Hindcast of dynamic processes of the ocean and coastal areas of Europe

General Information

The planning of the sustainable development of economic activities in European waters require long term information about the prevailing environmental conditions so as to be able to assess the climate and plan the activities accordingly. The objective of this project is to provide high-resolution (in space and time) hindcasts of wind, waves and currents over the last 40 years for selected European coastal areas. In particular these areas comprise the North Sea, the Irish Sea, the North East Atlantic south of the United Kingdom including the Azores and Canary Islands and the Mediterranean Sea. The hindcasts will be obtained from state-of-the art regional models of the atmosphere, the waves, and the currents and will include also the collection of available in-situ and space-born measurements as well as verification and validation of the hindcasts. The methodology is based on a "regional reanalysises" approach and uses the global coarse grid NCEP-Reanalyses as as starting point.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	FP5-EESD-1999, Global change, climate and biodiversity, Better exploitation of existing data and adaptation of existing observing systems (1.1.4.-2.4.1)
Project Type	RTD
Contract Number	EVK2-CT-1999-00038
Co-ordinator	Instituto Superior Técnico (PT)

Total Eligible Costs (€)	Hereon Eligible Costs (€)	EC Funding for Hereon (€)
2.695.600	716.800

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Ralf Weiße, Institute for Coastal Research, KSA Phone: +49-4152-87 2819, Fax : +49-4152-87 2818 Dr. Heinz Günther, Institute for Coastal Research, KSD Phone: +49-4152-87 1504, Fax : +49-4152-87 1565 E-mail contact

Participants

Ente Publico Puertos del Estado (ES), Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT), National University of Ireland (IE), Scop Meteomer SART (FR)

Last Update: 16. April 2021