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Project: AtlantOS – 633211
Work Package number: WP8
Work Package title: Societal benefits from observing/information systems
Milestone number: 15
Milestone title: Second Technical meeting of WP8 to assess status specific
applications.
Description: Meeting report with preliminary assessment of WP8 main
application deliverables has taken place.
Related Work Packages: WP1, WP6, WP10, WP11
Lead beneficiary: MI
Lead authors: Caroline Cusack, Eleanor O’Rourke, Nadia Pinardi & Augusto
Sepp Neves
Contributors: All WP8 partners, WPs 6, 10 & 11
Submitted by: MI
Total number pages: 25
Dissemination Level: Public
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Second Technical meeting of WP8
OVERVIEW
This document presents outcomes of the AtlantOS WP8 2nd Technical meeting.
At the meeting, AtlantOS targeted knowledge products were assessed and exercises proposed to
demonstrate the importance of AtlantOS generated data used in these targeted products. Possible
actions on stakeholder engagement were discussed with a preliminary stakeholder scan carried out
under the leadership of WPs 10 & 11. A decision was made on the format of WP8 Task product
information for the AtlantOS website (supported by WP10). Partners from WP6 provided an overview
of recent ocean observing sensor developments and advances of best practices in the field.
Milestone LEADER
Marine Institute, Rinville,
Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Web: wwww.marine.ie
Email: [email protected]
AUTHOR(S) All WP8 partners, representatives from WP6, WP10, WP11 (names listed on next page)
DATE 14th November 2017
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AUTHOR(S): C. Cusack1, N. Pinardi2, A. A. Sepp Neves 2, E. O’Rourke1, T. Dabrowski1, J. Maguire3, F.
Moejes3, F. Martins4, J. Janeiro4, T. Dale5, M. Ruiz6, J. Tinker7, P. Lehodey8, G. Mannarini9, C.
Cesarini10, K. J. Horsburgh11, J. Williams11, Eva-Maria Brodte12, Karen Wiltshire12, A. Reitz13, K.
Hamann13, Belén Martín Míguez14, Simon Keeble154, Jay Pearlman16 & M. Mowlem11
1 Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, IRELAND (MI) 2 University of Bologna, Via S.Alberto 163, 48123 Ravenna, ITALY (UniBO) 3 Bantry Marine Research Station Ltd, Cork, IRELAND (BMRS) 4 University of Algarve, Estrada da Penha, 8005-139 Faro, PORTUGAL (UALG) 5 Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349, Oslo, NORWAY (NIVA) 6 Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanografico da Coruna, Muelle de Animas s/n, 15001 A
Coruna, SPAIN (IEO) 7 Met Office, UK, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, Devon, EX1 3PB, UNITED KINGDOM (METO) 8 CLIOTOP SSC. Ex-officio, Collecte Localisation Satellite, FRANCE (CLS) 9 Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, via Augusto Imperatore 16, I-73100 Lecce,
ITALY (CMCC) 10 CLU Ltd, Via Togliatti 17/c,41013 Castelfranco Emilia (MO), ITALY (CLU) 11 National Oceanographic Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, Liverpool, UK (NERC)
12 Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred Wegener Institute, GERMANY
13 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Duesternbrooker Weg 20, D-24106 Kiel,
GERMANY (GEOMAR) 14 Seascape Consultants Ltd, Ostend, Belgium
15 Blue Lobster IT Limited, Mynachlog, Tyn-y-Gongl, Gwynedd, LL74 8SG, Wales, UK
16 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
A project funded by H2020
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................. 5
AtlantOS Progress ................................................................................................................................ 6
WP8 Targeted Deliverables, Products & Webpage mock-ups ............................................................. 7
Task 8.1: Harmful Algal Blooms ....................................................................................................... 8
Task 8.2: Coastal flooding/storm surge climatologies ..................................................................... 8
Task 8.3: Ship routing mapping hazard ............................................................................................ 9
Task 8.4: Oil spill hazards ................................................................................................................. 9
Task 8.5: Offshore aquaculture siting ............................................................................................ 10
Task 8.6: Reanalyses for MSFD and ICES Assessments .................................................................. 11
Task 8.7: Operational real-time and forecast modelling of North Atlantic albacore tuna
populations .................................................................................................................................... 12
Task 8.8: POGO-AtlantOS Collaboration on Ocean Products ........................................................ 13
Stakeholder Engagement and Product Evaluation ............................................................................ 15
Interaction with WP6 “Cross-cutting issues and emerging networks” ............................................. 16
Demonstrating the impacts of AtlantOS generated outputs on WP8 targeted products ................. 16
AtlantOS WP8 Potential Special issue ................................................................................................ 17
Annex A: WP8 2nd Technical Meeting agenda ................................................................................... 18
Annex B: WP8 Task Webpage Template ............................................................................................ 22
Annex C: Stakeholder Engagement .................................................................................................... 24
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Executive Summary
The second WP8 technical meeting took place in Dublin, Ireland from 18th to 20th July, 2017 (see
agenda in Annex A). Partners from WP8, members of the AtlantOS Coordination Project Unit (CPU)
and representatives from AtlantOS WPs 6, 10 and 11 participated either in person or by VC
(participant list in Annex A). The proposed targeted products were presented at a well-developed
stage, with some close to completion. Task Leaders presented a draft of their Task webpages for the
AtlantOS project website and minor changes were proposed after a review of these documents.
