Frontier research in operational oceanography between the Mediterranean and China Seas

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Coastal ocean science emerged as a very important issue in the 2000s when the world recognized the strategic importance and new major threats and challenges of this key environment. As climate change and its impacts represent severe stress on coastal environments, operational oceanography, coastal modeling and data assimilation, regional climate change projections, global ocean reanalyzes, and climate modeling have become essential to forecast and prevent hazards and disasters on natural and human ecosystems, societies, and economics. Oceans are different from laboratory experiments where you can change initial conditions; in the oceans you can’t change your settings and that’s the reason why comparisons are very important. To this end, a China-Italy international cooperation between CMCC, INGV, OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale) and National Marine Environment Forecasting Center (NMEFC) – State Oceanic Administration (SOA) of China was established. Climate Science and Policy had a conversation with ocean experts Xiaolei Yi (NMEFC) and Jilan Su (SOA) to have an overview of research frontiers such as ocean science progresses. Interview by Laura Caciagli.

Read the full interview  on Climate Science & Policy, the free digital magazine edited by CMCC.

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