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Modelling support at the European Commission

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is operating a number of computer models to simulate the physical, chemical and biological aspects of freshwater and of the marine environment on an EU-wide level. In order to build policy assessment based on these models, there needs to be a structure that feeds policy-relevant information into the models and that interprets the model results in a way that is meaningful in a policy context.

My specific role is to develop a model configuration focusing on European shelves and analyze the impact of different policies for the period 2020 – 2030.

Implementation of a high-resolution numerical model simulating the ocean circulation in the inner Danish Waters

  • model framework : NEMO4.0-AGRIF
  • Contracting authority : Danish Meteorological Institute: https://www.dmi.dk/
  • Short-term intensive project Oct-Dec 2018
  • offsite + 2 short stays onsite
  • large context : European Copernicus project (Marine Environment Monitoring Service): http://marine.copernicus.eu/
Snaspshot highlighting the submesocale activity in the configuration that we implemented
(a- 0.5 nautical miles, b- 2 nautical miles)


Ocean biogeochemical modelling of the Gulf of Mexico

  • determination of pollution risks hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico based on numerical experiments
  • technical and scientific support to the local ocean biogeochemical modelling team
  • model framework : NEMO-PISCES
  • contracting authority : CICESE (https://www.cicese.edu.mx/)- contract value 100 kUSD
  • long-term part-time project 2015-2019
  • offsite + annual onsite stays
  • large context CIGOM (https://cigom.org)
a – coastal landing (yellow: “hotspots”) in the case of a simultaneous release of a large numbers of tracers, The abscissae is the index of the coastline (see encapsulated figure). b- annual mean. c-e: origin (annual mean) of the tracer accumulated in c – the region 1 (Island of Cuba) , d – 2 (Bay of Campeche) and e – 3 (Mississipi’s Mouth)
Annual meeting at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico