Publication Date:
2017-04-04
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NEMO-SN1, located in the central Mediterranean Sea, Western Ionian Sea, off Eastern Sicily Island (Southern Italy) at 2100 m water depth, 25 km from the harbour of the city of Catania, is a prototype of a cabled deep-sea multiparameter observatory and the first operating with real-time data transmission in Europe since 2005. NEMO-SN1 is also the first-established node of EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory, http://emso-eu.org), one of the incoming European large-scale research infrastructure included since 2006 in the Roadmap of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/roadmap.htm),
which will specifically address long-term monitoring of environmental processes related to Marine Ecosystems, Climate
Change and Geo-hazards. NEMO-SN1 has been deployed and developed over the last decade thanks to Italian resources and to the EC project ESONET-NoE (European Seas Observatory
NETwork - Network of Excellence, 2007-2011) that funded the LIDO-DM (Listening to the Deep Ocean - Demonstration Mission) and a technological interoperability test
(http://www.esonet-emso.org/esonet-noe/). NEMO-SN1 is performing geophysical and environmental long-term monitoring by acquiring seismological, geomagnetic, gravimetric, accelerometric, physico-oceanographic, hydro-acoustic, bioacoustic
measurements specifically related to earthquakes and tsunamis generation and ambient noise characterisation in term
of marine mammal sounds, environmental and anthropogenic sources. A further main feature of NEMO-SN1 is to be an important test-site for the construction of KM3NeT (Kilometre-Cube Underwater Neutrino Telescope, http://www.km3net.org/), another large-scale research infrastructure included in the ESFRI Roadmap constituted by a large volume neutrino telescope. The description of the observatory and the most recent data acquired will be presented and framed in the general objectives of EMSO.
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Published
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Tokio, 5-8 April 2011
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4.4. Scenari e mitigazione del rischio ambientale
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4.6. Oceanografia operativa per la valutazione dei rischi in aree marine
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restricted
Keywords:
NEMO-SN1 cabled observatory
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Geo-hazards
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Bio-acoustics
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High-energy astrophysics
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EMSO
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KM3NeT
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03. Hydrosphere::03.01. General::03.01.04. Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis
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03. Hydrosphere::03.01. General::03.01.08. Instruments and techniques
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03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.04. Measurements and monitoring
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03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.07. Instruments and techniques
Repository Name:
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
Type:
Conference paper
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