BENGUP
Benguela Upwelling Prediction
BENGUP is an MSCA EU-funded project that will develop climate and marine-ecosystem predictions in the Angola-Benguela Upwelling System
ABOUT
The Angola-Benguela Upwelling System located off the south-west African coasts sustains a very diversified marine ecosystem. This region undergoes the occasional manifestation of extreme interannual warm events known as Benguela Niños that can devastate the ecosystem, deplete the fish stocks and therefore affect the economy of south-west African developing countries. To ensure the long-term sustainability of the living marine resources, there is an urgent need to provide reliable and useful seasonal predictions of the marine environment and ecosystems to local stakeholders and economic actors. Recently, studies have revealed the potential of prediction of those extreme Benguela events.
Research Project
The project BENGUP (BENGuela Upwelling Prediction) aims at developing the first forecasting capability of Benguela Niño and Niña, and associated oxygen events as well as providing seasonal outlooks of fish stock in the Angola-Benguela-Area, using statistical and dynamical prediction systems.
Prediction skills
Assessing the prediction skill of the key ocean physical and biogeochemical drivers of interannual variability in the Angola-Benguela area in existing dynamical systems
Sources & uncertainties
Understanding what makes a model skilful in forecasting extreme events in the Angola-Benguela area
Prediction system
Developing a new prediction system capturing the predictability of Angola-Benguela events and their impact on the marine ecosystem
Results and Products
Progress and main results:
BENGUP started on September 1st 2021 and will end the 31th August 2023.
Dissemination of the results:
Peer reviewed papers, repports, presentations and products will be made available when ready :)
Team and collaborators
BENGUP is a 24-months project awarded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, under the Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie grant agreement BENGUP No. GAP-101025655-999974456 (MSCA individual fellowship to Bachelery Marie-Lou at the University of Bergen).
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Team and collaborators include:
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Noel Sebastian Keenlyside, Ingo Bethke, Francois Counillon, Shunya Koseki and​ Marius Årthun from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen
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Marek Ostrowski and Bjørn Ådlandsvik from the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen
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BENGUP will be done in collaboration with the international community (~33 partners from 13 countries) of the European-funded projects TRIATLAS and Mission-Atlantic.
CONTACT
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Contact
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