[Music] heat heat heat heat good morning everyone and welcome to today's first webinar of our Siri copernicus marine essentials so my name is Gail and Asteric and I'm a training and capacity development officer at marketer option international and I'll be one of your hosts for today uh as you know we will have a series of three online webinars and today we will have an in introductory session sorry where we'll tell you almost everything about what the Copernicus service is about um before we start we are going to go through some house rules and guidelines to help you follow this webinar in the best possible way so first please do not use the chat that you see on your right hand side for your questions you can use it for small talk or to say hello to us but if you have a more technical question or if you have any other type of question we will use the Q&A section on the website so you will find it on the top bar of the web page and so when you click on the Q&A button you will see an 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earlier like that we can save them if we don't have time to answer all of your questions today and yes so now I will give the floor to the second host of the day so Daria Andreka from Novelties hi Daria hello everyone uh well my name is Daria I'm from Novelties I'm going to be your second moderator today and um well for the rest of the workshop guidelines uh first of all on the website of uh this webinar and this event or this series you will have um guidelines so how to access the event while you're already here so already good but there's also some information about uh frequently asked questions also informations about availability of replace of these webinars and uh about certificate of attendance and additionally there's a link uh there's a tab for resources uh where you can find some useful links for help center or some related information to what's going uh be discussed today by our speakers and for the speakers today we'll have me we have G as you already uh you already know and then we have our four um speakers uh so first is going to be Aurora Bardo is uh she's a product owner from Merkato Ocean uh she will present you a tools and services overview uh following will be uh Cedric Gordon from Market Ocean as well he's a user support manager and he's going to be responsible for user corner and e-learning materials uh presentation and then we'll have our uh use case panel discussion so we have our two guest speakers um who will uh first present her work and then uh we will have a well panel discussion and a Q&A session with them so first is Anna Matuka from portals deado she's a head of division at forecasting systems and predictions and then we have uh also uh Ricardo Marti he's a researcher at national institute of uh astronography and applied geophysics so first is G she will present you well overview of capernicus marine service g hello again so it's going to be a quick introduction about what the Copernicism maring service is about so just just to introduce you to the service if you're not familiar with it yet so Copernicus uh is a program um created by the European Union so it's a European fully funded program dedicated to the observation of the earth and to better understand different systems of the planet so it includes the six service so we have the atmosphere monitoring service the marine environment the land the climate change and the emergency management and security uh services um all of these services are managed by different entities of the Copernicus program and obviously Marur Ocean International oversees the Copernicus marine monitoring service and it provides information and free of charge opensource data products about all of these different system of the earth and you can obviously access and download the data for free um so how do you access the service so it's through its website uh it's free to as I said it's free to access the website and download any product and there you will find an extensive catalog of products all of them are scientifically uh qualified and they are userdriven so they are constantly upgraded and improved and we also take into account the experience of users of the service um briefly about what kind of data you can find uh so the copernicus marine service provide data on the blue the green and the white ocean so the blue is all about the physical component of the ocean so the currents the temperatures the wave the wind um the white ocean is about ice so ice coverage ice velocity ice concentration and the last one so the green ocean is the biogeeochemical component of the ocean so all that has to do with the phytolanton the nutrients the chemical composition and everything with that um also briefly uh so you can find that these are just a few example of the data data provided on the website but we also have several uh data in terms of temporal and geographical coverage so the type of data the copanicus marine size provide it's quite varied so you have institute data uh you have also satellite observations which are used then to validate the model data and you can find data that are measured right now so which we call real time data uh but we also have data all well from the past so all the way back to 30 years uh which we call reanalysis or multi-year data and finally the kerning service also provide forecast data 10 days into the future and yeah and in term of geographical coverage um you have five area or six region as you want to call it so the global region all around the world and then smaller areas all around Europe and the data and information the Copernicus marine service provides respond to different needs and market as you want to call it so they go from science and innovation to policies but also to coastal services or economy sectors and I will stop right there for the overview but my colleagues that go just after me will offer you a bit more details during the next presentation h but yeah just so you know uh it's a series of three webinars so each webinar will dive deeper into the copernicus marine service so yeah don't forget to come back for the rest of the service thank you Gail it was very nice presentation and now we have u Aroardu uh from Ocean who will present you tools and services overview of Capern service hello hello everyone i hope you will uh see and hear me well i'm just sharing my presentation so I work Yeah sorry i work at Macater Ocean International as well um mainly on the catalog and data management topics and I will present you the tool and services overview so we are going to to travel a little bit in the copernigus marine web portal to to have a general view uh on which are the main services we can have access to so we are going to talk about the ocean climate portal um about use cases as well about ocean explainers um the ocean safe report and ocean monitoring indicators so to begin with so um as G said um this is the homepage of the Copernicus marine web portal um and um so as G said it is um um open and free data on the ocean and um just to mention that the common format of all the data you can have access to is net CDF format and and there are more than um 300 um products we will see just after what we call product and so to begin with we we are going to um to visit the first box which is called ocean products and if we click on the first box you can see in red we access to this catalog so um you have access now to the full um products catalog so what what we call a product is actually a set of data um with inside can be one or more data sets and um it's associated to all the descriptive information which we call metadata which which describes um what is inside the product so you can filter on this catalog on a lot of different um topics for example the geographical areas the variables you want to to search so as K mentioned you have the blue the white and the green variables so you can choose what you want to see or what you want to download you can also choose um the sources um the time range and so on but I will not go uh very deep into the data store because um it will be presented in the next session by a colleague so um I will focus on the other services associated to um to the Kernikus web portal so now we will travel into the second box which is called ocean state report um so this is actually um a report like um a book or PDF format it's not um net CDF data it's a report um and it's about the state of the ocean the natural variation variations and uh it summarizes all the changes of the ocean mainly due to climate change um so it's published annually you have an update every year of this report it's written and validated by um more than 150 scientists from all over Europe from different institutions and um it's um it's about the global ocean but with a specific focus on all the European seas so this is um I just put a screenshot so you can have an idea um how it looks and also the link to directly access to it and what is