Research Projects:
The Ocean Physics And Modelling Group is involved in several research projects and initiatives funded by different organizations (EU, IOC, UNEP, Ministry of Environment etc.). The most recently funded projects are listed below:
NKUA - CORNELL GDFPInvestigation of the role of upper-ocean turbidity in impacting stratification and diapycnal turbulent transport and mixing [2020-2021]
SCRUM - II STOCHASTIC COASTAL/REGIONAL UNCERTAINTY MODELLING:
SENSITIVITY, CONSISTENCY AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO CMEMS ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION [2018-2020]
SCRUM STOCHASTIC COASTAL/REGIONAL UNCERTAINTY MODELLING:
SENSITIVITY, CONSISTENCY AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO CMEMS ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION [2018-2020]
EMODnet MedSea Checkpoint European Marine Pbservation and Data Network - MedSea Checkpoint [2013-2016]
MEDESS4MSMediterranean Decision Support System for Marine Safety [2012-2015]
MyOcean 2Integration of pan-European capacity for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting (GMES Programme) [2012-2014]
TOSCATracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness Network [2010-2013]
MARINAMARINA Platform: Evaluation of multi-purpose platforms for Marine Renewable Energy [2010-2013]
- MARINA Tidal analysis at test sites
PARALLEL
Development of the Integrated Parallel Cyprus Coastal Ocean Forecasting System [2010-2013]
MyOceanIntegration of pan-European capacity for Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting (GMES Programme) [2009-2012]
ECOOP(European COastal sea OPerational observing and forecasting system) [2007-2010]
CIRCE(Climate change and Impact ResearCh: the Mediterranean Environment) [2007-2011]
DIAVLOSDevelopment and application of tools for oil spill dispersion management at the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil-pipe terminal (N.E. Aegean Sea) [2005-2008]
MOON(Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network)
Lagrangian Observations in the Aegean SeaProfiling Float Observations in the Aegean Sea (PFOAS)
MFSTEP(Mediterranean Forecasting System Toward Environmental Prediction)
- ADIOS (Atmospheric Deposition and Impact of pollutants, key elements and nu trients on the Open Mediterranean Sea)
- Poseidon (Monitoring, Forecasting and Information System for the Greek Seas)
- MFSPP (Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project)
- MedNet (Mediterranean model networking and archiving program). The objectives of the Ocean Physics And Modelling Group are to make available fully tested versions of the POM model software for several Mediterra nean regions (whole Mediterranean, Adriatic and Aegean Seas).
- MATER (Mediterranean Targeted Project II - Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response )
- CLIVAMP (Climatic variability of Mediterranean Paleo-Circulation)
- ECOSIM (Ecological and Environmental Monitoring and Simulation system for Management Decision support in Urban Areas)
- MERMAIDS (Mediterranean Eddy Resolving Modelling and InterDisciplinary Studi es)
- PROFILE (Integrated Modelling and Measurement of Physically controlled Fluxes and Plankton Dynamics in Coastal Seas)
- MEDMEX (Mediterranean Model Evaluation Experiment)
- Spatial and Temporal Variability of Major Floods around European coasts : Storm Surges in the Aegean Climatic Change, Sea Leve l Rise and Associated Impacts in Europe
- Geochimie et Dynamique de la Mediterranee
- Relative Sea Level changes and Extreme Flooding events around European coasts
- NIREAS
For more information about the role of the Ocean Physics And Modelling Group in each project, please visit the project's webpage or contact Dr. Sarantis Sofianos (sofianos@oc.phys.uoa.gr).