Marine Hydrophysical Institute

Dynamics of Oceanic Processes Department

Professor Gennady K. Korotaev- Head of Dynamics of Oceanic Processes Department

In 1980-90 Department took part in the investigations of the World Ocean with the aid of the first Soviet oceanographically satellites, starting from "Cosmos - 1151" and "Intercosmos-21”. Satellite remote sensing computer databases were created, optical models were studied, algorithms and computer software.

Scientists - 8; Post-graduate students - 1; Engineers - 9; Technician - 2

Basic scientific directions

Creation of interdisciplinary models of the Black ecosystem sea, of separate regions of the World Ocean and other pools oriented on exact quantitative conformity to observations.
Development of methods of interpretation and use of data of space observations with the purposes of definition of hydrophysical and ecological parameters of marine water areas.
Development and experimental test of methods of assimilation of satellite and direct observations in models of marine ecosystems.

Projects & Results

The Work Package in framework of EC FP6 project ECOOP
The Black Sea ecosystem modeling in framework of EC FP6 project SESAME
The Work Package in framework of EC FP6 project ASCABOS
CRDF (USA) project UG2-2536 Interdisciplinary “Modeling Studies for the Black Sea Circulation and Ecosystem” (in collaboration with MIT and IMS)
The Work Package in frame of EC-FP5 project ARENA
The IOC regional project Black Sea GOOS of the riparian countries, member of the project Steering Committee.
The project «Observations atmospheriques, bio-optiques et hydrologiques a long terme dans La Mer Noir pour la validation des produits MERIS” (in collaboration with University Littoral Cote D'Azur, Dunkerque, France; funded by CNES).
Remote sensing of the marine ecology system (Project of Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, finished in April 2005).
Remote Sensing of the Ocean (Project Manager, Partner Program of Science and Technology Center in Ukraine; funded by Satlantic Inc.(Canada) finished in 2001).
The project of Civilian and Research Development Foundation (USA) “Monitoring of the Black Sea mesoscale circulation based on assimilation of altimetry, passive microwaves/scatterometer wind field and imagery”. (in collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA; finished in 2001).

A regional capacity building and Networking programme to upgrade monitoring and forecasting Activity in the black sea basin (ARENA)

Pilot experiment on operational functioning of the Black Sea Nowcasting/Forecasting System.

One of the objectives of the Black Sea Global Ocean Observing System is a promotion of the Nowcasting/Forecasting System of the Black Sea, in order to implement the operational oceanography in the Black Sea region.
The first phase in the realization of this goal is the development of the Pilot Nowcasting/Forecasting System of the Black Sea Circulation in the framework of project ARENA funded by the EU. 
The ARENA project includes the implementation of advanced modelling and data assimilation tools for near real time prediction.

Nowcasting/Forecasting System of the Black Sea Global Circulation

Nowcasting/Forecasting Subsystem of the Circulation in the Black Sea Nearshore Regions

Remote Sensing of the Marine Ecology Systems ( Project 2241)

Project goals:
• To show efficiency of marine ecosystem monitoring based on synergy of different space mission data;
• To present potential of the Ukrainian space system 'Sych' for remote sensing of marine ecosystem.

The system of nowcast of the Black Sea three dimensional dynamics is developed within the framework of the project “Remote Sensing of Marine Ecosystem” using financial support of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine. It functions assimilating space remote sensing data in the model of basin-scale circulation at a near-real time mode. The observations of various space missions are provided by AVISO (France), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA), Goddard Space Flight Center. Data of NOAA series satellites and the Ukrainian program “Sych” are received and processed directly in MHI NASU. Fluxes on the sea surface are specified using NCEP (USA) and NMA (Romania) reanalysis.
The Black Sea nowcasting is build on the basis of the concept of satellite monitoring of the ocean that was developed in the 80ies of the last century by the group of Professor Gennady Korotaev. The system realization is promoted by the fruitful collaboration with Professors Marlon Lewis from the Dalhouse University (Halifax, Canada) and Georges Khomenko from the University Littoral (Dunkerque, France),
Now the Black Sea nowcasting is a component of the basin-scale observing system that is developed by the project “Black Sea GOOS” of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the project “ARENA” of the European Commission. A system outputs are planned to be widely applied to the marine ecology, recreation, fishing, safety of marine transportation and industrial exploitation of the marine shelf is planned in future to satisfy the end-user needs

