1. MyOcean
In-situ TAC
What data are available?
Jerico Summer school
Delft 17 June 2014
Thomas Hammarklint
Email: Thomas.Hammarklint@smhi.se

2. DBCP
E-Surfmar
Euro-Argo
EuroFleet
GROOM/EGO
MyOcean
SeaDataNet
EMODnet-PP
Jerico
HF-radar
VOS
GLOSS

3.  1. Set up 7 Regional portals
▪ Define common vocabularies, formats, flag conventions, organization…
▪ Develop a reliable and sustainable architecture for in-situ data delivery
▪ Integrate Real Time data from Region partners and International networks
▪ Integrate the best dataset (1990-) possible for re-analysis purposes
 2. Develop harmonized Quality Control and Validation procedures for
▪ Temperature & Salinity
▪ Sea Level & Current
▪ Biogeochemical data
 3. Generate products for MFC according to their requirements
▪ Calibration/validation needs
Scope of work
April 2009 March 2015
MyOcean is a series of projects granted by the European Commission within
the GMES/Copernicus Program (FP7), whose objective is to define and to set
up a concerted and integrated pan-European capacity for ocean monitoring
and forecasting

4. Regional Components

5. Common features in all regions
- In each component 4 functions are implemented:
1. Acquisition
2. Real Time Quality Control (RTQC)
3. Validation
4. Distribution
- All regions apply the same portal structure and
Quality Control procedures
- The Validation of the products will be different
in each region because it depends
▪ of the amount of data available in the regions
▪ the quality of the data available for Validation
▪ the oceanographic features of the area
Main architecture

6. Acquire data Data
Base
Validate
Product
Monthly
Flagged
data
Real Time
Quality
Control
Daily
Data to the usersNational data
Main architecture
Real-time
and
delayed mode
Schematic data flow

7. BOOS Data Portal

8. BOOS Data Portal
BOOS Data Portal
ftp.boos.org
BOOS Oceanographic Stations
100 Tide Gauges (TG)
10 Moored Buoys (MB)
10 Fixed Platforms (FP)
4 Ferry-Box-lines (FB)
>100 Monitoring stations (CT)

9. Code Meaning
0 No QC was performed
1 Good data
2 Probably good data
3 Bad data that are potentially correctable
4 Bad data
5 Value changed
6 Below detection limit
7 In excess of quoted value
8 Interpolated value
9 Missing value
A Incomplete information
 All regions apply the same Real-Time Quality Control (RTQC)
procedures and Quality Flag convention (from SeaDataNet)
 Codes marked in red are mandatory after the RTQC
 It is the responsibility of the final users to read and use these flags
Quality control flags

10. Metadata information – www.boos.org

11. Moorings
/root
index_latest.txt
latest
monthly
Vessels
Drifters
One directory /day
One file/ day/platform
One directory / month
One file / month / platform
One directory /month
One file / month/platform
One directory / month
One file / month / platform
One directory /month
One file / month / platform
index_monthly.txt
myo_index_platform.txt
index_history.txt
history
Moorings
Vessels
Drifters
One file / year / platform / data type
One file / platform / data type
Profilers-Gliders
Profilers-Gliders
BOOS Data Portal structure

12. Number of platforms available
March 2014
103 fixed stations available in real-time

13. Historical data available in the BOOS Data Portal June 2014
Data set Time period # Provider Comment
Swedish TS data 1990-2014 NRT 103 SMHI,SMF QCed data from NODC
Danish TS data 1990-2010 432 DMU and other Through SDN and Web
German TS data 1990-2013 138 BSH,IOW Through SDN
Polish TS data BY NEGOTIATION IMWM,IOPAS “
Lithuanian TS data 2004-2009 19 EPA “
Latvian TS data 2005-2007 60 LHEI “
Estonian TS data 1992-2004 33 MSI “
Russian TS data SOON AVAILABLE RAS,RIHMI,RUMS “
Finnish TS data 1990-2008 (2013) 16 SYKE,FMI “
Swedish buoy data 2001-2013 9 SMHI QCed data from NODC
German buoy data 1985-2013 7 BSH “
Danish buoy data 2001-2011 3 DMI Aggregated NRT data
Finnish buoy data 2005-2012 1 FMI “
Swedish sea level 1990-2013 23 SMHI QCed data from NODC
Danish sea level 1990-2013 30 DMI “
Sea level/other countries 2005-2013 50 BSH,IMWM,EPA,LEGMA,MSI,FMI,MSI,NWAHEM
Aggregated NRT data
Swedish Ferrybox 2009-2013 3 SMHI QCed data from NODC
Finnish Ferrybox 1992-2008 1 SYKE “ (only water samples)
Finnish Ferrybox 2009-2013 1 SYKE Aggregated NRT data
Estonian Ferrybox 2008-2013 3 MSI “
Historical data sets

14. Number Vessel Route Operator Production Unit
1 Silja Europa Tallinn-Helsinki MSI SMHI
2 Color Fantasy Oslo-Kiel NIVA
3 FinnMaid Helsinki-Lübeck-Gdynia-Helsinki SYKE SYKE
4 Lysbris Hamburg-Immingham-Halden NIVA/HZG
5 Silja Serenade Helsinki-Mariehamn-Stockholm SYKE
6 Stena Spirit Gdynia-Karlskrona IMWM-PIB
7 TransPaper Göteborg-Oulu-Kemi-Lübeck-Göteborg SMHI/SYKE SMHI
8 Victoria Tallinn-Mariehamn-Stockholm UT
9 FinnSea Århus-Turku-(Helsinki) SYKE
10 M/S Romantika Stockholm-Riga MSI SMHI
11 Bergensfjord Sandefjord-Strömstad NIVA
Ferryboxes in the Baltic Sea (June 2014)

15. Data access
▪ MyOcean registration
www.myocean.eu
Will get access to Baltic data:
▪ FTP-box with nc-files
ftp.boos.org
Or…
▪ Web access to data and products
www.emodnet-physics.eu
BOOS Data Portal
ftp.boos.org

16. Exercise 1
Register as a new user on www.myocean.eu

17. Exercise 2
Through the FAQ on www.myocean.eu,
find out how to download data

18. Exercise 3
Log in and browse the different products
Download historical data from
The tide gauge “Göteborg-Torshamnen”

19. Exercise 4
What is the highest recorded
sea level at Göteborg-Torshamnen ?

20. Thanks for your attention!
Thomas.Hammarklint@smhi.se