Tasks of Work Package 1

Last edited 29 January 2004


T1.1: Requirements for ESEAS Operational Sites satisfying the criteria for Applications A - D will be specified (P1, P3, P5, P10, P12, P15, P16, P18) and the proposed ESEAS Operational Sites will be classified according to these specifications (P1, P5, P18). Only those sites meeting the requirements for at least one specification will be certified as ESEAS Operational Sites.

T1.2: Based on existing documents such as the relevant IOC Manuals and the EOSS Position Paper, standard routines for quality control of tide gauge data will be specified (P1, P3, P5, P6, P10, P12, P15, P17, P18). In particular, procedures for tests based on multi-stations will be defined and, if necessary, implement in new software (P3, P5, P6, P18).

T1.3: A web-based interface to the databases of the ESEAS Operational Centres will be designed (P1, P3, P5, P9, P10, P11, P15, P17, P18, P20, P21), implemented and validated (P1, P5, P18).

T1.4: A comprehensive survey of potential data (charts etc.) for "data archaeology" rescue will be carried out (P3). For some selected Application A tide gauges (e.g. in the Eastern part of the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic), older analog records will be digitised (P10, P11, P12, P13, P15) and the hourly values made available together with already digital data through the web interface inserted in the database.

T1.5: The hourly values of the ESEAS Operational Sites will be quality controlled and a database of high quality hourly values will be compiled (P3, P5, P6, P9, P10, P11, P12, P15, P16, P18, P20, P21). This task also includes necessary knowledge transfer from the more experienced participants to those with less experience in quality control (P3). Based on the new time series, high-quality series of monthly means will be computed (P3, P5, P6, P9, P10, P11, P12, P15, P16, P17, P18, P20, P21).