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-====== ECOOP Task 2.5 - Pan-European River Data ======
-//A wiki for the ECOOP Task 2.5 partners, hosted by met.no.//
-**Partners and contact persons**:
-  * met.no (Task lead): Bruce Hackett  (Bruce.Hackett@met.no)
-  * RIKZ:  Kees Borst (J.C.Borst@rikz.rws.minvenw.nl)
-  * SMHI: Lennart Funkquist (Lennart.Funkquist@smhi.se)
-  * AZTI: Yolanda Sagarminaga (ysagarminaga@pas.azti.es)
-  * MHI: Eugeny Lemeshko (emlem@optima.com.ua)
-  * BSH: Kai Soetje (kai.soetje@bsh.de)
-===== News =====
-  * 15.10.2007: **[[start:s2.5.1:actions|Action lists]]** updated!
-===== Documents =====
-===== Subtasks =====
-  * [[start:S2.5.1| Subtask S2.5.1 Assessment of existing river run-off data]]
-  * [[start:S2.5.2|Subtask S2.5.2 Interfacing to ECOOP Data Management System]]
-  * [[start:S2.5.3|Subtask S2.5.3 Implementation of initial data sets in ECOOP Data Management System]]
-===== Activity description (Annex I 6.1) =====
-**T2.5 - Establish a pan-EU data base for river run-off**
-Hackett Bruce (MET-NO) - AZTI-Tecnalia, BSH, MET-NO, MHI, RIKZ, SMHI
-**Objectives**: Establish a framework for integrating and harmonising observations of river runoff to
-the European coastal seas and providing them to coastal and shelf seas monitoring and forecasting
-services.
-**Description**: This Task will facilitate access to runoff data for use in the ECOOP observing and
-forecasting system. The activities are: identifying the relevant data sources and their providers
-(catalogue), establishing effective methods for getting data from the providers to the ECOOP users
-and putting into effect actual data streams for the major sources. This work is necessary for ECOOP
-because fresh water fluxes to the coastal seas, and the accompanying nutrient and pollutant loads,
-are important for accurate monitoring and forecasting the coastal zone ecosystem, pollutant fate as
-well as for coastal flood management. Observing systems are fragmented, even within nations, and
-the data are difficult to access, especially in near-real-time (NRT). Efforts towards integrating
-observations have been mainly focused on hydrology and river flooding, not coastal monitoring.
-Consequently, predictive coastal ocean models usually rely on simple approximations of river
-runoff, such as climatologies. Integration is necessary since fresh water effects on the coastal seas
-are intrinsically trans-boundary.
-Given the fragmented state of the European river observing system, this task will work through the
-five EuroGOOS regional associations: BOOS, NOOS, IBI-ROOS, MedGOOS and Black Sea
-GOOS. It will be most efficient to exploit the national contact networks represented by the
-association memberships. The task team therefore includes a key member from each regional
-association plus a task leader. Each regional partner will liaise closely with their association
-membership in carrying out the Work. This will ensure that the resulting data provision system is
-properly tuned to the needs of the regional users and that it will optimally benefit those users. This
-approach builds on early initiatives within some of the associations, e.g., a project with similar
-objectives has been started in NOOS as a "best endeavours" activity. The Task will cover both
-archived and on-line data, volume flux, nutrient and pollutant loads, but the focus will be on
-implementing a NRT data access to fresh water volume flux, since this is the basic time-critical data
-stream.