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Poseidon Progress in the Agean
01 Sep 2006
The company will be upgrading 11 existing oceanographic buoys and numerical forecasting capabilities whilst also installing their own buoy technology, ocean instrumentation and a supercomputer. The Poseidon II The expected benefits from upgrading and extending the Poseidon system include a reinforcement of national security, the provision of data and information on the real-time condition of the sea (hydrodynamic, chemical, biological and physical) as well as the provision of reliable short term and long term forecasting on sea conditions, safe shipping, and the protection of the marine ecosystem.
Poseidon II sees a number of instances of international cooperation. It will explore new measurement techniques to estimate the total precipitation at the sea surface based on acoustic measurements at great depths.
This part of the project will be run in cooperation with NASD and the University of Connecticut in the USA. Also working in close cooperation with the University of the Aegean, the project will focus on the calibration of instruments and data management. The delivery of a new generation atmospheric model with improved schemes for data assimilation will involve the Universities of Athens and Connecticut.
Throughout the 26 month contract publications and reports will be prepared to demonstrate the progress of the project and its importance to both the public and to marine research in the Eastern Mediterranean. The work of the existing Poseidon system can be seen at www.Poseidon. ncmr. gr MJInformation No: 22209
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