Abstract
POL is implementing a Coastal Observatory in Liverpool Bay to integrate (near) real- time measurements with coupled models into a pre-operational coastal prediction system. The aim is to understand a coastal sea's response to natural forcing and to the consequences of human activity. The foci are the impacts of storms, variations in river discharge (especially the Mersey), seasonality, the effect of nutrients discharged into Liverpool Bay and plankton blooms. An extensive suite of real-time measurements will be interfaced with a nested suite of 3- dimensional models, covering the ocean/shelf of northwest Europe, the Irish Sea, and eastern Irish Sea / Liverpool Bay which run daily. All results from instrumentation and models (e.g. recorded time series, modelled daily mean sea surface and sea bed temper- ature, currents, waves and sea surface height) are displayed on the Coastal Observatory website (http://www.cobs.pol.ac.uk).
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