EDMERP Details
General
- Project Title
- Marine Environmental and Security for the European Area
- Project Acronym
- MERSEA
- Project Reference
- Associated programme
- Start Date
- 2004-04-01
- End Date
- 2008-03-31
Geographic Area
- Geocoverage
- Global Ocean
- Sea Area
- Mediterranean Sea
- Indian Ocean
- North Atlantic Ocean
- South Atlantic Ocean
- North Pacific Ocean
- Baltic Sea
- Arctic Ocean
Observations
- Data Theme
- Physical oceanography
- Atmosphere
Description
- Abstract
- MERSEA aims to develop a single European system for global operational monitoring and forecasting of the ocean and a co-ordinated network of regional systems for European waters. The systems will merge and assimilate diverse data from space-borne sensors and in situ measurement networks in order to monitor the ocean physics, bio-geochemistry and ecosystems and to provide forecasts on prediction time scales ranging from days to months. This integrated system will form the ocean component of the future GMES system. The project will develop and service marine applications which address the needs of both intermediate and end-users, whether institutional or from the private sector The objectives of the applications are to : . Improve the safety and efficiency of maritime transport and marine operations. . Support safe and efficient offshore oil and gas industry activities. . More efficiently mitigate the effects of environmental hazards and pollution crisis (oil and chemical spills, harmful algal blooms). . Contribute to ocean climate variability studies and seasonal climate prediction and their effects on coastal populations. . Advance marine research on the global climate, the ocean and its ecosystems.
- Project website
- http://http://www.mersea.eu.org/
Originators
- Coordinator
- IFREMER / IDM/SISMER
- Contact name
- Unknown
- Fax
- +33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
- sismer@ifremer.fr
- Other Partners
- IFREMER / IDM/SISMER
- Cyprus Oceanography Center
- Danish Meteorological Institute, Oceanographic Section
- Joint Research Centre (JRC)
- BOOST TECHNOLOGIE
- Collecte Localisation Satellites SA – CLS
- The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre (HCMR/HNODC)
- ENEA Centro Ricerche - Frascati
- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia – INGV, Sede di Bologna
- OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale), Division of Oceanography
- Marine Information Service
- Utrecht University, Faculty of Science, Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
- Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
- Met Office
- ISAC - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (Rome)
- CNR, Istituto di Studio sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l'Automazione (Sede Centrale di Bari)
- Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
- University of Reading; Department of Meteorology; Ocean Dynamics and Modelling
- University of Bremen
- CONISMA, National Interuniversity Consortium for Marine Science
- Laboratory of Space Technology, Helsinki University of Technology
Administration
- Local identifier
- 930
- Creation Date
- 2014-10-06
- Revision Date
- 2014-10-06