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49-01-005
Physical Oceanography of Eastern Mediterranean
POEM
UNESCO, IOC and CIESM
POEM and POEM-BC (2nd phase of POEM, with biological and chemical components)
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste (Italy)
1/1/1984
31/12/1998
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Mediterranean Sea (30-44N, 7-36E)
Offshore
Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea
POEM was an international effort devoted to studying the circulation of the Eastern
Mediterranean Sea. It was sponsored by UNESCO, IOC and CIESM, with the
participation of researchers from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Turkey, USA
and Yugoslavia.
The multidisciplinary, multi-national co-operative POEM scientific research program
included physical, chemical and biological field observations, analysis and modelling
simulations, of the general and mesoscale circulation. The intensive field experiment
was focussing on processes studies of the formation, dispersion and spreading of the
LIW in the Levantine Basin and of the DW in the Ionian Sea.
The POEM field experiment was carried out from 1985 to 1990 (Phase 1), from 1991 to
1995 (Phase 2). The second phase that began in 1991 included also the biological and
chemical components.
The POEM Group, General Circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean, Earth Science
Rev., 32, 285–309, 1992.
Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean (POEM): The new
phenomenology of the Eastern Mediterranean. UNESCO Reports in Marine Science
no. 55, 1991.
Klein, B., W. Roether, B. B. Manca, D. Bregant, V. Beitzel, V. Kovacevic, V., A.
Luchetta, A. (1999): The large deep water transient in the Eastern Mediterranean,
Deep-Sea Res. I, 46, 371–414.
Malanotte-Rizzoli, P., B. Manca, M. R. d’Alcala, A. Theocharis, S. Brenner, G. Budillon,
E. Ozsoy (1999): The Eastern Mediterranean in the 80s and in the 90s: the big
transition in the intermediate and deep circulations, Dyn. Atmos. Oceans, 29, 365-395.
A. Michelato, V. Kovacevic (1991): Some dynamic features of the flow through the
Otranto Strait. Boll. Ocean. Teor. Appl., IX, (1), 39-50.
Roether, W., B. Klein, V. Beitzel, V., B. Manca (1998): Property distributions and
transient-tracer ages in Levantine intermediate water in the Eastern Mediterranean, J.
Mar. Syst., 18, 71–87.
Modelling, Thermohaline circulation and dynamic, Physical and bio-chemical
measurements
Dissolved gases, Hydrography (e.g. T,S), Nutrients, OCEAN COMPOSITION,
PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste (Italy)
Participant
Co-chairman: Prof. P. Malanotte – Rizzoli, MIT (USA) and Prof. A. Robinson, Harvard
University (USA)
Steering group: Dr. S. Brenner, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research,
Haifa (Israel); Prof. U. Unluata, Institute of Marine Sciences (METU), Erdemli (Turkey);
Prof. A. Theocharis, National Center for Marine Research, Athens (Greece); Dr. M.
Gacic, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split (Croatia); Prof. W. Roether,
University of Bremen (Germany); Dr. A. Michelato and B. Manca, Istituto Nazionale di
Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Trieste (Italy)
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Partner: Istituto Ricerche Pesca Marittima, Ancona (Italy); Dipartimento di Fisica
dell'Universita', Roma (Italy); Istituto Universitario Navale, Napoli (Italy); Ministry of
Agriculture - Fisheries Department, Nicosia (Cyprus)
Dr. B. Manca, OGS, Italy
OGS, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Borgo
Grotta Gigante 42/c, 34010 Sgonico (Trieste), Italy
+39-040-2140201
+39-040-2140266
bmanca@ogs.trieste.it
A. Giorgetti, OGS, Italy (agiorgetti@ogs.trieste.it)
26/09/2003
26/09/2003
OGS, Trieste, Italy
26/09/2003