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Quarterly 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.
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Newsletter #47 : Impact of the loss/addition of satellite altimetry on operational products
Posted the
03/26/2013
Summary :
- GODAE OceanView Observing System Evaluation (OSEval) Task Team news
- Death and birth in the Altimetry constellation
- An eventful year in the Altimetry constellation
- Impact of the loss/addition of satellite altimetry on Mercator Ocean operational products
- Evaluation experiment to test the value of altimetry in FOAM
Newsletter #46 : Special issue NEMO-MyOcean
Posted the
11/16/2012
Summary :
- NEMO for dummies
- NEMO organisation
- Coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean modeling using NEMO components
- Toward a data assimilation system for NEMO
- NEMO in MyOcean Monitoring and Forecasting Centers (MFCs)
- NEMO: the modeling engine of global ocean reanalyses
- MED12, oceanic component for the modeling of the regional Mediterranean earth system
- NEMO for climate modeling
Newsletter #45 : Special Issue jointly coordinated by Mercator Ocean and Coriolis focusing on Ocean Observations
Posted the
04/01/2012
Summary :
- NAOS: preparing the new decade for Argo.
- Ice, Atmosphere, Ocean Observing System: the EQUIPEX-funded IAOOS project.
- Autonomously profiling the nitrate concentrations in the ocean: the pronuts project.
- EGO: Towards a global glider infrastructure for the benefit of marine research and operational oceanography.
- Cirene: from cyclones to interannual timescales in the south-western tropical Indian Ocean.
- Use of ARGO floats to study the ocean dynamics south of Africa: what we have learned from the GoodHope project and what we plan within the SAMOC international programme.
- Use of altimetric and wind data to detect the anomalous loss of SVP-type drifter’s drogue
- Surface salinity drifters for SMOS validation
- A new information and data mining tool for North Atlantic Argo data
Newsletter #44 : Various areas of benefit using the Mercator Ocean products
Posted the
01/01/2012
Summary :
- Meteo-France and Mercator Ocean contribution to the search of the AF447 wreckage
- Mercator Ocean operational global ocean system 1/12° PSY4V1: performances and applications in the context of the nuclear disaster of Fukushima
- Drift forecast with Mercator Ocean velocity fields and addition of external wind/wave contribution
- GLORYS2V1 Global ocean reanalysis of the altimetric era (1993-2009) at meso scale
Newsletter #43 : Three of the MyOcean long time series reanalysis products
Posted the
11/01/2011
Summary :
- News: Workshop on Observing System Evaluation and Intercomparisons : a GODAE Ocean view/GSOP/CLIVAR event (13-17 June 2011, Santa Cruz, USA)
- CORA3, a comprehensive and qualified ocean in-situ dataset from 1990 to 2010
- A multivariate reanalysis of the North Atlantic ocean biogeochemistry during 1998-2007 based on the assimilation of SeaWiFS data
- Ifremer/CERSAT Arctic sea ice drift 1992-2010 time series from satellite measurements for myocean
Newsletter #42 : The latest space mission : SMOS, GOCE and CRYOSAT
Posted the
07/01/2011
Summary :
- SMOS: An Earth explorer mission to observe ocean salinity with a novel technology
- An oceanographic assessment of the preliminary GOCE geoid models accuracy
- CRYOSAT2 : An opportunity mission for MyOcean and oceanography : from theory to practice
- Optimally improving the atmospheric forcing of long-term global ocean simulations with sea-surface temperature observations
Newsletter #41 : The new joint Coriolis-Mercator Ocean Quarterly Newsletter
Posted the
04/01/2011
Summary :
- In-situ data requirements for the GMES Marine Core Service - Report of a workshop organized by the European Environment Agency.
- The EuroSITES open ocean observatory network: a key ocean infrastructure and in situ data provider.
- Use of ProvBio floats to study the dynamics of suspended particles in river plumes: the Provpanache project.
- Empirical correction of XBT fall rate.
- Geostrophic component of oceanic jets entering in the eastern Coral Sea observed with high-resolution XBT surveys (2008-2010).
- Collecting and gridding complementary in-situ SST/SSS data for the calibration and validation of SMOS.
- How should the Argo array be extended to better monitor the Global Ocean heat content variability?
- QuO Va Dis? The Mercator Ocean quarterly validation bulletin: recent developments and prospects.
Newsletter #40 : MyOcean Ecosystem Models
Posted the
01/01/2011
Summary :
- Integration of biogeochemistry into Mercator Ocean systems
- Operational forecasts of the biogeochemical state of Mediterranean Sea
- The MyOcean Black Sea coupling of dynamics and ecosystem
- Arctic Ocean ecosystem modeling in MyOcean
Newsletter #39 : MyOcean Physical Systems in Regional Seas
Posted the
10/01/2010
Summary :
- The FERRYBOX component in MYOCEAN
- The new regional generation of Mercator Ocean system in the Iberian Biscay Irish (IBI) area
- The MyOcean Black Sea from a scientific point of view
- NEMO-Shelf, towards operational oceanography with SST data assimilation on the North West European Shelf
Newsletter #38 : Recent studies in coastal oceanic systems.
Posted the
07/01/2010
Summary :
- SNOCO: Towards a French Sustained Coastal Operational Oceanography System By Pierre Yves Le Traon
- Ulva Mass Accumulations on Brittany Beaches: Explanation and Remedies Deduced from Models By Alain Ménesguen, Thierry Perrot, Morgan Dussauze
- Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting: Geophysical and Engineering Applications. Examples with the Previmer-IOWAGA System. By Fabrice Ardhuin
- Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Forecast System for the Gulf of St-Lawrence, Canada By Manon Faucher, François Roy, Hal Ritchie, Serge Desjardins, Chris Fogarty, Greg Smith, Pierre Pellerin
- Regional Ocean Forecasting : Downscaling Strategy for Coastal and Submesoscale Phenomena By Patrick Marchesiello, Zhijin Li and Andres Sepulveda