Dutch title: NOWESP project in het kader van het Europees programma Zeewetenschappen Funder identifier: P103/3E931080 (Other contract id) Acronym: NOWESP Period: August 1993 till December 1996 Status: Completed
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Marine Ecosystem Management; Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models; Brussel (KBIN-BMM)
Pichot, Georges
Abstract
The North-West European shelf is one of the world's largest and its waters belong to the best studied areas of this kind. The area represents an important transit region for dissolved and particulate matter stemming from major European rivers.
Extended research cruises, combined with a number of numerical models, have produced a high level of knowledge. The combined data sets of this area provide one of the most detailed sets of observations ever undertaken in any shelf sea. However due to the large scale and the strong variability of the phenomena involved, present knowledge still has a fragmentary character. No insight exists into the long term evolution of the shelf system and no reliable estimates are available regarding the net retention or release of matter.
The aim is to collect all available experimental and simulation data on the North West European Continenal Shelf and use them to compute fluxes of all kind of constituants (pollutants, heavy metals, carbon...).
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