Building the European Capacity in Operational Oceanography (eBook)

Cover 1
Table of Contents 10
Conference Organisers 6
Preface 8
Conference Opening 18
Part I: Current Developments in Operational Oceanography 20
Chapter 1. Global Ocean Observing Systems and the challenges of the 21st century 22
Chapter 2. New European developments for Operational Oceanography 27
Chapter 3. The European contribution to GODAE 33
Part II: Regional Systems I 40
Chapter 4. A possible migration from marine scientific research to operational oceanography in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 42
Chapter 5. Cyprus coastal ocean forecasting and observing system 53
Chapter 6. MAMA „ Towards a new paradigm for ocean monitoring in the Mediterranean 63
Chapter 7. Model-derived seasonal amounts of dust deposited on Mediterranean Sea and Europe 74
Chapter 8. Evaluation of POSEIDON forecasts in the Aegean Sea for a three-year period 81
Chapter 9. Fluorescence lidars and their potentials for the remote sensing of the marine environment 88
Chapter 10. Long-term sustained observing system for climatic variability studies in the Mediterranean 95
Chapter 11. Comparison of ECMWF operational surface meteorology and buoy observations in the Ligurian Sea 104
Chapter 12. Impact of climate change on Adriatic Sea hydrology 109
Chapter 13. Temperature sampling strategies assessment in the Mediterranean Forecasting System 114
Chapter 14. Water masses and diagnostic circulation west of Sardinia from 23 March to 4 April 2001 117
Chapter 15. XBT observations in the Eastern Mediterranean: data analysis and assessment of numerical ocean forecasts 122
Chapter 16. Marine meteorological and oceanographic services in the Hydrometcenter of Russia 126
Part III: Remote Sensing Systems 130
Chapter 17. Measurement of wave groups using radar-image sequences 132
Chapter 18. Synergy of remote sensing and numerical modelling for monitoring of suspended particulate matter 139
Chapter 19. Monitoring precipitation using underwater acoustic remote sensing 145
Chapter 20. Marine SAR Analyses and Interpretation System„MARSAIS 152
Chapter 21. Study and monitoring of sea ice cover in the Caspian and Aral Seas from TOPEX/ POSEIDON microwave data 158
Chapter 22. Oceanpal: an instrument for remote sensing of the ocean and other water surfaces using GNSS reflections 163
Chapter 23. Monitoring of waves with X-band radar in the port of Sines 171
Chapter 24. Performance of the PISCES HF radar during the DEFRA trials 178
Chapter 25. Long-term changes in the Black Sea surface chlorophyll a according to in situ and modern satellite data 185
Chapter 26. The role of synergy in developing a Marine SAR Analysis and Interpretation System 191
Chapter 27. Routine scatterometer winds for the Mediterranean 197
Chapter 28. Sea Surface Salinity mapping with SMOS space mission 203
Chapter 29. Sea level prediction at the Portuguese coast based on model and remote sensed data 207
Part IV: Numerical Modelling and Data Assimilation 212
Chapter 30. The Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM) system 214
Chapter 31. Coupled physical and biochemical data driven simulations of Black Sea in spring- summer: real-time forecast and data assimilation 220
Chapter 32. Data assimilation in an operational forecast system of the North Sea–Baltic Sea system 228
Chapter 33. Impact of the progress in operational oceanography on oil spill drift forecasting in the Mediterranean Sea 235
Chapter 34. The study of seasonal variability in the Adriatic Sea with the use of EOF analysis 239
Part V: Next Generation Systems 244
Chapter 35. AUVs: designing and operating next generation vehicles 246
Chapter 36. Sustainability analysis in marine research, monitoring and forecasting systems 254
Part VI: EC Operationl Forecasting workshop :Reports on EC Operational Forecasting Projects 260
Chapter 37. The use of HF radar networks within operational forecasting systems of coastal regions 262
Chapter 38. The DIADEM/TOPAZ monitoring and prediction system for the North Atlantic 268
Chapter 39. GAVDOS: A satellite radar altimeter calibration and sea-level monitoring site on the island of Gavdos, Crete 275
Chapter 40. EDIOS: European Directory of the Initial Ocean Observing System 282
Chapter 41. IOMASA„Integrated Observing and Modelling of the Arctic Surface and Atmosphere 289
Chapter 42. Marine Environment and Security for the European Area, MERSEA Strand–1 296
Chapter 43. Integrated marine science in European shelf seas and adjacent waters 302
Chapter 44. ESONET„European Sea Floor Observatory Network 308
Part VII: In Situ Monitoring 312
Chapter 45. Use of a Ferry-Box system to look at shelf sea and ocean margin processes 314
Chapter 46. Monitoring the marine environment operational practices in Europe 321
Chapter 47. Smartbuoy: A marine environmental monitoring buoy with a difference 328
Chapter 48. ARGOS capabilities for global ocean monitoring 334
Chapter 49. FerryBox systems for monitoring coastal waters 342
Chapter 50. Real-time oceanographic measurements using the M3A system 351
Chapter 51. EGOS„European Group on Ocean Stations providing real time buoy observations from data sparse areas of the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas 357
Chapter 52. CORIOLIS, a French project for in situ operational oceanography 362
