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

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

Andrew Conway, 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

Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB)

Joaquín Tintoré, Juan Gabriel Fernández, Miguel Charcos Llorens, Andrea Casaucao, Balearic Islands Coastal Ocean Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB), Spain

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