Carlos Barrera

• Head. at Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias

Marine growth has been observed to cause a drop in the horizontal and vertical velocities of underwater gliders, thus making them unresponsive and needing immediate recovery. Currently, no strategies exist to correctly identify the onset of marine growth for gliders and only limited data sets of biofouled hulls exist. Here, a field test has been co...

Marine growth has been observed to cause a drop in the horizontal and vertical velocities of underwater gliders, thus making them unresponsive and needing immediate recovery. Currently, no strategies exist to correctly identify the onset of marine growth for gliders and only limited datasets of biofouled hulls exist. Here, a field test has been run...

The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) for Climate, Ocean Health, and Operational Services. It brings together marine scientists and engineers operating gliders around the wo...

The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) for Climate, Ocean Health, and Operational Services. It brings together marine scientists and engineers operating gliders around the wo...

The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) for Climate, Ocean Health, and Operational Services. It brings together marine scientists and engineers operating gliders around the wo...

The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global Ocean Observation System (GOOS) for Climate, Ocean Health, and Operational Services. It brings together marine scientists and engineers operating gliders around the wo...

The Macaronesia is a vast area playing a key role in the East boundary of the Central North-Atlantic Ocean- circulation system. Despite a significant research activity in ocean monitoring for decades using a wide range of observing systems and methodologies, the area is still under-sampled, mainly due access and coverage constrains, as well as the...

Underwater robotics is becoming a prominent area of knowledge due to the advantages that it offers in costly, hazardous missions that could not be done by divers in a realistic manner. In order to have a collection of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles cooperating though, there are several challenges to overcome, such as underwater wireless co...

The Canary Islands are immersed in the eastern boundary of the subtropical gyre, in the coastal transition zone of the Canary Current Eastern Boundary Current. They are an ideal place for the study of the variability of the subtropical gyre. With this background, in 2006 the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) began an observational program aro...

PERSEUS (Protection of European Borders and Seas Through the Intelligent Use of Surveillance) was selected as a demonstration project in the FP7 Security call FP7-SEC-2010-1. Its goals were to define and demonstrate a European concept for maritime surveillance systems and to deploy it across the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean. The systems were se...

The FP7 funded TROPOS project approach is to develop a modular multi-use platform for use in deep waters, coupling several activities, amongst which aquaculture production and renewable energy conversion, with a focus on the Mediterranean, tropical and sub-tropical regions. In this paper, the environmental monitoring, afety and security aspects of...

The Baltic Sea consists of several sub-basins. They all have their own physical characteristics and motion scales. General circulation and meso-scale eddies in the basins are in continuous interaction. Traditional monitoring by research ships, gives a general impression on the conditions, but that impression is not detailed unless towed instruments...

PERSEUS has included technological innovations in the areas of detection and analysis applied to maritime security, trying to become the first European-scale maritime surveillance system able to detect small ships and low-high flights. The overall technical and operational approach will pool multiple sensors, monitoring platforms and information so...

Current advances on key marine technology fields provide nowadays a broad range of autonomous unmanned platforms addressed for an efficient and cost-effective ocean observation, with a suitable level of success in terms of endurance, reliability and useful gathered information. In this context, a multidisciplinary family of unmanned autonomous vehi...

Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 18, EGU2016-11099, 2016 EGU General Assembly 2016 © Author(s) 2016. CC Attribution 3.0 License. MultifunctionalWeb Enabled Ocean Sensor Systems for the Monitoring of a Changing Ocean Jay Pearlman (1), Ayoze Castro (2), Luigi Corrandino (3), Joaquin del Rio (4), Eric Delory (2), Rene Garello (1), Rudinger Heuerman...

Ocean forecasting models are an extremely valuable tool for understanding Earth's oceans. Current ocean forecast models assimilate satellite sea surface height and temperature data as well as temperature/salinity profiles from the Argo network of over 3,000 drifters. Though assimilating datasets from these drifters is pertinent, it does create some...

The use of the sea is increasing in areas such as industrial, commercial transportation and sports. It is difficult to quantify the total value of the world maritime industry, and the economic relevance of a sector that affects a wide range of aspects of modern societies and their development. The need to understand the global ecosystems and enviro...

During the last thirteen years 121 NOAA drifters have been deployed at the ESTOC site (European Station for Time-Series in the Ocean, Canary Islands), located in the North Atlantic (29°10'N, 15°30'W), ranging in time from 1998 to nowadays. The study of their trajectories has provided a good knowledge about the surface current system in this area. W...

From the last 1980s different initiatives have been carried out by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) at its Oceanographic Centre of Santander to progressively increase its ocean observing system capabilities. From 1991, shelf and slope waters of the Southern Bay of Biscay are regularly sampled in a monthly hydrographic line north of Santa...

The adoption and execution of the necessary measures to face up the environmental exigencies that the ports and their structures require have been the key issues for the monitoring of Las Palmas port, protected by the main guides, directions and techniques recommended in the International treaties related to the protection of the Marine Environment...