In order to perform a formal evaluation of the quality of developed products and input data used,
the WP coordination proposed to evaluate the "Fitness for Use" of the input datasets and "Fitness
for Purpose" of the targeted products using the methodology developed within EMODnet MedSea
Checkpoint (EMODnet Evaluation reports – see example by Pinardi et al. 2017 “The EMODnet
MedSea CheckPoint Second Data Adequacy Report” European Marine Observation and Data
Network https://doi.org/10.25423/cmcc/medsea_checkpoint_dar2). A short hands-on tutorial
session was provided by Augusto Sepp Neves to show Task Leaders how to include their metadata
into the EMODnet Sextant System and how to evaluate the quality of their respective products.
Potential interactions between WP8 and other AtlantOS WPs were reviewed and updated with
support from the invited participants. In order to strengthen links with WP 10, Belén Martín Míguez
proposed a manual devised by her team on Stakeholder Engagement which could guide future
steps. The connection between WPs 10 and 8, in turn, will focus on demonstrating the impacts of
the AtlantOS measurements in the targeted products.
Note: Presentations from the meeting are available to view on the AtlantOS project website
(Intranet).
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AtlantOS Progress
An overview of the AtlantOS progress was presented by Anja Reitz (PCU)
The vision of the AtlantOS initiative is to improve and innovate Atlantic observing by using the
Framework of Ocean Observing to obtain an international, more sustainable, more efficient, more
integrated, and fit-for-purpose system. Hence, the AtlantOS initiative will have a long-lasting and
sustainable contribution to the societal, economic and scientific benefit arising from this integrated
approach.
The overarching objectives of each AtlantOS WP are
• To carry out the research and innovation needed to deliver the framework and tools for a
fit-for-purpose, efficient, integrated and sustainable Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing
System – leaving a legacy for GEO/GEOSS and GOOS.
• To achieve a significant change in planning, observations, data systems, and leave a legacy
for the countries around the basin.
• To steer a voluntary collaboration of investment two orders of magnitude greater than that
in the project itself.
Beyond AtlantOS the focus is on a longer term vision toward an Atlantic BluePrint. There is an
increased need for ocean information to meet a growing range of societal needs that can only
be fully realised if all elements of the ocean value chain are resourced adequately. Anja
presented a number of key achievements/activities from the project to date. Some examples
include the development of a strategy for performing a comprehensive capacity and gap analysis
of the ocean observing value chain, the Identification of pilot areas in the North Atlantic for
Atlantic Seabed Mapping, an Acoustic Trawl Survey Data Portal is operational at
http://acoustic.ices.dk, an extension of the surface drifter fleet in the tropical Atlantic,
successful integrated trans-Atlantic surveys and collaborations in the subpolar North Atlantic
and the subtropical South Atlantic Ocean, a sensor roadmap (horizon-scanning tool using
standardised ‘readiness level’ descriptors focused on EOVs), access to existing systems,
incorporating more in-situ observation data from the Atlantic Ocean in a harmonised way across
the systems and the 2nd AtlantOS Policy Briefing Paper.
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Anja highlighted that there is currently a lack of coordination between WP7 and WP8 concerning
the data trail through to product evolution. A proposed resolution was to have Skype meetings
with WPLs and the Steering Committee in Sept/Oct. Nadia Pinardi (UniBO) stressed to colleagues
that data utilised in the AtlantOS products should to be openly accessible (with accessibility of
the data clearly stated).
WP8 Targeted Deliverables, Products & Webpage mock-ups
Nadia Pinardi presented an overview of WP8 Deliverables, Products & Webpage mock-ups (UniBO)
The WP8 targeted products address five GEO/GEOSS societal benefit areas related to climate,
disasters, ecosystems, health and water. AtlantOS WP8 seeks to demonstrate the value and societal
benefit of the existing observing system in the Atlantic through eight pilot actions. Use-Case
activities integrate data from the Copernicus Marine Environmental Monitoring Services (CMEMS)
and the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) in the Atlantic basin, and are
augmented by new/enhanced data availability driven by AtlantOS project activities. A key activity in
WP8 is to produce a Data Adequacy Report for each Use-Case Pilot Action documenting the
observational and model data accuracy, accessibility and fitness for purpose. At the time of the
meeting, WP8 had submitted three deliverables (D8.1, D8.2 and D8.3) one milestone (MS1 WP8 a
Technical Report: First Technical meeting of WP8 to assess status of input data to, and design of,
specific application products), contributed to the 2nd AtlantOS Newsletter and the 2nd AtlantOS
Policy Briefing Paper presented at the UN SDG 14 Ocean Conference in New York, June 2017. A
request was put forward by Nadia to the AtlantOS CPU for all WP8 deliverables to get a DOI; this
was agreed. Caroline Cusack asked if there was a standard deliverable citation format. By year 3,
WP8 products should be displayed on the AtlantOS website with an effort to get some of the
webpages live for the November AtlantOS 3rd General Assembly (3GA). It was agreed that each Task
webpage would show the connection to GOOS EOVs and the mock-up webpage templates would
follow a design and layout structure similar to that of EMODnet. In 2018, partners will work to apply
the EMODnet Checkpoint product assessment methodology.
