Euro-Argo highlights and plans - EuroGOOS General Assembly 7-8 September 2020

Euro-Argo highlights and plans
EuroGOOS General Assembly
7-8 September 2020

The Euro-Argo Research Infrastructure

Objective : To coordinate and sustain the European contribution to the global Argo
network (1/4 of the network)
       The Euro-Argo ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) was created in May 2014
       In 2018, the ERIC involves 13 countries: 11 members, 1 observer and 1 candidate
       Euro-Argo is a Landmark in the ESFRI 2018 roadmap

                                                                                     August 2020: 22% of the global network

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Euro-Argo contribution to the network

• Importance of EU contribution in the recent years (E-aims, MOCCA, AtlantOS, Euro-Argo-RISE, EuroSea)
• Contributions from new countries (Bulgaria, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland )
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Euro-Argo deployments per float type

• The European manufacturer became one of the 2 main providers of Argo floats
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Euro-Argo performance

• Life expectancy of European fleet improved in the past years thanks to improvement in
  technology and services set up at the Euro-Argo level to test floats before deployment
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Euro-Argo and Users

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5 Year Evaluation 2014-2019

• Performed by the Scientifical and Technical
  Advisory Group
• 5 year report and plan approved by the Council
• Euro-Argo ERIC continue to be hosted by
  Ifremer/Brest

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Main achievements over the last 5 years

• ERIC membership extended from 9 (FI, FR, DE, GR, IT, NE,
  NO, PO, UK) to 12 countries (IR, SP, BG)
• European contribution increased from 17% to 22% of the
  global network
   Next challenge is sustainability of network and development of the
    extension to new missions

• Development of a European community in Argo
   Better visibility through communication activities
   Organization of events (biennial Users Workshops, Arvor/Provor
    technology training workshop in January 2020, etc.)

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Main achievements over the last 5 years

• New services for the members:
    Centralised float procurement/testing
    Tools for at-sea monitoring of the Argo fleet
• Fostered links with other environmental Research Infrastructures [ENVRIplus –
  H2020] that continues within [ENVRI-FAIR-H2020] and [EuroSea-H2020]
• The Euro-Argo ERIC proved its capacity in setting-up proposals for EU funded
  projects and coordinating them efficiently :
    MOCCA – EASME/EMFF [2015-2020] : demonstrating the capability for the ERIC to procure,
     deploy, monitor and process a fleet of 150 floats in partnership with members
    Euro-Argo RISE – H2020 [2019-2022] : Develop the maturity of the different elements of Argo
     network in Europe, technology, data infrastructure, service to users partnership with EU RI to
     move towards the Euro-Argo Strategy implementation
• Capacity to extend the network to biogeochemistry, greater depths and specific
  regions through technological developments (higher latitudes, marginal seas) [E-
  AIMS - FP7, AtlantOS – H2020, EuroSea-H2020]
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Euro-Argo Strategy for the next decade

• Main Challenges:
     Maintain the Research Infrastructure
     Implement the network extension towards abyssal ocean (4000 to 6000m),
      biogeochemistry, partially ice covered areas and shallow waters regions

• Euro-Argo developed its strategy in coherence with
  Argo international:
     Sustain the core T&S mission, with an emphasis in Western Boundary regions
     Monitor European marginal seas (Baltic, Mediterranean & Black seas)
     Monitor high latitudes
     Monitor the abyssal oceans: 1/5 of the global Argo-BGC network
     Monitor ecosystem parameters: 1/5 of the global Deep-Argo network
                                                                                   Argo Global, full-depth, and multidisciplinary
• Reference document: “Strategy for evolution of Argo in Europe”                               Core mission 2500 floats
                                                                                               Deep mission 1100 floats
  (Euro-Argo ERIC, 2017) DOI: 10.13155/48526                                                   BGC mission 1100 floats

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Euro-Argo ERIC 5 year plan [2019-2024]

                                    • Ambitious plan that requires
                                      additional funds requiring new
                                      projects at national and European
                                      levels
                                    • The ERIC infrastructure strengthen
                                      the link between the national
                                      initiatives and with EC
                                    • Collaborative framework has been
                                      set up Euro-Argo GitHub for tools
                                      sharing and developments as well
                                      as common studies

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EU projects contributing to the
    development of the Euro-Argo ERIC
• MOCCA finish in August and have been important to set
  up Euro-Argo ERIC Service
• Euro-Argo-RISE started in 2019 and contributes to all 5-
  year plan objectives
• Envri-FAIR is in the continuity of ENVRI+ and will
  enhance the FAIRness of the ERIC data systems link to
  EOSC
• Build on the achievement of AtlantOS, EuroSea will
  contribute to the objective 3 and 4 strengthening the
  links with other RIs and Stakholders
• ERIC-FORUM support the development and operations
  of ERIC through development of best practises as well as
  interactions with EC

 More information in the 2019 Annual report that
  will be published end of September

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Future challenges in the Research Infrastructure development

• Network (Euro-Argo-RISE, MOCCA, National)
     Recommendations to operate Argo floats in all the areas identified in the strategy
     Recommendations for use of alternative sensors for both physical and BGC parameters and engagement with manufacturers for their
      implementation on existing float types
     Enhancement of Euro-Argo fleet behavior through monitoring facilities
     Sustain the funding for the core mission and develop sustain funding for the deep and BGC missions (national and EU)

• Data Management (Euro-Argo-RISE, ENVRI-FAIR, MOCCA, National)
     Sustain the Core data processing infrastructure and extend it to the DEEP mission
     Organize of BGC data processing (NRT and DMQC) in Europe
     Contribute improvement of the Argo data management system implementing FAIR principles

• Enhance services to users not only at the level of data services but also in terms of training, best practices
  developments, collaborative frameworks , outreach …
• Euro-Argo within the European landscape of Rs aims at strengthening the links with the EU RIs at the level of sensors ,
  Ocean Observing System design , Network implementation (deployment and recovery) , FAIR data services to users …

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