EASYCO

EASYCO aims to build a Polycentric Infrastructure for Operational Ocean Modelling in the whole Atlantic Space joining capacities from all the 5 countries to forecast hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry at the regional scale using grid sizes of a few km’s.

EASYCO is a transversal project producing results for a wide range of users, including Navigation Safety, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Coastal Management and Meteorology. Direct end-users are institutions requiring results at the regional scale and indirect end-users are all the institutions requiring information at the local scale - e.g. Coastal managers, fish farmers, ports, water companies, water authorities - usually provided by SME’s.

EASYCO builds on the successful experience gathered within the project EASY focused on currents and waves in the Iberian zone, widening its scope through the contribution of extra teams from France, Spain, Ireland and UK. Its specific objectives are:

• Integrating operational forecasts of currents, waves and meteorology over the whole Atlantic Space,
• Integrating Biogeochimical models developed in the Atlantic Space for producing operational Biogeochimical forecasts over the whole area,
• Setting up fisheries management models based on the biogeochimical data and on the fishing effort,
• Setting up a filter feeders model able to relate growth, carrying capacity, primary production and circulation models,
• Setting up a users-community grouping institutions needing information on currents and biological properties for their daily activities, with special emphasis on SME’s.