There were developments on the EMODnet Atlantic Checkpoint, with agreement to add the
AtlantOS product data to the catalogue. A discussion was held on whether it would feasible to hold
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a meeting with the Engagement Board at the next GA and to co-organise an external end-user event.
In the following paragraphs, we summarise the updates on the targeted products presented by each
Task Team.
Task 8.1: Harmful Algal Blooms
Presented on behalf of the Task group by Caroline Cusack (MI).
The development of a more interactive and automated targeted product would greatly advance
future versions of the bulletin. There was some discussion on the current content of the Product
Specification Document and the structure of headlines and subcomponents of the targeted product
(the weekly Harmful Algal Bloom bulletin) and its data products. Norway (NIVA) launched their
weekly bulletins in summer 2017. A Harmful Algal Bloom webpage mock-up was presented and a
discussion followed on what variables are essential to product development (EOVs and human
impact should be included). Weekly issued bulletins are available online for Ireland (most of the
year) and Norway (summer season) with Spain to follow in spring 2018. Next steps are to document
the added value of AtlantOS to the targeted product. There was also a proposal to investigate
potential links of WP4 activities to the HAB task in WP8.
Task 8.2: Coastal flooding/storm surge climatologies
The work carried out in Task 8.2 was summarised by Kevin Horsbourgh (NERC)
Kevin showed that at most sites in the extra-tropical North Atlantic, historic surges were no more
likely to occur on spring or neap tides, once seasonal effects are included. For this purpose, the skew
surge metric was essential. This should lead to improvements in Joint Probability Modelling of flood
risk. Kevin et al. are collaborating with Deltares to improve the Global Tide and Surge Model and are
investigating how well the model reproduces historical surges and whether it can be used for
statistics of extreme events. It is also being used as a global tidal modelling tool. There is a large
impact of storm surges/extreme sea levels – only surge when affects the coasts. At the time of WP
development, there was only regional storm surge modelling e.g. Bay of Bengal, Gulf of Mexico and
it is only recently that global storm surge modelling was developed. Satellites are not very good -
too near coast. There are now standard procedures for tide gauge analysis – weather systems affect
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tidal dynamics. Global community to all use the skew surge (maximum surge height minus predicted
height). Work will continue through the JCOMM expert team drawing on other resources. Global
storm surge meta-data base is the ambition. Part of the added benefit is to determine the most
optimum tide gauge locations (Joanne Williams et al.) to work toward filling the infrastructure gaps.
Money is the issue for bottom pressure recorders despite the benefit. Kevin et al. agreed to produce
a Product Specification Sheet.
Task 8.3: Ship routing mapping hazard
The work carried out in Task 8.3 was summarised by Gianandrea Mannarini (CMCC)
Task 8.3 is built on results of the open-source ship routing model VISIR (Mannarini et al. Geosci.
Model Dev., 2016). While the original model employed just wave fields for computing vessel speeds,
a new feature introduced by AtlantOS is to use dynamic ocean currents. Currents can either improve
or worsen the performance of a sea-going vessel. Ignoring currents could potentially result in large
errors, in the percent range. This conclusion is supported by a first case study in the Gulf of Cadiz /
Alboran Sea, discussed at the meeting (http://www.visir-model.net/wp-
content/uploads/2017/06/Mannarini_Compit2017_Cardiff.pdf). The inclusion of ocean currents
can have a significant impact when planning the optimal route for the transatlantic passage of liner
ships, especially when economic margins are quite small. Expected energy saving is not always
proportional to time saving. Furthermore, the new paradigm of ship routing published in the 2nd
AtlantOS Policy Briefing Paper was presented: an open-source model code is developed around
end-user needs, compared to similar models by other groups, and inter-operability of model outputs
is ensured. AtlantOS was partially supported an inter-comparison effort between VISIR and an
analogous but mathematically very different system by the Massachussets Institute of Technology
(Lolla et al. Ocean Dyn. 2014). Preliminary results are very encouraging, and plans are underway to
publish in a peer-reviewed journal. The maritime shipping sector is complex, the stakeholders are
traditionally quite conservative and reliance is generally placed on the captain’s experience. It’s
important to find an advocate/champion in the goods shipping sector; guidance needed to do this.
Task 8.4: Oil spill hazards
Work activities were summarised by Augusto Sepp Neves (UNIBO) and João Janeiro (UALG)
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The strategies used to overcome technical challenges due to the large number of oil spill simulations
necessary to map the oil spill hazard at the Atlantic scale were discussed. Several
simplifications/assumptions are taken into consideration while continuing to ensure that the final
result is scientifically meaningful (based on previous research findings). The task partners ran a pilot
experiment off the Uruguayan coast which allowed them to define an optimal spatial and temporal
resolution for the Atlantic ensemble experiment. In parallel, an interactive oil spill hazard bulletin
was put online showing the results obtained during the first experiment performed by the team off
Portugal allowing end users to answer two of the main questions posed by the targeted users: given
a spill, what is the most likely fate of the oil? What coastal areas are the most exposed to the oil spill
hazard? The automatisation of ~ 1,200,000 simulations is at the final stage for the Hazard Mapping
Bulletin. Results will be published in the web portal GLAMOR as they become available. Note: while
the website is working, it has yet to be published. The final aim is to have a ¼ Degree Resolution (25
km) around Atlantic coasts. Area breakdown needs to be finalised in the web bulletin to include the
whole Atlantic (with the assumption that spills mainly affect coastal regions). Note: the outputs
presented in GLAMOR will be incremented on a frequent basis, covering more meteo-
oceanographic scenarios and adding robustness to the results. Finally, stakeholder engagement
activities with the Portuguese Navy occurred in 2016 and 2017 during two national oil spill response
exercises. Feedback on the products developed was positive from the navy, who are the designated
national authority for oil spills and who also conduct numerical modelling.
