Artificial reefs are considered one of the alternative methods in fisheries management, used in order to enhance stocks and marine biodiversity in general. A number of biotic and abiotic parameters influence the fouling communities’ formation on artificial reefs through complex interactions. In order to understand how epibiotic or fouling communities progress through time, it is important to st...

Among the national varieties of investment employed in European electricity development, Spanish studies have focused on strategies large companies based mature markets, such as Catalonia or Madrid, but only traditional systems, Levantine. The purpose this article is to answer following question: What impact did foreign configuration Levantine/Spanish systems during interwar period? concludes t...

The Ships Of Opportunity Program in the Mediterranean Sea was established at the end of 1999, in the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System – Pilot Project (MFS-PP). Many improvements have been made in data collection, transmission and management. Calibration of selected XBTs and a comparison of XBTs vs. CTDs during some research cruises have assured the quality of the data. Transmis...

An improved estimation of the surface currents in Levantine Basin Mediterranean sea is crucial for a wide range applications, including pollutants transport and nutrients distribution. This remains challenging due to scarcity or shortcomings various data types used this purpose. In paper, we present an objective validation variational assimilation algorithm that blends geostrophic velocities de...

The present study deals with the implementation of an eddy resolving model of the Levantine and Aegean basins and its one-way nesting with a coarse resolution (1/8× 1/8) global Mediterranean general circulation model. The modelling effort is done within the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project as an initiative towards real-time forecasting within the eastern Mediterra...

Concern about marine litter has been rising in the last decades, triggered by the discovery of the great mid-ocean garbage patches. The Mediterranean Sea is strongly affected by the presence of floating litter, as it has a very high amount of waste generated annually per person that eventually ends up in its waters, with plastic objects accounting for a large percentage of all manmade debris. I...