The scheme of the Nowcasting System

		Data Processing Centers
		INTERNET
		MHI Local Network
		Remote Sensing
RAR Calibretion		Sea Surface Temperature		Satellite altimeter Tracks
Archives MHI NASU Heat and Water Fluxes and Rivers Dischargers		Wind fields
		Dynamic boundary conditions specifying
Validation of Modelling Fields
		Output Products 35 depth levels mesh 5x5 km
		Temperature		Current Velocity
		Sea Level		Salinity
			INTERNET

Publications

Knysh V.V., Saenko O.A., Sarkisyan A.S. Method of assimilation of altimeter data and its test in the tropical North Atlantic, Rus. J. Numer. Anal. Math- Modeling., v.11,5, I996.P.393-409.
Knysh V.Y. and Chernov V.V., 1996: Altimeter Data assimilation into an Ocean Circulation Model: sensitivity to Conditions on open Boundaries Phys. Atm, and Ocean, v.32, N 1, p.117-124 (in Russian).
Korotaev G.K., Saenko O.A., Koblinsky C.J., Demyshev S.G. and Knysh V.V., 1998: An accuracy estimation, methodology and Some results of assimilation of the TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data into the Black Sea genera! circulation model. Earth. Res. Spase, N 5,( in Russian).
Ryabcev Y.N,. Shapiro N,B, Modeling of cold intermediate layer formation and evolution at the Black sea. Marine hydrophysical journal, 1995, N 1, p.51-66.
Ivanov V.A., Kubryakov A.I., Mikhailova E.N., Shapiro N.B. Modeling of river outflow freshening effect during spring flood at the Black sea northwestern shelf, J.Phys, Atm. and Ocean, 1996, v.32, N 1, p.152-160.
Kosnyrev V.K.., Mikhailova E.N., Shapiro N.B. Numerical modeling of upwelling in the northwester Black sea. Meteorology and Hydrology. 1996, N 12, p.65-72.
Pavlushin A.A., Shapiro N.B. Simulation of seasonal variability in Atlantic ocean using quasiisopicnal model. Marine hydrophysical journal. 1996, N 4, p.3-12.
Korotaev G,K., Suetin V,S., Suslin V.V. Indian ocean color field estimation from Intercosmos-21 MKS-spectrometer, in: Biogeochemical Processes in the Arabian Sea, Proc. Of U.S.-C.I.S. Arabian Sea Workshop, Sevastopol, Ukraine, September 1993.
Ignatov A.M. Stowe L.L., Sakerin S.M., Korotaev G.K. Validation of the NOAA/NESDIS satellite aerosol product over the North Atlantic in 1989. Journal of Geophys.Res., v.100, p.5123-5132, 1995.
Suetin V.S., Sychev E.N,. Suslin V,V,, Korolev S.N. Removal of atmospheric effects from satellite imagery of the Black Sea, in: Proc. 4-th Ukrainian-Russian-Chinese Symp. on Space Science and Technology, Kyiv, 1996.
Souetin V.S., Corotaev G.K. MOS data processing algorithm development and subsatellite experiments in the Black sea, in: Proc, 1-st International Workshop on MOS-IRS and Ocean Color, Berlin, 1997.
Suetin V.S., Sychev B.N.. Suslin V.V., Korolev S.N. Elimination of aerosol distortions in analyzing Black Sea observations by the NIMBUS-7 satellite- Marine Hydrophysical Journal, 1997, N 4 (in Russian

For further information please contact:
Dynamics of Oceanic Processes Department
Marine Hydrophysical Institute,
2, Kapitanskaya St., Sevastopol, 99011, Ukraine
Phone: 380-692-540452
E-mail: odop@alpha.mhi.iuf.ne

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