Task 8.5: Offshore aquaculture siting
Manuel Ruiz Villarreal (IEO) summarised slides provided by Trine Dale (Task Leader, NIVA)
Manuel presented work carried out to identify suitable sites for offshore aquaculture in Spanish,
Norwegian and Irish waters. Offshore aquaculture is a complex type of operation involving live
animals. Important aspects are animal welfare, Health & safety, equipment limitations, logistics,
feeding and daily operations and environment. Site selection is a key factor in any aquaculture
operation. Proper site selection is a prerequisite for; the economic sustainability, for animal welfare,
can help to avoid and/or solve competing demands for access and use of areas, prevent potential
negative environmental impacts of the operations. The challenge is to identify areas that fulfil
criteria for suitability both regarding the biology of the farmed animal, for the equipment, for the
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daily management and operations etc. The AtlantOS contribution is to provide data that enable us
to identify these valuable areas. A GIS approach was used to overlay layers with suitability for a set
of criteria. Physical and administrative constraints were overlaid to determine overall feasibility
ending up with combined suitability maps. Large parts of Norwegian coastline were unsuitable –
currents are a much greater issue in Norway than in Ireland or Galicia. In Galicia currents were not
utilised as only very few spaces where significant currents exist and these areas are administratively
restricted anywhere. Sites were unsuitable > 3 km from the coast in Galicia. Administrative
constraints include fishing grounds etc. can be far offshore. Storm surge can have impact on bivalve
aquaculture. Julie Maguire found that their mussels survive the high wave climate of Bantry Bay,
SW Ireland. Nadia mentioned that she would like some determination of uncertainty. There is a
need to document the added value of AtlantOS to these products. There was a suggestion that
perhaps in future iterations of the product that a HAB layer can also be constructed – perhaps
probability of closure days. At the time of the WP8 2nd Technical meeting, the submitted deliverable
was awaiting verification of comments related to the text in the Norwegian case study of the report
and a request to make the “added value” more visible. Resolution: After the meeting the English
language was checked and copy edited by Caroline. The societal benefit text was highlighted at the
start of the document. It was also noted that ocean observation terminology (e.g. SeaDataNet
controlled vocabularies) is already well developed (IODE) and is somewhat different to that used by
the IOC-GOOS.
Task 8.6: Reanalyses for MSFD and ICES Assessments
The work carried out in Task 8.6 was summarised by Jonathan Tinker (METO)
The Task is focused on how an improved Atlantic observing system will enhance relevant data
products for the MSFD (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) and ICES (International Council for
the Exploration of the Sea) communities. The MSFD and ICES communities require information
about the current state, and near future state of the North West European Shelf Seas (NWS) for the
purpose of management and planning activities. It stands to reasons that improving the
observations in the Atlantic will lead to improved shelf sea products relevant to the MSFD and ICES.
However, the NWS is a quasi-isolated basin, so it is not clear what improvements in the Atlantic
boundary (through AtlantOS observed variability) will have on the NWS. The relationship between
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oceanic variability and NWS variability will be investigated. The Task Team has established
relationships between the surface and lateral boundaries, and the shelf response for a number of
regions with a journal article ready for submission. Planned work will investigate the origin of the
variability on the shelf by running a series of sensitivity experiments with a shelf seas model (NEMO
Shelf CO6) downscaling a present day control simulation of the climate model HadGEM3. The main
control experiment ran from 1980-2166. The run will continue to 2180, with plans to run until 2200.
This will be repeated holding the atmosphere to a climatology in one run, and holding the ocean to
a climatology in another run, so the Shelf Sea variability can be related to either the variability in
the ocean lateral boundary conditions (and potentially improved by AtlantOS) or to the variability
in the atmosphere (and so insensitive to an improved ocean representation). These sensitivity
experiments have run from 2050-2117 with a planned run to 2150. If there are sufficient computer
resource, this will be extended to 2180, and potentially to 2200. Contact was made with the ICES
and MSFD communities to find out what shelf seas indicators are most of interest to them, and to
steer the assessment of how sensitive they will be to oceanic variability. The model will be
downscaled from present day climate simulation onto shelf model (NWS) – runs are ongoing, at 160
years. Results show a lot more variability from the ocean for the Sea Surface Salinity (SSS). Task 8.6
outputs are reports rather than in the form of products like other Tasks.
