• Introduction
• Links to coastal observatories
• Grants and exchange visits
• October 2006 workshop
• Results from long term measurements
• Utilising long term measurements in model hindcasts
• Data assimilation
• Design of observing / modelling systems
• Application of observatories to the management of shelf seas
• October 2007 workshop
• March 2009 workshop

October 2006 workshop

Best practice in the synthesis of long-term observations and models

This, the first workshop was held at the Liverpool University Foresight Centre, Liverpool, UK, during 17-19 October 2006. Workshop presentations ( in Microsoft PowerPoint format) made during the five sessions can be downloaded from the menus.

Results from long term measurements

• Liverpool Bay Coastal Observatory ( ppt 13M)
  John Howarth, Roger Proctor, Phil Knight & Mike Smithson, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, UK.
  
  
• An ecosystem approach to long-term coastal observing the western English Channel ( ppt 10M)
  Matt Frost et al., Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.
  
  
• (Not yet available) Data visualisation and interoperability: the western Channel Observatory
  Steve Groom et al., Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK.
  
  
• The Tiree Passage (1981 - 2005) and Ellett line shelf stations (1975 - 2005) ( ppt 2M)
  Phil Gillibrand, Mark Inall, Colin Griffiths, Neil Macdougal, Kimberly Blackwell and Graham Walkden, Scottish Association of Marine Science, UK.
  
  
• Understanding North Sea ecosystem dynamics - is three decades enough? ( 4M)
  Chris Frid, Liverpool University, UK