Second Year Results

A large amount of historical data (geographical, physical, meteorological, hydrological, oceanographic, sedimentological, and water and sediment quality) have been collected from local archives and they have been organized in a preliminary data base. The archive has been made available on the official web site of the project and it will be organized in the third year in a well-structured archive of historical data for Montenegro area.
Regarding the collection of new observations for a new monitoring system of the Montenegro river and coastal area, new instruments for environmental monitoring have been purchased and installed during the second year. They are:

• 2 water quality stations (installed in Bokakotorska Bay and Bojana River)
• 2 hydrological stations (Bar and Fraskanjel)
• 1 flow monitoring station;
• 1 portable water quality probe
• 2 plankton nets, 1 Fume cupboard, 1 Water bath, 1 Water still
• 1 Rosette for CTD measurements
• 1 underwater video system

First Year Results

During the first year of the project, the final areas of investigation have been decided from a geographical, hydro-meteorological, physical, oceanographic  and hydrologic point of view.  A large amount of historical data has been rescued from different archives and the available data gave information on physics, geography, oceanography, hydro-meteorology, urban and non-urban waters,  sediments. The quality control on the rescued data has started.

A plan for the acquisition of monitoring instruments and platforms has been devised that considers:
1) the hydrometeorological monitoring with land surface stations;
2) the river transport and water quality station;
3) the coastal and shelf area monitoring by stations and ship surveys, including the Bokakotorska Bay.

A very accurate analysis of the instrumentation to be acquired has been carried out. The plans and schedules for the bathymetric surveys of the Bokakotorska bay and the coastal strip have been defined. Two of the four seasonal oceanographic cruises have been carried out in November 2007 and January 2008.

The ADRICOSM satellite data products have been consolidated and new algorithms for ocean colour defined. The real time satellite data delivery has been assured, the format of the satellite products has been changed and new catalogues created for historical satellite data sets.

The VOS program for XBT ocean temperature profiles and meteorological data has been continued along the track Trieste-Durres-Bari , and a new system for the management of the data has been tested.

Different experiments aimed at the upgrade of the T-Flap probes have been carried out. In particular the experiments where focused on the measurements of depth, falling velocity, trim, acceleration and impact, fluorescence, and on the calibration system.