North Sea basic

As explained on the Configurations page, any MSP Challenge edition is configurable to fit your own requirements. The best way to do this is by editing the basic configuration file of a particular edition.

The North Sea edition has a basic configuration with the following main parameters:

• Start date January 2018, end date January 2050
• So each of the standard four eras covers eight years:
  • Era 1: Jan 2018 - Jan 2026
  • Era 2: Jan 2026 - Jan 2034
  • Era 3: Jan 2034 - Jan 2042
  • Era 4: Jan 2042 - Jan 2050
• Eight countries with each two or three objectives:
  • Orange (the Netherlands)
  • Yellow (Germany)
  • Blue (Denmark)
  • Purple (Norway)
  • Green (Scotland)
  • Red (England)
  • Pink (Belgium)
  • (France)
• Dataset as stipulated on the Data sources page. See the North sea edition table.
• Three background simulations:
  • Ecopath-with-Ecosim ecosystem simulation, and predefined ecosystem pressures (noise, artificial substrate, surface disturbance, bottom disturbance, fishing efforts) generated from different human activities.
  • Shipping simulation, and predefined shipping routes and monthly ship traffic within, going in, and going out of the North Sea region.
  • Energy simulation, and predefined offshore renewable energy areas, electricity cables and landing stations (landfall points) in the different countries.
• Only few restrictions:
  • Errors when planning different physically-obstructing human activities on the same place, e.g. a wind farm on a shipping lane, or vice versa.
  • Warnings when planning human activities with defined ecosystem pressures in an MPA or Natura2000 site, or vice versa.