Results of Office of Naval Research (ONR)- and National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored collaborative coastal science experiments using underwater gliders were reported at the E.U./U.S. Baltic Sea conference in 2006. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recognized the parallel educational potential and issued a trans-Atlant...

Since To detect and predict changes in coastal and open-ocean ecosystems is a huge requirement monitoring in detail and real-time their baseline physical, geological and chemical properties. In these regards and following the trends and general objectives established by GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) through its coastal ecosystems module COOP...

To detect and predict changes in coastal and open-ocean ecosystems is a huge requirement monitoring in detail and real-time their baseline physical, geological and chemical properties. In these regards and following the trends and general objectives established by GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) through its coastal ecosystems module COOP (Coas...

The present paper-work describes the design, last development stages and the derived results from a specific buoy platform for fast hydrocarbon detection in seawater. Under the name of SeaMon-HC, (Patent No. P200302219/8) the buoy represents a very chief tool for coastal monitoring, mainly surrounding areas with a high oil-spill risk level, like ha...

The growing up of phytoplankton is one the most important factors that influence the "biological pump", controlling partly the carbon cycle in the ocean. The CO2 captured by phytoplankton in shallow waters is transported to deeper layers in the ocean. This only happens when microplankton or nanoplankton is formed due to their bigger size contribute...

Detecting and predicting changes in coastal and open-ocean ecosystems is a significant undertaking requiring detailed and often real-time monitoring of physical, geological and chemical parameters. Following the guidelines and general objectives established by GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) through its coastal ecosystems module COOP (Coastal...

Since early 90's, Canary Islands Archipelago represents a very important working area for operational oceanography in Europe. Spanish and other european research groups, joining common projects (ANIMATE, MERSEA, ALERMAC,...), have an important and multidisciplinary group of devices placed in the area: deep ocean mooring lines, ocean ODAS buoys, the...

The time-series stations BATS (Bermuda Atlantic Time series Study) and ESTOC (European Station for Time series in the Ocean Canary islands)are located in the western and eastern subtropical North Atlantic Gyre, respectively, while time-series station HOT (Hawaii Ocean Time series)is located in the eastern subtropical sector of the North Pacific Oce...

The Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas, Spain, is designing and developing a real-time moored buoy network, called Red Alert and Marine Control (ACOMAR) Canarias for, coastal monitoring in the Canary Islands Archipelago. The network is formed by six Sea Monitoring Buoy (SeaMon) units, which interact together. The system allows for integration an...

Following the trends and general objectives established by GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) through its coastal ecosystems component COOP (Coastal Ocean Observations Panel), the present paper describes the design, first development stages and derived results of a coastal monitoring network, named Red ACOMAR Canarias (Network for Marine Surveill...

A remote sesing based system for ocean monito�ring is combined with hydrodinamical models in order to contribute to the planning of mitigative efforts against oil spills. Remotely sensed informa�tion, is adequated to serve as inputs for the models, while model results are integrated to the satellite data�base. Using a long term database spill scena...

In this paper, the ACOMAR RED network is introduced. This network is an experimental complex oceanographic data acquisition system according to GOOS program targets (EuroGOOS in Europe). We can outline features such as authorized users running external queries or the system sending messages via email or SMS when measurements are outside a certain r...

En este trabajo se presenta la RED ACOMAR (Red Experimental De Alerta, Control y Observación MARítima de Canarias) y se comentan las novedades más destacadas que incorpora frente a redes de similares características y los problemas que conlleva el desarrollo y mantenimiento de una red de este tipo expuesta a un medio tan hostil como es el mar. Se d...

Utilizamos datos de satélite para estimar las frecuencias e intensidades de entradas de Calima en Canarias y emplear esa información como medida preventiva en los enfermos asmáticos. Para el período comprendido entre los años 1997-2000, se procesaron imágenes de satélite y se analizaron los datos de espesor óptico. Se obtuvieron valores característ...

On January 2003 it has began the experimental core deployment of a Marine Obsevational network in Gran Canaria Island sorrounding waters, as a first step of a network which will spread to the whole Canarian Archipelago. The network initially consists of 6 buoys, 3 to 5 are expected to be permanently operative whereas the rest will be under maintena...

The continuous observations made from 1994 at the station ESTOC (European Station for Time Series in the Ocean Canary Islands), located in the eastern arm of the subtropical gyre of the Atlantic Ocean (29^o10' N, 15^o30'W), is providing a data set of great coherence to study the main characteristics of the water masses in the area. The number of ob...

Resumen Se presenta el desarrollo de un sistema de monitorización oceanográfica (integrada) para el área de la Macaronesia, SIMOM, que reúne de forma coherente, la información sobre el medio marino y los procesos físicos y biológicos que en él ocurren, y su variabilidad. Este sistema se alimenta principalmente de los valores geofísicos, que se obti...