e-surfmar programme status and plans (march 2011) pierre blouch e-surfmar programme manager

E-SURFMARProgramme Status and Plans (March 2011)

Pierre Blouch

E-SURFMAR Programme Manager

GIE/EIG EUMETNET, Registered Number 0818.801.249 - RPM Bruxelles VOS-TAG-8 Meeting, Genoa, 30-31 March. 2011

Content

• E-SURFMAR Programme within EUMETNET GIE

• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations

• Monitoring tools

• Meetings


E-SURFMAR

Surface Marine Observation Programme Part of the Eumetnet Composite Observation System (EUCOS) Optional: 17 participant members only

Objectives to coordinate, optimise and progressively integrate the European activities for surface observations over the sea in support of Numerical Weather Predictions

Two components Conventionnels Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) or ships equipped with Automated Weather Stations (S-AWS) Drifting or moored Data Buoys


Composite Map


Eumetnet Governance

CapabilityProgrammes

We’re here !!


EUCOS Roadmap EUCOS objectives extended to Climate and 1-km scale NWP model requirements during 2013-2020

Brainstorming started to setup a Roadmap for Observations Which major developments which should be considered in individual programmes ? What kind of scientific studies should be conducted ? Which possible observation experiments of interest should be financially supported ?

Proposals by E-SURFMAR Densifying surface marine obs. in coastal areas and inland seas Cooperation with oceanographers for moored buoy networks Deployment of numerous cost-effective AWS on ships Use of AIS to report their observations (collaboration with IMO) Considering the possiblity to make future standard GTS reporting S-AWS mandatory on ships of a certain tonnage (as AIS) Is this utopian ?


From last STAC meeting

Eumetnet Secretariat proposed to have three types of advisory bodies in the future:

Working Groups Programme or Project Advisory Groups Expert Teams

STAC agreed to combine PAG and ET under the single definition of « Expert Team ». Expert Teams shall be established for a specific duration and will be reviewed after 2 years (?).

Expert Teams shall report to the Capability Programme Managers (CPMs) or the Programme Managers (PMs)

Current TAGs shall be established as Expert Teams in the future

Question: Shall E-SURFMAR continue to be fitted with two Expert Teams ?


Content


• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations


• Meetings


Data Buoys

E-SURFMAR

operates a network of about 100 drifting buoys measuring air pressure and sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic and which make their data available in real time onto the Global Telecommunication System of WMO

coordinates the moored buoys activities of EUMETNET members and most especially the UK, Irish and French networks of K-pattern buoys

financially and technically supports the operation of 4 moored buoys as a baseline for the calibration and the validation of satellite-derived wind and wave observations

invites and helps non-EUMETNET members operating moored buoy networks in European waters to report their data onto the GTS as support to the World Weather Watch… and monitors these data


Drifting Buoys (network)

February 2011

Iridium SVP-B

Argos SVP-B

SVP-BW

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Main routes of deployments


Drifting Buoys (deployments)

Reykjavik (IMO - Eimskip America route)

Southampton, Liverpool and London (Met Office)

Brest (research vessels) and Le Havre (Meteo-France)

Halifax (MSC Canada – various routes)

Charleston (NOAA upgraded buoys)

Rotterdam (thanks to KNMI and Eimskip)

Bremerhaven (Polarstern) and Sweden (Oden) => Arctic region


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EGOS

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Number of operating buoys

More upgraded buoys (Argos) than Iridium (fully funded by the programme)due to…

- increasing lifetime for Argos buoys - delays in the delivery of Iridium buoys

Percentage of reports sent onto theGTS less than 50 minutes after the observation

- influence of Iridium buoys then - improvements at Argos for upgraded buoys

Long term target : 90%

Short term target : 70%


Drifting Buoys (north of Eucos area and Arctic)

Eumetnet drifting buoys in redNon-Eumetnet drifting buoys in blue

New Iceb buoys - to be deployed in 2011

All buoys on the map are measuringair pressure at least

Feb. 2011


EUCOS Moored Buoys

K5 operated by the Met Office M6 operated by MRI and Met Eireann Cabo Silleiro operated by Puertos del Estado Lion operated by Meteo-France


EUCOS Moored Buoys

K5, M6 and Lion buoys operational. Lion buoy was visited and serviced on the 2nd of March 2010. This buoy reports omnidirectional wavespectra in WAVEOB. K5 is equipped with an experimental system to report directional wave spectra.

Cabo silleiro went adrift twice due to fishermen: beginning of March 2010 then beginning of May. Each time, it took several weeks to re-moor it. In September, the buoy was moored in a new position, more west and in deeper sea. Risks of collisions with fishing boats should be minimized there.


