“Sea 2020” – Exercise held in Zadar County
On September 23rd and 24th 2020, ATRAC organized a two-day workshop in cooperation with the Zadar County Operational Centre, which included an exercise at sea. On the first day, we had a preparatory meeting for the exercise that was held on the next day, ATRAC presented the most important cases of pollution this year, and […]
The central role of the ocean for Earth’s climate, society and sustainable development
CMCC WebinarDecember 18, 2020 – h. 03:00 pm CET Speaker:Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean international Moderator:Nadia Pinardi, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation Abstract: The ocean is a critical element of the Earth’s system. Particularly, the ocean covers 71% of Earth surface, has a huge capacity to store and release large amounts of heat, carbon […]
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 […]
Not Just a Science Experiment
Promoting ocean science policy and management for sustainable development is the core focus of the Ocean Decade. In the next few years, ocean stakeholders worldwide will gather behind a common framework that will ensure ocean science can fully support countries in creating improved conditions for the sustainable development of the ocean. The role of science is […]
Record Heatwave in Antarctica Confirms the Continent’s Warming Trend
Another record broken in Antarctica. Certainly not one to be proud of. Satellite images released by Nasa have made headlines, revealing the extent of glacial melt over the last few weeks in the southernmost continent. Temperatures reached up to 20.75 degrees Celsius, with scientists indicating that these heatwaves are not only getting more intense but […]