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M.D.Skogen, B.Berx, M.Dickey-Collas + the WGOOFE team

Does Operational Oceanography really Address the Needs of Fisheries andApplied Environmental Scientists?

OPNet final seminar, Oslo, May 2011

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ICES WGOOFE: • Questionary – what kind of products do the users

really want to have??• Traffic lights – which web sites give easy hand-on

access to such products??

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ICES WGOOFE:Working Group on Operational Oceanographic products for Fisheries and Environment (www.wgoofe.org)

• A one-stop shop to access a variety of oceanographic information from the modelling and observational community• To provide a direct link to products from individual web site providers• Improve accessibility to data (i.e. time series, maps, etc.)• Integrate users with providers

First meeting Hamburg november 2008. Next meeting Exeter november 2011.

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Questionary to ICES users of oceanographic data (fisheries and environmental) scientists:

• 100 scientists responded

Main findings:

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6 6Berx et al., 2011, Oceanography 24(1):166-171

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Criteria for WGOOFE housed products – (traffic light)

1.Download of data2.Registration to get data3.View4.Description (method, reference, relevance – data format, update frequency, 5.Contact person

- all of these within a few mouse clicks…… Green: 1 + 3, 4, 5Yellow: 1 or 2 + at least two out of (3, 4, 5) Red: others Next step: standards for meta data – based on ISO 19115 => replace 4) –

www.wgoofe.org

The WGOOFE web-portal traffic-lights:

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Examples of colored webpages (parameter = SST):

Green: CORIOLIS, SEPRISE, MetOffice, ICES (NorthSea climatology), NORWECOM, NeraCOOS, DFO-AZMP, MVCO, …

Yellow: MyOcean, Mercator-Ocean, BSH, Previmer, INGV, IMR (Norw.Sea climatology), ECOSMO, Bobyclim, ENEA, …

Red: NCOF, met.no, BOSS4GMES, WAQSS, GoMOOS, …

Next step: emails to providers: • Congratulations your web-pages is green labeled !!!• You are currently red/yellow – how to become green…

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Bergen seen from Mt. Ulriken

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