Open Service Network for Marine Environmental Data

Users
The oil spill drift forecast service will be used by the members of the French Slick Drift Monitoring and Prediction Committee, which include Cedre, Ifremer, MRCC, French Navy and possibly several Met offices. These organisations are in charge of obtaining and analysing all relevant data in order to make an assessment of how the pollution will spread. Using this assessment the authorities in charge of aircraft and vessels deployment may optimise survey and cleanup operations. In this context, the Committee members will rely on different software models, as well as their extensive expertise to make a best possible assessment of the fate of the slicks. (Go to pilot in the EUMIS portal)

Products
The first use case is intended for an oil spill drift forecast service in France that will be based on new tools and enhanced functionality to support the experts in making estimates of where a slick or a group of slicks will drift.

Figure 1: 4 days oil slick drift forecast form MOTHY model (Data provider: METEO FRANCE)

The second use case concerns the collection of all operational information about onshore pollution landings and mitigation actions during the response phase.

Figure 2 : Shoreline impacted by oil slick and location of the cleanup site (Data provider: CEDRE)