Task 8.7: Operational real-time and forecast modelling of North Atlantic albacore tuna
populations
Task partner unable to attend meeting. However the Task Leader, Patrick Lehodey, provided
information on progress to date for this report. The objective of T8.7 is to demonstrate that models
of marine ecosystems and fish population dynamics are sufficiently mature to monitor fish stocks
and fisheries in real time but that quality of model outputs are strongly relying on good monitoring
and modeling of ocean variables. The model (SEAPODYM) is applied to the north and south stocks
of Atlantic albacore tuna (managed by international commission ICCAT). SEAPODYM simulates
spatial dynamics (biomass distributions) of six micronekton functional groups representing prey of
tuna and the detailed age structured population of tuna and all international fisheries allowing to
distinguish between fishing impact and environmental variability. Past history of the stocks was
reconstructed from historical catch data and a coarse resolution (1° x month) hindcast simulation of
a physical and biogeochemical coupled model (NEMO-PISCES) provided the key input forcing
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variable (T, UV, PP, Zeu, O2). Several products from CMEMS and Mercator Ocean were tested with
the micronekton model which is very sensitive to currents. Results were then evaluated using
acoustic data that provide a proxy of micronekton abundance. The operational production (one
production every week) of micronketon based on CMEMS 1/12° (degraded to ¼° x week using sosie
interpolation software has been implemented) and is now working automatically. A donwscaling
approach is now required to adapt the coarse resolution results to the higher resolution operational
environment. Two chains of production (with fishing, without fishing) will be implemented following
the work done for micronekton. A web page will be implemented to show the model outputs and
stock indicators (fishing/no fishing = fishing impact).
Task 8.8: POGO-AtlantOS Collaboration on Ocean Products
Eva-Maria Brodte (AWI) summarised progress in this Task
POGO-AtlantOS activities are primarily focused on the organisation of Cruises and Workshops for
Training. Scholarships were awarded in the 2015 and 2016 for the North South Atlantic Training
Transect (NoSoAT) training cruises aboard the RV Polarstern with participation of the successful
applicants Ngozi Ejiofor Oguguah, Dr. Edem Mahu and Subrata Sarker. Data collected during cruises
are uploaded in delayed mode to PANGEA. Nadia highlighted that it’s possible to transfer CTD data
immediately onto the Global Telecommunications System (GTS operated by WMO) for integration
into forecasting models – JCOMM activity of real time transmission. During the NoSoAT, data was
collected by multiple sampling methods e.g. XBTs, a CTD, deployment of Argo floats. Training cruises
facilitate the interaction between emerging ocean countries along the Atlantic Seaboard and ocean
research institutes in Europe and facilitate knowledge transfer. Activities cultivate the development
and expansion of a young researcher’s network, help scholars develop skills and expertise related
to deploying and operating modern ocean science infrastructures and provide them with “take
home” sampling protocols and the tools necessary for specific applications. Scholarships during and
after the RV Maria S. Merian (MSM60) cruise in 2017 helped the successful candidate, Bruno Sutti,
to gain experience on board a modern research vessel and in a European laboratory where he
developed sampling protocols and carried out assessments related to nutrient data verification.
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At the meeting, each WP8 Task was asked to present their proposed webpage mock-ups with a
template distributed a priori (Annex B). It was agreed that the WP8 webpages should include the
Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs; Table 1) used as inputs for the targeted products.
Table 1: Essential Ocean Variables as displayed on the GOOS website (August 2017).
It was agreed that Task Leaders would complete and send the draft webpages mock-up to include
the required EOVs or characteristics and the output ‘targeted product’ naming conventions would
be standardised. ‘Targeted products’ in this context means data products rather than a user friendly
final product. Emphasis on the format of the product is very important e.g.
“ATLANTOS_T#_Product_#”. There was some discussion on whether the intermediary data products
need to be available. End users will not access end products through the AtlantOS pages. Final mock-
up contents for webpages will go to Simon Keeble (Blue Lobster) and uploaded to the AtlantOS
website, with some Task pages ready for the 3GA in Gran Canaria. The Product specification
document and webpage contents should be aligned, written firstly in the document and then
adapted for the webpage. These documents were given to Belén in WP10 to help identify the target
end-users and their needs.
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Stakeholder Engagement and Product Evaluation
Connecting WP8 (all partners) with WPs 10 & 11 (Belén Martín Míguez, Anja Reitz and Kristin
Hamann)
Belén Martín Míguez, is responsible for some of the AtlantOS Stakeholder Engagement activities in
WP10 and she presented ideas of how WP8 can work closely with W10 in this area. Belén explained
the main ideas behind their recently published manual on stakeholder engagement (AtlantOS
Deliverable 10.5 Best Practices in Stakeholder Engagement, Data Dissemination and Exploitation)
and proposed to translate the manual into a "set of steps to follow". The practical framework could
be included in the workflow of each WP8 Task and the method could be validated. Stakeholder
Engagement could also significantly improve the impact of the WP8 products and visibility of
AtlantOS. The main points discussed included the importance of determining who the stakeholders
are (the “who” and timing the “when”) and getting input from community advocates in the co-
development product development and loop/iterations (product improvement). There is also a
potential for multipliers through citizen science. Nadia Pinardi would like to see a partial
implementation plan for the products to go through the co-development cycle.
