BIOMETORE

BIOMETORE Biodiversity in seamounts:
The Madeira-Tore and Great Meteor

Physical oceanography dataset

The BIOMETORE project, coordinated by IPMA, has several national and international partners and involves many scientific disciplines. The main goal is to collect information on the NE Atlantic seamounts, namely in and around the ‘Great Meteor’, south of the Azores (in 2015); as well as around the Madeira-Tore seamount chain (in 2016), between the Portuguese mainland and Madeira Archipelago (see maps below). The general objective of the project is to increase the scientific knowledge on the biodiversity and oceanographic characteristics of these regions. Funded by the EEA-Grants, information from this project will be an important contribution to the Marine Framework Directive.

Great Meteor Seamounts

BIOMETORE Regions

Madeira-Tore Seamounts

To help plan the oceanographic cruises as well as help the interpretation of other datasets, forecasts (Jun.2013-present) and historical observations (Jan.2013-present) are provided, as planned in Task 3.1 ‘Compilation and analysis of existing data’, as part of Work package 3 – ‘Pelagic habitats characterization’. Rui Caldeira (OOM) and A. Miguel Santos (IPMA) coordinate this task but all partners are invited to contribute / participate.

Great Meteor

Madeira-Tore

Analysis

Meteor Seamounts - Ocean Climatology Analysis