Grace Su ( grace@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9494
Applicant's Name: Farid Askari Institution: SACLANT UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE Address: VIALE SAN BARTOLOMEO, 400 19138 LA SPEZIA - ITALY Telephone: +39-0187-527332 Fax Number: +39-0187-527331 E-mail Address: askari@saclantc.nato.int coelho@saclantc.nato.int nacini@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 (3 months maximum). Start Date (month/day/year): 03/17/2004 End Date (month/day/year): 04/27/2004 SeaWiFS HRPT Station to provide data: HSPZ List of Authorized Users to access real-time data. 1. FARID ASKARI 2. EMANUEL COELHO 3. ELVIO NACINI 4. RICHARD SIGNELL 5. MICHEL RIXEN Project Title: TURBIDITY MODELING IN WEST COAST OF PORTUGAL Principal Investigator(s): EMANUEL COELHO, FARID ASKARI, & RICHARD SIGNELL 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 the coupled light/sediment/optics models using West coast of Portugal. Sea as a natural laboratory in the context of major collaborative experiment. We are comparing various meteo ocean sediment and optics models, and collecting insitu data from moored and shipboard optical instruments.