Preliminary results of ESEOO project

ESEOO Group

Index

1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO

2) Preliminary results

3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective

4) Conclusions

What is ESEOO?

• ESEOO (Establecimiento Español de Un sistema de Oceanografía Operacional) is a three year project funded by the Spanish Science and Education Ministry.

• The project was built as a reaction to Prestige event

• Objectives: cover part of the existing gaps in numerical modeling and exploitation of measurements and, basically, to boost OO at national level

• Kick-off meeting: January 2004

National institutions:

• Puertos del Estado • Sasemar• Instituto Nacional de Meteorología• Instituto Español de Oceanografía• INTA• ICM/CSIC

Universities:

Cantabria, Málaga, Vigo, Cádiz, Polit. de Barcelona, Las Palmas, Granada, Santiago de Compostela,UNED

Institutions from other countries:

• NRL (EE.UU.)• POL (U.K.)• Mercator (Francia)• MFSTEP (Italia)• IST/Hidromod (Portugal)

ParticipantsRegional institutions:

• Meteogalicia • IMEDEA• Azti

Pre-ESEOO situation: one example, the PdE networks

Tide gauges Coastal buoys

Deep Water buoys Current meters

Index

1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO

2) Preliminary results

3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective

4) Conclusions

ESEOO Results (1/2)

Examples of technical results :

4. Set-up of a unified access point to real-time oceanographic and meteorological data at Spanish coasts.

3. Development of an data service able to quickly provide information based on analysed historical measurements.

2. Set-up of high resolution numerical models and systems able to forecast currents and spill evolution at coastal scale.

1. Development of a regional scale national oil spill and current forecasting system.

Preliminary results: Data (1)Oceanographic and meteorologic data inventory

• Access via Internet• Thousands of recors available at this moment

Current measurementslocations

New software for data treatment via web:

Preliminary results: Data (2)

Real time data service :Preliminary results: Data (3)

Preliminary results: Data (4)

HF radar demonstrationin Prestige event region

Wave measurements (buoys and HF radar)

Preliminary results: Data (5)

HF Radar currents and in-situ buoy (Silleiro buoy)

Preliminary results: Data (6)

Preliminary results: Data (7)

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26/12/2005 02:00

22/12/2005 06:00 a 26/12/2005 02:00

Drifting buoy analysis using HF radar

Preliminary results: Numerical modelling on the regional scale (1)

Nesting from Global models into three ESEOO domains

Operational daily current forecast available on the webhttp://www.eseoo.org

Preliminary results: Numerical modeling (2)

Forcings:

•Tides•Wind•Atmospheric pressure•Heat and fresh water fluxes•River outflow

SST atBaresbuoy

ESEOMED results (Under validation)

Surface Currents (m) 2005-01-02 Surface Temperature (ºC) 2005-01-02

Coastal nested applications: The example of Galicia

Preliminary results: Numerical modeling (3)

ESEOO Results (2/2)

3. Coordination with international groups

2. Coordination between national and regional groups

1. Design and implementation of the USyP (Monitoring and forecasting Unit for emergencies) with SASEMAR

Capacity building results :

4. Setting-up of coordination mechanism for emergency case in order to deal with oceanographic info (new and existing)

The USyP

Crisis roomCrisis roomUSyPUSyP

TESEO

ESEOO partners ESEOO partners

Internet

Compilation, generation and analysis

Decisión making based in information

Crisis management

Met-Ocean InfoMet-Ocean Info

Real time integration of information in the crisis room during Mediterráneo 2005 exercise

The USyP

The USyP

Analisis of trajectories of drifting buoys during Mediterráneo 2005 exercise

Index

1) Objectives and participants of ESEOO

2) Preliminary results

3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective

4) Conclusions

The vision of future derived from ESEOO

Existing ESEOO groups + new Spanish Operational Oceanography Office

Crisis management

Downstream services

Other public and private users

Users

Core services at national level

USyP:Search and rescue

Other public and private services

Index

1) Objectives and participants ESEOO

2) Preliminary results

3) The vision of future from ESEOO perspective

4) Conclusions

Conclusions• ESEOO project has changed the panorama of OO at Spain.

Nevertheless, it is just a project about to finish and the developed products must be maintained in time and integrated with operational units such as USyP. If not, we will be again in very poor conditions of facing next Prestige.

• New operational systems have been developed and coordination has improved, so we can offer better joint service to society and action to our European partners.

• Collaboration with US organisations was poor and this must be improved in a near future

• The ESEOO vision of future includes the creation of an “Spanish Operational Oceanography Office” (solution similar to Mercator or NCOF) and the implementation of USyP at SASEMAR as a permanent unit.