Mersea Oil Spill Demonstration

What is this?

This wiki is a meeting place for project participants and selected outside parties involved in the Mersea marine oil spill fate prediction demonstration activities in the Mersea Integrated Project (WorkPackage 12.3). It is hosted and maintained by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no).

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What's it for?

The main purpose of this wiki is to exchange and disseminate information and data from the various demonstration experiments performed in the Fall of 2007. These demonstrations are carried out as part of WorkPackage 12.3 of the Mersea Integrated Project. The purpose of the demonstrations is to show the benefits of using Mersea ocean forecast data in an important maritime security application, in this case oil spill fate forecasting.

Who is involved?

Oil spill forecast service providers:

Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no): lead partner in Mersea WP12.3

University of Cyprus (UCY): partner in Mersea WP12.3

MeteoFrance (MF): partner in Mersea WP12.3

Ifremer: partner in Mersea WP12.3

Hellenic Meteorological Institute: associate forecast provider

Users of oil spill forecasts:

Cedre:

Norwegian Coastal Authority (KV)

Norwegian Clean Seas Association of Offshore Operators (NOFO)

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)

Documents

DEMO Eastern Mediterranean

Overview

Data sets

GoogleEarth-viewable data from met.no

metno-od3d-nsea-110907-1.kml.zip (sample data set)

GoogleEarth-viewable data from MeteoFrance

mf-mothy-biscaya-160807-1.kml.zip (sample data set)

DEMO Western Mediterranean

Overview

Data sets

GoogleEarth-viewable data from met.no

GoogleEarth-viewable data from MeteoFrance