good to know is that the summary is also available so the summary may be more um so it's a shorter document maybe more in interactive or attractive with infographics um if you want to have a look at the summary it's only a few pages so maybe it's also good and it's also um sorted by blue green and white ocean and you have different type of data and information inside this report um and this can be um available to so the general public but also for example the policy makers and uh it's very um it's intended to to be to be read by a very wide um audience so now we are going to um to come back to the homepage and travel into the third box which is called ocean climate trends so in this box you can see there are two links available so the first one is called ocean monitoring indicators so we are going to see what are those indicators um so at le uh what we called uh the ocean monitoring indicators are key variables um for monitoring the ocean trends mainly in relation to climate change as well so it's not a report anymore but it's already data um and it's it can be uh in the form of of map or a chart or even downloadable data set i will show you just in the next slide so we call that the ocean vital signs because uh it's key data on the um the the health of the ocean so I I will show you later um as everything on the copernicus marine service data sets are free for for download they cover the past 30 years and as well there is uh either a global coverage or a regional focus uh on the European seas so here are some examples so you can see the examples of the uh topics uh the monitoring indicators can cover so for example the um ocean acidification with the pH but also the ocean heat the silver rice extent Arctic freshwater and so on you I invite you to browse into the this uh specific catalog as you can see um the ocean monitoring indicators can have a form of a map um like the the first one on the left or um a trend um yeah so I think that's that's all for monitoring indicators and now we are going to go into the second link of this box which is clo called ocean climate portal so this portal is um kind of a an alternative view of the key variables indicators but this time through interactive um graphs and data i will show you just after and you also can have access in this portal to explanations on um why these indicators are essential to monitor the ocean and um to understand how it changes um and uh what's going on so for example if you if you click on the ocean climate portal you land on the the picture on the left you have the different variables that are monitored and I've chosen the example of the ocean carbon uptake so you can have access to um very um I would say um clear info infographics to understand a little bit and to to be able to understand and communicate on the carbon absor absorption for here for example you you also have main figures linked to that and um description about what is the problem um with bullet points and explanations and what is the impact so you can browse to um sea level artic and so on in this climate portal and then you also um can have access to what we call the ocean explainer so it's a little bit linked to the climate portal i will show you here so the ocean explainers are um also information on various ocean related topics but it's more information it's not um um figures it's more to understand um for example why is the ocean important what is oper operationalography um there is also a glossaryy which is available which can be very useful with um some of the ocean related terms and their definitions or some scientific terms and their definitions also a list of the different policies European policies which are involved in the oceans um and so on so for example here I've chosen the um topic of plastic pollution uh which is um a topic covered in the ocean explainers so it it looks like that you have a a small text which describes um what is plastic pollution and how it impacts um biodiversity and and so on you have also summaries of the problem the impact and what could be solutions and for each of the topics covered in the ocean explainers you have access to an infographics which uh I think it's quite clear on well which summarize also what can what are the consequences of the plastics and so on so you can see the plastic pollution infographics on the right and also for this one I also encourage you to visit uh this page and to explore um so you can learn um a lot on uh what is linked to the oceans and oceans issues so now we are um going to take a a short detour on the use cases so you can see on the top of the homepage the use cases link so what are the use cases it's actually um real world application of uh copernicus marine data so we we provide in the in this page um written stories that can showcase um how the kernicus marine data is applied uh in different application in in the real life I would say so if we click on it we have access to a a catalog of use cases and each box uh can be um clicked on and you can have access to a description of the use case uh which company or which institution is um implementing it and uh I will not go really into detail because you will see uh some of them after but you can see that there is a very wide range of applications of the capernicus marine service it can be for research application it can be for um for example search and rescue um also for I don't know map mapping the the plastics um and so on so there is a a specific page for that and you can also filter on the region or the market you want to to target if you want to visit this page um and then we are going to to see now um also briefly the force box which is called ocean visualization so um this is um I would say the maybe the funnier funniest box which we you can play with so you have access to three different visualization tools they allow you to actually visualize the ocean data on maps you will see that there are three different um possibilities the first one is for beginners it's it's called my ocean learn it's a um the globe with only main variables um the second one is an intermediate planer for intermediate users and the third one is may um mostly for um it's called the expert planisphere it's for people who already know a little bit about ocean data but it's very interesting to explore um this one as well and um on the third one you can access to the full catalog with all the products so you have a link between the visualization tools and the data catalog you can have access to the data either by going to the catalog that I showed you um um to the in the beginning or via the visualization tool so it it looks like that so um on the the left um bottom corner bottom left corner you have the beginners tool that uh displays here the salinity so you can see it moving maybe um and um the tool that is displayed on the main page with the temperature is the pro viewer so the expert tool on which you can see the seawater potential temperature and so as I said on this one you can explore the entire catalog um you can have a lot of different features for example you can zoom on the polar view for Arctic and Antarctic uh you can export images or even videos um you can uh export data select geographical area and export data only from this area and uh access to to graphs so it's very powerful and um I think you will have also um found somewhere um I think you will also have a presentation um dedicated on those tools so I will not go uh very much in detail for that and uh I will finish with this so um I presented the main services but um there are more services that can be available for you um so you can have access to all those services by clicking on the um so on the homepage on the service link and as you can see on the right you can have access to um a wide range of different information links to the Copernicus marine service and yeah that's all for me thank you for your attention thank you very much so now we are moving to our next uh speaker i'm going to Cedric Gardon from uh also marketer ocean and he is going to present you user corner and e-learning materials hello Cedric hello hello everybody nice to meet you so I'm Cedric Jordan from Ocean i manage the user support activities among among others and I will uh give you an overview of the user corner section so welcome to the the copus marine service website so at the top top menu there is a user corner entry i click on it and you reach several boxes the first one is getting started so in this uh box you will find a sum up of the offer with the ocean products state report indicators and visualization as presented by or just earlier and an operational path to discover the data and the the services so you can search data visualize download etc with a useful links to uh to reach the the right resource okay sorry i have something to do okay i come back to the the corner the second box is a really important one because clicking on it you will reach the help center