Grace Su ( license@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9494
Applicant's Name: Farid Askari Institution: SACLANT Undersea Research Centre Address: Viale San Bartolomeo 400 19138La Spezia, SP ITALY Telephone: 39-0187-527-332 Fax Number: 39-0187-527-331 E-mail Address: askari@saclantc.nato.int Type of Temporary Agreement requested: An agreement that temporarily enables a non-real time SeaWiFS HRPT station to decrypt real-time data and release it to the Authorized Users list. Time period of temporary agreement: Dates (month/day/year): 04/16/2003 - 05/13/2003 05/14/2003 - 07/08/2003 SeaWiFS HRPT Station to provide data: HSPZ List of Authorized Users to access real-time data. 1. Farid Askari 2. Richard Signell 3. Elvio Nacini 4. Craig Lee Project Title: Turbidity Modeling in the Adriatic Sea Principal Investigator(s): Richard Signell, Farid Askari Funding Agency(s): NATO/SACLANT Undersea Research Centre Description of the Research Project and Justification for Real-time SeaWiFS Data: This project seeks to assess the performance of coupled light/sediment/optics models using the Adriatic Sea as a natural laboratory in the context of a major collaborative experiment. We are comparing various meteo, ocean, sediment, and optics models: COAMPS, LAMI, NCOM, ROMS and LSOM and collecting insitu data from moored and shipboard optical instruments. The near realtime SeaWiFS data will be used for adaptive sampling of optical properties while at sea in the Adriatic, and for comparison to simulated model results.