Faroese Monitoring (FARMON)

Updated 2020-02-25

Projektet har til formål at forlænge og forbedre monitering af to strømsystemer gennem færøsk territorialfarvand, som udveksler vand, varme og salt mellem Arktis og resten af Verdenshavet. Den ene af disse er strømmen af koldt vand fra Arktis gennem dybet af Færøbanke kanalen, som transporterer varme og kuldioxid fra atmosfæren ned i Verdenshavets dybe vandmasser. Den anden er Færøstrømmen, som er den stærkeste transportør af ocean varme mod Arktis med indvirkning på klima, fiskebestande og isudbredelse. Endvidere vil projektet studere opsplitningen af Færøstrømmen i to separate strømgrene med forskellig indflydelse på forskellige områder og processer i Arktis. Projektet vil omfatte feltaktivitet fra sommer 2017 til sommer 2018 med udlagte måleinstrumenter og tilsammen fire hydrografiske togter med forskningsskib. Indsamlede måledata vil blive analyseret sammen med satellitdata og historiske observationer med henblik på at forlænge de ca. 20 år lange tidsserier for de to strømsystemers transporter samt at rationalisere det eksisterende moniteringssystem, således at det i fremtiden vil være mindre afhængigt af kostbare in situ målinger.

This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project

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Status: Completed
Project time span: 2017 - 2019
Data collection: 2017 - 2018
Data processing: 2018 - 2019
Data reporting: 2018 - 2019

Contact information

Contact person

Karin Margretha H. Larsen

Address

Faroe Marine Research Institute

Attn: Karin Margretha H. Larsen

Noatun 1

FO-100 Torshavn

Faroe Islands

Phone

+298 353900

Email

of.vah@lnirak

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Climate change effects

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Additional information or further specification of types of data / information collected, species / tissues / organs sampled, etc.

Hydrographic data (Temperature, Salinity, Current velocity)

Geography

Regions studied

Climate change effects

Stations or areas where observations are made

NWFB ADCP mooring 61°25,047N 008°16,968W (recovered)

NWFC ADCP mooring 61°23,552N 008°18,930W (recovered)

NWNI ADCP frame 62°34,961N 006°05,260W (recovered)

NWNB ADCP mooring 62°55,112N 006°04,904W (recovered)

NWNJ ADCP mooring 62°56,791N 006°04,951W (recovered)

TNGY ADCP mooring 61°57,488N 003°56,128W (recovered)

TNGX ADCP mooring 61°55,591N 003°51,309W (recovered)

N05 PIES mooring 63°00,000N 006°05,000W

N07 PIES mooring 63°20,000N 006°05,000W

Data availability

Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?

If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?

Data will be stored at www.envofar.fo in ASCII or NetCDF format

References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports

Hansen, B., K. M. H. Larsen, and H. Hátún, 2019. Monitoring the velocity structure of the Faroe Current. Havstovan Technical Report 19-01, May 2019. http://www.hav.fo/PDF/Ritgerdir/2019/TechRep1901.pdf.

Hansen, B., Larsen, K. M. H., Hátún, H., Jochumsen, K., Østerhus, S., 2019. Monitoring the hydrographic structure of the Faroe Current. Havstovan Technical Report 19-02, September 2019. http://www.hav.fo/PDF/Ritgerdir/2019/TechRep1902.pdf.

Hátún, H., K.M.H. Larsen, B. Hansen, L. Chafik, In Prep. The Southern Faroe Current.

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Not specified

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: No
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?: Also reporting to the Blue-Action project (The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727852)
Other related projects: Blue-Action (The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727852). http://www.blue-action.eu.