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Mediterranean ocean Forecasting System: Toward Environmental Predictions-MFSTEP Executive Summary
Objectives: The Project aims at the further development of an operational forecasting system for
the Mediterranean Sea based upon three main components: a) a Real Time-RT Observing system;
b) a numerical forecasting system at the basin scale and for the sub-regional/shelf areas; c) the
forecast products dissemination/exploitation system.
The Observing system component consists of:
• a SOOP-VOS system with RT data dissemination and test of new sensors that collect
multidisciplinary data;
• a moored buoy network (M3A) designed to serve the RT validation of the basin scale
models and the calibration of the ecosystem models;
• a satellite RT data analysis system using several satellites for sea surface elevation, sea
surface temperature and sea surface winds;
• a high space-time resolution network of autonomous subsurface profiling floats (Array for
Real-Time Geostrophic Oceanography-ARGO);
• a basin scale glider autonomous vehicle experiment;
The sampling strategy is continuously assessed by the Observing System Simulation Experiment
(OSSE) activities and a RT data management and delayed mode archiving system has been
organized
Mediterranean ocean Forecasting System: Toward Environmental Predictions-MFSTEP Executive Summary
Objectives: The Project aims at the further development of an operational forecasting system for
the Mediterranean Sea based upon three main components: a) a Real Time-RT Observing system;
b) a numerical forecasting system at the basin scale and for the sub-regional/shelf areas; c) the
forecast products dissemination/exploitation system.
The Observing system component consists of:
• a SOOP-VOS system with RT data dissemination and test of new sensors that collect
multidisciplinary data;
• a moored buoy network (M3A) designed to serve the RT validation of the basin scale
models and the calibration of the ecosystem models;
• a satellite RT data analysis system using several satellites for sea surface elevation, sea
surface temperature and sea surface winds;
• a high space-time resolution network of autonomous subsurface profiling floats (Array for
Real-Time Geostrophic Oceanography-ARGO);
• a basin scale glider autonomous vehicle experiment;
The sampling strategy is continuously assessed by the Observing System Simulation Experiment
(OSSE) activities and a RT data management and delayed mode archiving system has been
organized.Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
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