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Mercator scientific newsletter

The Mercator-Ocean Scientific Newsletter is being published electronically 4 times a year, on January, April, July and October 1st. Its purpose is to provide a periodical forum for the circulation of ideas and research results among the operational oceanography community. It is a scientific journal addressing specialists on the covered topic. It is dedicated to operational oceanography and its latest challenges and progress.

Greetings from the Editorial Board.


  • Newsletter n°30 - July 2008 -

    PDF file (7 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • A glance at regional and coastal modelling
    • Towards North East Atlanic Regional modelling at 1/12° and 1/36° at Mercator Ocean
    • Regional Operational Oceanography in the North Western Mediterranean Sea
    • Operational Ocean forecasting of the Portuguese waters
    • PREVIMER: Operational MARS system in the Bay of Biscay
    • Keys to affordable regional marine forecast systems
    • Model intercomparison in the Bay of Biscay during 2004: the front of Ushant and the cold water pool


  • Newsletter n°29 - April 2008 -

    PDF file (3.45 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • Mersea, a precursor to GMES Marine Core Service
    • The Mercator Ocean global 1/12° operational system: Demonstration phase in the MERSEA context
    • Ocean circulation and water properties in 2007 described by the MERSEA/Mercator Ocean V2 global ocean analysis and forecasting system
    • MERSEA multi-sensor satellite SST products
    • Oil spill fate forecasting in the MERSEA Integrated Project
    • Mersea Developments at the Met Office


  • Newsletter n°28 - January 2008 -

    PDF file (3.15 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • The integrated European project Damocles and the International Polar Year
    • Preliminary assessment of sea ice in the global 1/4° Mercator Ocean forecasting system
    • LIM3, an advanced sea-ice model for climate simulation and operational oceanography
    • Sensitivity of a model of the Ross Ice shelf Polynya to different atmospheric forcing sets
    • Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentration and sea ice drift satellite products at Ifremer/CERSAT
    • Sea ice concentration, ice drift and/or thickness data assimilation: a review of the work done in Norway, UK, France, Belgium and Canada


  • Newsletter n°27 - October 2007 -

    PDF file (4.07 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • News: MyOcean, the EU project for a "marine core service"
    • Performances of Mercator model (PSY3V1 1/4° showcase products) at Drake Passage
    • Monitoring Southern Ocean dynamics with ARGO floats ans XBT-SSS data: the SURVOSTRAL and FLOSTRAL projects
    • Southern Ocean processes and climate variability in the DRAKKAR hierarchy of ocean/sea-ice models
    • Good-Hope/Southern Ocean: A study and monitoring of the Indo-Atlantic connexions


  • Newsletter n°26 - July 2007 -

    PDF file (9.8 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • News 1: EGEE campaigns during the African monsoon multidisciplinary analysis program
    • News 2: Tropical arrays for observing ocean and atmosphere dynamics
    • the new 1/4° Mercator Ocean global multivariate analysis and forecasting system: Tropical oceans outlook
    • "Bulletin climatique global" of Météo-France: a contribution of Mercator Ocean to the seasonal prediction of El Nino 2006/07
    • Structure of intra-seasonal variability in the upper layers of the equatorial Atlantic ocean from MERA-11 reanalysis
    • Connexion between the equatrorial Kelvin wave and the extra tropical Rossby wave in the South Easter pacific in the Mercator Ocean POG05B simulation: a case study for the 1997/98 El Nino
    • Equatorial wave intra-seasonal variability in the Indian and Pacific oceans in the Mercator Ocean POG05B simulation


  • Newsletter n°25 - April 2007 -

    PDF file (4.2 MB)

    Sommaire :

    • News: GOCE review
    • Data assimilation of drifter velocities in the Mercator ocean system
    • Influence of the sampling of temperature data on the interannual variability of the global mean thermosteric sea level index
    • GRACE: an improved MDT reference for altimetric data assimilation
    • Altimeter data assimilation in the Mercator Ocean system


  • Newsletter #24 - January 2007 -

    PDF file (3.2 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: MERSEA - development of GMES Marine Core Services
    • Within the GMES and towards the Marine Core Service at Mercator-Ocean
    • BLUELink> delivers first ocean forecasts
    • GODAE at work in the Indian Ocean and Australian area: metrics definition and intercomparison of the BLUELink and Mercator systems
    • Presentation of the MERSEA Canadian Operation Oceanography Sustem C-NOOFS

