General information on the data, collected during the experiment POLRODEX 97

The HIROMB model for the Baltic Sea hydrodynamic forecast, at present being run preoperationally in SMHI, covers completely the Polish exclusive economic zone of the sea. The measuring campaign POLRODEX '96 was organised and coordinated by the Maritime Institute especially for calibration and verification of numerical models in summer 1996 in the Gulf of Gdansk Five Polish and one Swedish institution were involved in the campaign. After the experiment, which resulted in many valuable materials, it was decided to continue such campaigns every year. In 1997, also in the Gulf of Gdansk, a new experiment POLRODEX '97 was organised, in which thirteen institutions from Poland, Russia and Sweden participated. A list of the data, collected during the POLRODEX '97, is provided.