IUNAT: Marine Physics and Applied Remote Sensing

Affiliated Research areas

Fundamental Constituents of Matter

Scientific Areas

Not available

Keywords

Remote sensors
Nearshore hydrodynamics
Coastal Meteorology
Transport phenomena
Coastal structures
Marine renewable energies
Data analysis
Remote and in-situ sensors
Coastal Hydrodynamics
Coastal Meteorology
Remote Sensing
Space-time data analysis
Stochastic Processes
Time-frequency analysis
Meteoceanic data

Summary

- Marine Physics and Coast Meteorology Applied: The research line on Applied Marine Physics and Coastal Meteorology (FIMMCA) develops studies related to the characterisation and modelling of marine and atmospheric dynamics in coastal areas. Aspects related to the analysis of currents, sea levels, waves and winds, in the short and long term, are dealt with from an experimental point of view. The aim is to understand the physical foundations and the statistical variability of these phenomena in order to be able to make predictions about their behaviour. The results of this research should be useful for decision-making in Coastal Management and for applications in Coastal Engineering, regarding topics such as design of coastal protection structures, harvesting of marine energy resources, prediction of sediment and pollutant transport phenomena, etc.
- Oceanographic, meteorological and hydroclimatic data analysis: This research line includes the computational implementation and the application of data analysis techniques to oceanographic, meteorological. and hydroclimatic data sets in time, space and time-space domains, measured by using in-situ and remote sensors, with emphasis on applications in the coastal zone, considered as a complex system. The work in this line of research supports, to a large extent, the second line of research, which is more applied in nature.