Mersea Oil Spill Demonstrations

News and updates

13.09.2007: Initial version of wiki. Sample data files uploaded. (BH, met.no)

17.09.2007: kml and kmz files may now be uploaded directly to this wiki. (BH, met.no)

18.09.2007: 3 drifters deployed off southern coast of Cyprus at 2000Z 17.09.2007. Deployment sites

What is this?

This wiki is a meeting place for project participants and selected outside parties involved in the Mersea marine oil spill fate prediction demonstration activities in the Mersea Integrated Project (WorkPackage 12.3). It is hosted and maintained by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no).

How to use the wiki? Look here

What's it for?

The main purpose of this wiki is to exchange and disseminate information and data from the various demonstration experiments performed in the Fall of 2007. These demonstrations are carried out as part of WorkPackage 12.3 of the Mersea Integrated Project. The purpose of the demonstrations is to show the benefits of using Mersea ocean forecast data in an important maritime security application, in this case oil spill fate forecasting.

Who is involved?

Oil spill forecast service providers:

Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no): lead partner in Mersea WP12.3

Oceanography Centre,University of Cyprus(OC-UCY): partner in Mersea WP12.3

MeteoFrance (MF): partner in Mersea WP12.3

Ifremer: partner in Mersea WP12.3

Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS): associated forecast provider

Users of oil spill forecasts:

Cedre:

Norwegian Coastal Authority (KV)

Norwegian Clean Seas Association of Offshore Operators (NOFO)

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

Documents

DEMO Eastern Mediterranean

Overview

Demonstration type: Drifter deployment for forecast validation

Start: Drifter deployment from 17 September 2007

Lead: OC-UCY

Contact: George Zodiatis (gzodiac@ucy.ac.cy)

Summary: OC-UCY will deploy surface drifters to emulate a surface oil spill in the Eastern Mediterranean south of Cyprus beginning 17 September 2007. Satellite tracking of drift positions 2-3 weeks. Perform oil spill simulations to forecast the fate of the “oil spill”. Each participant will supply oil spill forecast data and/or graphical results directly to the users or to OC-UCY. Results from all partners will be converted to a common format and presented in a common graphical tool, e.g., GoogleEarth. The forecast results will be analyzed against the observed drifter tracks and reported.

Drifters deployed 20:00Z 17.09.2007. Deployment sites

Data sets

The following subsections contain links to data files that have been uploaded by providers. They may be downloaded by users by clicking on the link buttons (if you're not sure how, refer to wiki instructions).

The file names should follow a naming convention: Producer-Model/Obstype-Area-CreationDate-SeriesNumber.ext

Please check the Note on GoogleEarth-friendly files

Drifter observations

Data from Cyprus Oceanography Centre

ocucy-drifters-0709172300-0709191009.kmz (drifters)

Drift forecasts

Data from met.no

OBS! Loading met.no kml/kmz files into GoogleEarth may take a minute or more, depending on your system and network connection.

metno-od3d-nsea-110907-1.kml.zip (sample data set)

metno-od3d-nsea-110907-1.kmz (sample data set, North Sea, test of kmz upload)

Data from MeteoFrance

mf-mothy-200709172300-ecmwf2007091900-mercator20070912-drifter_N.kmz (first drift, mothy, ecmwf, mercator, heavy crude oil)

mf-mothy-200709172300-ecmwf2007091900-mercator20070912-drifter_M.kmz (second drift, mothy, ecmwf, mercator, heavy crude oil)

mf-mothy-200709172300-ecmwf2007091900-mercator20070912-drifter_S.kmz (third drift, mothy, ecmwf, mercator, heavy crude oil)

Data from Cyprus Oceanography Centre

ocucy-medslik-oilspil3-0709172300-0709191100.kmz (oil spill for the third drift)

DEMO Western Mediterranean

Overview

Demonstration type: Drifter deployment for forecast validation

Start: Drifter deployment from 7 October 2007

Lead: met.no

Contact: Bruce Hackett (Bruce.Hackett@met.no), Francois Parthiot (Francois.Parthiot@le-cedre.fr)

Summary: Cedre will deploy oil monitoring buoys to emulate a surface oil spill in the Western Mediterranean south of Nice starting 7 or 8 October 2007. Perform oil spill simulations to forecast the fate of the “oil spill”. Each participant will supply oil spill forecast data and/or graphical results directly to the users or to Cedre. Results from all partners will be converted to a common format and presented in a common graphical tool, e.g., GoogleEarth. The forecast results will be analyzed against the observed drifter tracks and reported.

Data sets

The following subsections contain links to data files that have been uploaded by providers. They may be downloaded by users by clicking on the link buttons (if you're not sure how, refer to wiki instructions).

The file names should follow a naming convention: Producer-Model/Obstype-Area-CreationDate-SeriesNumber.ext

Please check the Note on GoogleEarth-friendly files

Drifter observations

Drift forecasts

Data from MeteoFrance

Data from met.no

OBS! Loading met.no kml/kmz files into GoogleEarth may take a minute or more, depending on your system and network connection.