Project record of North West European Shelf Program

Information

Type
Project
Name
North West European Shelf Program
Name @nl
NOWESP project in het kader van het Europees programma Zeewetenschappen
Acronym
NOWESP
Description @en
The North-West European shelf is one of the world's largest and its waters belong to the best studied areas of this kind. The area represents an important transit region for dissolved and particulate matter stemming from major European rivers. Extended research cruises, combined with a number of numerical models, have produced a high level of knowledge. The combined data sets of this area provide one of the most detailed sets of observations ever undertaken in any shelf sea. However due to the large scale and the strong variability of the phenomena involved, present knowledge still has a fragmentary character. No insight exists into the long term evolution of the shelf system and no reliable estimates are available regarding the net retention or release of matter. The aim is to collect all available experimental and simulation data on the North West European Continenal Shelf and use them to compute fluxes of all kind of constituants (pollutants, heavy metals, carbon...).
Description @nl
Verzamelen van alle beschikbare meetgegevens en resultaten van computersimulaties met betrekking tot de kwaliteit van het Noord-West Europees Continentaal Plat. Gebruik van al deze gegevens voor het berekenen van transporten (fluxes) van allerhande stoffen (polluenten, zware metalen, C).
Start date
1993-8
End date
1996-12

Institutes & people involved

Berlamont Jean
associated with: KU Leuven; Afdeling Hydraulica
Pichot Georges
associated with: Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Departement Beheer van het Mariene Ecosysteem; Beheerseenheid Mathematisch Model Noordzee en Schelde-estuarium; Brussel

Expertise

Carbon
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 1326
Coastal waters
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 1653
Computer models
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 1766
Heavy metals
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 3962
Nutrients (mineral)
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 5629
Particulate flux
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 6026
Pollutants
defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
term code: 6381
geographic terms
ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf

special collections

Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

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date created: 2003-11-26
date modified: 2007-04-03