EDMERP Details
General
- Project Title
- Open Sea laboratory in the Ligurian Sea
- Project Acronym
- ODAS I1
- Project Reference
- Mediterranean Forecasting System
- Associated programme
- Global Ocean Observing System
- Start Date
- 1968-03-01
- End Date
- 2006-01-01
Geographic Area
- Geocoverage
- Ligurian Sea
- Sea Area
- Ligurian Sea
Observations
- Data Theme
- Physical oceanography
- Atmosphere
Description
- Abstract
- The open sea laboratory based on ODAS Italia 1 buoy is a typical cas of rational use of a facility for multidisciplinary research on marine environment and technologies. The buoy was initially designed for meteo data acquisition. It was sccessively equipped to collect informaton on meteo-marine as well as biological parameters and gain more insight on the ecosystem. It is particularly stable against strong waves and, owing to its open sea location, offers a very interesting vantage point on the open sea environment, where the effect of the human activities is supposed to be negligible. In addition the sea bottom in the area, 1270 m deep, shows peaks and strong gradients and significan upwelling phenomena are expected.
- Project website
- http://www.ian.ge.cnr.it/odas.htm
Originators
- Coordinator
- CNR, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (Sezione di Genova)
- Contact name
- Bozzano Roberto
- Fax
- boz@ge.issia.cnr.it
- Other Partners
- CNR, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (Sezione di Genova)
Administration
- Local identifier
- 887
- Creation Date
- 2014-10-06
- Revision Date
- 2014-10-06