The project

Beyond CALYPSO is a capitalisation project that aims to further enhance and improve the existing oil spill modelling chains that automatically track the pollution as well as optimise the response for mitigation. The dissemination activities, including training and seminar sessions will be devoted also to west-Med stakeholders as tracks of drifters deployed close to Malta demonstrated that a pollutant can quickly reach Italian shores, and travel south again towards countries such as Tunis. In this project, a number of oil spill models (such as MEDLSIK and PyGnome) will be set up to run in the coastal scale close to Malta and Sicily; ideally, the coverage will extend up to Tunisia. The outputs from different models will be compared and validated through the release of a number of lagrangian drifters that will be satellite tracked to cover the entire region. The models will be fine-tuned through the use of difference forcing data obtained from COPERNICUS. Apart from model data, simulations will be enriched by observations obtained through remote sensing. Data from the HF radars, Synthetic Aperture Radars (SARS), and Radar Altimeters, will be fused to provide the best trajectory of spill.