Marie Drévillon, Charly Régnier, Bruno Levier, Charles Desportes (MERCATOR OCEAN/Production Dep./Products Quality)

Eric Greiner (CLS); Jean-Michel Lellouche, Olivier Le Galloudec, Anne Daudin (MERCATOR OCEAN/ Production Dep./R&D)

Eric Greiner, Mounir Benkiran, Nathalie Verbrugge, Hélène Etienne (CLS), Fabrice Hernandez, Laurence Crosnier (MERCATOR OCEAN), Nicolas Ferry, Gilles Garric, Jean-Michel Lellouche (MERCATOR OCEAN), Jean-Marc Molines (CNRS), Sébastien Theeten (Ifremer), Mélanie Juza (IMEDEA), the DRAKKAR and NEMO groups, the BCG group (Météo-France, CERFACS)

Information on input data:
Christine Boone, Stéphanie Guinehut, Gaël Nicolas (CLS/ARMOR team)

This bulletin gives an estimate of the accuracy of MERCATOR OCEAN’s analyses and forecast for the season of October-November-December 2012. It also provides a summary of useful information on the context of the production for this period. Diagnostics will be displayed for the global 1/12° (PSY4), global ¼° (PSY3), the Atlantic and Mediterranean zoom at 1/12° (PSY2), and the Iberia-Biscay-Ireland (IBI) monitoring and forecasting systems currently producing daily 3D temperature, salinity and current products. Surface Chlorophyll concentrations from the BIOMER biogeochemical monitoring and forecasting system are also displayed and compared with simultaneous observations.