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‰ Long-term routine monitoring and assessment activities in coastal waters to complement
existing field measurements and observations. High-resolving model information can
provide a far more consistent picture than single point time series or accidental
observations. This is also true for models in connection with the vast amount of data from
ferry box operations.
‰ Future planning activities and necessary assistance in decision support by providing
impact assessment information. The very existence of an operational system could help to
avoid considerable efforts and costs for the set-up and qualification of another version of
consulting tool (preventing the everlasting reinvention of the wheel).
‰ Needs of short-term information provision like nowadays weather forecasts. Such
applications could include early warning systems (pollution control or hazardous surge
predictions) and on-line nowcast information on current and wave conditions. However,
especially the necessary on-line data flow from field stations and larger-scale hydrographic
and meteorological models prove to be essential and (in most cases) very expensive.
There are however strong handicaps in exploiting fully the advantages of routinely running
operational models. These are essentially a lack of long-term technical and financial support
from the local administrative network engaged in CZM and the diffuse definition of a ‘coastal
manager’.
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