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