The regional adjunct secretary of the vice president detached, today, the several aspects of the project CLIMARCOST - Sea and Coastal Climate of Monitoring of Meteorological-Oceanographic Data, in the strategic development of the Azorean economy.

Speaking in the session of close of presentation of the initiative framed in the INTERREG III B - Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands that occurred in the Campus of the University of the Azores (UAC), in Angra do Heroísmo, Carlos Corvelo reaffirmed the importance of the project at the level of the nautical tourism, of the fishing and of the navigation in the islands.

“The CLIMARCOST was, among the 152 projects of the INTERREG associated to the archipelago, one of the best got in terms of the success of the partnerships that it presented, be among the partners of the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands and of the Hydrographical Institute, be among the partnerships between the port operators, the sea authorities and the fishermen themselves”, he said.

Carlos Corvelo elevated the “practical validity” and the “easy access” that the project of study of the climate conditions supplies to the populations, having created, for the effect, an electronic platform that can be accessed in: http://www.climaat.angra.uac.pt.

Data on sea agitation, temperature of the sea, direction and intensity of winds, webcams with transmission in real time of the main Azorean ports are only some of the informations and indicators that support the investigation of the CLIMARCOST that works in net with other institutions of Madeira and the Canary Islands.

They were present in the spread of the CLIMARCOST, which represents the third stage of the projects CLIMAAT - Climate and Meteorology of the Atlantic Archipelagos, specialists and representatives of the partners of the three implicated regions.

The CLIMARCOST is promoted by the Regional Secretariat for the Economy, through the Regional Fund of Cohesion, in scientific-technical partnership with the UAC, the Observatory of the Environment of the Azores, the Administration of the Ports of Madeira, the University Of Las Palmas Of Gran Canaria and the Institute Canary of Sea Science.