1. Building a Portuguese Coastal Operational Modelling System Henrique Coelho and Paulo Leitão - Hidromod Guillaume Riflet, Angela Cânas, Rodrigo Fernandes and Ramiro Neves - Maretec

2. Goal – Downscale from coastal to local

3. Operational Products Support water quality monitorization (ex: waste water, eutrophication analysis, HAB’s); Oil Spills (Emergence Response Systems); Seal level (floods, coastal erosion);

4. Helping Monitorization MERIS Upwelling Index versus Nitrate in the discharge area of the Guia Outfall

5. Methodology Atmospheric fluxes (MM5); Large scale circulation (Mercator or HYCOM); Rivers run off (INAG – Real Time River Flow Data); Tides (Fes2004); Hydrodynamic and Biogeochemical processes (MOHID);

6. Downscalling results Estremadura Promontory (Downscalling Mercator) Algarve Coast (Downscalling HYCOM)

7. Cadiz Golf

8. Validation – Satelite versus MOHID Sea Surface Temperature; Chlorophyll; Altimetry;

9. Future Development Data assimilation : Optimal Interpolation and Kalman Filter; Interpolation and Extrapolation : Convolution methods (Higdon, 1998) ; Paralelization : Linux cluster;

10. Institutional Interaction MeteoGalicia (Atmospheric fluxes, Oil Spills); IntecMar (HAB’s, Oil spills); IPIMAR (HAB’s); ESEOO (Iberian strategy); Mercator (Large scale circulation); IBRIOOS (Task team of EUROGOOS for the Arc Atlantic);

11. Projects EROCIPS – Oil spills (underway); INSEA – Eutrophycation indexes (to during 2005); ECOOP – Sea level and HAB’s (to start in 2007); DYNCOSTAL – HAB’s