Overview of MERSEA
Mike Bell & Yves Desaubies
 The fast-track marine service for GMES
 The MERSEA Integrated project
 The MERSEA system
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GMES – Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security
 A joint project of European Commission and
European Space Agency. First conceived in 1998
To support the monitoring needed to pursue
European policies for sustainable use and
protection of the environment
 Monitoring system includes space, in situ and
modelling components
 Services delivering benefits are part of GMES
 GMES is viewed as the European level
contribution to GEO
 Sustainability of monitoring system is a key issue
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GMES – Fast track workshops
 3 fast-track services identified for implementation by 2008
(2012): marine, land and emergency response
 Workshop held 27-28 October to review fast-track status of
marine component
 Break-out sessions on:
 needs and requirements
 Implementation
 Sustainability (including dependence on observations)
 Recommendations:
 Implement a network of regional and global forecast systems
 Support for content of GMES space component programme
 Commission is likely to set up an Implementation Group
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GMES Space Component Programme
 Two segments:
 Segment 1: 2006 – 2012; 200 M€ envelope; GMES-1
 Segment 2: 2008-2013; 430 M€ envelope; Sentinels
 5 Sentinels
 Sentinel 1 – C-band SAR
 Sentinel 3 – altimeter; wide-swath optical; “AATSR”
 GMES-1 – gap-filler
 C-band SAR; “MERIS”; “AATSR”; + ?? altimeter
Programme to be presented in Berlin to ESA
Ministerial early December for adoption &
subscriptions
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Policy areas marine service must support
Reducing loss of life and property from natural and humaninduced disasters;
 Oil spills, marine safety, search and rescue, wave forecasts
Understanding environmental factors affecting human
health and well-being;
 Harmful Algal Blooms
Improving management of energy resources;
 Offshore oil industry; wind energy
Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating, and
adapting to climate variability and change;
 Hurricanes, El Niño, global change
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Policy areas marine service must support
Improving weather information, forecasting, and warning;
 Seasonal forecasting
Improving water resource management through better
understanding of the water cycle;
 Evaporation – precipitation,
Improving the management and protection of terrestrial,
coastal, and marine ecosystems;
Understanding, monitoring, and conserving biodiversity
 Marine ecosystems, deep ocean
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 The fast-track marine service for GMES
 The MERSEA Integrated project
 The MERSEA system
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Development of a European
system for operational
monitoring and forecasting of
the ocean physics,
biogeochemistry, and
ecosystems, on global and
regional scales
Mersea Executive Committee (Y. Desaubies, P. Bahurel, M. Bell, E. Buch, J.
Johannessen, P.-Y. Le Traon, G. Manzella N. Pinardi, S. Pouliquen, R. Rayner,
H. Roquet, U. Send, J.Verron),
and many partners ….
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MERSEA Integrated Project
R&D project funded under 6th FP of the European
Commission
 Thematic priority : SPACE - GMES (Global
Monitoring for Environment and Security)
 Ocean and Marine Applications
4-year project (2004 –2008)
38 contractors, 16 countries (or Int. Org.)
Coordination : IFREMER (Institut Français de Recherche
pour l’Exploitation de la Mer), France ; Y.Desaubies
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MERSEA Project Participants
FDMR
Cyprus
Denmark
DMI
Germany
AWI
GEOB
IFM/UNIV. KIEL
IFM/UNIV. HAMBURG
U.E
JRC
Greece :
HCMR
U-HEL
ASP
BOOST
CLS
CNRS
Finland
Ireland :
TECHWORKS
France
IFREMER coordinator
MERCATOR OCÉAN
MÉTÉO FRANCE
CNR-ISAC
CNR-ISSIA
CONISMA
ENEA
INGV
OGS
Italy :
Netherlands :
DFO
[+ Canada :]
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MARIS
UNIV. UTRECHT
MET NO
NERSC
CSIC
ICCM
IEO
IMS
Norway :
Spain :
Turkey :
UK :
NERC-SOC
OCEAN NUMERICS
PML
NERC-POL
THE MET OFFICE
UNIV. READING
UNIV. SOUTHAMPTON
ECMWF
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International :
MERSEA IP objectives
 Development of a European system for operational
monitoring and forecasting of the ocean physics,
biogeochemistry and ecosystems
 A network of regional and global systems
 Support for coastal systems
Nowcasts,
forecasts, hindcasts
 To build the marine component of GMES (2008)
 To build on expertise and systems developed in
national and European programmes
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MERSEA IP: Work Packages
 WP2 Develop Satellite products – P Y le Traon
 WP3 Develop in situ – U Send (& S Pouliquen)
 WP4 Develop surface flux products – H Roquet
 WP5 Overall system design & evaluation – P Bahurel
 WP6 Information system – G Manzella
 WP7 Research and Development of forecasting systems – J Verron
 WP9 Implementation and Production of forecasting systems – M Bell
 WP10 Downscaling – E Buch
 WP11 Develop applications – N Pinardi
 WP12 Develop services – R Rayner
 WP13 Capacity building & overall assessment – J Johannessen
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 The fast-track marine service for GMES
 The MERSEA Integrated project
 The MERSEA system
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The MERSEA Integrated System
ARCTIC
NE Atlantic
GLOBAL
OCEAN
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BALTIC SEA
MED SEA
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An Integrated System
 Thematic Portals : production services
 Cross functions : integration, consistency, quality of services
 Information management : adapt product and delivery to user need
Ocean Portal, Catalogue, …
Standardisation, Chart, …
Overall Assessment,…
Monitoring, Supervision, …
User Desk, …
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Classes of service
Classes of services (and user classes ):
 Monitoring and basic mapping;
 Operational forecasting;
 Global and main regional areas
} Generic,core
Downstream services
 Emergency response and crisis management;
 On-demand customized products and information
 To be provided by Agencies or Value adding
companies, in support of their mission
 coastal and local systems,shore processes
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Services and products –and delivery system, must be
customized to user needs
GMES input
information
(raw data)
GMES
Satellite
and
in situ
networks
Core
information
(ocean state)
Marine
Core
Services
User customized
information
(user products)
Marine
Downstream
Services
GMES
Service
outputs
(others)
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GMES Marine
Operational
Users
Timetable for development
Version
v.0
v.1
v.2
v.3
Implementation
1st Apr 2004
1st Oct 2005
1st Apr 2007
1st Apr 2008
Two Targetted Observational Periods (TOPs)
Oct 05 – Mar 06
Apr 07 – Sep 07
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