Generating valuable in-situ data to address different use cases

 

The year of 2021 was also marked by the preparation of the final WAVY Test Campaigns, enabling the validation of meaningful case studies for the WAVY drifters.

The team had the opportunity to continue to test the WAVY Littoral in different environments with the user communities. This included validation campaigns, such as the the deployment of drifters in a deep water basin simulating regular and irregular wave sets, at the Lir National Ocean Test Facility in Cork, Ireland. (read more at WAVY Test Campaign in Lir National Ocean facility in Cork, Ireland). Another meaningful test campaign performed in Ireland was the demonstration at Lahinch beach, in collaboration with Water Safety Ireland, enabling to raise awareness in local authorities about the strength and outreach of the river flow in the bay (read more at: WAVY Test on the River Corrib, Ireland).

 

The team also performed several test campaigns with the WAVY Littoral in the Portuguese coast, such as the WAVY Test Campaign in Praia do Carneiro, to acquire surface current data from covering the area from the north jetty of the River Douro bar and extending to 500m to the north to Praia dos Ingleses (read more at: WAVY Test Campaign in Praia do Carneiro, Portugal).

 

 

The MELOA Team also carried out several campaigns with the WAVY Ocean. The team supported the project SheCanDo to deploy a WAVY Ocean in the sub-equatorial North Atlantic, in a unique experience that allows not only to test how users can deploy these drifters, but also increase awareness about the benefits of the WAVY for independent marine research (read more at: SheCanDo’s Karen Weekes will deploy a WAVY Ocean in the sub-equatorial North Atlantic). 

The Spanish coast has also been the stage of several campaigns with the WAVY Ocean, such as the most recent WAVY Test Campaign in La Palma, Canary Islands. Several WAVY Ocean have been deployed to collect ocean data contributing to study the effects of the Cumbre Vieja's lava delta on sea temperature, coastal circulation and wave patterns (read more at: La Palma campaign results are now available in the MELOA Catalogue and Geoportal).