FP5 - ESEAS RI project
Program: FP 5
Project title: European Sea-Level Service Research Infrastructure
Acronym: Eseas-RI
Duration: 2004-2007
Total Budget: € 2.300.000
Summary: The ESEAS-RI project is established by ESEAS to support the research infrastructure of ESEAS and facilitate full scientifiic exploitaiton of European sea level observations. This project is supported by the European Commission under the contract number EVR1-2001-00042. The availability of a quality-controlled database of hourly tide gauge data, and the successful upgrading of the ESEAS network are major milestones. The project is expected to result in an major improvement of the research infrastructure comprised in the ESEAS. The research carried out in the project will result in an empirical model of sea level variations, which provides a unique basis for future studies of climate processes at decadal to inter-decadal time scales, particularly the North Atlantic Oscillation, as well as a coherent description of the occurrence of extreme sea levels.
The project will stimulate the integration of European sea level research community into a larger network and thus promote coordinated research. The work in the project will directly result in contributions to environmental assessment reports and will also give information with respect to obstacles for the exploitation of existing multi-national databases in terms of e.g. technical, data quality and policy, legal and organisational issues
Contact person in ISMAR: fabio.raicich@ts.ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
- Norwegian Mapping Authority (Statens Kartverk) - Norway
- Danish National Space Center (Danmarks Rumcenter) - Denmark
- NERC Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory - U.K.
- University of Nottingham, Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy- U.K.
- Spanish Institute of Oceanography - Spain
- Puerto del EstadoS - Spain
- Royal Naval Observatory of Spain - Spain
- Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avanoats, Esporles - Spain
- General Command of Mapping - Turkey
- Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia - Slovenia
- Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - Maritime Branch - Poland
- Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia - Croatia
- Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb - Croatia
- Institute of Physical Geodesy, University of Technology Darmstadt - Germany
- Geodetic Institute of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University - Lithuania
- Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna - Spain
- Oceanography Division of HNHS - Greece
- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research - Israel
- Southampton Oceanography Centre, James Rennell Division - U.K.
- Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences - Poland
- CNR, Istituto di Scienze Marine - Italy
