22 / 06 / 2015
Now the kick-off meeting (10-12 June in Brussels) has passed, the 62 partners of the AtlantOS-project – from EU, USA, Canada, Brzail and South-Africa – set out to significantly enhance observing the Atlantic Ocean. Existing observation should become more integrated, effective and sustainable. It is important to be able to accurately observe the current condition of this ocean basin, assess past changes and to predict future developments where possible. The EU is funding AtlantOS as part of its framework programme "Horizon2020" with 21 million euros over a period of four years. The project is coordinated by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. The project fits within the Galway Statement, where Europe, USA, Canada and Brazil united to join forces in transatlantic ocean research.
VLIZ participates in the work package for increasing data flow and harmonisation. Under the lead of the French Ifremer and the Univesrity of Bremen (UniHB) – and in coorperation with GEOMAR, NERC, CNRS, ICES, UiB, SAHFOS, MET O, UNEXE, EUMETNET, CLS, Mercator, ECMWF, PML, ETT, SPA and Maris – the data sets from the different and diverse in-situ observing systems will be made readily and freely available to the wider, international ocean science community and other stakeholders in this field. This will be achieved by harmonizing work flows, data processing and distribution and by integrating observations in existing European and other contributing international data infrastructures. Existing, international standards will be implemented and innovative methods (like a.o. cloud concepts) will be studied to explore the feasibility of an efficient handling and distribution of observational data and information in particular real-time data. Further, the impact of AtlantOS observations in models will be tested and ocean products derived from these observations both for research and for applications will be developed and delivered.
Important in AtlantOS is that biological observations will be recorded as well within the observation system. The existing transatlantic observation systems like the Continuous Plankton Recorder and the Atlantic Fish Surveys will contribute to AtlantOS, and the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) will be wider extended in the Atlantic Ocean. VLIZ will develop the data infrastructure to save and manage the detection data of the tagged fish.
More specific information can be retrieved from VLIZ: Simon Claus and Klaas Deneudt. In the press release on the occasion of the kick-off meeting one can read more about the project.
VLIZ participates in the work package for increasing data flow and harmonisation. Under the lead of the French Ifremer and the Univesrity of Bremen (UniHB) – and in coorperation with GEOMAR, NERC, CNRS, ICES, UiB, SAHFOS, MET O, UNEXE, EUMETNET, CLS, Mercator, ECMWF, PML, ETT, SPA and Maris – the data sets from the different and diverse in-situ observing systems will be made readily and freely available to the wider, international ocean science community and other stakeholders in this field. This will be achieved by harmonizing work flows, data processing and distribution and by integrating observations in existing European and other contributing international data infrastructures. Existing, international standards will be implemented and innovative methods (like a.o. cloud concepts) will be studied to explore the feasibility of an efficient handling and distribution of observational data and information in particular real-time data. Further, the impact of AtlantOS observations in models will be tested and ocean products derived from these observations both for research and for applications will be developed and delivered.
Important in AtlantOS is that biological observations will be recorded as well within the observation system. The existing transatlantic observation systems like the Continuous Plankton Recorder and the Atlantic Fish Surveys will contribute to AtlantOS, and the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) will be wider extended in the Atlantic Ocean. VLIZ will develop the data infrastructure to save and manage the detection data of the tagged fish.
More specific information can be retrieved from VLIZ: Simon Claus and Klaas Deneudt. In the press release on the occasion of the kick-off meeting one can read more about the project.