OPERR
Operational Pan-European River Runoff
| Coordinatore | SVERIGES METEOROLOGISKA OCH HYDROLOGISKA INSTITUT
Organization address
address: Folkborgsvaegen 1 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Sweden [SE] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.smhi.se/operr |
| Totale costo | 591˙653 € |
| EC contributo | 396˙031 € |
| Programma | FP7-SPACE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space |
| Code Call | FP7-SPACE-2010-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CSA-SA |
| Anno di inizio | 2011 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2011-02-01 - 2013-01-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SVERIGES METEOROLOGISKA OCH HYDROLOGISKA INSTITUT
Organization address
address: Folkborgsvaegen 1 contact info |
SE (NORRKOEPING) | coordinator | 120˙000.00 |
| 2 |
METEOROLOGISK INSTITUTT
Organization address
address: HENRIK MOHNS PLASS 1 contact info |
NO (OSLO) | participant | 89˙256.00 |
| 3 |
HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET
Organization address
address: NORDNESGATEN 50 contact info |
NO (BERGEN) | participant | 85˙800.00 |
| 4 |
FUNDACION AZTI/AZTI FUNDAZIOA
Organization address
address: Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g contact info |
ES (SUKARRIETA (BIZKAIA)) | participant | 81˙175.55 |
| 5 |
MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE - UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Organization address
address: KAPITANSKAYA STR. 2 contact info |
UA (SEVASTOPOL) | participant | 19˙800.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The overall objective of the project is twofold, first to turn a pan-European river discharge model into operational use and thereby acting as a downstream service based on earlier developed GMES core services and at the same time stimulating the development and improvement of new downstream services. This objective will be achieved by extending an already running operational river discharge model (HYPE) for the Baltic Sea drainage basin to cover all European rivers. A sustainable operational system will be built up to respond to GMES downstream services like coastal ocean models, regional environmental commissions like HELCOM and OSPAR, regional and national operational institutes, environmental protection agencies, fishery boards, water regulation bodies and SME’s working in this area. The second objective is the validation of observed river discharge and the river discharge estimates produced by the project in applications of shelf sea ocean.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
Climate models rely on good quality and quantities of data for accuracy and relevance. A recent research project contributed to this need by improving data capture for European river discharge (runoff).
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Changes in the sea shelf can only be accurately predicted if researchers are able to carefully model river discharge across the whole of Europe. This big data endeavour requires improved data collection and management, as well as careful validation using mathematical estimates.
'Operational pan-European river runoff' (OPERR) was an EU-funded project dedicated to providing improved data and modelling services for regional and national climate modelling institutions. Achieving this goal requires implementation of data support tasks, data validation and some modelling work.
The first project objective was to collect, collate and clean river runoff data for use in modelling applications. Several prior runoff projects around Europe provided the information for the simulations.
OPERR's second objective was to validate these data using hindcasting (estimating past values to test the model) for various areas in Europe. Overall, the data closely predicted the actual values, with a general trend of underestimation of the total runoff. Short-term variability, in particular, was well predicted.
Project work has thus provided a valuable toolset. Data generated can now be used for a range of modelling applications, which will support research, environmental policy and economic activities.