JRA6: Black Sea Products

Objectives and expected impact:

Preparation and dissemination of regional statistical products like mean, seasonal and monthly climatological fields and trends from all available historical and recent data collected over the Black Sea for:

• Improving of the data service to a wider range of users (modellers and non-specialists);

• Quality checks of the observation data: residual problems in data are detected by comparing with the gridded fields values;

• Check of coherence between climatologies and statistics computed in the different regions;

• Check the technical performances of the SEADATANET system when extracting snapshots of quality checked observation data from TAs, with a foreseen 6 monthly period of updating the statistics.

9All Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information –

World Data Centre Obninsk, RussiaRIHMI-WDC

13Institute of Marine Sciences of Middle East Technical University

Erdemli-Mersin, TurkeyMETU

14 Collecte Localisation Satellite Ramonville St. Agne, France CLS

16University of Liège GeoHydrodynamics and Environment Research

Liège, BelgiumULG

20Commission of the European Communities Directorate General

Joint Research Centre Ispra, ItalyEC-DG JRC

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Marine Hydrophysical Institute Ukrainian National Academy of SciencesSevastopol, Ukraine

MHI-DMIST

34 Institute of Oceanology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Varna, Bulgaria IO-BAS

35National Institute for Marine Research and Development « Grigore

Antipa » Constanta, RomaniaNIMRD

36 Iv Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Tbilisi, Georgia TSU-DNA

PARTNERS

Description of work:

• JRA6.1: Coordination of the activity including recommendations for improving the methodology and for operating it in routine mode with emphasis on the regional priorities;

• JRA6.2: Preparation and dissemination of best estimates of the annual and seasonal statistics and trends on grid points of the sea surface from co-located in-situ and satellite data transferred by regular snapshots of the interconnected transnational in-situ and satellite platforms: temperature, dynamic height/altimetry, salinity (from 2007, when a satellite salinity sensor will be available), wind and sea state, sea ice;

• JRA6.3: Preparation and dissemination of best estimates of the annual and seasonal statistics and trends on grid points and on the whole water column from in-situ observations: temperature, salinity, current and biochemical parameters;

• JRA6.4: Quality checks and harmonization with the other regional data products.

Foreseen Milestones:

• Month 6: Specification for regional products

• Month 11: First test results presented to the Annual Workshop

Deliverables: First year

No Deliverable title Task Lead Foreseen Delivery

Nature

1 Specifications for Black Sea products JRA6.1 P13 M6 protocol

2 Benchmark of surface products JRA6.2 P16 M11 Data and maps

3 Benchmark of sub-surface products JRA6.3 P16 M11 Data and maps

4 Annual report JRA6.1 P13 M11 report

This study will be based on

NATO Black Sea Data Base

Black Sea Regional Historical Interdisciplinary Database

Black Sea inter-disciplinary multivariable historical database was created in the

framework of the NATO TU-Black Sea project in 1994-1997. It includes all main

physical, chemical and biological variables for the entire Black Sea basin. Database

primarily covers the time period from 1963 (and in some cases earlier data sets) with

extensive data sets for 1973-1994.

Black Sea Regional Historical Interdisciplinary Database

• Continiously updated within the frameworks of different projects

• More than 30,000 oceanographic stations

• Covering last 100 years

Secchi depth Summer

Monthly variations of the basin-wide averaged variables

JRA6: Black Sea Products

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