so it is really really an important resource because all the details on the of the on the services are available in this section so the the the articles there are more or less 200 articles they are sorted in different collections depending on the the subject so for example you can there is a collection to download the data to visualize the data etc you can search using keywords in the in the search bar here so for if I come back to the if I go to the copenicus marine data download collection I have sub collection as well to getting start and a specific collection about the coparing toolbox it is a tool to download the data so you click on the sub collection and getting started for example and you have article to in installate the install sorry the toolbox to execute table etc so I click for example the for example the installation to read the article with many many information to video or to uh video or text to install the toolbox to use it etc so it is really really an important um an important section the help center the third one is the user notification service so in this uh in this box you will find all the operational events regarding the services and the and the data s sorted in different categories so general improvement incidents and maintenance so I click for example on incidents i have here all uh the the ongoing and past items regarding the incident on the product and service i click on the title and I have here the product impacted and the the status of the incident and we will uh follow up this item to to give the the the information the the most accurate as possible in this section you can subscribe feed and so for example if I select I uh activate some filters and I can make my new my view sorry as anSS field and then it possible to be informed automatically on the incident and maintenance on my product of interest so this uh this service is really useful and so we encourage you to to use it to be informed uh automatically on incident and maintenance come back to the to the corner the next box is the user learning services so here you will you will find a introduction on the the capacity development activity and clicking on explaining here you will reach the a section you you know because we will have the list of all the event regarding the copen service and the copenic essentials and there is as well a jupitter environment here it's it explains you how to create your local Python environment because the Copernicus marine service Jupyter hub is available for a limited two weeks period during a training and then after you will need to create your own local Python environment come back to the other corner the e-learning materials in this section you will find different uh tutorials notebooks etc to uh to uh to use the services and data so you can sort by uh level beginner intermediate or advanced by subject by tool subject notebook video tutorial etc and then you can click on the the box of your box of interest and for example you will find here a tutorial video about the the the terminal align circulation in the article so I let you discover this uh this section only material the next one is about product quality because this section is dedicated to the quality of the product it it is a new one the this SL version uh arrived in last January and you can sort here by area you can sort as well by the color of the uh the ocean blue green and white and the parameter and then over the the area selected you will find several information on the on the temperature etc the variable you have selected and so this so it's important to to discover by yourself uh this uh section so okay it works and you can of course contact the support if you have any any question icon but here the product or not here you will find the different plan changes uh for the for the data product and services here there you have a an infographic to give some clues for the next uh years and clicking on the access information the copus marine catalog and service and releases sorry uh button you will find here more detailed information on the changes will happen during the next releases of the the service so you can sort by dates for example if I want to know info the changes linked to the the last November release I click on it all the the the cards are available here i click on the cards up not this one i look uh this one i have more information a specific product of this five products that that are new since the the last release in a few weeks you will have a new entry here with June 2025 because there is a release planned in June and the information will be displayed here and in the user notification service i go to the user corner get get inspired here you will reach the use case area presented by or later so different examples of the use of the data depending on the country the region the market etc so you just have to click on the on the box selected and you will reach more information of the of the the use case login and register i click on it so to download data you need to be register so the registration is uh totally free and the act the the registration is automatic so you just have to fill in this form register and you will receive an automatic email with your credentials to access the the data the service and commitments so it's just the rules for us and for you to uh to use the data so the the the time we have to to answer a question from users the how to site the products etc so is you will find this kind of information in this uh in this box the next one is I will finish with this one so last one is data in a nutshell so in this section we will find uh different infographic to to give a a sum up of the data and the resolution etc depending on the color of the ocean so this first uh infographic all the the three colors are mixed but you can have different infography by color so I click on the second one for example or not see yes so it is there is a legend on the on the left depending on the color for the for the area uh depending on the square for the resolution etc etc so it's a it's a a new uh method to present the the the offer and the data so it I let you discover this uh this infographic and the last box is how to contact the support so to contact the support so there is here a link to the help center a link to the online tutorials but to contact us do not hesitate at the top right of the of all the the pages of the web page website sorry there is a chatbot i click on it there are four different section home with a link to the center you can ask a question different of on different information the services news here you will find all uh information about the services for example the the the user uptake allies for 2024 information because there is the sement essential training etc etc help here you will uh a new entry to the ad center you can search by by keyword here and the last one is messages so you can ask a question you you will first meet Blue is our AI agent so Blue is directly linked to the ep center so do not hesitate to ask him a question or her question and of course you uh you will always have the possibility to talk to a human so it's important to uh for us to have a feedback on blue and so do not hesitate to uh to challenge it if her and if you don't have uh a good a good answer by blue you can of course direct contact the support and you will uh you will discuss with Leila Resak or Anise so do not hesitate to uh to contact us it's okay for me many thanks thank you sadik so now we are moving to our use case panel discussion and um for for this session we will have uh our two external speakers um I do not see the slides for now but I hope they are ready and um we will have as I said Anna Matulka from Puerto Dist and Ricardo Matuchi from uh National Institute of Shography and Applied Geo Physics and well the first is going to be Anna she's going to present you her work and then we will move to Ricardo and to the panel discussion so hi Anna hello good morning first of all thank you very much can you see my first of all can you see my screen yes yes we can see your screen okay okay so thank you very much for inviting me to this webinar and um so I'm Anna Matulka from Puerto Dest today I will talk about operational autoography in Puerto D uh so uh about me so uh I was studying I I did my PhD in environmental engineering but I have more than 15 years of experience in atmospheric and ocean modeling and currently I am head of um uh division of forecasting systems and prediction at Porto Estado so um first of all I will speak about uh the importance of the marine uh physical environment in Spanish ports as this is extremely uh in in Spain this is extremely active marine environmental at coasts like strong waves tights and sea level rise h imports and winds as well critical in so this is very critical in multiple socioeconomic sectors like fisheries sea safety tourism etc um so this knowledge of the marine environment is essential for port activities