As the Technology Transfer Office in Bergen, BTO supports research institutions in the region, from guiding good ideas towards commercialization of research and societal benefits. Innovation is one of the four social responsibilities in the Norwegian Act relating to universities, together with research, education and dissemination. BTO supports researchers developing innovative research ideas.

Existing roadmap projects for infrastructure under the Norwegian Research Council, i.e., NorDataNet, NMDC and NORMAP, provide open data access through the OPeNDAP protocol following the conventions for CF (Climate and Forecast) metadata, designed to promote the processing and sharing of files created with the NetCDF application programming interface (API). This approach is now also being implemented in the Norwegian Sentinel Data Hub (satellittdata.no) to provide satellite EO data to the user community.

Efficient coupling of ocean models (physics) and bio-geochemistry has traditionally been a resource demanding endeavor. Typically the ocean model exists and the bio-geochemistry must be implemented as an add-on without a clear defined application programming interface (API). The result being that each implementation of a new bio-geochemical model in a given physical model lead to ad-hoc solutions only working for the specific models in question.

Data assimilation (DA) are still facing various challenges and one of these challenges is the lack of knowledge on the observation error covariance matrix. Focusing on the observation error correlation, this seminar will begin by presenting Python3's DAPPER environment, followed by the presentation of various DA experiments performed with the EnKF in the Lorenz95 model (e.g. inflation of diagonal R matrices and thinning correlated structures) and the LETKF on the Quasi-Geostrophic model (innovative way to track the observations).