Measurements in physical oceanography, an important aspect of interdisciplinary marine research

Dr. sc. Hrvoje Mihanović

Marine research today includes various scientific aspects that emphasize importance of interdisciplinary approach. The number of projects and studies that interwove different oceanographic disciplines is increasing on daily basis and the understanding between experts from those disciplines is of crucial importance. The same is valid both on global and local scales.

Field measurements will always play an important role in oceanography, complementing and building up on remote sensing techniques and numerical modelling. However, there is a general decrease in the number of “sea-going” scientists and engineers, which might significantly influence the oceanographic research in the future. This lecture will try to present one of essential interdisciplinary research ingredients; more precisely, it will focus on measurements in physical oceanography (particularly field measurements) through several examples of interdisciplinary research conducted in the Adriatic in the past decades.

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