as in this uh for this design phase uh for construction phase and exploitation phase so for example for design phase it's very important for basic parameter for instruction design viability budget execution plans security of facility facilities and operational forecast for the construction phase it's very important safety during this construction phase short-term building planning etc and for the explanation phase um so the the the real-time alert system it's used for operation and port closing for piloting environment management water quality oil speed net etc so at Porto Estado we have this real-time observation network which contains 50 15 external boy network which operates since 1996 we have 14 coastal boy network that uh contains 12 from Porto Estado and two from uh ports authorities and that is operates from 198 we have 41 rather type guards uh since uh 1992 four high frequency rads since 2010 and 50 weather stations which includes redmar since 2000 so this data it's in real time it's real time data but as well we have long historical time series since the 90 the 80s for waves for example um and we have the the essential for so those data is essential for alerts for model validation and climate studies and the this this old data it's integrated into copernicus marine service and other programs so in at Puerto de Estado we have this traditional system of operational autoraphography uh so waves we have since 1995 uh sea level since 1998 and for the circulation we use the copronicus data which we I will talk right now so um as for as we work for uh we are basically focused at ports uh so we need to resolve the the big scales so we need to go from the global scales to resolve the the small scale as for the for example the meas structures can influence the exchange of water inside ports or for example atmospheric pressure in Greece can affect sea level in Valencia or the agitation and interior point of port in the Kadambia Sea is conditioned by the waves uh generated in Greenland so for this it's very important to to resolve the the global case to provide service at the ports um so basically so the framework of the development of port operational um starts from uh regional EV data so we we nest our our um coastal and portual uh domains into copernicus into copernicus um uh products uh of 3 k 3 kilometers and we go through 350 mters of coastal domains till uh around 70 mters of port um domains and and uh so um the Samo so we have this project that was in Samo Samoa initiative which was um the the mological and support service for port authorities um it it's uh this uh this initi this this initiative um uh is based on um on a on a copernicus data which um which we used to to provide for uh coastal and ports uh domains and um during this project we we we I don't know how to explain we we we provided this new tools and services for the ports so for example like uh uh T TMA that is environmental dashboard that is operate uh operation in 44 ports of Spain uh as well oil spill model or overflows model circulation for atmosphere wind 200 m and 50 m atmospheric dispersion and the long wave or agitation and as well operational risk the risk atlas at operational areas of interest erh and all this all this data that we that we produce because so we predict data for um we we run um so we produce the data for 74 hours and all this data uh we we um we save in the database and then we share to the users so um this data it's the real-time data collection analysis and prediction monitoring and quality control we have this add value therapies that alerts and tools to meet the needs of the general public so we have this uh website of Puerto R that daily sh so so this is the map that we daily share uh data there and it's in real time and for predictions and then normally we have like 8 8,000 daily users we have as well the mobile applications for Apple and for Google and it's as well real-time data and predictions we have as well this uh very po very very potent uh uh porttocopia service that you can massive download data of model outputs C level HF rider data and so on and as well we have this environment and dashboard to support daily operation that is called CMA that is quadromedia uh and uh there you can use this data but you need to register because we we want to know who access the data But it's really it's for free it's easy to register and um then you can you can um choose what you want to see which ports you want to uh to check and what uh data you want to what alert you want to receive and uh and that's all thank you very much for attention thank you Anna so now we are moving to Ricardo and his brief presentation hello everyone uh do you see my screen yes I do see your screen so um thank you and my name is Ricardo Martelluchi and my research focuses on the interaction between physical and biogechemical processes today I will share with you uh some insight from my recent research uh dealing with the atom demonstration experiment uh that involved two autonomous surface vehicle from sail drone that traveled from the eastern tropical Atlantic to the Adriatic Sea as you can see in this map here the mission starts in the Calerie Island and crossed these tropical at North Atlantic section and moving to the Mediterranean contouring different water masses and superimposed here there is a layer of salinity retrieved by the Copernicus marine services and here you can see uh the variability for this measure was too high um and these we encountered some issue during this experiment we also take the opportunity to use data from uh ship survey uh ocean glider and um fixed station from different research institute uh from European community and then we also use the um argo data uh this is some of the institution involved in the research and um we observe during this 9-month mission a strong sensor degradation and also the mission occurred between 2019 and 2020 so um we have during the period of the covid-19 restriction so we we are we were not able to um take sample of the in the water um to validate and correct the especially the biogeemical data um uh so uh we decided to use the Copernicus marine services product to understand the variability and relate our data to the model output uh in particular we use physical product as the Mediterranean high resolution and the ultra resolution analysis and forecast uh for the period of mission as well as satellite product for temperature and chlorophyll that uh we use to correct the salinity data here are the time series in which you can see the the the red line represent the original row data of the sail drone this is the sail drone and this is um especially in the after the January 2020 we observe a strong degradation the different line represent um the catetology that also belong to coernigos inc data and the um copernigos marine services model the chan line and our data are outside the range of that we observed um and uh we we try to found some uh incit data to correct the the the data but we are not very lucky uh considering the distribution so we decided to take the um physical model uh to correct this data um we do this because we we are certain that the copernigos model that are um able to be corrected through instead of measurement measurement can be very useful because we can um consider every day as sampling measurement for the comparison uh we apply a direct comparison and the result is is this as you can see the the red line are in line with the uh observation and the data from fix station that we use in um during the experiment so for the salinity disease was a really success also we publish our um work in the earth system science data um uh scientific journal I mean to collect scientific data from different source and also we are preparing the uh the the paper dealing with the CO2 and processes that we observe in this experiment experiment so uh thank you if you have a question I'm here for you that's all thank you Ricardo so now we move to panel discussion um yes Anna and Ricardo so uh we're going to have um questions uh there are three questions that we prepared for our speakers and well I'm going to I'm going to ask them and we're going to answer one uh um one by one um do you want to have slides probably like questions shown on our on a screen so it's more convenient for everyone to see um do you see the the question do you see the screen yes weirdo yeah okay great so first question is uh since you come from different institutions do you see differences in how caparin data is used in your respective fields so who wants to start i can start okay great so yes I can see the differences as as for example in my in my case we work for the predictions you we predict the ocean and so as well so the data is used for like for public safety or environmental protection and policy making or whatever but for example in Ricardo case in the in so it's more like studying and understanding the ocean and uh so like it's more