NATO TU-Black Sea Inventory

The purpose of the TU-Black Sea project was to develop and implement ecosystem models as a management tool for improving the health of the Black Sea, and to help build the capacity within the Black Sea coastal countries for high quality oceanographic measurement and analysis capabilities for carrying out long-term monitoring of the Black Sea following the completion of the project.

One of the main project objectives is to establish a database management system (DBMS) in all Black Sea countries, for environmental and oceanographic data pertinent to the goals of this program. This DBMS has been already developed and distributed amongst participants of the project. There exist some restrictions on data usage till 2001 year, but metadata information is distributed freely. NATO TU-Black Sea Data Inventory provides metadata on both data loaded into the DBMS and data available but not still included into the database.