Project record of Integrated modelling and measurement of physically controlled fluxes and plankton dynamics in coastal seas

Information

Type

Project

Name

Integrated modelling and measurement of physically controlled fluxes and plankton dynamics in coastal seas

Description @en

The project aims to advance physical aspects of marine environmental modelling through:

1. forming common North Sea and Mediterranean data sets with which existing 2-D shelf-sea hydrodynamic models will be forced, intercompared and tested;
2. measuring characteristic physical and phytoplankton variability in the Rhine outflow plume region in September/October 1990, including HF radar mapping of surface currents, time-series moorings for currents, temperature, salinity, fluorescence and transmittance, and detailed ship surveys;
3. forming a framework and primitive modules for a new common model of physical and plankton behaviour in regions of freshwater influence, incorporating surface fluxes, shear, stratification, turbulence, waves, suspended sediment (a module will be developed) and plankton dynamics.

Start date

1990-7

End date

1993-3