more theory so so this is like my opinion that the differences between what we do here at Puerto Rada and what Ricardo do from if I my idea is that uh the the ocean system is really complex and to understand the processes occurring in the ocean we need to observe these like the scientific methods propose um in some case the it's obviously that the best way to observe the ocean is in CTO measurement that high quality of initial measurement with high resolution with in both in spatial and in temporal but the measurement are have high cost and are also very difficult to obtain as the the ocean is very deep the pressure is high and um at least but not last the ocean is salty and this produce an difficult for the oceanographer to obtain the data in the last 50 years the oceanographic community developed a lot of instrument to observe the ocean but the resolution that we are looking for is not too high because we can't develop all we want in the ocean and also we have to consider the impact in term of pollution because oceanographic crew is produce a lot of pollution during the activities we overcome this issue using autonomous instrumentation but we can um uh put all we want in the ocean and the numerical model are extremely useful because they take the data and they have written following the physical equation that are true and are valid in that specific case so we can take the data to study the process we take all the data to take an holistic approach using all available method then we need obviously to compare the different data source to obtain a coherent data set i have worked much on this i have used different data source um in study the coastal plankton bloom or study the um coal processes or open ocean processes and the use of model are extremely useful because as the model take the data to make um to to increase the performance of the model um we can be sure after after a test statistical test obviously that we are a big data set with which we can um understand better the processes and have a better representation of this in term of variability and so on it's clear that at the moment the model can resolve the the microscale the meos scale and if you are able to take the model of copernicus and built on this your own model with high resolution you can also resolve the the super mess scale and these are extremely useful considering that now the science are moving to the small scale to understand the small scale processes and the impact on large scale circulation as something else okay thank you that was a very formal response i think we can move to the next question so second question is have you encountered any challenges in using apparent marine data and if yes how did you overcome them so yeah I can start as well so I will share the the screen um one second yeah so yeah we had uh so so we had an issue whenever uh there was this uh to download the data from capernicus uh we use the mar copernicus marin toolbox but this is the new marine toolbox before we were using we were using different ways it was the motto client so uh whenever the marin toolbox arrived we we we installed this and everything seems to work very good because we have a lot of domains but from um from like months months after the installing the the toolbox we had this issue so as you can see here the maps this is the the domain of uh of asteroid of Ghiblar where where we we after some some some weeks of of of new data when we started to download so we we found out that from from Atlantic uh there was you know this cold um front coming into the straight and uh and it was so the the data the data was wrong because there was the drop of of um of the temperature of uh of the straight was very very high it was like 10 degrees of difference so we didn't know what was the problem first of all we thought obviously we thought yes it has to be uh connected with copernicus uh with the copernicus toolbox but we we did we couldn't understand why all the because we have like um I don't know 70 domains in Spain h so it didn't affect like different domains only in that one so we start of course the other ones are some of us as I spoke about about them before but this one is the sampa this is the one um one project before so in that case here the how the interp how the interpolation of the data is it's not dynamic like in the other ones so we found out speaking with the with the copernicus uh service desk and with with lollia that there was uh like a problem with um how how the data is how the data it's it's interpreting so for so for example before when we were taking the model so the request was was getting inside and after after with the new uh with the new toolbox uh so the the the the request that we asking for it was like displaced so this this was very interesting because we had some weeks of really re really working with working on that to find out what was what what happened and has to fix it so the basically uh the the help from coperninko service desk uh was very useful and we we found out that so for this model we always have to keep um like to check if there's there's no um like differences in data because we have another issue as well with the with the same with the same uh uh domain in in September I think last year so there was the change in the marine data in the we we using the EB data so from the Iberian Biske island and there was this issue that they they changed some latitude and longitude and that was again the same problem so so so yeah we had this two issue quite big issues but we solved them and right now everything is working correctly so thank you okay great thank you ricardo you have something to add something to say share uh you're muted Ricardo sorry you're muted we don't hear you i'm sorry i'm sorry so it's good um in my in my own case um I take the data directly from Copernicus retrieving CDF format uh but I I'm and uh in some case I have some problem in download but the help desk service of of coernagus helping me too much also trying to overcome the difficulties we we we I I encountering during the my um my work in um what I can see is that the the it's really simple to obtain the data and also there are all of the document related to the quality information especially from the model from the satellite which you can observe the uncertainties of the data that this is really useful if you want to study and make a process study or something like that however in general I can say that the copernicle service is incredible I started with my ocean services most time long time ago and um now the copernicus became very user friendly in this case okay great thank you uh well the next question the last question for our panel discussion so what advice would you give to someone new uh about using caparas marine data can I start again or Yeah of course sure uh okay so well uh I think the new users that they can maybe start to understand the basic of the ocean and coastal dynamics and then familiarize themsel with um copernicus data like to see what data you have uh later how to download because as as Ricardo said yes you can obviously download directly the net cdfs from from copernigos that it's the original data in our case it's easier to download with the marin toolbox because So because we we choose the domains we have different domains and make this automatic so in our case it's um it's easier to use the toolbox because it's everything automatic so this is depends on what people wants to do like if they want to study maybe it's easier to download original data but maybe if you do some operational forecast so maybe it's better to use the toolbox and uh in general uh I think to maybe learn a little bit about the service that you have and use all the uh information and and um that you have on because it's very very good um documentation so so I think from my part is that okay thank you Ricardo okay if I adise someone to start using this data I want to um that he or she will be sure that the data are coming from different source like satellite like model output and in C2 data and uh before you use this data you have to make um statistical analysis comparison uh in term of analysis for coherence between the different data u after doing this you can match all the data from different source this is really important to do and um that's all okay thank you yes just Cedric yes just to add something if you are new with the copus marine service that I'm product so it could be really useful to uh to have a look around the web center as I told before many many are many many information are available and of course the support team is available to answer your question and to to help to uh to handle that and services okay thank you for your input um that was all for the panel discussion and now uh there's time for Q&A session so uh we have uh we received a lot of uh questions in uh in Slido and um as well uh we will have a opportunity to give you uh give you a floor for you to you our