Glob ColourMedspiration User Workshop Conclusions Workshop Conclusions Medspiration

Glob. Colour/Medspiration User Workshop Conclusions

Workshop Conclusions Medspiration • Good uptake by both the user and provider community - Since 2006: large increase in data volumes and number of users • Has become essential input for OSTIA, and now all Met. Office forecasts depend on it. - GHRSST is operational now. It is no longer a “Pilot Project” • Advantages of HR-SST have been demonstrated: e. g. improved forecast of hurricane tracks • Encouraging new research, e. g. on influence on polar low development • Responding to user needs (SSES, L 2 P) • Continuity from 2009 in MCS, but GHRSST must continue to deliver services to the global user community outside My. Ocean. Glob. Colour • Historical data set 1997 -2006 just released • NRT service due to start in 2008 Time to expand user group, and link to GEOSS tasks • Validation shows good quality data set, but some problems remain in trend analysis • Intercomparison shows it is at least as good as other merged ocean colour datasets • Continuity guaranteed from 2009 in MCS (up to chl, but not going further into PP, ecosystems and modelling products)

New Requirements to be Investigated Medspiration • Extend Level-4 above 60° North • ATSR SSES implementation • Distribute SST products via ESA/DDS (and EUMETCast? ) to African users • Requests for new DDS sites to Dave P, please. • HR-DDS back-processing for SST, OC, Wave, NPP, … Glob. Colour • Coastal zones -Global Case 2 CHL, CDM, TSM, … product for assessing role of coastal zones in carbon flux -Use of MERIS-FRS for operational applications (i. e. incl NRT Level-2 availability) -NOAA IOOS (and Coast. Watch) would like a coastal Glob. Colour -AMESD users. . ? & LME’s in Africa. • Inclusion of PARASOL as 4 th sensor, + ISRON sensors (Sam) • Need for cloud-free analysed Chl product (DIVERSITY, are there others? ) • Need for new products: Primary productivity, p. CO 2, PAR, ZHl… • Support IOCCP Ocean CO 2 from Space workshop • Distribute ocean colour products to African users via ESA/DDS • Draft a NOAA Submission Agreement • Assimilation of Glob. Colour products into models.

User Consultation 2008 Suggested venues: • ESRIN MERIS-AATSR workshop (Sep 2008? ) • Santorini • Lisbon • Malpelo…?