Sponsor

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency safeguards America and its friends from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives) by reducing the present threat and preparing for the future threat.

University of Athens
The Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting Group (AM&WFG) is part of  division of Applied Physics, school of Physics of University of Athens. It is also part of the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications (IASA). IASA is associated with the Schools of Physics, Medicine and Informatics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Schools of Electrical, Chemical and Computer Engineering and Physics Department of The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). It has 20 faculty members and a number of Post Doctorate Researchers and PhD students.

Mediterranean Forecasting system Toward Environmental Predictions (MFSTEP) 
The Mediterranean Forecasting system Toward Environmental Predictions (MFSTEP) Project aims at the further development of an operational forecasting system for the Mediterranean Sea based upon three main components: a) the Near Real Time Observing system; b) the numerical forecasting systems at basin scale and for regional areas; c) the forecast products dissemination/exploitation system.