Moored Buoys

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France CETMEF ~10 Waveriders FM13 SHIP and FM65 WAVEOB

Germany BSH 3+2 Specific FM12 SYNOP and FM13 SHIP

Greece Poseidon(HCMR)

10 SeaWatch and WaveScan FM94 BUFR

Italy RON(Ispra)

17 WatchKeeper FM94 BUFR

United-Kingdom

Wavenet (CEFAS)

18 Waveriders FM94 BUFR

United-Kingdom

PML 2 Hippo Marine Ltd FM13 SHIP

Non exhaustive list of moored buoy networks outside Met Office, Met Eireann, Puertos del Estado and Meteo-France networks


Moored Buoys (Mediterranean Networks)

Puertos del Estado, SpainISPRA, Italy (RON)HCMR, Greece (Poseidon)

Data from these networks are reported in BUFR only The quality of ISPRA buoys data does not reach WMO standards presently. They had to be removed from the GTS (waves excepted)


Content


• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations


• Meetings


VOS Ships

E-SURFMAR

supports the activities of European Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) in order to better coordinate and harmonise practices

operates an increasing fleet of Shipborne Automated Weather Stations (S-AWS) in support of the programme network design

provides a suitable forum to setup common specifications for the future procurements of such stations (call for tender to be issued)


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Conventional VOS Automated VOS (AWS)

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E-SURFMAR

Target : 250 obs/day

Target : 1000 obs/day


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VOS Ships – Developed under other agenda items

E-SURFMAR VOS performances and monitoring (3.2)

Programme funded S-AWS status and Co-operation with MOON (4.2)

Common S-AWS tender (4.3)

E-SURFMAR metadata database (7.4)

Use the half compression technique (8.4)

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Content


• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations


• Meetings


Cooperations

E-SURFMAR

contributes to:

the World Weather Watch of WMO - all observations are reported onto its Global Telecommunication System (GTS) in real time -,

and the GMES Marine Core Service

closely works with the JCOMM Data Cooperation Panel (DBCP) and the JCOMM Ship Observation Team (SOT). JCOMM is the Joint WMO-IOC Commission of Oceanography and Marine Meteorology.

cooperates with NOAA and the Meteorological Service of Canada, as well as with Puertos del Estado and other European oceanographic agencies among MOON members


Content


• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations


• Meetings


DataQuality Control Tools

http://www.meteo.shom.fr/qctools/


VOSMetadataDatabase

http://esurfmar.meteo.fr/doc/vosmetadata

Contains about 3500 ships recruited by many meteorological services in the world: not only EUMETNET members


Content


• Data Buoys

• VOS ships

• Cooperations


• Meetings


Meetings (relevant to E-SURFMAR)

E-SURFMAR TTonT (Exeter, UK, 23-24 Sept. 2010) Finalisation of the S-AWS Tendering Documents

JCOMM DBCP-26 (Oban, UK, 27-30 Sept. 2010) Presentation of E-SURFMAR buoy Activities

STAC-1 (Darmstadt, GE, 4-5 Oct. 2010)

FPAC-1 (Darmstadt, GE, 6-7 Oct. 2010) Presentation of the S-AWS Tendering Documents

Eumetnet GIE 5th Assembly (Krakow, PL, 24-26 Nov. 2010) Presentation of the S-AWS Tendering Documents

JCOMM PMO-4 (Orlando, US, 8-10 Dec. 2010) Presentation of the E-SURFMAR metadata database and QC tools

Eumetnet-PM-4 (Budapest, HU, 9-10 Dec. 2010)

EUCOS-PM-16 (Brest, FR, 26-27 Jan. 2011)


Meetings (continued)

EUCOS-SAT (Reading, UK, 10-11 March 2011)

MOON Assembly (Trapani, IT, 15-17 March 2011)

STAC-2 (Reading, UK, 22-23 March 2011)

FPAC-2 (Reading, UK, 24-25 March 2011) Decision on legal aspects of the S-AWS tender process

VOS-TAG-8 (Genoa, IT, 30-31 March 2011)

MyOcean User Forum (Stockholm, SE, 7-8 April 2011)

JCOMM SOT-6 (Hobart, AU, 11-15 April 2011)

MyOcean-2 (Rome, IT, 27-28 April 2011)

Eumetnet GIE 6th Assembly (Dubrovnik, HR, 9-10 May 2011)

DB-TAG-7 (Heraklion, GR, 24-25 May 2011)

JCOMM DBCP-27 (Geneva, CH, 26-29 Sep. 2011)


Questions ?


Contact Details

Pierre BlouchE-SURFMAR Programme Manager

GIE/EIG EUMETNET

GIE EUMETNET Secretariatc/o L’Institut Royal Météorologique de BelgiqueAvenue Circulaire 31180 Bruxelles, Belgique Tel: +32 (0)2 373 05 18Fax: +32 (0)2 890 98 58Email: [email protected]: www.eumetnet.eu

E-SURFMAR Programme ManagerMeteo-FranceCentre de Meteo Marine13 rue du Chatellier – CS 12804F-29228 Brest Cedex 2

Tel: + 33 (0) 298 22 18 52Fax: + 33 (0) 298 22 18 49Email: [email protected]: www.eumetnet.eu

e-surfmar programme status and plans (march 2011) pierre blouch e-surfmar programme manager

Documents

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