Data Management, Exchange, and Quality Working Group

EuroGOOS Data Management, Exchange, and Quality Working Group (DATAMEQ WG) helps improving harmonization and integration of European marine data. DATAMEQ WG works hand in hand with Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS), SeaDataNet, EMODnet, JERICO Next and AtlantOS. The working group fosters links between real-time and historical data streams and works closely with EuroGOOS Task Teams and ROOS.

Key Objectives

  • Develop an overall concept for the management of EuroGOOS observation data taking into consideration existing data management systems;
  • Identify observations required for either in real-time or in delayed mode data;
  • Propose the most effective ways to make observation data readily available for operational purposes;
  • Propose mechanisms to ease access to delayed mode observation data in cooperation with National Oceanographic Data Centres (NODCs), keeping aware of the progress in SeaDataNet;
  • Draft a minimum set of standards for data quality control which is related to observation data collection, processing and exchange procedures.

List of Members

Chair

  • Thierry Carval, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France – incoming chair 

Members

EuroGOOS Regional System representatives:

BOOS and NOOS

  • Susanne Tamm, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Germany
  • Johana Linders, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
  • Fiona Carse, The Meteorological Office (UK Met Office), United Kingdom
  • Kate Collingridge, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), United Kingdom

IBI ROOS

  • Marta de Alfonso, Puertos Del Estado, Spain
  • Julien Mader, Fundación AZTI, Spain

MonGOOS

  • Leonidas Perivoliotis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece

Arctic ROOS

  • Vidar Lien, Arnfinn Morvik, Sjur Ringheim Lid, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway

Black Sea representative:

  • Veselka Marinova, Bulgarian Academy of Science (IOBAS), Bulgaria

EuroGOOS Task Team representatives:

Tide Gauge 

  • Begoña Perez, Puertos del Estado, Spain
  • Andy Matthews, National Oceanographic Centre (NOC), UK

FerryBox 

  • Jukka Seppala, Sebastian Ehrhart, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland
  • Elizaveta Protsenko, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway
  • Sebastian Ehrhart, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland
  • Gisbert Breitbach, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany

Glider 

  • Victor Turpin, GROOM II (Ocean-OPS), France

HF Radar 

  • Julien Mader, AZTI, Spain

Fixed Platforms

  • Alan Berry, Marine Institute (MI), Ireland

Argo

  • Thierry Carval, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France

Other programme representatives:

Gosud/OceanSITES/CMEMS INSTAC

  • Thierry Carval, Stéphane Tarot, Dominique Obaton, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), France

RTQC Biology (CMEMS INSTAC, JERICO)

  • Virginie Racapé, Pokapok, France
  • Kai Sorensen, NIVA, Norway

SeaDataNet

  • Dick Schaap and Peter Thijsse, Marine Information Service (MARIS), Netherlands
  • Simona Simoncelli, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy

EMODnet (Physics, Ingestion, Chemistry)

  • Antonio Novellino, ETT, Italy
  • Patrick Gorringe, SMHI, Sweden 
  • Alessandra Giorgetti, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Italy

JERICO

  • Leonidas Perivoliotis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece
  • Joaquín Tintoré, Juan Gabriel Fernández, Miguel Charcos Llorens, The Balearic Islands Coastal Ocean Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Spain

ICES

  • Neil Holdsworth and Hjalte Parner, The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark

EuroGOOS Facilitation

  • Dina Eparkhina, European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) Office, Belgium

Terms of Reference

 

DATAMEQ Documents