  • Newsletter #23 - November 2006 -

    PDF file (5.4 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: High frequency processes: the next frontier for ocean modelling
    • Study of the MOG2D model sensitivity to high frequency atmospheric lorcing in the Bay of Biscay and assimilation of altimetric and tide-gauge observations in order to correct the model for the deficiencies of the atmospheric forcing fields
    • Combining MOG2D-G and PSY1V2R1 models fields for an absolute sea level estimation
    • Generation of inertia-gravity waves by the atmospheric forcing as inferred from in situ measurements and oceanic general circulation models
    • Sea state and upper ocean dynamics: new uses of numerical wave models

  • Newsletter #22 - July 2006 -

    PDF file (4.2 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: Ocean surface forcing and surface fields
    • MERSEA satellite SST activities and products
    • Near real time blended surface wind characteristics
    • Use of a wind-stress blended dataset to drive a regioanl Mercator 1/4° configuration
    • Air-sea fluxes correction by sequential data assimilation
    • A study of model errors in surface layers due to uncertainties in the atmospheric forcing fields

  • Newsletter #21 - April 2006 -

    PDF file (5.8 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: Surface freshwater balance for global Mercator-Ocean analysis purposes
    • OSSE performed with simulated SMOS/Aquarius SSS data and the SAM2 scheme
    • Surface salinity (KALSAL, COSMOS)
    • Using PROVOR floats to assess the link between ENSO and the salinity variability in the Western Pacific warm pool
    • Poleward propagation of spinciness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean

  • Newsletter #20 - January 2006 -

    PDF file (4.5 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: The marine biology, a challenge for operational oceanography
    • Migratory and depth behavior of bluefin tuna in the Gulf Stream area : how Mercator can help in revealing habitat use by pelagic species
    • A challenge for the physical-biogeochemical coupling in Mercator : improving the physics of coupled models through data assimilation
    • Coupled physical/biogeochemical modeling at mesoscale in the North Atlantic Ocean : Rossby waves, a coupled process example

  • Newsletter #18 - July 2005 -

    PDF file (4.5 MB)

    Contents :

    • News: Forcing coastal models with Mercator data ?
    • Methods to constrain the boundaries of an ocean model: application to a model of the Bay of Biscay
    • Description of the PE Regional ESEOO Model System: Preliminary results from a Mercator nesting exercise
    • Modelling of eastern boundary upwelling systems with Mercator
     
  • Newsletter #17 - April 2005 -

    PDF file (3.8 MB)

    Contents :

    • News : MERSEA : en route to European operational oceanography
    • The Mean Dynamic Topography used as a reference for altimetric data assimilation in the Mediterranean Sea
    • Potential of the ARGO network to produce an oceanic synthesis of the hydrology and the circulation in the North Atlantic using a 4D-variational method
    • An observing system simulation experiment for SMOS: presentation of the study
     
  • Newsletter #13 - April 2004 -

    Contents :

    • Multivariate and multidata assimilation in Mercator. PDF file (870 KB)
    • PSY2G : moving towards global operational oceanography. PDF file (570 KB)
     
  • Newsletter #11 - October 2003 -

    Contents:

    • Oceanic transport through Atlantic straits. PDF file (1.4 MB)
     
  • Newsletter #10 - July 2003 -

    Contents:

    • Composite sea level prediction in the Mediterranean sea - comparisons with observation. PDF file (4.2 MB)
     
  • Newsletter #7 - October 2002 -
    PDF file (1.4 MB)

    Contents:

    • The riddle
    • A posteriori validation of hypotheses: correlation radii
     
  • Newsletter #6 - July 2002 -
    PDF file (1,8 MB)

    Contents:

    • Characteristics of water masses: Re-analysis data compared with in situ observations
    • Poseidon 284 campaign
    • Volvo Race
     
  • Newsletter #5 - April 2002 -
    PDF file (1,7 MB)

    Contents:

    • Implementation of the high-resolution MERCATOR model for the North Atlantic and Mediterranean regions
    • Winter convection: comparative test


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