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Figure 5. Impact of MERCATOR currents inputs on operational oil drift forecast. Courtesy
P.Daniel (Météo-France). Oil spill position (05/12/2002 analysis) forecasted by Météo-France
Mothy model alone (dark grey),with MERCATOR inputs (light grey) compared to
observations (black).
5.
Conclusion
The MERCATOR OCEAN assimilation centre has been running in
Toulouse a pre-operational ocean monitoring and forecasting activity for
more than 3 years, covering today European basins at 5-7 km, global ocean
at 2° and coming to global ¼°; the team developed a strong experience in
this matter, and is one of the core team of European GMES program actions
to build an Integrated capacity at European level for global ocean monitoring
and forecasting.
The MERCATOR OCEAN forecasters team has progressively developed
an ocean service for services capacity, serving today more than 150
referenced users, from different application sectors (institutional to private
sectors, operational to research, ocean maps to assessment), and bring to
them ocean expertise and assimilation capacity.
This ocean monitoring and forecasting is now mature enough to consider
the challenge of high resolution and global ocean coverage raised by strong
user demands and the transition to a strong operational activity.
But this activity is also fully dependant on real-time, continuous and
accurate ocean observation networks, and associated actions for in situ
(Argo, ...) and satellite (satellite altimetry, ...) sustained network are
critically required.
MERCATOR OCEAN
Figure 5. Impact of MERCATOR currents inputs on operational oil drift forecast. Courtesy
P.Daniel (Météo-France). Oil spill position (05/12/2002 analysis) forecasted by Météo-France
Mothy model alone (dark grey),with MERCATOR inputs (light grey) compared to
observations (black).
5.
Conclusion
The MERCATOR OCEAN assimilation centre has been running in
Toulouse a pre-operational ocean monitoring and forecasting activity for
more than 3 years, covering today European basins at 5-7 km, global ocean
at 2° and coming to global ¼°; the team developed a strong experience in
this matter, and is one of the core team of European GMES program actions
to build an Integrated capacity at European level for global ocean monitoring
and forecasting.
The MERCATOR OCEAN forecasters team has progressively developed
an ocean service for services capacity, serving today more than 150
referenced users, from different application sectors (institutional to private
sectors, operational to research, ocean maps to assessment), and bring to
them ocean expertise and assimilation capacity.
This ocean monitoring and forecasting is now mature enough to consider
the challenge of high resolution and global ocean coverage raised by strong
user demands and the transition to a strong operational activity.
But this activity is also fully dependant on real-time, continuous and
accurate ocean observation networks, and associated actions for in situ
(Argo, ...) and satellite (satellite altimetry, ...) sustained network are
critically required.
MERCATOR OCEAN