Institute record of GeoHydrodynamics and Environmental Research group

Information

Type
Organization
Type
https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
Name
GeoHydrodynamics and Environmental Research group
Name
GeoHydrodynamics and Environmental Research@en
Acronym
ULG-GHER
Parent institute
Université de Liège; Faculté des Sciences; Département d'Astrophysique, Géophysique et Océanographie
Address
Quartier Agora, Allée du 6 Août 19C, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Location
latitude
50.5739710
longitude
5.5698122
Description @en
The GeoHydrodynamics and Environmental research group (GHER) was formerly known as 'unité d'Océanographie Physique'. The group focuses on marine and environmental studies and modelling. In the 1970s, in the framework of 'Project Sea', the GHER participated in the study of many different marine sites, such as the North Sea, the Black Sea, the Aral Sea, the South China Sea, the Bering Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea. Current research activities focus on the merging of statistical data analyses and modelling into assimilated approaches, such as nested coastal models. Model verification using wavelets and other advanced statistical tools is another research focus, as well as cloud filling based on empirical orthogonal functions. The research group participated in many European projects, such as EROS2000 and EUROMODEL, resulting in the Mediterranean 3D primitive equation hydrodynamic models, and MERMAIDS, MODB, MEDAR and SeaDataNet (in which the oceanographic database and data analysis tools were elaborated). Furthermore, the GHER team is also responsible for the organisation of the annual International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics.
Description @nl
De onderzoeksgroep GeoHydrodynamics and Environmental Research (GHER) was vroeger gekend als unité d'Océanographie Physique. De groep richt zich op mariene studies, milieustudies en modellering. In de jaren 1970 participeerde de GHER in het 'Project Zee' en nam verder deel aan diverse studies in verschillende mariene regio's zoals de Noordzee, de Zwarte Zee, het Aralmeer, de Zuid-Chinese Zee, de Beringzee, de Perzische Golf en de Middellandse Zee. Recente onderzoeksactiviteiten focussen voornamelijk op het samenbrengen van statistische data-analyses en modelleringen in geassimileerde benaderingen, zoals nested coastal models. De verificatie van modellen, met behulp van wavelets en andere geavanceerde statistische instrumenten, en cloud filling gebaseerd op empirische orthogonale functies, vormen andere onderzoekslijnen binnen deze groep. De onderzoeksgroep participeerde in een groot aantal Europese projecten, zoals EROS2000 en EUROMODEL, waarbinnen de Mediterrane 3D-hydrodynamische modellen, gebaseerd op primitieve vergelijkingen, ontwikkeld werden. Andere voorbeelden zijn MERMAIDS, MODB, MEDAR en SeaDataNet, die leidden tot de uitwerking van de oceanografische databanken en de data-analyse instrumenten. Verder is het GHER-team verantwoordelijk voor de organisatie van het jaarlijks Internationaal Colloquium over Oceaandynamiek te Luik.

Events

22nd International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Ice covered seas and ice edges: physical, chemical and biological processes and interactions
23rd International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Modelling the interaction of the deep ocean and the shelf and coastal seas
24th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Sub-mesoscale air-sea interactions
25th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Data assimilation in marine science (in association with NATO)
26th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: The coastal ocean in a global change perspective
27th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Processes in regions of freshwater influence
28th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Modelling hydrodynamically dominated marine ecosystems
29th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Modelling of turbulence revisited
30th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics : Hydrodynamical and ecosystem processes in ice covered seas of the Southern and Northern Hemispheres
31st International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Three-Dimensional Ocean Circulation: Lagrangian measurements and diagnostic analyses
32nd International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Hydrodynamics: Exchange Processes at the Ocean Margins
33rd International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: The use of data assimilation in coupled hydrodynamic, ecological and bio-geo-chemical models of the ocean
34th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Tracer Methods in Geophysical Fluids Dynamics
35th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Dying and Dead Seas & NATO Advanced Research Workshop
36th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Marine Environmental Monitoring and Predictions
37th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces
38th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: Revisiting the Role (or Status) of Zooplankton in Pelagic Ecosystems
39th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics : Turbulence Re-Revisited
40th International Liège Colloquium on the Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Subrarctic conditions & NATO-RUSSIA Advanced Research Workshop

Members

Jean-Marie Beckers
Hong-Ngu Huynh
Charlotte Peelen
Charles Troupin
Sylvain Watelet

Past members

Belounis
Zied Ben Bouallègue
Alberto Vieira Borges
Martin Canter
Arthur Capet
Géraldine Delhez-Martin
Bruno Delille
Salim Djenidi
Marilaure Grégoire
Svetlana Karimova
Andrey Kostianoy
Geneviève Lacroix
Stephane Lesoinne
Samuel Martin
Jacques Nihoul
role: Professor
Mohamed Ouberdous
Gaëlle Parard
Michel Rixen
François Ronday
Laure-Sophie Schiettecatte
Damien Sirjacobs
Mujiasih Subekti
Vincent Tigny
Igor Tomazic
Toussaint
Marie van der Rest-Jaspers
Luc Vandenbulcke
role: PhD student
Yajing Yan

Expertise

Biogeochemistry
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181485
Climate change
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181490
Geophysics
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3661
Hydrodynamics
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 4095
Hydrodynamics
defined term set: MOG Topics
term code: 181504
Modelling
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 5269
geographic terms
ANE, North Sea
Eurasia, Aral Sea
IN, Bering Sea
ISEW, South China Sea
ISW, Persian Gulf
MED, Black Sea

Special collections

ENCORA
ENCORA: BENCORE
Marine expertise
Marine expertise: Speciality: Fysical oceanography
Marine expertise: Type: French speaking university
ScheldeMonitor
Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium

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date created: 2003-11-26
date modified: 2017-02-01