Architecture Guide

The most frequent architecture of today’s Operational Ocean Forecasting Services is a non-interoperable system running on an IT environment belonging to the owner institution. This architecture has the following limitations:

•      Set-up and operations are complex and demand redundant efforts due to the lack of appropriate commonly agreed tools, standards, and best practices
•      The output is not interoperable 
•      The system does not use commonly agreed tools and standards for the different processes, neither on the set-up or operations phase

This architecture will serve to partially overcome these limitations and build a new scenario for ocean forecasting at a global level that will benefit all the services, with a special impact on the capabilities of those organizations that are starting to develop their activity.

This is a product designed for the OceanPrediction DCC community. The interoperable architecture presented in this document can be a significant milestone in our collective efforts to unlock the full potential of ocean forecasting. When developed, it will empower institutions around the world to implement interoperable services, that will also be more robust and easier to maintain

This publication was prepared by the Ocean Forecasting Co-Design Team (OFCT), a group of worldwide experts integrated into the OceanPrediction DCC. The main objective of this team is to analyze the status of ocean forecasting worldwide, identify gaps and ways forward, and amongst other targets, design the ocean forecasting architecture presented in this document