NATO SfP Black Sea Project: General Information

General Information

Project title: BLACK SEA ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND FORECASTING / OPERATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The Project was established at the end of 1998 as a co-operation between major marine research institutions in 6 Black Sea countries, with the support of NATO Science for Peace Sub-Programme.

Major objectives of the Project:

To explore, quantify and predict the ecosystem variability of the Black Sea through process studies and development of coupled interdisciplinary models with data assimilation schemes that will allow: prediction of the future states of the sea (FORECASTING); descriptions of the present (NOWCASTING) and the past states of the sea and displaying trends and changes (HINDCASTING).
To develop further the NATO Black Sea Data Base and Management System for management oriented operational marine forecasting and research, requiring transmission to a wide variety of users quality controlled data received from moored buoys, ships, drifting sensor arrays, fixed platforms and satellites, with stringent requirements in DBMS-to-USER transmission in delayed and / or near-real-time modes.

Project participants: Institute of Marine Sciences METU, Turkey; Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Ukraine; P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia; Southern Branch of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russia; Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, Ukraine; Romanian Marine Research Institute, Romania; Institute of Oceanology of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria; Tbilisi State University, Georgia.

Project co-directors: Prof. Ilkay Salihoglu (IMS METU, Turkey), Dr. Alexander Mikaelyan (P.P.Shirshov IO RAS, Russia), Dr. Leonid Ivanov (MHI NASU, Ukraine), Prof. Victor Zaika (IBSS, Ukraine), Prof. Ruben Kosyan (P.P. Shirshov IO RAS, Gelendzhik, Russia), Dr. Alexandru Bologa (RMRI, Romania), Dr. Snejana Moncheva (IO BAS, Bulgaria), and Dr. Kakhaber Bilashvili (TSU, Georgia)

Duration of the Project: four years.

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