The objective of this tender is to examine the current data collection, observation and data assembly programmes in the Meditterranean Sea, identify gaps and to evaluate how they can be optimised.

Description of de desirable and recomended attributes for generating time-series of sea surface annual average temperature for the last 10, 50 and 100 yrs for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS region along the coast.

to deliver maps showing the extent of the trawling fishing grounds for identifying the areas which are most disturbed by bottom trawling over the past ten years and identifying the gaps of fishing vessels’ tracking systems in the Mediterranean Sea

Specification of the desirable and recomended product attributes for generating spatial layers of sea surface temperature temperature trend for the last 10, 50, 100 years for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS3 region along the coast.

In order to assess the connectivity oceanographic data will be used. A shape map will be created combining data on MPAs adequacy and distribution of MPAs and temperature, currents seasonal GIS layers (The temperature and currents are INGV climatological products made available to CH2.

Seasonal TRIX estimates for the Mediterranean Sea for the past 10 years, from sea surface datasets of TRIX-related variables and simultaneously recorded.

Seasonal trends of the eutrophication index (TRIX) in the Mediterranean Sea for the past 10 years.

Specification of the desirable and recommended products attributes for generating spatial layers of sea surface temperature for the last 10, 50 and 100 years for the Mediterranean basin and for each NUTS3 region along the coast.

Specification of the desirable and recommended product attributes for generating spatial layers of annual avergae internal energy for the last 20 years.

Monthly time series of Total Phosphorous [mg/l] from model data