Área de Medio Ambiente Marino y Protección Ambiental - Proyectos de Investigación
Título: Marine environment and security for the european area.
Acrónimo: MERSEA
Investigador principal: Gregorio Parrilla Barrera (Sede Central, Madrid)
Coordinador principal del proyecto cooperativo: Yves Desaubies, IFREMER, Francia
Entidades financiadoras: Unión Europea -VI Programa Marco UE, IEO.
Otras instituciones participantes: Institute Français de Reserche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER, Francia), Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas (ICCM, España), Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA, España)
Fecha inicio: 04/2004
Fecha final: 09/2008
Tipo: Subproyecto de investigación
Resumen:
Mersea aims to develop a European system for operational monitoring and forecasting on global and regional scales of the ocean physics, bio-geochemistry and ecosystems. The prediction time scales of interest extend from days to months. This integrated system will be the Ocean component of the future GMES system.
At the core of the system is the collection, validation and assimilation of remote sensed and in situ data into ocean circulation models that allow for the self consistent merging of the data types, interpolation in time and space for uniform coverage, nowcasting (i.e. data synthesis in real-time), forecasting, and hindcasting, and delivery of information products.
The project will develop Marine Applications addressing the needs of both intermediate and end-users, whether institutional or from the private sector, with the objective to:
- Improve the safety and efficiency of maritime transport and naval operations;
- Enable the sustainable exploitation and management of ocean resources (offshore oil and gas industry, fisheries);
- More efficiently mitigate the effects of environmental hazards and pollution crisis (oil spills, harmful algal blooms);
- Improve contribution to ocean climate variability studies and seasonal climate prediction and its effects on coastal populations ;
- Improve national security and reduce public health risks,
- Advance marine research with the aim to better understand the global climate, the ocean and its ecosystems.
The project will lead to a single high-resolution global ocean forecasting system shared by European partners together with a co-ordinated network of regional systems for European waters which will provide the platform required for coastal forecasting systems. During the project the main pre-operational systems will be transitioned towards operational status and three of the centres will converge on a single ocean model framework suitable for both the deep ocean and shelf-seas.
Objetivos:
- Montar TSG en el B/O Cornide de Saavedra y enviar datos en tiempo presente.
