The Coastal Water Dynamics pilot is a component of the Earth & Environmental Dynamics use case. It strives to study specific processes taking place near river estuaries, for instance:
- evolution of plankton blooms
- transport and fate of nutrients, carbon, and contaminants
- mixing between fresh and salty water at the edges of the river plumes.
All these process depend critically on many factors, including river discharge, ocean circulation, meteorological conditions and biogeochemical processes in the water column.
Region of interest¶
The pilot focuses on the northern Adriatic Sea, with a specific focus on the region where the Po river discharges into the sea.
Tools¶
Three main tools, described in details in the next sections, are exploited for this use case: