Operational Oceanography

Preface (N.C. Flemming). EuroGOOS Conference (S. Vallerga). Introductions. The Second EuroGOOS Conference; Introduction (D. Tromp). The EuroGOOS forward look (J.D. Woods). EUROMAR - A new era (P. Ehlers). Evaluation of Operational Oceanographic Services. Valuing marine activities in Europe: provisional estimates, concepts and data sources (M. Brown). The EuroGOOS data requirements survey (J. Fischer, N.C. Flemming). Economic assessments of the value of marine industries and services and user requirements (L. Castellucci). The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) in 1998 (C. Summerhayes). Operational Oceanography for Sustainable Coastal and Regional Development. Real-time forecast modelling for the NW European Shelf Seas (M.W. Holt). Increasing resolution and forecast length with a parallel ocean model (T. Wilhelmsson et al.). Operational hydrodynamical model of the Danish waters. Danish National Program for Monitoring the Water Environment (H.R. Jensen et al.). Spanish Ocean Observation System. IEO core project: Studies on time series of oceanographic data (L. Valdés et al.). Long-term surface observations from ships of opportunity in Norwegian waters (T. Gytre et al.). CORIOLIS-Atlantic, an in situ network for operational oceanography (P. Marchand). Sea level measuring network in Finland (O. Korhonen). Ferry observations on temperature, salinity and currents in the Marsdiep tidal inlet between the North Sea and Wadden Sea (H. Ridderinkhof et al.). Operational forecasts during the construction of the Fixed Link across the Öresund (L. Funkquist). Storminess and environmentally sensitive Atlantic coastal areas of the European Union (I. Lozano). EUROGOOS Regional Seas Projects. Monitoring of the Arctic Ocean (O.M. Johannessen, S. Sandven). Forecasting the Baltic (E. Buch). Mediterranean ocean forecasting system: First phase of implementation (N. Pinardi et al.). Forecasting the Atlantic: Towards an Atlantic Pilot Experiment (C. Le Provost). Operational Ocean Forecasting for the Mediterranean Region. Operational forecasting in the Aegean Sea: The POSEIDON system (K. Nittis et al.). Remote sensing data for the Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project (P.Y. Le Traon et al.). Operational system for marine prediction in the Mediterranean: Description and products (B. Telenta et al.). Diagnostic simulations of the seasonal circulation in the Sicily Channel (R. Sorgente, M. Zavatarelli). New Technology for Operational Oceanography and Technology Transfer. A newly designed deep sea YOYO-profiler for long term moored deployment (C. Waldmann et al.). Coastal environment of the Seine Bay area monitored by a new French system of automated measurement stations (P. Woerther).The potential of HF radar for coastal and shelf sea monitoring(L.R. Wyatt). Design and use of advanced technology devices for sea water monitoring (G. Zappalà et al.). The use of "CARAVELA 2000®" vehicles in operational oceanography (M. Alves et al.). A new concept for rapid assessment of oceanic environment (V. Mariette et al.). A bi-directional data link into the deep sea - The DOMEST project(G. Meinecke et al.). GEOSTAR - GEophysical and Oceanographic Station for Abyssal Research (L. Beranzoli et al.). Ferries in operational oceanography - The German Ferry Box project (P. Koske). Mobile lidar fluorosensor equipment for continuous seawaters monitoring and in situ photosynthetic measurements: The ENEA realisation (R. Barbini et al.). Experimentation of an innovative Lagrangian coastal drifter (A. Ribotti et al.). Global Monitoring and Modelling for Climate Change Prediction. Real-time ocean forecast modelling for the Global Ocean and the Atlantic (H. Cattle et al.). Meeting the Challenge: Real-time sea-state forecast modelling for the Atlantic at The Met Office (M.W. Holt).European co-ordination in meteorology (F. Gérard). Acoustic Monitoring of Ocean Climate in the Arctic (AMOC) (O.M. Johannessen et al.). Initial concepts for IAS-GOOS (C.N.K. Mooers et al.