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FP5 - MFSTEP project

Programme: FP 5

Project Title: Mediterranean Forecasting System Towards Environmental Predictions

Acronym: MFSTEP

Duration: 2003-2006

Total Budget: € 11.971.000

Web site: http://mfstep.bo.ingv.it/

Summary: 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.

Contact person in ISMAR: fabio.raicich@ts.ismar.cnr.it

Partnership:

  1. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV – Italy
  2. University of Bologna – UNIBO – Italy
  3. Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente – ENEA – Italy
  4. National Center for Marine Research – NCMR – Greece
  5. Collecte Localisation Satellites – CLS – France
  6. Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS – Italy
  7. Institut für Meereskunde an der Universität Kiel – IFM – Germany
  8. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC – Spain
  9. Centre national del la recherche Scientifique, Pole d'Oceanographie Cotiere de Toulouse - CNRS.POCT – France
  10. University of Athens – UAT – Greece
  11. Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications – IASA – Greece
  12. Institute of Marine Biology of Crete – IMBC – Greece
  13. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
    Istituto per le Scienze Marine – CNR/ISMAR – Italy
  14. IFREMER – France
  15. Department of Fisheries and Marine Research – DFMR – Cyprus
  16. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei – FEEM – Italy
  17. Meteo-France – MF – France
  18. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima – CNR/ISAC – Italy
  19. National Institute of Biology – NIB – Slovenia
  20. Czech Hydrometeorological Institute – CHMI- Czech Republic
  21. Consorzio Interuniversitario per la gestione del Centro di calcolo Elettronico dell'Italia Nord-Est – CINECA – Italy
  22. Centro Marino Internazionale – IMC – Italy
  23. Tecnomare SpA – TEC – Italy
  24. CLU Ltd
    Consulenza in Comunicazione – CLU – Italy
  25. Università Politecnica delle Marche – UPM – Italy
  26. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
    Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero – CNR/IAMC – Italy
  27. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie - UPMC-LODYC – France
  28. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Delegation provence, Antenne du Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogéochimie – CNRS-LOB – France
  29. NOVELTIS – France
  30. Universite Paul Sabatier, Pole d'Oceanographie Cotiere de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees -  UPS-POCT- France
  31. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas – CSIC - Spain
  32. NEC-Deutschland GmbH – NEC – Germany
  33. Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research – IOLR – Israel
  34. International Ocean Institute
    Malta Operational Centre, University of Malta - IOI-MOC – Malta
  35. Université de Liège – Ulg – Belgium
  36. Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University – IMS – Turkey
  37. Marine Hydrophysical Institute – MHI – Ukraine
  38. Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee – NIOZ – Netherlands
  39. Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics (ICoD), University of Malta – ICoD – Malta
  40. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per l'Automazione – CNR/ISSIA – Italy
  41. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Auth – Greece
  42. Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente dell'Emilia Romagna, Servizio Meteorologico Regionale – ARPA_SMR – Italy
  43. Ambiente Qualità Sicurezza mare – AQSmare – Italy
  44. Dipartimento di Ecologia e Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile,
    Università della Tuscia - DECOS-UNITUS- Italy
  45. Mathematics and Statistics Dept., University of Cyprus – MAS-UCY Cyprus
  46. Australian Defence Force Academy – ADFA - Australia
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