Canary Islands Azores Gibraltar Observation

Objective

CANIGO is an integrated European research project with the common objective of understanding the functioning of the marine system in the Canary-Azores-Gibraltar region of the northeast Atlantic Ocean and its links with the Alboran Sea through comprehensive interdisciplinary basin scale studies. The ocean domain covered by the CANIGO project is a special region in European waters as it includes the eastern subtropical North Atlantic gyre, a coastal upwelling zone, the Mediterranean-Atlantic exchange, and the deposition of particle fluxes from the Sahara. This combination of large scale phenomena makes it a key region for global scale processes. The understanding of the physical fluxes and the related biological and geochemical processes thus contributes to the scientific knowledge in the much wider context of climate change and the carbon budget.
The main goals studies of :
- mass, heat and nutrient transports in the Azores Current, their contribution to the Eastern Boundary Current, the effects of topography and islands on the flow, the interaction with the upwelling regime and the role of mesoscale variability,
- biogeochemical processes controlling the carbon flux in the upper ocean, including the air-sea exchange, the chemistry of the carbon cycle, and nutrient changes associated with assimilation and sedimentation. - fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter in the water column and across the sediment-water interface and flux variability through the last glacial- interglacial cycle,
- exchange of heat and water and biogeochemical fluxes between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, control mechanisms in the Straits of Gibraltar, and the ecology of the Gibraltar-Alboran area,
- the spreading and divergence of Mediterranean Water, including the effects of entrainment and bottom topography the processes originating the vertical splitting of the Mediterranean Outflow into different cores and the generatio and evolution of meddies.
The work programme consists of observations with ships, moored instrumentati drifters and acoustic tomography, of laboratory experiments, the use of satellite data, numerical modelling and the processing and joint analysis of data. Cruises will generally be multidisciplinary and multinational. (In the coordinator budget is included the Ship cost (Total: 5704 KECUS, Requested EU: 1590 KECUS)

Fields of science

• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geology › sedimentology
• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › planetary sciences › planetary geology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › ecology
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes

Programme(s)

• FP4-MAST 3 - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of marine science and technology, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 010303 - The Canary-Azores region and the Alboran Sea

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUTO ESPANOL DE OCEANOGRAFIA

Address

8,avenida Del Brasil 31
28002 Madrid
Spain

Participants (44)

Ainco-Interocean "Asociacion Internacional Investgacion Oceanografica MedioAmbiente"

Spain

Address

11,costa Rica
28016 Madrid

Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Germany

Address

Columbusstraße
27568 Bremerhaven

BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY

Israel

Address

Faculty Of Sciences Bar-iian University
52900 Ramat Gan

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

Address

Avenue De Luminy 163, Campus De Luminy
13288 Marseille

CHRISTIAN-ALBRECHTS UNIVERSITAET ZU KIEL

Germany

Address

Duesternbrooker Weg 20
24105 Kiel

COLLECTE LOCALISATION SATELLITES SA

France

Address

8-10,rue Hermes 8-10, Parc Technologique De Canal
31526 Ramonville St.agne

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

Spain

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6,eduardo Cabello 6
36208 Vigo

Cabinet d'Etudes Techniques Industrielles et d'Innovations Scientifiques SA

France

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30,avenue Malacrida
13100 Aix-en-provence

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

Address

Place Eugène Bataillon
34095 Montpellier

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

Spain

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22,avda Complutense
28040 Madrid

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Germany

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10,sigwartstraße
72076 Tübingen

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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5,sonneggstraße
8092 Zürich

European Communities - Commission of the European Communities Joint Research Centre

Italy

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Via E. Fermi 1
21020 Ispra

FUNDAÇAO DA FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Portugal

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Rua Ernesto Vasconcelos
1749-016 Lisboa

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg

Germany

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Staudtstraße 5
91058 Erlangen

GOETEBORG UNIVERSITY

Sweden

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5a,guldhedsgatan 5a
413 81 Göteborg

IFREMER - INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER

France

Address

Technopôle Brest Iroise
29280 Plouzane

INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH

Portugal

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C/o Departmento De Oceanografia E Pescas - Univers
9900 Horta

INSTITUTO GEOLOGICO E MINEIRO

Portugal

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19-2,estrada Da Portela, Zambujal, Apartado 7586
2721-866 Amadora

ITALIAN AGENCY FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Italy

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Forte S. Teresa
19100 La Spezia

Instituto de Investigaçao das Pescas e do Mar

Portugal

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Avenida De Brasilia
1400 Lisboa

Marine Institute

Ireland

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80,harcourt Street 80
2 Dublin

NERC Centre of Coastal and Marine Sciences

United Kingdom

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Prospect Place West Hoe
PL1 3DH Plymouth

NERC James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation

United Kingdom

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European Way
SO14 3ZH Southampton

NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Norway

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46,bynesveien 46
7018 Trondheim

STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITET

Sweden

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8c,svante Arrhenius Vèg 8c
106 91 Stockholm

UNIVERSIDAD DE CADIZ

Spain

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S/n,poligono Rio San Pedro S/n
11510 Puerto Real

UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO

Spain

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S/n,catedratico Rodrigo Uria S/n
33071 Oviedo

UNIVERSITAET BREMEN

Germany

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Klagenfurter Strasse
28359 Bremen

UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER - GRENOBLE 1

France

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Rue De La Piscine 1025, Domaine Universitaire
38041 Grenoble

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE

United Kingdom

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Nethergate
DD1 4HN Dundee

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

United Kingdom

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University Plain
Norwich

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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

United Kingdom

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Ridley Building, Claremont Road
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne

UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG

Germany

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Carl Von Ossietzky Stra¯e 9-11
26111 Oldenburg

UNIVERSITY OF WALES - BANGOR

United Kingdom

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Askew Street
LL59 5EY Gwynedd

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain

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S/n,astrofísico Francisco Sánchez
38206 La Laguna

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Spain

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35200 Telde

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Spain

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35017 Las Palmas De Gran Canaria - Telde

Universidad de Málaga

Spain

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S/n,campus Universitario Teatinos
29071 Málaga

Universidad de Vigo

Spain

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Campus Lagoas Marcosende
36200 Vigo

Universitat de Barcelona

Spain

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S/n,lluis Solé Sabarís
08028 Barcelona

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

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European Way
SO14 3ZH Southampton

Universität Bremen

Germany

Address

Leobenerstraße
28359 Bremen

Universität Wien

Austria

Address

14,althanstrasse
1090 Wien