Chapter 53. ASSEM: Array of Sensors for long term SEabed Monitoring of geohazards 366
Chapter 54. Adaptive sampling for coastal environmental monitoring using a geo-referenced mobile instrument platform and correlative data visualisation 370
Chapter 55. A comparison with the Argo observing system„Gyroscope 0302 cruise 373
Chapter 56. Coastal oceanographic station at the entrance of the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic) 378
Chapter 57. The NOR-50: a fast research vessel for operational oceanography 383
Chapter 58. Monte Carlo simulation of NaI(T1) gamma-spectra in sea water 387
Chapter 59. In situ calibration of biofouling-prone oceanographic sensors in the framework of the POSEIDON project 390
Part VIII: Waves Monitoring and Forecasting 394
Chapter 60. Wave and current forecasting along the Spanish Catalan coast 396
Chapter 61. Progress in building a wave climate database along the French coasts through numerical hindcast simulations over a 20-years period 403
Chapter 62. Modelling of sea states sequence along a ship route using Markov theory 409
Chapter 63. Real time monitoring of Spanish coastal waters: The deep water network 415
Chapter 64. Adaptive neural network for wave forecasting 420
Part IX: User Perspectives 424
Chapter 65. Demand side "pull" for EuroGOOS products: Identifying market and policy decisions impacted by new environmental information 426
Chapter 66. International public goods and operational oceanography 439
Chapter 67. Global operational oceanography and the role of the Joint WMO/IOX Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology 447
Chapter 68. The Global Ocean Observing System: design and implementation of the coastal module 459
Chapter 69. High-resolution wind fields from synthetic aperture radars and numerical models for offshore wind farming 467
Part X: EuroGOOS Task Teams 476
Chapter 70. Towards NOOS„The EuroGOOS NW Shelf Task Team 1996.2002 478
Chapter 71. Present status of BOOS„Baltic Operational Oceanographic System 483
Part XI: Regional Systems 2 490
Chapter 72. Review of the last 15 years with the Seawatch system 492
Chapter 73. Real-time forecast modelling for the NW European Shelf seas 501
Chapter 74. Arctic climate change„will the ice disappear this century? 507
Chapter 75. Approach to the operational Ocean Observing System in the Yellow Sea through China- Korea bi-lateral cooperation 514
Chapter 76. Operational products and services for the Belgian coastal waters 520
Chapter 77. Co-ordinating UK inputs to EuroGOOS and GOOS 527
Chapter 78. 3D, EOF-based spatial analysis of Gyroscope observations in the North Atlantic Ocean 530
Chapter 79. A unified model system for the Baltic Sea 533
Chapter 80. Alg@ line„joint operational unattended phytoplankton monitoring in the Baltic Sea 536
Chapter 81. Pre-operational system for oil spill simulation 540
Part XII: Coastal Systems 544
Chapter 82. Monitoring the Norwegian Coastal Zone Environment (MONCOZE) 546
Chapter 83. Sensing the coastal environment 552
Chapter 84. The Bay of Biscay project 559
Chapter 85. The POL Coastal Observatory 565
Chapter 86. Optical variability associated with phytoplankton dynamics in the Cretan Sea during 2000 and 2001 571
Chapter 87. Contemporary problems of navigation safety and sea pollution in the Georgian Exclusive Economic Zone 579
Chapter 88. Outfall of storm sewers in the sea„a technical review 581
Chapter 89. Ferrybox and databuoy measurements of plankton blooms 585
Chapter 90. Engineering-biological method for coastal protection 591
Part XIII: Data–Products–Users 595
Chapter 91. Defence-related applications for operational oceanography 596
Chapter 92. The modelling system for simulation of the oil spills in the Black Sea 603
Chapter 93. Society and sustainable use of the Exclusive Economic Zones 609
Chapter 94. Society and sustainable use of mineral resources in the Exclusive Economic Zones 615
Chapter 95. Applications and availability of ocean model products from the Met Office 622
Chapter 96. CORIOLIS: Providing a data management infrastructure for operational oceanography 628
Chapter 97. An approach to integration of oceanographic information production on the Web 632
Chapter 98. IWICOS: Integrated Weather, Sea Ice and Ocean Service System 638
Chapter 99. Digital, high resolution weather, sea ice and ocean information to the users at sea: the IWICOS demonstration during the Aranda expedition in the Fram Strait 644
Chapter 100. IWICOS architecture„software architecture for marine GIS-data interoperability 650
Chapter 101. IWICOS metadata„describing met.ice.ocean information with metadata 653
Chapter 102. Delivering near real-time met-ice-ocean observation and forecast data„the IWICOS Façade 656
Chapter 103. Interactive Internet coastal wave information production and retrieval system 659
Chapter 104. MEDAR/MEDATLAS 2002: A Mediterranean and Black Sea database for operational oceanography 662
Chapter 105. POLIS: Poseidon On-Line Information System 666
Part XIV: GMES Marine Forum 670
Chapter 106. An introduction to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative 672
Part XV: Closure 684
Conference Valedictory Speech 686
Index of Keywords 688
Index of Authors 692
List of Reviewers 698
List of Participants 704