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 and protection from fishing activities) generated from different human activities.
- Shipping simulation, monthly ship traffic entering, leaving or within the Baltic Sea region.
- Energy simulation, existing offshore renewable energy areas, electricity cables and landing stations (landfall points) in the different countries. These simulate the curent energy flow of the existing infrastructure.
- Restrictions and errors:
- Errors when planning different physically-obstructing human activities on the same area, 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.
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