University of Malta. Institute for Sustainable Energy & Chamber of Engineers (Malta)
Abstract
During the last 25 years of activity, the Physical Oceanography Research Group, previously
known as the PO-Unit, and currently established within the Department of Geosciences of the University
of Malta, has been promoting the downscaling of broad scope marine core services to higher resolution
local scale domains for the Maltese Islands. Several services are delivered either by an intrinsic data
elaboration or by making use of and integrating the COPERNICUS Marine Environment Monitoring
Service (CMEMS) data to local marine data streams. Local observations are also integrated with higher
resolution forecasts for the preparation and provision of dedicated services that address real specific needs
of sub-regional and coastal users. This effort has yielded valuable climatological datasets covering the
Maltese coastal waters and spanning over several years. This work focusses on the climatologies derived
from numerical models and satellites, and compiled within the Interreg MED programme AMAre (Actions
for Marine Protected Areas) project.peer-reviewe