participants to speak if someone wants to so um guy you want to add something or uh yeah no we will start with the the people who raise their hand for the questions and then we will move on to the Q&A session on on slide with the written question so okay so I hope this will work we didn't try that before okay so now uh Victor I don't know how to pronounce your name i think you should be able to talk if you wish to hello we can hear a background noise but we can't hear you for now i'm not sure we can hear you yeah it's okay okay yeah i was just wanting to know the delay between the from the data sets either from the assimilation or the reanalysis what is the time delay from getting the data from the actual data himself okay so I think it would be more question for all of Celic yes so you can have access to different products you can have access to um multi-air products um before um uh two years um before um actual day and then for the real time um it can be uh up to 10 days in the future um and uh there is there can be an overlap between the near real time and the uh multi-year data set so you can have a continuous um data if you need um but I was not sure to maybe I didn't answer your question sorry but yes yeah that that leads also to another question which is when you have forecast products right some of them will have overlapping uh dates right is it do you store the historical forecasts as well and we can access each of the forecasts as well or I can the the all forecasts are not available in the in the catalog but you can contact the support and uh on our side we will contact the producer to to give you an access to this all forecast if they're available because it's not the case for all the the products but in this in this case in situation you can contact us at the support to to ask I would love I will have access all for this product etc and we will put you in contact with the in the so in in the assimulation products right only uh even on the marine uh what is the time delay between the the actual the data from the data sources and then uh make him available on the server either to download or to visualize it depends on the product in fact you can have this information you can in the for each product there is there are different uh documents there is a quality information document regarding the quality of the product and the product user manual and in this last document you will uh you will have the the time of availability of the product and the information it's not the case for all product maybe the information to the you need about the the uh the delay between the production and the availability in the catalog but this this information could be in the product user manual okay thank you so thanks a lot uh Victor for your present for your question sorry so we will go to someone else if that's okay with you okay okay so next question okay so now it should be Leandro you should be able to talk if you turn on your microphone you mute you're muted yes hello everyone hi you Hi hi you can listen me yeah we can hear you uh thank you uh I don't have a question but I needed something is to Ricardo i search here and see something in your presentation but I don't see your email i want your email to talk with you in the office because I have a many project or something to work with you if it's possible please you can let your email here maybe next time or another I will call you yeah you can find my name on Google Scholar and you found my the my research and then my email or you can go through the the [Music] the the journal I have shared with you and then you can find my email otherwise my email is marti at ogspto it all right thank you thank you that you are open for any project or opportunity oh let me here show myself i am Leandro i'm oceanography degree i'm from Mozambique Africa so I studying something about hidography but that is that project is still I have a problem in this project but I need your help to suggest something so I put the link of Ricardo paper on the chat along with the email address if you want to to have a look and contact him later with your question if you want all right thank you for the attention welcome okay so we go to uh another question okay so now uh it's to turn to Niji Gopal i don't know i think we can hear you yeah can you hear me yeah we can hear you yeah i have one question and what are the key insights from the state of the ocean report that that engineers and scientists can benefit from and my question for Rory ma'am is can information on ocean elooms and phytolanon be incorporated into the state of the ocean report hey hello um so yes from the ocean state report I didn't really go into the details but um for sure you have uh access to Sicardo you wanted to Yes I wanted to know because I participated to the last Ocean State okay so maybe you will be the best person to answer that oh in in that case the ocean state reports is is a shi is a collection of scientific paper dealing with the specific event related to the specific year on to produce some indicator useful for the oceanography community to understand better the ocean processes every year there is a call which you can participate and build your paper considering the the rules of the ocean state report so for the next year maybe uh at the end of January there will be a new call for the 11 ocean the number 11 uh issue of ocean state report and you can be your own research using copernus data and other product okay okay thank you for answering one more question for Cedric sir what are the other parameters are measured besides those listed in the incident and maintenance section such as microalg bloom concentration excuse me yes sorry um not sure to correctly are you looking for microal data like phytolanton or something like that because cop in copernicus you can find output of numerical model dealing with phytolanton and also satellite um measurement and within the satellite produ product product you can also explore the different phytolanton classes that that with which you can refer to a specific class of phytolant and with the model output you can also have information about the vertical extension of this data through the use of um a sample argo data from institut data you can download the data from chlorophyll that is a proxy of the phytolanton and also there is some algorithm useful to convert the chlorophyll florian sard in the um chlorophyll data if you don't have any sample but in that way you can find all the information related to the phytolanton in coernicles and try to find your own way of research okay okay thank you so much for answering thank you and so we will try another person uh okay so so now uh it's for Elis Le you should be able to speak if you wish to ask your question directly how you hear me yeah we can hear you okay thank you for this opportunity my name is Elisa i'm from Ginisa West Africa i'm a master student um I just want to ask a question to our speakers uh consider that copernicles is just for is a a European um marine organization um my question is this um the variable of data set that we saw on the platform is it available for like all of countries in Africa because uh we are talking about the satellite measurement and in C2 also measurements and for the C2 I would like to ask if you have some some props or machine that you you already install in Africans marine sites or somewhere have so that could be use it in case someone want to do the research i guess maybe you can answer that yes I I will try and answer that so um so the first thing is all Copernicus marine data is accessible to everyone in every country um free and open for everyone absolutely everyone and then um about the institute platforms and data you if you go on theus marine website you will have access to um for example in the visualization tool or in if you browse in the catalog of products you will see um the institu um uh instruments in a map and you can choose your ge geographical area and you can ch you can choose the data from where you want basically so uh you can zoom in um each region of the world and there are um instruments um all over the world maybe less in some parts but you you can be able to choose uh the region you you want to and have access to everything i hope it answers your your questions yeah I I made this question because uh because of many of time it's a big challenges for us in Africa to get some um some diets if you if we want to analyze some variables like the phytolantons um I'm talking about my country um it's very deficient so this is why I made this question if that is available So it's a great happiness to us uh and um thank you for I have no question anymore thanks a lot for your question so okay thanks uh so we have a few ends still okay so let me go to the next person so normally Marco you should be able to speak now also if you have a question um I don't know if you're speaking but you're still mute so for now we can't