Situational sea awareness technologies for maritime safety and marine environment protection
Situational sea awareness technologies for maritime safety and marine environment protection
Editor(s): N. Pinardi, I. Federico, A. Olita, P. Marra, and R. Archetti
Situational sea awareness (SSA) is a field of applied oceanography that relies on operational oceanographic products (analyses, re-analyses and forecasts) to inform users about environmental conditions at sea, including early warning for marine extremes and hazards. The key is to develop information technologies capable of disseminating user-oriented information that is based upon rapidly changing data from wind, waves and current forecasts. Situational sea awareness is useful for all maritime operations, from ship routing to search and rescue, offshore hydrocarbon exploration and fisheries, where the knowledge of the environmental conditions is required to carry out operations at sea safely and efficiently. The environmental data of interest are the meteo-oceanographic analyses and forecasts as well as the related positions of objects and substances in the whole water column.

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13 Apr 2017
SeaConditions: a web and mobile service for safer professional and recreational activities in the Mediterranean Sea
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23 Feb 2017
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15 Feb 2017
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14 Feb 2017
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13 Feb 2017
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30 Jan 2017
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11 Jan 2017
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06 Jan 2017
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05 Jan 2017
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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 17–30, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-17-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-17-2017, 2017
15 Dec 2016
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09 Dec 2016
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01 Dec 2016
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06 Sep 2016
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02 Sep 2016
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30 Aug 2016
Decision support system for emergency management of oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Sea
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29 Aug 2016
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09 Aug 2016
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03 Aug 2016
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27 Jul 2016
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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1623–1628, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1623-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1623-2016, 2016
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20 Jul 2016
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06 Jul 2016
Hydrodynamic modelling of coastal seas: the role of tidal dynamics in the Messina Strait, Western Mediterranean Sea
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Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1553–1569, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1553-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1553-2016, 2016
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01 Jul 2016
High-resolution wave and hydrodynamics modelling in coastal areas: operational applications for coastal planning, decision support and assessment
Achilleas G. Samaras, Maria Gabriella Gaeta, Adrià Moreno Miquel, and Renata Archetti
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1499–1518, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1499-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1499-2016, 2016
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