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Simona Simoncelli¹
Paolo Oddo ² and Nadia Pinardi ^2,3

(1) Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
(2) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Bologna, Italy
(3) Laboratorio SINCEM, Corso di Scienze Ambientali, Ravenna, Italy

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A coastal ocean forecast in the Emilia Romagna region is necessary to protect the coastal environment and to respond to operational assessment requests on a very short notice. The concept of Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) is initially based on observations that can provide an accurate description of the present status of the coastal ocean and environmental prediction within a short time. An integrated observing and prediction system is necessary to both initialize a numerical model and assimilate data from the coastal monitoring network. This work in particular aims to establish a REA system from the Environmental Protection Agency coastal monitoring network and the large scale operational forecasting system of the Adriatic Basin.
To achieve this goal we implemented the Princeton Ocean Model in the Northern Adriatic and nested it in the Regional Adriatic forecasting system. A multi-scaling optimal interpolation technique is applied to meld coastal data and large scale fields in the model initialization and data assimilation procedures.

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