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Upgrades of the CALYPSO Seasonde Network, Value of Calypso Data for Search and Rescue and Oil Spill Response Operations and Future Ideas Upgrades of the CALYPSO SeaSonde network, value of Calypso data for Search and Rescue and Oil Spill Response operations and future ideas Jorge Sánchez, [email protected] 1 Andrés Alonso-Martirena, [email protected] 1 Laura Pederson, [email protected] 2 Chad Whelan, [email protected] 2 1 QUALITAS REMOS 2 CODAR OCEAN SENSORS Catania/ 2nd of December of 2015 / CALYPSO-FO final meeting Who are CODAR and QUALITAS • CODAR OCEAN SENSORS www.codar.com is a high technology company founded in 1985 with headquarters in Mountain View, California • CODAR OCEAN SENSORS is the world leading manufacturer of HF Radar technology for ocean monitoring having more than 500 references worldwide • A European office in alliance with the engineering company QUALITAS www.qualitasremos.com provides highest quality support within Europe + Middle East + Africa Talk Outline 1. CALYPSO-FO upgrades . What will the new station in Marina di Ragusa provide? . New Central Data Management Platform in Sicily . Software upgrades and advanced training . Data processing optimization . System operation and maintenance during the project life 2. Value of CALYPSO data for SAR and OSR . Drift / Oil spill transport models . Why do we need HF radar surface currents data if we have circulation models? 3. Ideas for the future. CALYPSO South 1. CALYPSO-FO upgrades What will the new station in Marina di Ragusa provide? • BARKAT and SOPU maximum ranges often don’t reach the Sicilian coast, which result in a total map coverage with a poorer coverage near the northern part of the channel. What will the new station in Marina di Ragusa provide? • Better coverage in the Sicilian coast • Better quality of “total” data in the middle of the channel too • Redundancy. System operational even if one stations is unavailable • Better spatial and also temporal data coverage • More reliable system. Darker red shows total data availability during at least 70% (left) / 90% (right) of the time for 1 month of measured data Lighter red shows simulated coverage of the 4 stations network (considering 65 km max. range for each station) What will the new station in Marina di Ragusa provide? • Once Marina di Ragusa is commissioned inside this week, the CALYPSO HF Radar network will be one of the most complete in Europe (based on the number of stations combining data inside the same network) 500 SeaSonde HF radars in the world 47 in Europe • Each of the dots represents a network of SeaSonde stations • No network in Europe with more than 4 stations combining data in the same grid New Central Data Management Platform in Sicily Web viewer Monitoring SeaSonde Central Site System Combining Station SeaSonde Radial Sites OPeNDAP (NetCDF) Malta FTP Server SeaSonde Central Site WMS Server Combining Station KMZ Export Reporting System Sicily Added value products Web viewer in Italian language Redundancy in data storage / Backup and Disaster Recovery Possibility to change setting of each Central Platform depending on Stakeholders needs in each country Software upgrades and advanced training in Malta • Radial and Central stations now running latest software versions • Training provided to the UNIPA about Central Platform • Basic training provided to new UoM personnel and advanced training also provided to UoM Calypso personnel Data processing optimization Still a work in progress but important advances in • Quantitative analysis of improvements in coverage with multi-static processing Coverage with Monostatic processing Coverage with Multi-static processing (2 weeks time series) (same 2 weeks time series) Data processing optimization Still a work in progress but important advances in • Initial tests to interpolate data in the baseline between Sopu and Barkat to get data closer to the Maltese coasts With Baseline Interpolation Without Baseline Interpolation System Operation and Maintenance during the project • Stations being maintained locally by Italian and Maltese partners • Sopu and Ta’Barkat stations calibrated onsite by UoM and QUALITAS Preventive maintenance at Pozzallo station by UNIPA and QUALITAS • QUALITAS remote support to CALYPSO partners during the project Boat track for last week’s APM in Ta’ barkat 2. Value of CALYPSO for SAR and Spill Response Drift/ Oil Spill Transport Models Both for SAR and OSR main question is: • Where is the oil/person a drift moving? (forecast) For OSR there is also another important question: • Where has the oil spill been originated? (backtracking) HFR data use can improve these trajectory forecasts by: • Validating skill of the different models • Assimilating HF radar data into circulation models to improve skill • Ingesting HF Radar surface currents directly into oil transport/drift models improving quality of prediction/backtracking HF radar data help to reduce search area and to better predict where objects/persons/oil spills are moving. Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. Alborean Sea “Models and data complement and need each other” Trajectory forecast using four models as forcing in the Alboran Sea as part of a coastguard exercise by SASEMAR (presented by SASEMAR in the final meeting of the TRADE project in Portugal, December 2013) Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North Qualitas and the Hydraulics Institute of CantabriaSeaare now finishing an R&D project focused on developing new added value tools for decision taking in oil spill response (www.nemot4ogi.com/) In this project we have developed: . Short Term prediction system for currents . Oil spill transport model able to be forced by modeled or HFR data (TESEO) . Drift model that makes use of HFR data . A web-based interface that integrates all products Two pilot HFR networks to showcase these tools (Galicia and North of Scotland) Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North Sea As part of this project we carried out a study in collaboration with Marine Scotland comparing: • Real trajectory of a set of drifters released by Marine Scotland in the area of interest • Forecasted trajectory of the drifters using MyOcean currents as forcing of a transport model (TESEO from IHC) • Forecasted trajectory of the drifters using HFR data currents as forcing Drifters Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North Sea Example #1: MyOcean (hindcast) currents HF Radar currents Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North MyOcean (hindcast) currents Sea HF Radar currents Good simulations using both data forcings: Radar HF (OMA) and MyOcean model. Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North Sea Example #2: MyOcean (hindcast) currents HF Radar currents (OMA) Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. North MyOcean (hindcast) currents Sea HF Radar currents (OMA) 66% improvement in trajectory forecast when using HF radar data Why do we need HFR data if we have models?. 29/11/15. 1am. HF Radar (3 km CALYPSO29/11/15. 1am. MyOcean Model (6 km res.) res.) - Model works well in some areas and not so well in others - Difficult for the model to capture/position mesoscale features like shown eddy (spatial res) 3. Ideas for the future. CALYPSO SOUTH Ideas for the future. CALYPSO South? 1 station in Malta and 1 in Gozo to monitor Malta South? Ideas for the future. CALYPSO South? 1 station in Lampedusa and 1 in Linosa island to monitor South of Sicily? Thanks! Catania/ 2nd of December of 2015 / CALYPSO-FO final meeting.
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