Anja Reitz proposed that WP8 partners carry out an exercise to review what stakeholder
engagement activities, if any, were carried out to date. The exercise included listing the stakeholders
by order of importance, activities already performed in the field and future plans, and the benefits
obtained to date. These questions and obtained answers are presented in Annex C. In addition, Anja
informed WP8 that she proposed to WP6 (focused on ‘Cross-cutting issues and emerging networks’)
that they organise a side-meeting with the involvement of AtlantOS companies and the AtlantOS
Engagement Board at the 3GA in November. WP6 already plan to hold a special focus day at the
3GA on ‘Sensors, innovation of observing technologies and the private sector’.
Complementary to the Stakeholder Engagement exercise, it was decided at the meeting to perform
an evaluation of the WP8 products based on the Expert Opinion. The planned use of the EMODnet
Sextant system, managed by IFREMER, follows the methodology developed by EMODnet MedSea
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Checkpoints and generates automatic reports. The Sextant system was presented to the partners.
The information required for the online tool to work can be found in the "Description of Targeted
Products" documents generated after the 1st WP8 technical meeting. Further information can be
found in the MedSea Checkpoint website. However, some Tasks did not complete the Description
of Targeted Products and a deadline to complete this was set for September 2017.
Interaction with WP6 “Cross-cutting issues and emerging networks”
Mat Mowlem and Jay Pearlman presented an overview of WP6 wide ranging activities that included
Sensors & Instrumentation (focus on the roadmap and new technologies), Metrology & Standards
(focus on new technologies, best practice and intercomparisons), Shared Infrastructure (options
available discussed at workshops e.g. the AtlantOS joint workshop on strategies, methods and new
technologies for a sustained and integrated autonomous in-situ observing system for the Atlantic
Ocean, supported by the AORA-CSA – more details here) and, Best Practices and Emerging
Networks. Matt focused on sharing information on new methods/technologies that when ready
could potentially enhance WP8 targeted products through the availability of new and enhanced
future datasets while Jay presented activities related primarily to “Best Practices”. Key points were
presented on new technologies (e.g. biological, BGC) and standards (e.g. meteorological) related to
WP8 Tasks focused on HABs, Oil Spill, Offshore Aquaculture siting, and fish population modelling,
Efficiency gains in observing systems, Consideration of emerging sensors, documentation of
best/good practices with assistance from WP6, Emerging networks for future data provision to pilot
actions, Blue growth: technology driving industry and innovation. Conclusion was that WP6-WP8
should continue discussions on interactions after the meeting.
Demonstrating the impacts of AtlantOS generated outputs on WP8
targeted products
AtlantOS WP11 requested that each WP8 task demonstrates the impacts of AtlantOS generated
data on products developed. After some discussions the following list was compiled:
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Impact of AtlantOS on developed Products
Task Strategy to demonstrate AtlantOS impact
8.1
To be defined.
8.2 Demonstrate the importance of enhancing the tide gauge network to improve the
storm surge hazard maps performed.
8.3 Demonstrate the importance of AtlantOS data acquisition through mapping the
shipping hazard using assimilative and non-assimilative Global CMEMS current
fields.
8.4 Demonstrate the importance of AtlantOS data acquisition through mapping the oil
spill hazard using assimilative and non-assimilative Global CMEMS current fields.
Show for a 2 month period in specific areas simulation vs. analyses.
8.5 To be defined.
8.6 Show impact of lateral boundary conditions on the quality of the NWS climate and
MSFD indicators.
8.7 To be defined.
8.8 Train the POGO students on the AtlantOS WP8 products.
Note: assimilation of gliders is very difficult – unsure if Mercator can assimilate within AtlantOS
November 3GA 2017 Update: WP8 partners to generate story lines to demonstrate the benefit of
the AtlantOS project.
AtlantOS WP8 Potential Special issue
To improve the visibility of AtlantOS and the generated products, it was proposed to organise a
scientific journal special issue with the preliminary title "Ocean products for societal benefits" and
guest editors: Jonathan, Augusto, Johanne, Patrick, Eleanor and Trine, where Eleanor will be the
driver. Authors outside WP8 working in the topic will be invited to join.
November 2017 Update: After the workshop the GEO Blue Planet announced a call for papers for a
similar supplemental issue publication on end-to-end case studies of ocean observations used to
benefit various sectors of society in the Journal of Operational Oceanography. The WP8 leaders
decided that this would be a better way to demonstrate WP8 targeted products and a number of
Tasks submitted abstracts for consideration.
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Annex A: WP8 2nd Technical Meeting agenda
WP8 2nd Technical meeting
18 – 20 July 2017
Propose: To assess the status of specific applications and products
Expected Output: Report on the Preliminary Assessment of WP8 main application
deliverables
Where?
Marine Institute, Wilton Park House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland
When?
