LIFE Calliope NAT/IT/000565Coastal dune habitats, sublittoral sandbanks marine reefs: conservation, protection, and threats mitigation
LIFE CALLIOPE is a project co-founded by the European Union under the LIFE+ Program to protect and improve coastal and marine environments. The LIFE + Program is the financial instrument of the European Commission for environment and nature protection. The ‘Nature & Biodiversity’ component is aimed at the conservation of rare and threatened species and […]
SeaConditions
SeaConditions is a service providing oceanographic, sea state and weather forecasts for the entire Mediterranean Sea. The user interested in knowing the weather forecast at sea will find in SeaConditions a single point of access to oceanographic and sea state forecasts (sea surface temperature, surface currents, significant wave height and direction, wave period and direction, sea level), meteorological forecasts […]
The VISIR numerical model for marine tracks
VISIR is a numerical model for computing optimal maritime tracks. Its development started at CMCC from scratch in 2012. VISIR is based on a graph-search method and uses dynamic meteo-oceanographic fields for computing optimal maritime tracks. Furthermore, VISIR considers both static constraints, such as avoidance of shallow waters, as well as time-dependent constraints related to […]
Sea ice melting and the warm currents of the Atlantic Ocean: the steps forward of science for increasingly detailed information
Arctic sea ice decreases; among the causes that have contributed to this recent loss, the poleward heat transport from the North Atlantic Ocean into the Arctic: a topic that we are able to deepen thanks to the innovation developed in the field of modelling and complex systems that can currently simulate the behaviour of the ocean […]
AdriaClim – Climate change information, monitoring and management tools for adaptation strategies in Adriatic coastal areas
The main objective of AdriaClim is to improve climate resilience in the cooperation area, by increasing the capacity to develop new climate adaptation plans and update existing ones and develop mitigation strategies based on high resolution, more accurate and reliable climate information (observations and integrated modeling) focussed on the coastal and marine areas (threatened by […]
Disentangling the effect of coastal erosion and accretion on plant communities of Mediterranean dune ecosystems
Coastal erosion, in combination with sea-level rise and extreme meteorological events, is globally threatening the biodiversity and functioning of dune ecosystems, along with the essential ecosystem services they provide. In this study, by quantifying the intensity of erosion and accretion processes occurred over two decades in a wide Mediterranean dune system, we explore the influence of sand processes […]
