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Project Title: Physical Oceanography of Eastern Mediterranean
Project Acronym: POEM
Project Reference: UNESCO, IOC and CIESM
Associated programme: POEM and POEM-BC (2nd phase of POEM, with biological and chemical components)
Start Date: 1984-01-01
End Date: 1998-12-31

Abstract: POEM was an international effort devoted to studying the circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It was sponsored by UNESCO, IOC and CIESM, with the participation of researchers from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Turkey, USA and Yugoslavia. The multidisciplinary, multi-national co-operative POEM scientific research program included physical, chemical and biological field observations, analysis and modelling simulations, of the general and mesoscale circulation. The intensive field experiment was focussing on processes studies of the formation, dispersion and spreading of the LIW in the Levantine Basin and of the DW in the Ionian Sea. The POEM field experiment was carried out from 1985 to 1990 (Phase 1), from 1991 to 1995 (Phase 2). The second phase that began in 1991 included also the biological and chemical components.
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Coordinator: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
Contact name: Malanotte-Rizzoli Paola
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E-mail: nodc-staff@ogs.trieste.it
Other Partners: OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography; Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Parthenope' - Istituto di Meteorologia e Oceanografia; Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University; Cyprus Oceanography Center; University of Bremen, Department of Tracer-Oceanography; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC); Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR); Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR) - Ancona; Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries; Universita' 'La Sapienza' di Roma - Dipartimento di Fisica