Start Time: 14:00 hrs on Tuesday, July 18
End Time: 13:30 hrs on Thursday, July 20
Meeting Objectives
• Technical description of each Use-Case product, deliverables completed and next one to be
done (Task Leaders)
• Present Updated Use-Case Product Specification Document (All Partners developing
products)
• AtlantOS Website Mock-Up (Task Leaders)
• Introduction and hands-on Implementation of the EMODnet Checkpoint Process to
Evaluate “Fitness for Use of Input Data” and “Fitness for Purpose of the Products” (Nadia
Pinardi)
• What WP8 Activities are Connecting and Working with Other AtlantOS WPs? (Caroline
Cusack)
Expected meeting outcomes
• Status of the Use-Case Products Development
• Website Mock-Up Sheets ready for Upload onto AtlantOS Website
• Use-Case Product Specification Document Validated
• Initial Assessment of the Fitness for Purpose of Products & Fitness for Use of Input Datasets
Milestone
• Meeting report on the Preliminary Assessment of WP8 main application deliverables
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WP8 2nd Technical meeting
Agenda Meeting activities
Important Note: All AtlantOS website material must be ready prior to the workshop.
See mock-up example for guide on the expected structure. After the workshop, all material for the
website will be sent to Simon Keeble to upload onto AtlantOS WP8 webpages.
DAY 1 ---- Tuesday, July 18, 2017
14:00 – 14:15 Welcome & Housekeeping (Caroline Cusack)
14:15 – 14:45 Status of AtlantOS general development & WP8 deliverables (Anja Reitz 15
mins; Nadia Pinardi 15 mins)
14:45 – 15:15 Connecting WP10 & WP8: Can WP8 participate in a Stakeholder Engagement
test exercise to progress the AtlantOS Engagement Strategy? (Belén Martín
Míguez)
15:15 – 15:40 Task 1: Harmful Algal Blooms
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
15:40 – 16:05 Task 2: Coastal Flooding/Storm Surges
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
16:05 – 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 – 16:45 Task 3: Ship Routing Hazard Mapping
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
16:45 – 17:10 Task 4: Oil Spill Hazard Mapping and Disaster Risk Reduction Best Practices
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
17:10 – 17:35 Task 5: Offshore Aquaculture Siting
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
DAY 2 ---- Wednesday, July 19, 2017
09:00 – 09:25 Task 6: Reanalyses for MSFD and ICES Assessments
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
09:25 – 09:50 Task 7: Operational Real-Time and Forecast Modelling of North Atlantic
Albacore Tuna Populations
Products development stage, next steps and website mock-up
09:50 – 10:15 Task 8: POGO-AtlantOS Collaboration on Ocean Products
Student training experiences and website mock-up
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Identifying the link between ocean observation and ocean information
products (Anja Reitz & Kristin Hamann)
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12:30 – 13:00 WP6 disscussion/presentation (Matt Mowlem & Jay Pearlman)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Discussion on
1) Input data issues
2) Open problems
3) Strategy to connect with other WP output products
14:30 – 15:30 EMODnet Checkpoint evaluation process and implementation in AtlantOS
WP8
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:30 Hands-on evaluation process starts
17:30 – 18:00 Discussion
DAY 3 ---- Thursday, July 20, 2017
09:00 – 10:00 Continuation of the evaluation process
10:00 – 10:30 Discussion of the evaluation results
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Discussion of the evaluation results
11:45 – 13:30 Next steps before Project completion
WP10-WP8 Interaction (Belén Martín Míguez)
As part of the AtlantOS Engagement Strategy (WP10), a Stakeholder Engagement Test Exercise is
going to be implemented based on D10.5 (“Best Practices in Stakeholder Engagement, Data
Dissemination and Exploitation”). The exercise will explore ways of structuring the dialogue with
users of AtlantOS outputs. WP8 pilot actions could be used to put into practice the ideas presented
in D10.5 to engage with stakeholders more efficiently. This goes in the line with that presented at
the “First Technical Meeting of WP8 Report” (page 25) and shows links between WPs within
AtlantOS.
WP11-WP8-WP10-Blue Print Interaction (Anja Reitz & Kristin Hamann)
WP11 would like to stimulate a fruitful discussion towards stakeholder specific societal, scientific,
and economic benefits between WP8, WP10, WP11 and the Blue Print team. We would like to
identify with joint forces and for mutual benefit the added value of ocean observing and its
resulting information products. This discussion will lead to the identification of different
stakeholder groups or ocean observation requirement fields, the specific added value per
group/field, and how this can best be communicated. It will furthermore unravel the benefit of this
exercise for the stakeholder groups and for AtlantOS as well as the Blue Print.
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WP8 Technical Workshop Attendees
1. Anja Reitz (AtlantOS Project Coordination Unit, WP11)
2. Augusto Sepp Neves (WP8)
3. Belén Martín Míguez (WP10)
4. Caroline Cusack (WP8)
5. Claudia Cesarini (WP8)
6. Eleanor O'Rourke (WP8, blue-print)
7. Fiona Moejes (WP8)
8. Gianandrea Mannarini (WP8)
9. João Janeiro (WP8)
10. Joe Silke (invited guest T8.1)
11. Jonathan Tinker (WP8)
12. Julie Maguire (WP8)
13. Kristin Hamann (AtlantOS CPU, WP11, blue-print)
14. Manuel Ruiz Villarreal (WP8)
15. Nadia Pinardi (WP8)
16. Simon Keeble (WP10)
WP8 Technical Workshop VC Attendees
17. Eva-Maria Brodte (WP8)
18. Jay Pearlman (WP 6)
19. Joanne Williams (WP8)
20. Kevin Horsburgh (WP8)
21. Matt Mowlem (WP 6)
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Annex B: WP8 Task Webpage Template
Oil spill hazard mapping
How international efforts to generate ocean data can help society to manage the coastal oil spill
hazard in the Atlantic.
