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PIERRE BAHUREL
MERCATOR PSY2v1, is designed to solve the ocean circulation and the
second one, Mog2D, is designed to solve the tide and storm surge processes.
In the figure, the MERCATOR alone solution and the composite solution are
compared with tide gauge measurements (for details, see F. Lyard and L.
MERCATOR Newsletter n°10).
4.
Serving ocean services
Developing this new generation of ocean service, able to provide a
fruitful operational, 4D space & time consistent and accurate “general ocean
information” to specialized ocean services, is the key objective of
MERCATOR operational oceanography.
After more than 3 years of continuous operations, ie more than 180 ocean
bulletins for ocean forecasters, and more than 150 referenced users in
continuous interaction, the MERCATOR team has been studying user
feedbacks in a wide range of application sectors where MERCATOR
OCEAN inputs were.
Four categories are considered: (1) institutional operational applications;
(2) research; (3) private sector operational recreational and commercial
applications and (4) environment policy makers.
Under category 1, MERCATOR has been involved in various
experiments concerning: Oil Spill drifts experiments (Météo-France,
Met.No, CEDRE), Navy operations (SHOM), Ocean inputs for Seasonal
Forecasting system (Météo-France) and Education (schools, user training
requested to provide boundary conditions to coastal models, ocean inputs for
biogeochemical models and seasonal forecasting systems, and involved in
MERCATOR has been serving under category 3 commercial activities
(offshore and fisheries) and many recreational marine activities (sailing
races, rowing races,...), and a growing range of activities enter today
category 4 amongst with: assessment on observation network (satellite & in
situ) for decision makers, monitoring and expertise on extreme ocean
climate events (2003 hot summer event, Bay of Biscay ocean synthesis
bulletin) or new indicators for ocean pollution risk.
Figure 5 is an illustration of MERCATOR role in serving institutional
operational applications: here oil spill fate activity conducted by MétéoFrance. The impact of MERCATOR OCEAN currents in Météo-France’s
pollution dispersion model (called MOTHY) in assessing the consequences
of the Prestige shipwreck were studied with great attention. As a preliminary
test case to assess MERCATOR impact on his operational oilspill model,
P.Daniel (Météo-France) used MERCATOR 103 meters depth currents to
force his model with large-scale time/space information and showed the
usefulness of such ocean currents forcings for long simulations.
Roblou, July 2003 –
sessions, individual requests,...). Under category 2, MERCATOR has been
various Research Sea campaign (IRD, Ifremer, CNRS, IFM Kiel,...).
PIERRE BAHUREL
MERCATOR PSY2v1, is designed to solve the ocean circulation and the
second one, Mog2D, is designed to solve the tide and storm surge processes.
In the figure, the MERCATOR alone solution and the composite solution are
compared with tide gauge measurements (for details, see F. Lyard and L.
MERCATOR Newsletter n°10).
4.
Serving ocean services
Developing this new generation of ocean service, able to provide a
fruitful operational, 4D space & time consistent and accurate “general ocean
information” to specialized ocean services, is the key objective of
MERCATOR operational oceanography.
After more than 3 years of continuous operations, ie more than 180 ocean
bulletins for ocean forecasters, and more than 150 referenced users in
continuous interaction, the MERCATOR team has been studying user
feedbacks in a wide range of application sectors where MERCATOR
OCEAN inputs were.
Four categories are considered: (1) institutional operational applications;
(2) research; (3) private sector operational recreational and commercial
applications and (4) environment policy makers.
Under category 1, MERCATOR has been involved in various
experiments concerning: Oil Spill drifts experiments (Météo-France,
Met.No, CEDRE), Navy operations (SHOM), Ocean inputs for Seasonal
Forecasting system (Météo-France) and Education (schools, user training
requested to provide boundary conditions to coastal models, ocean inputs for
biogeochemical models and seasonal forecasting systems, and involved in
MERCATOR has been serving under category 3 commercial activities
(offshore and fisheries) and many recreational marine activities (sailing
races, rowing races,...), and a growing range of activities enter today
category 4 amongst with: assessment on observation network (satellite & in
situ) for decision makers, monitoring and expertise on extreme ocean
climate events (2003 hot summer event, Bay of Biscay ocean synthesis
bulletin) or new indicators for ocean pollution risk.
Figure 5 is an illustration of MERCATOR role in serving institutional
operational applications: here oil spill fate activity conducted by MétéoFrance. The impact of MERCATOR OCEAN currents in Météo-France’s
pollution dispersion model (called MOTHY) in assessing the consequences
of the Prestige shipwreck were studied with great attention. As a preliminary
test case to assess MERCATOR impact on his operational oilspill model,
P.Daniel (Météo-France) used MERCATOR 103 meters depth currents to
force his model with large-scale time/space information and showed the
usefulness of such ocean currents forcings for long simulations.
Roblou, July 2003 –
sessions, individual requests,...). Under category 2, MERCATOR has been
various Research Sea campaign (IRD, Ifremer, CNRS, IFM Kiel,...).