The group will:
- quantify, simulate and warn of the climatic and oceanographic state, variability and changes of the ocean
- evaluate the significance of these for the dynamics of marine ecosystems, particularly in relation to the production, distribution and behaviour of marine organisms
- understand and quantify plankton production and the recruitment, reproduction, growth and behaviour of fish by means of studies of critical mechanisms related to lower trophic levels
- develop a modelling tool capable of quantifying the various levels and interactions within the ecosystem, with particular emphasis on fish populations.
The group will systematically monitor hydrography, current conditions, nutrient salts and primary production. Monitoring will take place over regular trajectories, at fixed stations and via regional coverage of the open sea, coastal regions and fjords.
Numerical models of the ocean will be utilised to re-create integrated pictures of the state of the ocean in the past, present and future. |
