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- Title
The Aegean sea marine security decision support system.
- Authors
Perivoliotis, L.; Krokos, G.; Nittis, K.; Korres, G.; Oddo, P.
- Abstract
As part of the integrated ECOOP (European Coastal Sea Operational observing and Forecasting System) project, HCMR upgraded the already existing standalone Oil Spill Forecasting System for the Aegean Sea, initially developed for the Greek Operational Oceanography System (POSEIDON), into an active element of the European Decision Support System (EuroDeSS). The system is accessible through a user friendly web interface where the case scenarios can be fed into the oil spill drift model component, while the synthetic output contains detailed information about the distribution of oil spill particles and the oil spill budget and it is provided both in text based ECOOP common output format and as a series of sequential graphics. The main development steps that were necessary for this transition were the modification of the forcing input data module in order to allow the import of other system products which are usually provided in standard formats such as NetCDF and the transformation of the model's calculation routines to allow use of current, density and diffusivities data in z instead of sigma coordinates. During the implementation of the Aegean DeSS, the system was used in operational mode in order to support the Greek marine authorities in handling a real accident that took place in North Aegean area. Furthermore, the introduction of common input and output files by all the partners of EuroDeSS extended the system's interoperability thus facilitating data exchanges and comparison experiments.
- Subjects
AEGEAN Sea; DECISION support systems; OIL spills; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION forecasting; THERMAL diffusivity; WEBSITES
- Publication
Ocean Science, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 5, p671
- ISSN
1812-0784
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/os-7-671-2011