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OBJECTIVES OF THE SEA SEARCH PORTAL WEBSITE

To support researchers, engineers, and other users of oceanographic and marine data to identify and to take benefit from available data resourcesTo make researchers aware of the added value of proper data management for their work and projectsTo support researchers to develop appropriate data management plans in projects and proposalsTo provide researchers with information on expert data management organisations in EuropeTo stimulate cooperation between researchers and expert data management organisations in Europe

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Teams from the Institute of Cybernetics, Institute of Mathematical Machine andSystem Problems in Kyiv as well as Tbilisi State University in Georgia are jointly developed a prototype computer system for flood risk reduction. This system is to optimize the allocation of investments and insurance coverage in the areas,exposed to the risk of hazardous flooding.The most widely accepted approach for mitigating floods is the use of reliableflood forecasting systems. In the developed countries, the legislative and economic tools - zoning of economic activities in the flood impacted areas, different rates of insurance in dependence from flood risks - are of great importance.

 The Project was established at the end of 1998 as a co-operation between major marine research institutions in 6 Black Sea countries, with the support of NATO Science for Peace Sub-Programme.

Major objectives of the Project:

• To explore, quantify and predict the ecosystem variability of the Black Sea through process studies and development of coupled interdisciplinary models with data assimilation schemes that will allow: prediction of the future states of the sea (FORECASTING); descriptions of the present (NOWCASTING) and the past states of the sea and displaying trends and changes (HINDCASTING).
• To develop further the NATO Black Sea Data Base and Management System for management oriented operational marine forecasting and research, requiring transmission to a wide variety of users quality controlled data received from moored buoys, ships, drifting sensor arrays, fixed platforms and satellites, with stringent requirements in DBMS-to-USER transmission in delayed and / or near-real-time modes.
  

http://sfp1.ims.metu.edu.tr/

The overall objective of the MEDAR/MEDATLAS II project is to make available a comprehensive data product of temperature, salinity and bio-chemical data in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, through a wide co-operation of the Mediterranean countries.

http://www.ifremer.fr/medar/
http://doga.ogs.trieste.it/medar