Puertos del Estado operational oceanography activity:

(with special focus on coastal modeling)

ENRIQUE ALVAREZ FANJUL

About Puertos del Estado

• Spanish 85% imports & 60% exports via Ports: VITAL for national economy

• The State-owned Spanish Port System:

• Coordination and efficiency control corresponds to the government agency

Puertos del Estado (Ministry of Public Works)

• Includes 46 ports of general interest (managed by 28 Port Authorities)

Puertos del Estado needs of coastal services and data: Connection with CMEMS

Ports need met-ocean info along all their life phases:

• Design phase (viability, budget, execution plans,…)

Climatology description (from models & measurements) -> CMEMS Re-analysis and MY in-situ products.

• Construction phase (safety, short-term build planning)

Real time alert systems and short-term Forecasts -> CMEMS In-situ & MFC (and downscaled) forecast systems

• Exploitation phase (operations & port closing, piloting, environmental management, …)

Real time alert systems and short-term forecast -> CMEMS In-situ & MFC (and downscaled) forecast systems

Dowsncaling Operational oceanography for port needs

Regional Scale

Clasic Puertos del Estado Systems

Coastal and Port scale

SAMOA: highresolution systems

Downstream

SAMOA: visulizationand added valuetools

Port

Measuring networks,

CMEMS and Puertos del

Estado models

Waves. Circulation, sea

level, SST…

CMA: Alerts, reports, oil spill,

air polution

Users: Pilots, environment, operarions,

construction, etc..

Puertos del Estado Portus observatory: information for Port operations and design• Puertos del Estado Portus Observatory: 25 Buoys, 39 tide gauges, 20 met

stations, 8 HF radars. • Now, additional data obtained via CMEMS in-situ TAC

The PortusNetwork

• Data since the 80s.

Puertos and CMEMS forecastingcore regional service

Puertos del Estado (shareholder ofMercator Ocean) provides forecastin the regional service :

• Wave modeling (since 1995)

• Sea level (since 1998)

• Circulation (CMEMS with MO)

Coastal scale: the SAMOA Project MODULAR STRUCTURE:Co-funded by Puertos del Estado and Port authorities

1) Software CMA

• Reporting

• Visualization

• Alerts

2) Atmosphericmodeling

• ~1 Km

• Harmonie byAEMET

3) Modelo circulación

• ~60 metros

• Nested in CMEMS

• Oil spill

4) Waves in harbours

• ~5 meters

• Nested in Puertos forecast

5) Met stations

• Wind

• Atmosphericpressure

6) GNSS

• In tide gauges

SAMOA modeling: 66 coastal models (daily executed!)

Algeciras

Almería

Avilés

Palma

Barcelona

Tarragona

Gijón

Las Palmas

Málaga

Melilla

S.C. deTenerife

AlgecirasAlmería

Barcelona

Cartagena

Ferrol

Gijón

Las PalmasPuerto del Rosario

Arrecife

Málaga

S.C. deLa Palma

S.S. deLa Gomera

S.C. deTenerife

Bilbao

Valencia Tarragona

Carboneras

Algeciras

Las Palmas

S.C. deLa Palma

S.S. deLa Gomera

S.C. deTenerife

Vigo

La Coruña

Ferrol

Barcelona

Tarragona

Bilbao

• 10 High resolution(1 Km) atmosphericmodels (with AEMET)

• 17 High resolutionwave systems (5 m) in 2 steps

• 11 High resolutioncirculation systems(50 m) in 2 steps

Cantabric sea (3 autumm months)

The 1 km Atmospheric Resolution forecast(with AEMET)

Improvements with respect to 5 km

Wave forecast inside ports

• Two levels: SWAM and MSP

• MSP improved inside SAMOA:• New solver to

deal with huge domains

• Reflection coefficients depending on wave period

Hs Validation with tide gauge data

Gijón

Downscaling circulation from CMEMS to the interior of Ports: from CMEMS to coastal

CST-PAL

CST-FER CST-BILCST-BAR

CST-TAR

CST-ALM

CST-TEN

CST-GOM

CST-GCA

BilbaoFerrol

Tarragona

Almeria

Downscaling process visualised

The importance of reliability: operations and validation

Operations:◦ All the system integrated in a 24/7 system via external contract

◦ 3 independent environments (development, pre-operational and operational)

Validation (NARVAL tool)◦ On-line and delayed mode validation (daily, monthly, seasonal & annual metrics)

◦ Multiple sources: HF-Radar, in-situ TAC (buoys, tide gauges) and satellite (L3&L4)

HF Radar validation Buoy SST validation

Added value tools: the CMA and the Alert System

The CMA: a Visualization and Alert Tool, tailored for the Port:

• Managed by the Ports

• Tailored User Alerts (e-mail and SMS)

• Flexible and modular

• Includes added value tools (i.e. On-line oil spill model)

SAMPAcma alert and automatic reportsystem

SMS SampaMatic:

Alerta por viento > 9 m/s

activada en Estrecho 1 desde

17/Mar 19h hasta 18/Mar 01h

(máximo 9.7 m/s en 17/Mar 22h)

matic

Reports by e-mailSMS and e-mail

Fully customized by user:

• Selection of point

• Combination of alert criteria

• Selection of thresholds

OPENDAP: all data avialable

Conclusions and future planswith respect to coastal modeling)

The future: In 2021, by the end of SAMOA 2, the system will have:◦ 44 CMA implementations in different Ports

◦ 20 1-km resolution atmospheric forecast

◦ 21 agitation systems

◦ 31 circulation systems

◦ 8 GNSS,

◦ 15 very high resolution wind forecast systems,

◦ Other additional modules…

• SAMOA is a revolution in the way Puertos del Estado provides OO servicesto the harbours and other customers linked to the Ports

• SAMOA has closed the gap between the core regional data (CMEMS and Puertos del Estado) and the real needs of the Ports

• Most important result: starting to change the culture in Port Authoritieswith respect to OO. i.e. more that 900 users registered!

Thank you!