hear you okay well we can go to to someone else maybe the person isn't in front of the of the screen uh okay so uh Okay so now uh it will be the turn of Muhammed i don't know if you can join us to ask your question so you're not mute anymore but we can't hear you for now okay doesn't seem I don't think it's working on your side or on our side i don't know if someone can hear him but not me okay so yeah if you have a question you can put it on the chat on the link we send to you and we will answer it just after but okay so uh okay so uh we will stop there with the question with the raise your end function and we will go to the usual uh question part we have with the slide door so thanks again to everyone who raised their hand and yeah we'll go to the next part of the Q&A session okay so the question should be there in a few moment okay and I will leave the floor to to Daria to moderate this part thank you so uh the first question is my question is to Ricardo about how well and accurate the sea gliders give their output uh sorry consider the vastness and strong ocean currents yes sure this can be messy during measurement i operated in the Ross Sea in the Antarctica and in the Mediterranean Sea during the strong convection event and uh yes it's really difficult to pilot the glider in this condition uh especially because the glider are like um like doesn't have join so you have to choose correctly the pathways of the current and in specific case you are to sail through the current to reach a specific point uh obviously the glider measurement are really difficult to obtain it's cost expensive and it's very difficult also to um uh make a quality control of the data however um the glider I use the C glider and the Zlum glider are extremely powerful in avoiding strong current but uh if you are going to sample an area with 1 m/s current maybe you have to be really alert because uh you can the glider can't move through the ocean you have to found different pathways route to achieve your goal of measurement okay thank you uh let's you have something to add no no no not at all okay great uh so we mark it as answered and that's a question to Anna uh so well actually two questions so first is what wave model do use to model agitation site boards and are they well a high frequency rather as I assume significant high data reliable and yes hello the wave model that we use in the model agitation well first of all we use the one model in the regional in more regional part in the coastal then we pass through swan and in agitation model we have this agitation Samoa model so but it's based on this one model and are the H product specific high data reliable um I did that that's that question it's I am not sure to answer that one u yeah I guess well you're not the provider of his data exactly exactly exactly well well we I we have this people person that works with HF data but it's not that I can answer that okay thank you um next question is I assume to it's for Ricardo also who operates autonomous uh vessels and have they undergone any training and is there training available for that for me to train so if you are referring to the vessel used in the experiment they are sail drone sel is a private company of United States and they we we as for the glider we can pilot it we can follow the track and decided the point which uh we we have to go during the mission and as the sale drone is a private company you can send an email with them and try to uh work with them but not in Mediterranean because this is a USA corporate then uh for other autonomous you can uh make course and uh master and something like that but for me the best way to uh training is the experience and the file activity in the ocean okay thank you uh next question is well also for you is could you provide more details on sensor degradation so um in uh every measurement made with sensor uh can have degradation in term of uh drift of the sensor so you start measures now and end after one year and you can observe a drift like a decrease or increase that not follow the like natural evolution of the variable um in the specifically um you have to consider that degradation can be due to the effect male of the bofouling uh the bofouling are a natural evolution of the colonization of the organisms in marine environment and in few time especially in coastal ocean these uh can grow um and um your measurement are really affect with this in this particular emission we have to stop for one weeks because the bofooling was incredible in the whole of the of the of the ship of the town was ship and can be sailing no more after cleaning the sail drone start to sail in okay but the degradation of the sensor the correction of the sensor are like um a research a really strong research topic in considering all the inc2 measurement we have especially with the argo data and the longlasting measurement like ming and coastal station uh to do this there are some um tools that can be installed on the sensor like in copper they provide like um barrier on the on the on the sensor however the best way is go to your station and clean the sensor and after doing this you are sure that you do not have any bofulling growth however if you are going to autonomous instrument that are measured in the open ocean um are more difficult and there are 20 years of research dealing with especially with the argo float and you can read uh a lot of paper uh I can suggest uh one of bit dealing every bing dealing the oxygen correction and the oxygen problem in the ocean to have an idea about this problem thank you thank you um next question is for Anna uh is there any expected product tackling the shipping traffic derived pollution in Spanish ports and if not do you think a service could help in that well as I'm working on ocean predictions and it's basically about physical um physical stuff so I am not sure maybe there is some shipping traffic in the river pollution in Spanish but it's not mine part of work and maybe the copus will have but really I can't can't answer that question okay yeah thank you um next question is for both of you um can comparing C surface currents be used to validate estimated currents or should I rely on institute measurements for accurate validation well I think that the the best would be the to compare both using the C surface currents from copernicus and then as well in situ measurements so this is what we what we've done in our case we always validate our model with with another of models and as well with the institute data to be sure that it's work correctly ricardo you have something to to add yes um I think that you you have to understand what you want to find because the the coernigos has different product like a geostrophic current or current geostrophic is the the the current obtained through the temperature and salinity data and for art in that way you have a specific resolution to study the mess scale and you have the considering the resolution of the satellite but we have also the model and with the model you can uh go through the data and understand maybe better the pathways of the current if you are in the open ocean or if you are in the coastal environment this can be really different and uh but it's okay okay thank you maybe um yeah sorry you have something to add no no no i have just read the the the the question okay sorry uh so the next question um I think it's more it's more to mar ocean international maybe in the past because data was not reliable at the coastal level there was a lot of emptiness and have updates made it possible to answer this problem that's because I have published a paper on the coastal sea using copernicus data um in which we compare the data from tempered doselini and chlorophyll a with the model dat satellite output and we observe a strong correlation with temperature moderate with the salinity and not bad with the chlorophyll then applying EF analysis we are able to understand the temporal variability and term of explanate variance um and we observe a good agreement between the models it's obviously that the the the the considering the biochemical product there are some issue related with the coastal ocean because the the model doesn't have any river output or the really runoff data but have an estimation of it and also with this um considering the chlorophyll and the chlorots like the fidlan we are able to understand the temporal variability of the seasonal cycle of the phytolanton we have some issue with the absolute values comparing data between uh chlorophyll obtained from the probe and from the model but the result are very good and we are able to understand the bloom dynamics in a coastal site both using incitu data and numerical model okay thank you is there anything to add this question okay so we can say that it's good [Music] um so that's a question for Ricardo uh what statistical tool is best to analyze different sets of products in your case which one is for you the most often