iCIEM is an integrated infrastructure distributed in different locations of the coastal area of Barcelona that allows research and engineering activities in the maritime field (coastal, port and environmental applications). It is made up of a combination of multi-scale laboratories, field monitoring stations, and advanced numerical modeling platforms. iCIEM is managed by the LIM.
Main features
The main facilities are the large-scale wave channel CIEM and the small-scale channel CIEMito, both capable of generating waves and currents. The first, a large 2D test channel of barely distorted scale (100 m in length, 3 m in width and up to 7 m in depth), is a relevant tool for conducting experiments in the field of coastal, port and oceanographic engineering, as well as in other fields such as aquaculture or the energy use of marine resources. The CIEMito is a transparent channel with a total length of 18m, with an approximate useful section of 0.40 m wide and 0.56 m high. It allows small scale experiments to be carried out and optimization and complementarity to be achieved, especially for transparent water optical measurements with the ICES.
The Marine Field Observation Laboratory has the XIOM Shelf Observatory for the collection of meteorological and oceanographic variables along the Catalan coast, from the Gulf of Roses to the Ebro Delta with the capacity to measure waves, currents, meteorology, long-term oscillations (tide and other long waves) and a group of sea-land meteorological stations specially adapted for the coastal area.
The Pont del Petroli Coastal Observatoryes a trousers that extends 250 m into the sea, from very shallow waters to intermediate depths (12 m). It is the first installation in microtidal conditions in the European Union, and complements the network of instrumented trousers of which HORS in Japan, or Duck en EE.UU are part. Both laboratories are complemented by a high-resolution Numerical Modeling Laboratory, which provides services ranging from the replication of hydraulic models to meteo-oceanographic parameter prediction systems; as well as a “Remote Laboratory” (rWLaB), a platform for education, research and dissemination of knowledge that allows remote access to the laboratory facilities and to the different field data acquisition stations (XIOM and Pont del Petroli).