Every year, millions of tons of oil are spilled in the global ocean due to accidental (e.g. large are
rare) and operational (e.g. small and frequent) events associated with the maritime traffic. Despite
the impressive numbers, we still ignore the potential coastal impacts due to oil spill pollution in a
global scale. Within AtlantOS Task 8.4 we will work on estimating the hazard maritime
transportation represents to coastal resources in the Atlantic basin.
Methodology In Task 8.4 we use ensemble numerical oil spill modelling to map the coastal pollution risk due to
accidental and operational releases in the whole Atlantic Ocean. Calculations will use the MedslikII
model and the products from CMEMS and ECMWF. The ensemble results will be used to map and
rank the impacted coastal areas in the Atlantic basin, accompanied by the uncertainties of such
estimates, which will be communicated in a probabilistic manner through online oil spill bulletins.
Data sources • Global ocean circulation model outputs (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring
Service) for upper column currents and temperatures
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• 10m wind velocities (ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis)
• Maritime traffic density maps
• High resolution coastlines
• GEBCO 30’ bathymetry
Targeted products Three targeted products will be developed under Task 8.4:
• Web-based oil spill hazard bulletin
A Web site containing an interactive GIS to display the oil spill risk maps
• Accidental events Coastal oil spill hazard map (and its uncertainties)
Basin scale maps of the coastal hazard due to accidental spills in the Atlantic and its
uncertainties based on the modelled coastal concentrations of oil.
• Operational releases Coastal oil spill hazard map (and its uncertainties)
Basin scale maps of the coastal hazard due to operational spills in the Atlantic and its
uncertainties based on the modelled coastal concentrations of oil.
Team involved • Antonio Augusto Sepp Neves and Nadia Pinardi, University of Bologna, Italy
• Joao Janeiro and Flavio Martins, University of Algarve, Portugal
• Claudia Cesarini, CLU srl., Italy
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Annex C: Stakeholder Engagement
Team A
This concerns the AtlantOS Use-Case Pilot Action T8.1 Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB)
1) Please name the most important stakeholders for your Task:
a. Public Sector: Agencies in charge of monitoring programmes/Food Safety Authorities
b. Private Sector: seafood farmers
*The general public may occasionally show interest, but, in general they do not understand the
scope of the Bulletins (they think it has to do with water quality for bathing)
a) can design their surveys better when there is a bloom expected and b) can plan their harvest
better.
2) What kind of information exchange/contact do you have to these stakeholders and how did
you meet them?
Information was exchanged through several means. There were surveys circulated amongst users
to get their feedback on the products (e.g. HAB bulletins) and improve them. This was done before
and after the bulletins became operational. The feedback was very positive, all users liked them.
User feedback was also obtained through semi-structured interviews. HAB Products were also
presented in events/conferences organised for the Aquaculture sector.
3) Why are they important for your Task or AtlantOS?
Users are extremely important as they help to improve the products; products are designed to meet
their requirements where possible. Their suggestions were taken into account to improve the
operational bulletins.
4) Do you know what these stakeholders expect from your Task or AtlantOS?
Concerning HAB Bulletins, stakeholders expect higher resolution, higher frequency and a longer-
horizon forecast. Farmers want to receive site-specific information, as specific to their areas of
activity as possible.
And there was an extra question from Anja regarding how useful this exercise had been.
After the exercise, WP8 participants felt that the stakeholder engagement process was more
advanced than they originaly thought (despite being far from their field of expertise), they became
more aware that this engagement takes time, however, it can improve the products over time. With
respect to the way the exercise was done, it was mentioned that providing templates for
participants to fill in was an efficient to get more coherent and useful responses.
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Team B
Question (1)
List of stakeholders ordered by priority:
• EMSA / Coastguards / Navy
• Oil/Gas companies (OGP), ITOPF
• Regional convention (OSPAR)
• European Maritime Safety Agency
• Environmental protection agencies
• IMO, IHO, IOC (GOOS), WMO (Disaster Risk Reduction Office), GEO
• scientific community
• UN sustainable growth
• NGOs/Tourism industry/general public require a specialist communication approach
Question (2)
What has been done so far?
• Exercises have been undertaken by the Portuguese branch with the national navy (2016)
• In parallel, local dissemination (conferences) has been carried out (2016)
• Informal contact with oil companies (PETROBRAS)
• Contact with REMPEC on oil spill hazard mapping, presenting our product.
Future plans:
• Conference + exercise 2017 Portuguese Navy
Question (3):
• Shaping the first product design (oil companies, REMPEC experience – Lebanon spill, 2006)
• Confirming the social/market needs for the proposed targeted products (Portuguese navy)
Question (4):
On the one hand, the targeted products proposed, fulfil an existing demand through the web oil
spill bulletin. On the other hand, it is clear that static oil spill hazard maps should be combined with
forecasts in case of spill events. Such a combination will not be done within AtlantOS but it could be
proposed as future work.
Obs: relying on expert opinion, WP8 will perform a gap analysis and fitness for use in the targeted
products and input data used employing the method developed by EMODnet MedSea Checkpoint.