used um so in term of statistical tools there are a lot of metrics to compare the data uh like direct comparison uh like uh mean square error and something like that now you have to consider what you want to do with your data if you want to study a process uh you have to be sure that the variability from the INC2 data so the real data are in line with the variability observed for the uh model output data because this is is the case comparing model output within C2 data um I think that using if you if your data are comparable in term of some statistical advanced analysis so if you have a longtime series with your data you can compare it through the use of eof perical function to understand the um explained variance so as one of the uh mod the variability can be represented by the model uh however if you don't have you have a single point data you can do this this analysis but you can compare in term of absolute values make like a linear regression or very simple analysis in in this in my opinion there is one um best tools to do this you have to decide it based on your data okay thank Thank you uh next question is for Anna uh in your slide for oceanographic database of Puerto uh using real-time data collection is there any limitation to access the data from Capernicus no there is no any limitation to access the data but um if you need anything some that it's not there you can contact directly Portost because we have this team that it works with institute data and it's as well depends on which kind of data do you want but I think there's no limitation um at Copernicus okay thank you no indeed u no limitation you can learn all the data you want you need you wish there's no limitation okay great thank you Cedric uh next question back to the pollution question does anyone from Capernus know of reliable resources for monitoring ocean uh oceanic pollution not plastic i don't know for who this question might be yeah okay can you hear me well yeah so uh again if you browse into the catalog you can have access to um uh mainly in the green ocean um to um to some data uh about the the pollution but I would like to also remind that um for all the question about the catalog and the data itself there will be a specific session in two weeks uh I think um uh about the exploration of the catalog itself so maybe this question will be also answered because today we didn't really enter into the data itself we presented the services so maybe it will be interesting to um to listen to the next session of this webinar for the people who have specific questions um about the the different variables in data okay thank you um next question for everyone I assume to Ricardo and Anna in particular would you guys say that there is a need for more oceanographic bios to be deployed in Mediterranean basin yes of course there is always a need to to add more boys because we we have fork in the coastal but it's in all Spain so of course there's a need to to have more but it's not so easy because they are quite expensive we are searching for for for new kind of voice but as well it's not that I'm working I have my colleague working uh wi with boys and that so yeah obviously there is a need you have also for me also for me but you have to consider the cost of the structure because the cost are very high if you are sample a surface you have you need only one measurement for each variable but you have if you are measure entire column you need more point in between the surface and the ocean floor this is is very difficult and also you have to make a maintenance of this data you have to have a server to store the data so it's very difficult to have a lot of this they can be really useful in term of understanding the change of the climate or something like that but these imply a very high cost and you have to consider this because uh we don't have a lot of money in research and you have to make decision and choose to decide which place is better to monitor and with this we can use the model output to provide an idea of the variability of the specific location as we do not we do not have any um measurement station here okay thank you um next question is for for Anna um does your team use machine learning or deep learning models for forecasts if so could you share which models and the data they are trained on no we don't we don't use any machine learning or deep learning models for focus but we are very interesting we are in fact looking into make some training to and later to to to learn and try to do it so yes it's something that we are this is our future thing that we want to do okay thank you um next question how does capernos ensure data accuracy and reliability for aquaculture and fisheries parameters for example sea surface temperature and currents i guess that's for Aurora and to answer that so um about data accuracy and re reliability in general for each uh product and each parameter that is displayed in copanics marine there is a specific document called the quality information document in which you can find all the steps and uh how we validate the data uh so it's very um technical document in which you can find a very um how it's validated is each uh each variable and also you can have access to what we call the product quality dashboard available in the website as well um about data quality so I think you will find what you what you need okay thank you um next question is also for user support mostly can the data be accessed through API uh yes I share my screen to uh to show you the article in the the app center through the cop articles toolbox API you can subset the data you need and so I encourage you to to follow all the the information available in the article you have a video at the at the beginning and so the the answer is yes you can access through the app an okay great thank you um we still have u one minute for next question um uh let's see maybe uh maybe this one [Music] um in this scale AI is implemented inside the process of collecting data so maybe um also for Auror or Cedric if to be honest um I don't know what at what level the AI is used by the producers to to to collect or produce the data so unfortunate I couldn't answer the question i think it it depends of course on the products and on the producers um because um variables and parameters accessible in copus comes from very different uh production centers and a lot of different institutions and I know that some of them are starting to use AI uh to improve uh some models for example and so on but uh we we can't have a very specific view on this today mhm okay thank you so um we still have many questions uh but we don't have unfortunately time to to respond on all of them uh so but yeah do you do not worry because we will uh collect all these uh all these questions we will um uh have answers to them from our speakers today and it will be uh provided to you on the website of the webinar as well so for that we conclude our our Q&A session thank you everyone for participating thank you for speakers to have answers and of course to you participants to be active and asking asking all those questions um think we can move to closing of this session with some uh additional words um I think I do not see the slides yet um because we have um ah yes okay slides are yes uh cuz you as I said we have um on the website of this webinar this event you can access all the information from this webinar for example you have um Q&A in which you will find polls uh and surveys to answer so uh please uh if you did not do that yet you can go and uh go there and uh respond it will help us to understand also your your needs for such events in the future uh there also replace a tab for replace so everything what's being said today is uh recorded so you can rewatch it again uh if you need to and um also there's some information about certificate of attendance and as I said as well there's going to be uh later are going to be answers to the questions that uh uh yeah that haven't been answered right now during the Q&A session and for the last point uh yes we would like to invite you for the next session so it's second session of this webinar series uh which is um uh focused on access marine data it's going to uh take place on 15th of April also at 10:00 a.m and um as we saw today uh we saw introduction to caper service uh to the tools uh to materials uh and of course uh we had use cases of our speakers and access marine data uh webinar will be more um uh we'll look more in depth of uh tools that you can use like uh viewer and uh and how to access data how to download it and of course we We also have um speakers external speakers who will present their work uh using capern service data so yeah save a date we are waiting for you and on that uh guy you want to add something or um no we are we are all good thanks everyone for joining us and see you in two weeks time have a nice day thank you very much for Bye-bye bye bye bye bye bye bye see you bye-bye