Key objectives
The EuroGOOS Coastal working group will examine the entire value chain from coastal observations, satellite data, ocean forecasts and analysis, to products and services for coastal users. The working group will examine sustainability and fitness for purpose of the existing system and identify future steps needed to secure and improve all elements of the coastal value chain.
The EuroGOOS Coastal Working Group will build upon significant initiatives already completed or underway that have focused on coastal observing. These include, but are not limited to, the work of the JERICO and JERICO-NEXT EC projects, activities within EuroGOOS working groups, task teams, and the five regional operational oceanographic systems (ROOS). A key early priority for the Coastal Working Group will be to document the existing and planned activity and provide a status of the coastal observing system at the present time.
List of members
Co-chairs
Ghada El Serafy
Vice-Chair, Deltares
Netherlands
Arthur Capet
University of Liège (ULiège)
Belgium
Members
Angelique Melet
Mercator Ocean International (MOi)
France
Anna Rubio
AZTI
Spain
Antonello Bruschi
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
Italy
Antti Westerlund
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Finland
Baptiste Mourre
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Spain
Dougal Lichtman
National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
United Kingdom
Enrico Baglione
National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV)
Italy
Federico Falcini
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Italy
Fernando Manzano
Puertos del Estado
Spain
Francisco Campuzano
+ATLANTIC Colab
Portugal
Georg Umgiesser
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Italy
Guillaume Charria
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)
France
Helene Frigstad
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Norway
Ivane Pairaud
French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer)
France
Joanna Staneva
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Germany
Joaquín Tintoré
The Balearic Islands Coastal Ocean Observing and Forecasting System (SOCIB)
Spain
Jun She
Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI)
Denmark
Laura Tuomi
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Finland
Laura Ursella
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS)
Italy
Lorinc Meszaros
Deltares
Netherlands
Marcos García Sotillo
Nologin
Spain
Øyvind Sætra
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway)
Norway
Rosemarie Lawlor
Irish Meteorological Service (Met Éireann)
Ireland
Sebastien Legrand
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Belgium
Tomasz Dabrowski
Marine Institute (MI)
Ireland
EuroGOOS facilitation
Contributions
OceanPrediction Atlas Forecasting systems
Outcomes
1. Assessment of operational modeling capacities
The EuroGOOS Coastal Working Group conducted a survey on the operational modelling capacities in the European seas. An analysis derived from the survey, published in Frontiers in Marine Science Journal, drew on contributions from 49 organizations across Europe to assess the current operational modelling capacities and services. The article examined the gaps, needs, and priorities for improving the marine and coastal operational modeling capacity and put forth a number of recommendations. Read the full study here.
2. EEA Copernicus In situ coordination project (COINS)
Members of the Working group have participated in the EEA Copernicus In situ coordination project (COINS) and have produced a series of reports on the availability of Biogechemical observations on the coastal areas (Inventory of existing European Biogeochemical observations) and on the Copernicus requirements for biogeochemistry essential ocean variables in the coastal ocean.
3. FORCOAST Central Platform
Members of the Coastal WG have participated in the Copernicus uptake EU project FORCOAST which is aiming to provide information services, co-designed with stakeholders, which provide high-resolution data of water quality and met-ocean variables at coastal zone and nearshore that are used to give focused answers to specific questions from the targeted wild fisheries, bivalve mariculture, and oysterground restoration sectors.
A main outcome of the Project is a Central Platform where all the coastal data services developed in seven pilots sites can be accessed and run in real time. You can access the Central Platform here.