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The Project aims at the further development
of an operational forecasting system for the Mediterranean
Sea based upon three main components: a) the Near Real
Time Observing system; b) the numerical forecasting systems
at basin scale and for regional areas; c) the forecast
products dissemination/exploitation system.
The problems to be solved belong to three major categories:
1) Technology developments, connected to the new instrumentation
for NRT monitoring and the provision of NRT protocols for data
dissemination, comprehensive of telecommunication technology
and quality control procedures;
2) Scientific development, connected to the understanding of
the sampling scheme for different measuring platforms, the design
and implementation of data assimilation schemes for different
spatial scales, the ecosystem modelling validation/calibration
experiments at the basin and the coastal areas scale and the
development of data assimilation techniques for biochemical data;
3) Exploitation developments, consisting of software interfaces
between forecast products and oil spill modelling, general contaminant
dispersion models, relocatable emergency systems, search and
rescue models, and fish stock observing systems. In addition,
the study of forecast economic value and impact will be carried
out.
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