
5. Temporal coverage;
6. Accessibility;
7. ISO 19113 quality elements.
The data will be catalogued and data availability, reliability and accuracy will be analysed
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Challenges outputs
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Challenge 2: Marine Protected Areas
REQUESTED OUTPUT
Analyse the existing European network of marine protected areas (national and
international sites) and determine whether the network constitute a representative
and coherent network as described MSFD
METHODOLOGY
Collect and map environmental, ecological and socio-economic information in the
Mediterranean Sea in order to map protected species, habitats and ecosystems and
assess the effectiveness of MPAs networks under the Mediterranean regulation.
INPUT DATA NEEDED FROM CHEMISTRY
•Dissolved oxygen parameters in the water column
•Pollutants in the water
•Chlorophyll concentrations in the water column
•Nutrient at the surface and at the bottom
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Challenge 6: Marine Environment
REQUESTED OUTPUT
Produce data layers (gridded) showing:
(a) Seasonal averages of eutrophication in the MedSea basin for past ten years
(b) Change in eutrophication over past ten years (i.e. where eutrophication has reduced and
where it has increased)
METHODOLOGY
Collect and assess data relevant to the phenomenon of eutrophication characteristic of some
areas of the Mediterranean Sea: such as rivers and urban/industrial/agricultural outfalls.
Pollution by nutrients, happening in many coastal areas, is another subsidiary objective.
INPUT DATA NEEDED FROM CHEMISTRY
•Marine water dissolved oxygen
•dissolved nitrogen (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia)
•dissolved phosphorus
•total nitrogen (Tot_N)
•total phosphorus (Tot_P)
•silicates
•Chlorophyll (Chl)
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Challenge 7: river inputs
REQUESTED OUTPUT
(a) For each river bordering the sea basin, identify the country where it enters the sea and a time series of
annual inputs from rivers of:
water – sediment – total nitrogen – phosphates – eels
(b) Produce monthly averages, maxima and minima for these parameters over the past ten years
METHODOLOGY
Due to gaps in data availability, time series for river fluxes will cover different time spans and
include at least annual means. For the last 10 years (2000-2010), special efforts will be given on
compilation of monthly averages, maxima and minima for water fluxes, sediment and water
chemistry parameters.
INPUT DATA NEEDED FROM CHEMISTRY
•dissolved nitrogen (nitrate, nitrite, ammonia)
•dissolved phosphorus
•total nitrogen (Tot_N)
•total phosphorus (Tot_P)
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