Tasks

• The Marine Dynamics and Numerical Simulations team has analysed and validated model results with in situ data to determine the optimal parameter set for the ecosystem model in the Cretan Sea.
• Further to the above the 1-D ERSEM/POM model is applied at the same location with the M3A buoy using the optimal parameterisation.
  Hindcast experiments have been performed using the biogeochemical data from the buoy and concurrent high frequency meteorological forcing.
• In addition, the 3-D model has been applied in the North Cretan Sea. Some of the results, in respect of chlorophyll concentrations, can be seen as a 2-D representation of the 3-D model.